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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”

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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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Luis Aguilar in El Muchacho Alegre

2022-01-18 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Movie Night Leave a comment
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Vox – “The Dark History of ‘Gasoline Baths’ at the Border”

2022-01-18 elrichiboy History, Local Heroes, Slider Leave a comment

Local legend Dr. David Romo hipped me and contributed to this disturbing history of El Paso.

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The Minimum Wage

2022-01-18 elrichiboy Economic Development, Economics, New Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

On January 1, New Mexico’s minimum wage went to $11.50 an hour. That’s right. A minimum wage job in Sunland

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“Washington, D.C., Has an Insider Trading Problem”

2022-01-17 elrichiboy Corruption, Ethics, Politics, Slider One comment

From NYMag.com: The central bankers running the U.S. Federal Reserve are the closest thing we have to gods of the

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Sunday Matinee – The File On Thelma Jordon

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Dolly Parton – I am a Seeker

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Is There a Lawyer In the House?

2022-01-12 elrichiboy City Management, Karla Nieman, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

If City Council decided to fire City Manager Tommy Gonzalez for not doing his job, and he fought his termination

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COVID Testing

2022-01-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider Leave a comment

Say you’ve got symptoms. Chills. Fever. Muscle aches. Are you going to get tested? The word on the street is

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Hemp Fights COVID

2022-01-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Marijuana, Slider One comment

From OregonState.edu: Hemp compounds identified by Oregon State University research via a chemical screening technique invented at OSU show the

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Tin Tan in El Rey del Barrio

2022-01-11 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Movie Night Leave a comment
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Districting Commission Meets Jan 12

2022-01-11 elrichiboy Redistricting, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a gentle reminder that the City’s Districting Commission meets today, January 12, at 4:00 in Council Chambers in City

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James Hand – Over There That’s Frank

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Plot Twist – Duranguito Arena Back in Play

2022-01-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Remember that, way back on November 9, the El Paso City Council directed City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to put the

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Barrio Chamizal

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Sunday Matinee – Rope of Sand

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Tenebrae – Os Justi

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30 Years With the Yakuza

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Dealing With the Plague

2022-01-07 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider, Unpopular Opinion 12 comments

My personal physician and bodyguard had this to say: We should just do away with masking and social distancing and

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Penny and Paul

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La Trinchera

2022-01-05 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Movie Night Leave a comment
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  • Bullfight Tonight!
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