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  • “The Merry Gentlemen”

    2026-07-12 elrichiboy
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  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”

    2026-07-11 elrichiboy
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  • “Jigsaw”

    2026-07-05 elrichiboy
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  • Pay Raises for Everybody (But Not for You)

    2026-07-02 Rich Wright

    Our elected officials at the City (the Mayor and City Representatives) are getting 15% pay raises this year. The people at the City working for

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  • “Guilty Bystander”

    2026-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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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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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

2022-03-09 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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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

2022-03-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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 Economic Development, ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, 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

2022-02-27 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Frontline – “The Untouchables”

2022-02-26 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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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

2022-02-25 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Sting – Russians

2022-02-24 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The People Speak!

  • elrichiboy on “Guilty Bystander”
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  • Paul Pino on The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
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  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “The Merry Gentlemen”
  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”
  • The Data Center Chronicles: The Battle of Jupiter Comes to Albuquerque
  • “Jigsaw”
  • “Death of a Guerilla: How the CIA Hunted Down Che Guevara”

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