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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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FOLI (there is no movement without rhythm) original version by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg

2020-11-17 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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A Public Apology to the El Paso Times

2020-11-17 elrichiboy Media 4 comments

I’ve ragged a lot on the El Paso Times (no pun intended). My animosity was chiefly rooted in their uncritical

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We Should Fire Them All

2020-11-17 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Corruption, Jessica Herrera, Sam Rodriguez, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 14 comments

I’m angry. From KFOX14.com: Five buildings throughout El Paso are being refurbished to assist the county combat COVID-19. . .

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Cuba Feliz: Lagrimas Negras

2020-11-16 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Will You Support a Taxpayer Funded Soccer Stadium?”

2020-11-16 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

That’s the question we should be asking candidates this election cycle. In the next four years, City Council will probably

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Retrovision: The Effects of Corruption

2020-11-16 elrichiboy City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 March 2019. Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in

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Sunday Matinee: Shockproof

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Retrovision: Dee Margo’s Task Force

2020-11-14 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 23 April 2020. Good news, everybody. Sure, people are dying, and the economy’s in the

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Saturday Documentary: Secrets of the Tribe

2020-11-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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Words and Their Meanings

2020-11-13 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Karla Nieman, Liar Liar, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

El Paso City Attorney Karla Nieman had a birthday party for her daughter, in apparent contravention of the order against

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Friday Short: Among Us

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Based on the online role playing game.

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Daddy and Daddy Are Fighting

2020-11-13 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Mayor Dee Margo and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego are battling it out over local government’s response to El Paso’s soaring

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Where’s Susie?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Slider, The "Progressives" 7 comments

From this week’s El Paso Inc.: The woman who has led El Paso’s PBS TV station for six years has

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Sleaford Mods: Second

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What Is CooL?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

For marketers, cool is the holy grail. Mostly, marketers find cool after it’s been discovered and try to monetize it,

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Manu Chao: Clandestino

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A Failure of Government

2020-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Pizza king J. Kirk Robison penned a Letter to the Editor in Sunday’s Sun Shopper El Paso Times. It is

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: S.O.B

2020-11-09 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Government and the Governed

2020-11-09 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 15 comments

El Paso is culturally unique. There is no other place in the world like El Paso. The U.S. Census Bureau’s

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Sunday Matinee: Raw Deal

2020-11-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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