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  • Red Elvises at Sunset Parlor this Tuesday

    2025-11-15 elrichiboy

    Your favorite band brings it back to El Paso this Tuesday, at the Sunset Parlor.

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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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UTEP’s Middle Eastern Music Ensemble: Layali Al-Sham

2017-04-22 elrichiboy Art, Music Leave a comment

Here’s a video about UTEP’s middle eastern music ensemble that I lifted from Facebook. Check it out.

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Is It Trickle Down Economics, or Are You Peeing On My Leg?

2017-04-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

There is no group of citizens in less need of government support than the leisure class. But those are the

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City of Dust: Elizabethtown, New Mexico

2017-04-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

From what I can tell, people who read City of Dust are pretty much split between those who enjoy the

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Punk Rock: Natural Causes at Monarch Tonight

2017-04-18 Fletcher Wright shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Natural Causes are a three-piece out of Carrboro, North Carolina. I honestly hadn’t known about these guys until a few

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Retrovision: “Multipurpose” Spells “Arena”

2017-04-18 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena 2 comments

This post originally appeared on December 17, 2013. Today City Council approved a contract to study locations for a Multipurpose

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Don’t You Just Hate That?

2017-04-17 GC Adams Uncategorized 2 comments

Last Sunday a morning show aired a story about a dating site that paired people based on stuff they mutually

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Independence Day

2017-04-17 John Mulhouse Fiction One comment

It was the middle of the morning on the Fourth of July and the rain was pounding down. Dirty, gray

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Sunday Matinee: Diablo

2017-04-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Western starring Clint Eastwood’s little boy, Scott, and that guy with the overbite who was on the Shield,

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Public Debt: It’s for the Children

2017-04-14 elrichiboy Politics, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a question you should ask your candidates for public office: If you are elected, will the City use the

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Energy Drinks

2017-04-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

Have you ever had a Red Bull? Like maybe that one time you were driving by yourself down the valley

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City of Dust: San Antonio, New Mexico

2017-04-13 John Mulhouse City of Dust 6 comments

The Roots of Paris Hilton Around the turn of the 20th Century, a boy would walk from his father’s mercantile

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The Mayoral Candidates’ Alternate Universe: We’re Doomed

2017-04-13 elrichiboy Politics, The Arena 9 comments

The El Paso Times today reports on a debate among three of the mayoral candidates, sponsored by everyone’s favorite higher-tax

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The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2017-04-12 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Education, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for a the city with the second lowest per

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El Paso’s Alternate Universe

2017-04-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider One comment

Every week, there’s a surprising new story in the El Paso Inc. This week the frontpage story is headlined Montecillo

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Do Class Clowns Have Reunions?

2017-04-11 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

My childhood friend, Larry Zavala, asked if I was going to our high school reunion and sent me a link

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About El Chuqueño

2017-04-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

I’m not against change. Change is the natural state of the universe. Change is as inevitable as gravity. Or friction.

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Jepeto Solutions (with of Montreal) at Tricky Falls Tomorrow

2017-04-07 Fletcher Wright shows, What to Do Leave a comment

This Saturday, Jepeto Solutions will warm up the stage for of Montreal at Tricky Falls. Although it’s true that the

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Friday Short: Times Like Dying

2017-04-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Here’s a twenty minute Western about bank robbers and a consumptive sheriff. Check it out.

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I Lie When I Drink

2017-04-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The incomparable Dale Watson. Check it out.

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Happy Birthday, Hag.

2017-04-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment

Merle Haggard would have turned 80 years old today if he hadn’t died last year on his 79th birthday. The

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