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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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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”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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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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Movie Night – Jorge Negrete and Maria Felix in El Peñón de Las Ánimas

2021-12-21 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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Will You Cross a Picket Line to Go To the Sun Bowl? (Updated)

2021-12-20 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, sports One comment

From 3NewsNow.com, an Omaha, Nebraska, teevee station: Monday marks 11 weeks since hundreds of workers at the Kellogg’s plant in

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The Ongoing Environmental Disaster

2021-12-20 elrichiboy Slider, The Environment One comment

Since August 15, El Paso Water has been pumping raw sewage into the Rio Grande. Ten million gallons a day.

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Sunday Matinee – The Man With the Golden Arm

2021-12-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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God Bless Adair

2021-12-19 elrichiboy Adair Margo, Gensler, Heritage Tourism, History, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

“Former First Lady of El Paso” Adair Margo just won’t let it go. From a guest column in today’s El

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Barockmusik zum Advent

2021-12-19 elrichiboy Music 2 comments
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Old Sheepdog Brewery Releases Segundo Barrio Vienna Style Lager

2021-12-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 3 comments
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Saturday Matinee – The Houses that Can’t be Built in America – The Missing Middle

2021-12-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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Friday Short – Floaters

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LatinX El Paso : Odyssey of a Mexican American/Hispanic Community by Oscar Martinez

2021-12-16 elrichiboy History, Media, Slider, Uncategorized 4 comments

Latinx El Paso provides a historical and contemporary overview of the Mexican American/Hispanic population in one of the major urban centers

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Vicente Fernandez in Dios Los Cría

2021-12-14 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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EPISD’s New Superintendent

2021-12-14 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider 5 comments

The El Paso Independent School District has a new Superintendent. From ElPasoMatters.com: The El Paso Independent School District Board of

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El Paso in Belgium

2021-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso One comment

A Belgian amusement park has a ride called “El Paso”. Draw your own conclusions.

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The Economic Impact of Arenas: A Brief Survey

2021-12-13 elrichiboy Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 9 comments

The El Paso City Council recently approved the following motion: “To direct the City Manager or designee to hire a

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Sunday Matinee – The Brasher Doubloon

2021-12-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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The Piano Guys – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

2021-12-12 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Do We Live in a Simulation?

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The Deck Park and Trail Connectivity

2021-12-10 elrichiboy Deck Park, Slider 2 comments

Deck plaza advocate Tracy Yellen had this to say in a recent guest column in the El Paso Times: A

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Friday Short – Napo

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Support El Chuqueño

2021-12-10 elrichiboy Support El Chuqueño 4 comments

El Paso is facing a lot of challenges right now. Widening the freeway and the deck park. Redistricting. The discharge

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