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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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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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Brutus Speaks!

2016-12-30 elrichiboy Education, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak makes some good points with deeper implications, in this post titled EPISD bonds-story changes again.

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Mexican Gas

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Mexico, Slider One comment

Multiple news sources report that the average price for gasoline in Mexico will rise from 14 to 20 percent in

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Make a Difference

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 3 comments

People are wingeing all over my Facebook feed about this carrot-hybrid we elected to be president. Well, get used to

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Emily Davis Tour Kickoff at Proper Printshop Tonight!

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, music fans. El Paso’s songbird Emily Davis is playing a show at Proper Printshop to finance gas and ramen

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Our Economic Forecast

2016-12-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 5 comments

Good news, chuqueños. The foreboding sense of doom you’ve been feeling for the past several years is not a brain

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What people watch

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso One comment

Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times, delineating the most popular teevee shows in different markets. In El

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Learn to Play the Piano (Sort of)

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Education, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Is your much better half after you to make some New Year’s resolutions? When Claire asks me what I want

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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

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[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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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Deadfall”
  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace
  • Bullfight Tonight!
  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”
  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

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