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  • “Deadfall”

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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”

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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

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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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A Question of Eligibility

2022-12-15 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Corruption, Laura D. Prine, Politics, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Is Bettina Olivares eligible to serve as the City Representative for District 8? Here’s the part of the Municipal Code

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“Captain Scarface”

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe – “Up Above My Head”

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“This is Venezuela (2022) – Why 20% of the Population Has Fled”

2022-12-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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“PROJECT-19”

2022-12-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Future of Downtowns

2022-12-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Slider One comment

The City of El Paso (that is you, the taxpayer) is spending millions, or tens of millions, or hundreds of

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El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

2022-12-08 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One night in October

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case”

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The Oak Ridge Boys – “Life’s Railway to Heaven”

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“The Propaganda War Waged Over the Iraq Invasion”

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“The Specter of Nuclear War, Revisited (New Mexico, 2022)”

2022-12-02 elrichiboy Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

This was written by a girl I get to sleep with sometimes: I’ve spent a lot of time in the

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“The Case of the Missing Puzzle Box”

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The Latest Outrage

2022-11-28 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, Veronica Escobar 5 comments

From CBS4Local: As CBS4’s John Purvis reported in a Tough Questions Special Report last week, the federal government’s planned expansion

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Humphrey Bogart in “Dead End”

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The Harmonizing Four – “We’re Crossing Over”

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“Child Warfare”

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City of Dust “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” Wall Calendar

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by John Mulhouse It’s almost Thanksgiving and that must mean it’s time for the 2023 City of Dust “Abandoned New

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“Phantom Lady”

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“The JockStrap Raiders”

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Tales from the Tour Bus: Blaze Foley Intro

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