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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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  • “Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

    2025-06-14 elrichiboy
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  • Dead People

    2025-06-13 Rich Wright

    I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a while. Hollywood. Asshole Bob. Jimmy

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  • “The League of Gentlemen”

    2025-06-08 elrichiboy
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Oh, the irony.

2016-12-26 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Poor Ann Morgan Lilly. She’s like the queen of a country that no longer exists, and she can’t quite come

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El Rocinante

2016-12-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Juarez is cheap. A dollar buys twenty pesos now. And

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Do You Mind?

2016-12-23 Reesa Turner Unreliable Narrative 6 comments

Integrative medicine is a big thing these days…exercise, deep breathing, yoga, acupuncture, art workshops. Aiming to calm the mind and

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Brooklyn Nights at Hope and Anchor Tonight

2016-12-22 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Hope and Anchor hosts DJ Farbeon tonight. He’ll be spinning True School Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Rock and House from

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Now we know who drives the truck.

2016-12-22 elrichiboy City Council, Slider 3 comments

I lifted this from the Paso del Sur’s Facebook page about their meeting with elected officials last Friday. For all

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Tuesday Night Fights: Mr. Ann Morgan Lilly vs. Mrs. Mayor

2016-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Did you see this story about the husband of former City Representative Ann Morgan Lilly allegedly assaulting Mayor Oscar Leeser’s

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Mexican Booze for the Holidays

2016-12-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Have you done your holiday shopping yet? Or maybe you need some libations for the end of year celebration. Either

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Did We Take Our City Back?

2016-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

You heard that yesterday City Council voted 4-2 to build the downtown arena anywhere but the Duranguito/Union Plaza neighborhood. There

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Breaking News: Dogfight at City Hall

2016-12-19 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena Leave a comment

The celebrated decision to relocate the arena to the Civic Center site has met unexpected resistance from downtown real estate

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Go Local: Holiday Edition

2016-12-19 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

[This post originally appeared on 22 December 2015]. Somehow the holidays always sneak up on me. I always used to

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Miles Davis with LCD Soundsystem

2016-12-19 elrichiboy Art Leave a comment

How’s your life? Do you sometimes feel like your existence is meaningless? Like the world is sucking pit of despair?

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El Arbolito Lives!

2016-12-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

The Arbolito, that little dive bar that used to be located on Mariscal, next to the Día y Noche, is

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Hiking the Franklins

2016-12-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Friday woke up with charcoal gray clouds camped to the north. The polar vortex was coming, the weathermen said. Winds.

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Green Men’s Greensleeves

2016-12-17 GC Adams Slider 5 comments

The El Paso Times’ recent article by the Russians on the lady with 6,000 Christmas trees made me realize that

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Hal Marcus’ Hippie Holidaze

2016-12-16 elrichiboy Go Local, What to Do One comment

Don’t you just love Christmas shopping? Going to the mall, and looking for a parking spot, and then elbowing your

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Our Local Government In Action

2016-12-16 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Well, it looks like the City of El Paso will do a better thing than kick poor people out of

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Nick Waterhouse at Tricky Falls Tonight!

2016-12-16 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Whooee! Nick Waterhouse will be bringing his soulful, retro, boozy rhythm and blues to Tricky Falls tonight. Tickets available at

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Hip City at the Pizza Joint

2016-12-16 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Punkabilly rockers Hip City play the Pizza Joint downtown tonight at 10 PM in a FREE all-age show. Here they

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Nick Waterhouse at Tricky Falls on Friday

2016-12-15 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

This cat Nick Waterhouse is playing at Tricky Falls on Friday. Highly recommended. Tickets available from TicketFly. Check it out.

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Who’s driving this truck?

2016-12-15 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council instead of the other way around. Like this

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