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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 Covid Economy

2020-10-01 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider 2 comments

You can catch the Covid twice, but it’s not likely. There have been three recorded cases, one in Hong Kong,

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Marty Stuart: Way Out West

2020-09-30 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Happy Birthday, Marty Stuart. And here he is 48 years ago, performing with Lester Flatt.

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The Power of the Mayor

2020-09-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Politics, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

The truth is, there isn’t a lot the Mayor of El Paso can do. He doesn’t get a vote on

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Where are the Covid Cases Coming from?

2020-09-29 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider 2 comments

Health officials are reporting hundreds of new cases every day. So where are they coming from, generally? State law prohibits

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The Cleverlys: Walk Like an Egyptian

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We Should Start Thinking What Bankruptcy Will Look Like

2020-09-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

El Pasoans aren’t getting any younger. True fact: We’re all either dead or getting older. (Today in the A Section

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred HItchcock’s Jamaica Inn

2020-09-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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Xavier Miranda on School Reopenings

2020-09-25 Xavier Miranda Coronavirus, Education, Quarantine Leave a comment

*The following statement is being submitted to Chief Academics Officer Tamekia Brown of EPISD, who will host a live chat,

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Community First Coalition’s “Does El Paso City Hall Represent you?”

2020-09-25 elrichiboy ballpark, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Ethics, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, Video 2 comments
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Friday Short: Stutterer

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The Raconteurs: Old Enough

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Tyler Childers: Country Squire

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Florida

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Here’s a story from the Washington Post about the hoteled homeless in Florida KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Rose Jusino was waking

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“Live Active EP”

2020-09-23 elrichiboy City Management, Slider One comment

Here’s an opinion piece in the El Paso Times by Ben Fyffe, “native El Pasoan, . . . the director

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Heilung: Krigsgaldr

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Jennifer Connelly: Sway

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Earth, Wind & Fire: September

2020-09-21 elrichiboy Music, Video 4 comments
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You’re the Sucker

2020-09-21 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Library, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Are you getting value from your city tax dollars? I mean, really. Is the city doing anything for you besides

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Number 17

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Saturday Documentary: Speaking Frankly: Socialism

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