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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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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 3

2020-12-08 Kent Paterson Local Heroes, Music, Slider 4 comments

This is the last part of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.

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Joe T. Hodo — Por un México más Fifi

2020-12-08 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo One comment
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Cooking the Books?

2020-12-08 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Elections, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s another story from the people’s English language daily: El Paso County has officially surpassed the grim milestone of 1,000 COVID-19-related

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El Paso’s Fourth Tit

2020-12-07 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Elections, Ethics, Media, Slider 9 comments

I reckon the local oligarchs really got their hooks into the El Paso Times. Yesterday the El Paso Times had

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Secrets of Horse Trading

2020-12-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Elections, Politics, Quarantine, Slider 2 comments

I’ve always said that if you’re going to sell a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark is

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Sunday Matinee — Portrait in Black

2020-12-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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RetroVision: Beisbol been very very good to me

2020-12-05 elrichiboy ballpark, Retrovision, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared way back on 21 May 2020. Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s

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Junior Brown — Highway Patrol

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Hot Hits, Music One comment
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Free Antibody Testing

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Was that just a cold you had a couple of months ago, or were you one of the lucky ones

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Saturday Documentary: Four Horsemen

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Video Leave a comment
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Kuparilinna — Tuulee

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Friday Short: Talk to Me

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How Do You Get Covid at Walmart?

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Hot Hits, Media, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Is it available in Menswear, between the Rustler jeans and the Hanes underwear? Are unmasked infecteds coughing on the tomatoes?

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Joe T. Hodo: Minas…¡Sí! Ruinas…¡No!

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video Leave a comment
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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 2

2020-12-03 Kent Paterson Local Heroes, Music, Slider 6 comments

by Kent Paterson This is Part 2 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here. Days of

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Their Present is Our Future

2020-12-03 elrichiboy Economic Development, Education, Hot Hits, Juarez, Slider 4 comments

Across the river from UTEP, Colonia Felipe Angeles is poor. And it’s not even the poorest neighborhood in Juarez. Colonia

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The Breeders: Cannonball

2020-12-02 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Dark Money

2020-12-02 elrichiboy Elections, Ethics, Slider, The "Progressives" 4 comments

Many people were upset by that anonymous non-political political mailer that went out before the general election. But I suspect

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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 1

2020-11-30 Kent Paterson Hot Hits, Local Heroes, Music, Slider 11 comments

By Kent Paterson He was the King of Mesa Street, the main drag that winds up and down El Paso’s

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Sunday Matinee: Borderline

2020-11-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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  • “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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