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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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Mercado Cerrajeros in Juarez, the durable consumer good graveyard.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s off of Libertad, in La Chaveña. ” like an elephant graveyard for consumer goods.” (read more at What’s Up.)

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It’s extremely insensitive to steal the guy’s wheels when he’s dead under the truck.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Some time during the night, an unknown person reportedly removed Goodyear Wrangler tires, two Ford factory aluminum wheels and the

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I say handball, you say rebote

2013-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In English we call it handball. In Spanish it’s rebote a mano con pelota dura, or rebote for short. They

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Buses to bars

2013-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Despite El Pasoans’ reluctance to take, or even talk about, the bus, Sun Metro seems complicit in a plot to

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El Paso’s Secret City Government Secret Emails

2013-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

What is the City hiding in their personal emails? A walking quorum? A narco-nexus? Jimmy Hoffa? Secret payoffs to the

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Were you violent? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There is a significant correlation between the use of leaded gasoline and incidences of violent crime. [L]ead emissions from automobiles

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Are you fat? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I heard this a year ago as we were slipping through the dappled shadows on Gavilan Canyon Road, listening to

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The Kentucky Club

2013-01-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club, just over the Santa Fe Street pedestrian bridge in Downtown El Paso, is easily El Paso’s most

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Trust the Church

2012-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Catholic Church, god bless them, are the official arbiters of morality, as far as they’re concerned. So it’s a

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Drug War Mexico and the Narcoeconomy

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A friend of mine who might know (and therefore should remain anonymous) says that the government in Mexico runs the

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Camping at Franklin Mountains State Park

2012-12-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Franklin Mountain State Park is reportedly the largest urban wilderness park in the continental United States. There’s no word

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El Paso’s Bleak Future: A Contrarian View

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

If we want to attract businesses to El Paso, we have our work cut out for us. According to an

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Killer DIY Drone

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This should scare you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jplh7uatr-E

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Can Juarez survive its extreme makeover?

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Calle de la Paz is seven blocks long, two blocks south of Dieciseis de Septiembre in downtown Juarez. It’s western

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Breaking the Taboo

2012-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a good video about drug prohibition, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

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Street robots

2012-12-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For hours every day, the fake-brick sidewalk throbs with a pulse of humanity engaged in the willful act of living.

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Brand Tribalism in El Paso

2012-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In El Paso, we’re big on brands. We want to belong. We want to feel like we’re a member of

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The Class Cold War

2012-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people

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Meanwhile, back at the lovely StageCoach Motel

2012-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article in El Diario says a couple of fugitive sex offenders were arrested at the Stage Coach Motel on

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The voters have spoken.

2012-11-26 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

The City of El Paso will take on close to billion dollars in new debt over the next fifteen years,

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