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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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  • “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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  • 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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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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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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