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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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Descanse en Paz, El Recreo

2021-05-07 elrichiboy History, Juarez, Local Heroes, Mexico, Slider 8 comments

El Recreo closed. El Recreo opened in 1921. This year we should be celebrating its centennial. But El Recreo is

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Junior Brown – Highway Patrol

2021-05-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Decline of Six Sigma

2021-05-05 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

From Quartz (qz.com) via Pocket: Six Sigma, at its core, is a system for eliminating defects in manufacturing. The name

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3 2 of 4 CREEED Candidates lose EPISD Bids

2021-05-05 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Slider 2 comments

Three out of the four candidates receiving support from the Kids First PAC, which is supported by members of the

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Canal Surfing in the LV

2021-05-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment
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Joe T. Hodo – Joe Quiero Violencia!

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Brother Elsey – Fast Train

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Groundhog Day

2021-05-04 elrichiboy Breaking News, Media 2 comments

Here’s the front page of the El Paso Times for the last couple of days. It’s like deja vu all

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City of Dust – Gleeson, Arizona

2021-05-04 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Copper, Turquoise, and Moonshine We’ve reached our last stop on the Cochise County Ghost Town Trail: Gleeson, Arizona. When the

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Sturgill Simpson – Could You Love Me One More Time

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Gus Clark & The Least of His Problems – Thoughts and Prayers

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David Dorado Romo in The Atlantic

2021-05-03 elrichiboy Local Heroes, Migration One comment

Local historian David Dorado Romo is prominently featured in this month’s Atlantic Magazine, in a story titled America Never Wanted

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Alternatino – When You’re Latinx But You Can’t Dance

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Sunday Matinee – Tiger Bay

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The Velvet Underground – Jesus

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Saturday Matinee – Cults, Taboos, and Twisted Faith

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Question Mark & The Mysterian – 96 Tears

2021-04-30 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Friday Short – They’re Made Out Of Meat

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The Filthy Lucre is Really Filthy

2021-04-30 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

I don’t like to use my cards. My debit cards represent money in the bank, literally. With my sporadic income,

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Jalan Crossland – Moonshiner

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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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