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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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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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We Should Fire Tommy Gonzalez

2020-04-02 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

He might be a nice guy. Maybe. He’s been here five years, and I’ve never heard anyone accuse him of

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Mingo Saldivar: Rueda de Fuego

2020-03-29 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee: American Hot wax

2020-03-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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I Think I’ve Got the Coronavirus

2020-03-28 elrichiboy Slider 3 comments

On February 29th, I shook hands with someone who, unbeknownst to me, had just returned from Milan. A couple of

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Saturday Matinee: D.O.A.

2020-03-28 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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Friday Matinee: Charlton Heston and Sofia Loren in El Cid

2020-03-27 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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About That Gran Logia del Lobo

2020-03-26 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Joel and Dr. Sam “She just wouldn’t shut up” Morgan think that people from Juarez and Chihuahua City will support

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Israel is Snooping on Israeli Cellphones

2020-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

From the Guardian: Israel’s government has approved emergency measures to track people suspected or confirmed to have been infected with

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Sam Morgan is Full of Shit

2020-03-23 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

God Bless Him. At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Dr. Sam “She Just Wouldn’t Shut Up” Morgan claimed that the

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Sunday Matinee: Clark Gable and Loretta Young in the Call of the Wild

2020-03-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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The Great Ongoing Land Swindle

2020-03-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Way back on 30 July 2014, in a post titled Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?, I wrote: I mean, we’re

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The Fat Men’s Club

2020-03-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Here’s a story from Texas Monthly: “Reckhart is Fasting” read the headline of a 1902 El Paso Daily Times. Reckhart, apparently,

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Conflict of Interest?

2020-03-17 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Media, Slider One comment

Yesterday I reported on an article I found on Page 8A of the El Paso Times. The article said that

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The Alternate Realities of Living in El Paso

2020-03-17 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

The people running El Paso are delusional. They’re drunk. Drunk on power and ego. They latched onto this idea that

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Bernie Sanders on the EPEC Sale

2020-03-16 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Media, Slider One comment

There’s a story in today’s El Paso Times: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and two other United States senators want two

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Sunday Matinee: Stalker

2020-03-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Bertrand Russell on Local Politics

2020-03-10 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Taxes One comment

Sometimes, when me and my friends are passing around the plastic flask of Old Forrester, the conversation turns to the

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Friday Short: Hail Mary Country

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Friday Short: Terminal

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Radio La Chusma: Big Money

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