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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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Let Them Drive Cake

2021-03-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Public Transportation, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

From the El Paso Inc.: A lot of El Paso buses are going from stop to stop empty these days.

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U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

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There’s Hope

2021-03-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench, Urban Planning, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Here’s a Tweet from Lina Hidalgo, the County Judge for Harris County, Texas: NEW: The feds have told TXDOT to

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Saturday Matinee – In Search of a Flat Earth

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The Hamiltones – No, Let’s Eat the Musicians

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Friday Short – The Voice in Your Head

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Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Too Cool To Dance

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Mellow Corn for the People

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I don’t know who came up with this idea, but this product is definitely claiming its brand space. That there

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TxDOT Isn’t Building Us a Deck

2021-03-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, The Trench, Tommy Gonzalez, Urban Planning 9 comments

The cap isn’t TxDOT’s purview. TxDOT does transportation. The deck park is a public amenity. TxDOT is, however, expanding I-10

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International Women’s Day Coverage in the U.S. and Mexico

2021-03-09 Kent Paterson Media, Mexico, Slider, Uncategorized 2 comments

by Kent Paterson Women’s Day Reporting Diverges in U.S. and Mexico  What was the top story in Mexico and the

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Messer Chups – Dracula Hates Killer Icicles

2021-03-08 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Sunday Matinee – Gregory Peck in the Million Pound Note

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Solomon Burke – Down in the Valley

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Saturday Matinee Triple Feature – The 50’s and the 60’s

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Friday Short – Sandwitch

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Sacha Baron Cohen on Jimmy Kimmel

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Koko Taylor with Little Walter – Wang Dang Doodle

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Colter Wall – Cowpoke

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Class Action Suit?

2021-03-03 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, El Paso Electric Company, Great Wolf Resorts, Karla Nieman, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.com: A lawsuit by former state Rep. Joe Pickett alleges the city of El Paso is

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Sturgill Simpson – You Can Have the Crown / Some Days

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  • Bullfight Tonight!
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