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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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Don’t forget to write.

2016-09-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Taxes 2 comments

I was muddling around the World Wide Web the other day and I came across this disturbing graphic from the

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Ultimate!

2016-09-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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The Killers and the Hitchhiker

2016-09-07 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media Leave a comment

This sounds like a movie. Read it now, or watch in a couple of years on our Sunday Matinee. A

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Do You Like Cigarettes After Sex?

2016-09-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Because they’re playing tonight they played last night at the Lowbrow Palace. Check it out.

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Remember when El Paso was cool? They’re back.

2016-09-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Remember this story I posted back in March about that El Paso band Cigarettes After Sex that achieved internet stardom

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Death by a Thousand Cuts

2016-09-06 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. has a story this week about this year’s tax increases. Tax hikes are rarely popular. This

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Consultation With a Doctor: $3.35

2016-09-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

What could be more fun than talking about health care? Our deductible is so high that I don’t even know

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Sunday Matinee: Get the Gringo

2016-09-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

For you viewing pleasure, Get the Gringo, starring Mel Gibson, in a Mexican prison. This is the best movie you’re

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Credit Where Credit is Due

2016-09-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Media One comment

We built this city on rock and roll.

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We’re on the wrong side of the future.

2016-09-02 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 6 comments

The biggest major at UTEP is Criminal Justice. Because law enforcement and corrections are the biggest employers in El Paso.

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Here’s Something You Weren’t Expecting

2016-09-01 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

City Council should get a raise. I know that they’re pretty worthless and they haven’t been doing us any favors.

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Can you get a cheaper EpiPen in Juarez?

2016-08-31 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 2 comments

I was going to tell you how you could get an EpiPen in Jaurez. You know, like in Canada: The

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What were you thinking?

2016-08-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

All those QoL projects are stupid. I think that none of them will significantly improve anyone’s real Quality of Life,

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Now It’s Just a Matter of Time

2016-08-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes 3 comments

Well, we’ve got bars and hotels. Triple A ball. A nice park in the middle of downtown. Pokemon Go. Big

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Velando Juan Gabriel

2016-08-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Juan Gabriel, I think, shaped the way gays in Juarez think about themselves. On Avenida Juarez, Juanga stares down from

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Sunday Matinee

2016-08-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the 2010 grind classic, Machete, on YouTube. And remember, Machete don’t text.

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A Rare Word from the El Paso Times

2016-08-28 elrichiboy Media, Taxes, Uncategorized Leave a comment

This was on their website today: The problem is that people tend to gauge their ability to afford purchases based

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Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears at Tricky Falls TONIGHT!!!

2016-08-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

This is the last time I’m going to tell you. Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears are playing at

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Live Large at Proper

2016-08-26 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

In El Paso, we all know someone who prints t-shirts. Your brother. Your cousin. Your girlfriend’s boyfriend. That kid in

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Fixed Idea at the Lowbrow Palace

2016-08-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Are you trapped in a loveless engagement? Do you want to break up with your significant other, but don’t know

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