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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Paula Flores recently retold parts of a painfully long and unresolved story to an audience at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in

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  • “Cry Vegeance”

    2026-05-10 elrichiboy
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“Fort Algiers”

2024-07-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments
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Ava Gardner and George Raft in “Whistle Stop”

2024-06-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Julian Assange: the Price of Truth”

2024-06-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Snow Lake, New Mexico

2024-06-28 Rich Wright Travel, Slider Leave a comment

by Rich Wright 25 June 2024 — There’s no one up here but us and the hosts, and we all

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Jack Palance and Ida Lupino in “The Big Knife”

2024-06-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel”

2024-06-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Once I Was a Champion”

2024-06-15 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“El Querreque”

2024-06-14 elrichiboy Music, History Leave a comment

Here’s a link to a audio interview that frequent El Chuqueño contributor Kent Paterson recorded for KUNM. Vicente Bautista is

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The Big Kid in Juarez, Part 2

2024-06-13 Bob Chessey Slider, History, Juarez Leave a comment

You can read Part 1 here. by Bob Chessey Part Two: DODGING PROHIBITION In mid-January of 1900 23-year-old Harry Shipley

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Adios, You Lying Lame Duck Carpetbagger

2024-06-11 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 5 comments

The word on the street is that lame duck carpetbagger Andrea Hutchins of the El Paso Chamber has organized letters

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A lower case “d” Democrat

2024-06-10 Xavier Miranda Opinion, Politics, Slider 3 comments

by Xavier Miranda The perils of a second Trump presidency is acknowledged and certainly not disputed.  However, the rationale for

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“Guilty Bystander”

2024-06-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Men Who Stole the World (and got away with it)”

2024-06-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Mexico’s President Elect and the Time of Women

2024-06-06 Kent Paterson Mexico, Juarez, Politics, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Appropriately dubbed the “Time of Women,” the 2024 Mexican elections ushered in the first woman elected as

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Arena Tours are Dinosaurs

2024-06-03 Rich Wright Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 2 comments

Here’s a column from GQ.com titled Artists Are Canceling Arena Tours Right and Left. Maybe They Shouldn’t Have Been Playing

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“1984”

2024-06-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Black Market Organs”

2024-06-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Honoring the Mexican Workers Who Saved the United States

2024-05-29 Kent Paterson History, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson For the first time in 60 years, Sebastián Corral touched the earth of Rio Vista Farm in

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Heather Wilson’s Folly

2024-05-28 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 6 comments

UTEP’s president Heather Wilson wants the County of El Paso to ask the voters of the county to give the

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Is El Paso Cool?

2024-05-26 Rich Wright Culture, Economic Development, Slider 12 comments

I remember when I lived in Austin, back before the invention of the automobile, there were Phds flipping burgers at

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