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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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Jara Bolivia – El amor de Dios

2022-03-06 elrichiboy Music One comment
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TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-03-04 Rich Wright ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez, TxDOT 6 comments

Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when you are reading this) TEDx El Paso is

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Greetings From Cyberspace

2022-03-02 elrichiboy Slider, Support El Chuqueño, World News Leave a comment

Lately El Chuqueño has been attacked by Russian bots. Lots of bots. Maybe it’s because last week in the comments

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City of Dust – Drawbridge, California

2022-03-02 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

My Mother Was the Marshland My mother was the marshland. My father was the railroad. I was born in 1876

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Maria Victoria and Lola Beltran in “Pensión de artistas”

2022-03-01 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Belated Happy Birthday, El Paso

2022-03-01 Rich Wright Downtown, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

On February 28, 1859, Anson Mills submitted this street plat for the town that was to become El Paso. And

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Vote for David Stout

2022-03-01 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Elections, Slider Leave a comment

El Chuqueño doesn’t endorse political candidates. I’ve had my heart broken too many times. But this time I’m making an

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Don’t Forget to Undervote

2022-02-28 elrichiboy Elections, Politics, Slider One comment

Tomorrow is Primary Election Day. On the ballot are lots of candidates vying for lots of positions. You’ve never heard

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The Glass Wall

2022-02-27 Rich Wright Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Jess Lee Brooks – Go Down Moses

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Frontline – “The Untouchables”

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The City is Taking the Buses

2022-02-25 Rich Wright City Management, Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, Widening I-10 6 comments

Gas is as expensive as it has been in a while, and it’s going to get dearer. Supply chain disruptions

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Friday Short – Blackbird

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Sting – Russians

2022-02-24 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Imagine an El Paso Where Community Comes First”

2022-02-24 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Slider 4 comments

The Community First Coalition has come up with a pretty slick presentation of their goals and ideals. El Chuqueño is

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Be Careful What You Wish For

2022-02-24 Rich Wright Economic Development, Urban Planning One comment

Here’s a story from the New York Times headlined “The Next Affordable City Is Already Too Expensive.” The names are

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The Premieres – Farmer John

2022-02-23 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Wealth in Different Terms

2022-02-23 Rich Wright Economic Development, Urban Planning 5 comments

From TheAtlantic.com: Money and markets have been around for thousands of years. Yet as central as currency has been to

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Luis Aguilar and Javier Solis in Los tres salvajes

2022-02-22 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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“The Lure of the Rio Grande Valley” – 1927

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From the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Deadfall”
  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace
  • Bullfight Tonight!
  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”
  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

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