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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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  • 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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Sunday Matinee – The 13th Letter

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Ry Cooder – Jesus On The Mainline

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Saturday Matinee – Cities on Speed: Bogota Change / The Inspiring Story Antanas Mockus

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“Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People.”

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Friday Short – Gold

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“Sonny Liston – Boxing’s Most Intimidating and Unwanted Champion”

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Tommy G’s $400K

2021-07-15 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

KTSM.com (and others) report that City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is set to make almost $400,000 a year. El Paso City

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More Lies From People Who Should Know Better

2021-07-14 elrichiboy City Management, El Paso Times, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks One comment

I read the El Paso Times so you won’t have to, and I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern. Every time the

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Climate Town – How the Auto Industry Carjacked the American Dream

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Steve’n’Seagulls – Thunderstruck

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El Paso Children’s Hospital’s Identity Crisis

2021-07-13 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider One comment

David Crowder, in last week’s El Paso Inc., wrote: Children’s, a nonprofit organization under El Paso County’s University Medical Center,

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“This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”

2021-07-12 elrichiboy Veritasium, Video Leave a comment
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Chime the Eff Up

2021-07-12 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 3 comments

Did you take the City of El Paso’s budget survey? It was called Chime In!, and it was available on

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Sunday Matinee – The Great Man

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The Spirit of Memphis Quartet – The Atomic Telephone

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Saturday Matinee – Exxon Exposed: Greenpeace Tricks Top Lobbyists into Naming Senators They Use to Block Climate Action

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Neil LeVang – Ghost Riders in the Sky

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Friday Short – My Loyal Audience

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Tan and Sober Gentlemen – Rabbit in a Log

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Alternatino – Latin Pop Star, White Audience

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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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