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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”

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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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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

    2026-05-08 elrichiboy
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  • Our Surveillance State

    2026-05-05 Rich Wright

    From APNews.com: Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor

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  • Alec Guiness in “The Detective”

    2026-05-03 elrichiboy
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2CELLOS – Thunderstruck

2022-03-14 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Ongoing Class War

2022-03-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Have I ever mentioned that it feels like the City of El Paso, and the El Paso Chamber of Commerce,

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The October Man (1947)

2022-03-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Celtic Worship – How Great Thou Art

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Petroglyphs

2022-03-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Last weekend we went to see some petroglyphs. They were out there past the Border Patrol checkpoint on I-10. By

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The Case of Phil Spector

2022-03-12 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Mutiny!

2022-03-11 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Endurance wreck: Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship found off Antarctica

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Antonio Badu in “Las coronelas”

2022-03-08 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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9 Years Ago

2022-03-08 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider, Veronica Escobar One comment

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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James Mason in The Upturned Glass

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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”

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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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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”
  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”
  • “Blackout”
  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”
  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

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