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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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Say it ain’t so!

2016-09-20 elrichiboy Juarez 2 comments

La Polaka reports that the tax man has closed the Kentucky Club because they owe taxes! Woe is me! The

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The Long Way Home

2016-09-20 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

Brutus over at ElPasoSpeak.com posted some illuminating information yesterday. A developer intends to build a high rise hotel on land

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$668 Million, and For What?

2016-09-19 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes 2 comments

I know many of us are curious about what, exactly, the El Paso Independent School District would do with $668

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Election 2016

2016-09-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments
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Entre Otros

2016-09-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

The tirilones aren’t the only guys in Juarez who dress for effect.

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Tin Tan Vive

2016-09-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Tirilones rock zoot suits on the dieciseis pedestrian mall on Sunday.

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Fiesta Juarez

2016-09-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Friday night I went to the Fiesta Juarez. Through some monumental clerical error I got into the VIP area. I

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Sunday Matinee: Sword of the Beast

2016-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This is a great Western. It’s so far west, it’s set in Japan. A solitary wandering gun (sword) man, chased

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This Just In: It’s Not All Good

2016-09-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

In an uncharacteristic manifestation of candor, the El Paso Times today ran a story on property taxes. Let me say

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Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo, 15.9.16

2016-09-15 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Today’s Thursday, and that means that our friends at Proper Printshop are having another printing party. Tonight’s artists are Proper’s

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The Slippery Slope

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

If you’re a politician, you probably want to do what’s right. Unless you’re a callow, power-hungry, self-serving sociopath who’s crazed

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Every Kinda People by Los Cenzontles

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Flashback: San Jerónimo: Laboratory of Our Future

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez 2 comments

In light of current developments, maybe it’s time to revisit this post, which originally appeared on El Chuqueño on July

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Noche Bohemia

2016-09-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

A two-thirds moon hung in a cloud dappled sky. It was the night side of dusk when I crossed the

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More Screen Time!

2016-09-13 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 7 comments

Those nice people at the El Paso Independent School District, the ones who want to stick their hands a little

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Utopia or Dystopia?

2016-09-13 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

A hyper-vigilant reader turned me on to this story about an impending development in Santa Teresa: London Design Biennale 2016:

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Hillary’s Body Double?

2016-09-12 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

I don’t want to pick sides in this election, but there’s something to this theory. After suffering a collapse at

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There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around

2016-09-12 elrichiboy National Policy, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting perspective on September 11 and the War on Terror, from the Nation: On the morning of September

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Vaginal Delivery: $166.67

2016-09-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

With a FEMAP membership, having a baby via the traditional method only costs $3000 Mexican pesos, or $166.67 U.S. dollars

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El Paso Public (Seed) Library

2016-09-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s something cool. The El Paso Library will give you seeds for your garden. All they ask is that when

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