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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Paula Flores recently retold parts of a painfully long and unresolved story to an audience at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in

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  • “Cry Vegeance”

    2026-05-10 elrichiboy
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Bullfight Friday Night

2017-08-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

If you’re a bullfight aficionado you probably already know that there’s a bullfight Friday night at the Alberto Balderas bullring

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City of Dust: Lingo, New Mexico

2017-08-29 John Mulhouse City of Dust 6 comments

A Little Piece of Quiet I might as well stop pretending that I’m going to write more regularly and admit

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City Government is Killing El Paso

2017-08-28 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

Since 2012, the City of El Paso has only grown by 7,472 people, according to estimates by the U.S. Census

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Race Has Nothing To Do With It

2017-08-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Video, Welcome to Monday Leave a comment

Here’s a guy talking about race baiting, and classist oppression, and poverty, and guess which community makes a cameo appearance?

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Make America Grate Again

2017-08-28 GC Adams Uncategorized One comment

Watch this video on YouTube I don’t think people caught the slogan correctly. It’s “Make America GREAT Again.” Grrrrr-8. Great.

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Sunday Matinee: Killer Elite

2017-08-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Robert DeNiro and Jason Statham star as professional killers hired to take on the SAS. What could go wrong? Watch

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A Failure in Branding

2017-08-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 15 comments

Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here in my hometown, I have never witnessed the

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Enter Los Saicos, a Proto-Punk Band from Peru

2017-08-24 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Check out this cool documantary about Los Saicos, the grandfathers of punk, from Peru. Watch this video on YouTube And

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Mike and the Moonpies Tonight at the State Line

2017-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Mike and the Moonpies bring their brand of outlaw country to the State Line tonight as part of the barbecue

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Music Video: Kikimora

2017-08-22 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the jazz stylings of Kikimora, singing Sputnik live at Star City Studio. Watch this video on YouTube Check it

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Baby Stations on Sale

2017-08-22 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Have you ever wondered why everything our City Government buys is so expensive? I mean, $7 million to fix up

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Our Tax Base Is Collapsing

2017-08-22 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

People are leaving town. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that between 2012 and 2016, El Paso County only grew by

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Death Valley Girls at Monarch Tonight

2017-08-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You know what’s wrong with garage rock? There’s not enough girls doing it. Enter Death Valley Girls. Here they are

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Tips for Watching Mayweather versus McGregor

2017-08-21 elrichiboy What to Do One comment

So where are your going to watch the fight? If you want to watch it at your house, the Pay

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A Tip For Watching the Eclipse

2017-08-21 elrichiboy Science Leave a comment

Don’t look at the eclipse directly. Use a mirror. It worked for Perseus. You’re welcome.

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Sunday Matinee: Indiscreet

2017-08-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

How long has it been since you’ve seen a movie starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant? Indiscreet is the second

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A Streetcar Named Desire at G2

2017-08-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

A hundred years ago there used to be an annual event called Movie on the Mountain. Some lunatics would haul

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Just a Scrap

2017-08-18 elrichiboy City Council, Taxes 2 comments

Mayor Dee Margo seemed to put the blame for the tax increase on incumbent representatives Peter Svarzbein, Michiel Noe, and

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Chango Radio Reventón

2017-08-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do One comment

From El Feis: El proyecto mas problematico, desmadrado, desmadroso, prehispanico, sin calidad, sin futuro, de bajo presupuesto, pero mas amoroso

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La Familia Bigfoot

2017-08-18 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Sometimes the ads are worth watching. Watch this video on YouTube You make the call.

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  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
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