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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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Someday Matinee: Hedy Lamarr in The Female Animal

2020-02-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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City To Give $2.4 Million in Cash to Fund Downtown Apartments

2020-02-07 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: Downtown El Paso’s slow-to-grow housing market is getting a new addition when a 13-story office

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Friday Short: Box 616

2020-02-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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MCAD, Parks, and Libraries to Merge?

2020-02-06 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

That’s the latest rumor to emanate from the bowels of City Hall. According to the rumor, the City of El

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People, Poverty, and Narco-Violence

2020-02-06 elrichiboy Mexico 2 comments

Here’s a good article examining the root causes of Mexico’s violent drug trade. The narcos I spoke with do not

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Juarez Walking Tour Reviews

2020-02-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Most El Pasoans think Juarez begins and ends at the strip. If they go to Juarez, they get as far

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Wealth Inequality and Income Segregation

2020-02-05 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Downtown El Paso used to belong to all El Pasoans. Sure, there was poverty. But there were also places that

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The City Can’t Stop Lying

2020-02-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a Steve Jobs quote: A players hire A players, but B players hire C players and C players hire

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Hunt Builds Communities

2020-02-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Really. That’s what they do. They got rich building housing for military families, all over the world. If you believe

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Sunday Matinee: Algiers

2020-02-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Time to Pay Your Property Taxes Again

2020-01-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

It’s that time again. Your property taxes are due without penalty by January 31. The riches are shuffling and refinancing

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Balming Tiger: Armadillo

2020-01-29 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Sunday Matinee: Intruder in the Dust

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Friday Short: How NOT to Get a Divorce from Your Wife from Alfred Hitchcock Presents

2020-01-24 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video Leave a comment
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Does She Have a Problem With Math, or the Truth?

2020-01-23 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Jessica Herrera, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

I came across this press release from the City from back when iFly announced their move into Monticello. The City’s

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A Big Win for the Borderplex Alliance

2020-01-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

From the El Paso Times: Big Tuna USA, a company with a unique niche in the North American pipe industry,

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“‘Life is a Fight’: Scenes from a Migrant Tent Camp in Juárez”

2020-01-22 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider 4 comments

Here’s a great piece by local freelance photo-journalist Henry Carver about the recently destroyed migrant tent camps in Ciudad Juarez.

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Wealth Inequality is Driving El Paso’s Housing Bubble

2020-01-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

El Paso house prices are rising, abetted, perhaps, by the Central Appraisal District’s increase in valuations. But is the tail

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Greedy Kilowatt

2020-01-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

I’m not in favor of selling El Paso Electric to J.P. Morgan. I’ve seen enough movies to know that you’re

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Sunday Matinee Double Feature: The King of Texas

2020-01-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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