Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces: To understand the impact of
I Lie When I Drink
The incomparable Dale Watson. Check it out.
Happy Birthday, Hag.
Merle Haggard would have turned 80 years old today if he hadn’t died last year on his 79th birthday. The
Do You Smell Something?
Remember that 2012 Quality of Life bond election? That Bond Proposal movement was a juggernaut. I think they had three
What’s it for, anyway?
I still have some questions about that Multipurpose Performing Arts Center. Like where and when to build it. I know
It’s the Thought . . .
Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (astronomers really need to get more creative with their names or, you know what, never mind, I’ll do
Jarabe de Palo at Tricky Falls Tonight
Jarabe de Palo is a Spanish rock band, and they’re everything you’d think a Spanish rock band should be, unless
Día de San Ricardo
Today, April 3, is the Día de San Ricardo, the patron saint of truck drivers, according to ElTestigoFiel.org. Tradition dictates
That Explains It.
The El Paso Inc. this week unwrapped the study that HKS Inc. did for the City of El Paso to
Sunday Matinee: Hooligan
Here’s a entertaining documentary about the English disease: hooliganism. It seems that in the seventies and eighties, a certain element
City of Dust: Duran, New Mexio
The Last Hanging Crime Someday I’ll tell you a tale of a town that didn’t owe its very existence to
The American Dream Index
Here’s an article from Forbes that rates the 50 states according to the future and viability of their middle class.
Make El Paso Great Again
Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that the hubris of misguided city officials, at the
In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company
Here’s a little musical respite from the band Dead South. Also, you can learn how to dance. You’re welcome.
Downtown Update
Here’s the latest lowdown on downtown, or DWNTWN as El Pasoans spell it on Wheel of Fortune, because we can’t
Welcome to El Paso. Now Go Home.
El Paso is hot right now. There’s Kahlid. He’s some kind of a rock star. No doubt City Council is
Road Kill
There is only one entrance into this world but there are a lot of exits out of it. Most of
Then Let’s Build an Arena
By all means. Here’s the El Paso Times inadvertently weighing in on the arena controversy. Now, with a baseball stadium
Can’t we go back to the drawing board?
Here’s a breakdown of El Paso County’s population change for the year ending July 1, 2016, courtesy U.S. Census Bureau
Sunday Matinee: Some Chinese Fantasy Movie
This movie is like Ray Harryhausen’s Sinbad visits Wonder Woman. Or something. In Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese?), with English subtitles.
City of Dust: Yeso, New Mexico
Life (and Death) by Railroad Most of the ghost towns I visit have been written about by Philip Varney in