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December52008
El Paso, TX ASARCO Workers 1950 (via thevid)
I identified my grandfather (far right, 2nd row from the top) and one of my uncles, Manuel.
Tags: /asarco /scanned image /smelter /smeltertown /el paso /texas /mexican-american /engineering /metalurgy
November262008
The Largest U.S. Market For Text Messaging? You Guessed It, El Paso | mocoNews.net »
There’s a direct correlation between the average age and cultural makeup of an area and its residents’ propensity to text message, according to new data from Scarborough Research. The firm found that El Paso has the highest rate of text messaging, followed by Salt Lake City, Dallas and Memphis. Adult subscribers in El Paso text at a rate of 57 percent, compared to the national average of 48 percent.
Tags: /we are the champions /text messaging /el paso /texas /latino /hispanic /youth markets /early adopters
Sad news about the “Eyes”
About two weeks ago, the Guadalupe detail mural at Holy Family Catholic Church, located in Sunset Heights near the university, was erased and no longer exists. Artist Mario Colin painted the mural about 3 years ago on the long side of the church hall. Now, perhaps for ADD compliance or additional egress, a new doorway was cut and a small gable attached to the building.
A couple of years ago I had the good fortune to speak to a small group of graffiti artists working on a large piece at Remedios, a hair salon on North Stanton. As I talked to them, I realized they did not understand who this woman was: The I-10 West Guadalupe. Instead, they called her “The Eyes.”
Tags: /mural /OL of Guadelupe /the eyes /el paso /Texas /latino
November252008
Eighty percent of our tickets are bought locally,” Olivas said. ”It’s important for people to come in from out of town, but there’s also a lot of Notre Dame fans in this part of the country who never get to South Bend. Alums from Texas, New Mexico and Arizona would come to El Paso and catch them here."
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Irish wouldn’t turn down bowl bid :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Colleges
While Notre Dame has turned down bowl invitations in the past, coach Charlie Weis said his team won’t pass up a trip to the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, even if the Irish lose a lopsided game to No. 5 USC in Saturday’s season finale (7 p.m., ESPN, 890-AM).
Sun Bowl executive director Bernie Olivas reiterated Monday that he would remain interested in the Irish even if they finish 6-6. The Trojans (9-1) are 29 1/2-point favorites over Notre Dame (6-5), which lost 24-23 to previously 2-8 Syracuse at home Saturday.
Tags: /el paso /texas /sun bowl /notre dame
November232008
This afternoon, I stopped working to grab a quick lunch. After cruising the usual suspect cable channels, I found the Texas Country Reporter featuring a story about Lola Stephens and her Nubian Queen Lola’s Soul Food cafe. What an amazing woman. Lola’s is a one-woman show who makes burgers, po’boys, shrimp etouffe, among others.Too bad Curtie doesn’t live in Austin anymore, I’d like to stop by Lolas. But not on Sunday because that is the day she feeds the homeless.
Here is a story from the Austin Chron, as well as the Texas Journalist that also featured Lola when she participated in a 2005 benefit for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Finally, the Austin Decider provides a quick review of her cafe.
Tags: /Thank God for God /nubian queen lola's soul food /lola stephens /austin /texas /texas country reporter /austin chronicle
November172008
A daily newspaper that caters to those readers who need their morning paper light and down to a five-minute read that is overwhelmingly positive and hopeful about El Paso is not fulfilling its responsibility as a newspaper.
Fence or no fence, over 25,000 El Pasoans everyday drive into Juarez to work in maquilas and several hundred thousand people from Juarez come into El Paso everyday to work, attend our schools and keep our economy afloat. Surely those people deserve the news of the day that matters. Too bad they don’t get it from the El Paso Times.
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Lisa Deglioantoni, Editor in chief of El Paso Media Group
— Media Watch: How often do you get it? A lot more than the El Paso Times. - Newspaper Tree El Paso
Tags: /newspapertree /elpaso /texas /el paso times /who is the valued one /who deserves our time /who do they think they are kidding /hiding behind shriner clowns
November152008
Filmmaker might shoot some of next film in El Paso, bring girlfriend America Ferrera with him - El Paso Times »
EL PASO - El Paso-born filmmaker Ryan Piers Williams might shoot some of his first major feature film next year in El Paso, and he could bring girlfriend America Ferrera with him.
America Ferrera will co-star in a movie that may be partially shot in El Paso. (Associated Press)The 27-year-old Hanks High grad has written and will direct a war-related movie with the working title of “American Tragic,” which he described as “about a soldier coming home from the war and trying to reintegrate to society.”
Ferrera, star of ABC’s “Ugly Betty” and Williams’ longtime girlfriend, has signed on to play the soldier’s wife. Newcomer Ryan O’Nan will play James, the returning soldier. Melissa Leo, who stars in the current “Frozen River,” will play his mother.
Tags: /america perrera /american tragic /film /real women have curves /ryan piers williams /ugly betty /hanks high school /el paso /texas /native el pasoan
November82008
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NEARLY half of New Jersey’s 6,000 citizen-soldiers are serving a yearlong tour in Iraq, the largest mobilization of the state’s National Guard since World War II. In June, they left for two final months of training at Fort Bliss, and in late summer they were given four-day passes to say goodbye to loved ones. Private Gordon’s mother and young wife traveled to El Paso together to see him off, though Ms. Gordon flew home two days early, to give the couple time alone.
Tags: /el paso /fort bliss /national guard /soldier and service /texas /young and married /new jersey
November52008
UTEP Union Gallery Presents Redefining Walls - El Paso Times
The UTEP Union Gallery proudly presents Redefining Walls, a group exhibition that sets out to interpret the contemporary relationship between the United States and Mexico. Redefining Walls will be on exhibit at the UTEP Union Gallery, 2nd floor Union East, from November 20, 2008 to January 5, 2009 with reception to take place on the evening of November 20, 2008 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Featuring El Paso artists, Kelly Eoff, Dave Ford, Jason Lucero, Zeque Penya, and Keith Allyn Spencer, Redefining Walls explores how each of the five artists interpret the U.S./Mexico relationship either by responding to the physical presence of walls or by portraying imagery that conveys human immigration and movement.
Curated by Exhibition Practices II students and led by Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts Director and Lecturer, Kate Bonansinga, Redefining Walls is a physical culmination of a year’s learning.
Tags: /the wall /redefining walls /utep union gallery /utep /border fence /el paso /texas /keith allen spencer
October202008
150 years old and still Great: South El Paso Street gets national nod - El Paso Times »
The architecture and unique bicultural heritage of South El Paso Street make it one of the 10 Great Streets in the United States this year, according to the American Planning Association’s Great Places in America program.
The historical integrity of South El Paso Street - which for more than 150 years has connected two cultures - is what makes it a great street, said Chuck Kooshian, a lead planner with the city’s development services department.
“The street was there before El Paso city was mapped out. … It is the first or last street you see when you enter or leave the city” from Juárez, Kooshian said.
El Paso Street, together with Avenida Juárez on the other side of the border, connects two countries, making it a unique place in America, he said.
“No other city (on the Great Streets list) has a street in which people walk over to Mexico to have lunch,” Kooshian said.
Tags: /downtown /el paso /south el paso street /texas /Avenida Juárez /Mexico /American Planning Association's Great Places /10 Great Streets in the United States
October92008
Bobby Byrd: Cesar Ivan: Dreaming Downtown El Paso, #2 »
My big brother told me once to live in the city or to live in the country. “Bobby,” he said, “don’t go living in the in-between.”
For several years Cesar Ivan’s series of three paintings—“El Carnaval Social,” “El Hombre Fuerte” and “Mujer de Dos Cebezas,” what he calls “sideshow banners”—hung on the walls of the Lumenbrite (now the Percolator) Café on Stanton Street in downtown El Paso. I loved those paintings from the first time I saw them. They were haunting in their wrinkled medieval ambiance with an odd sense of prophesy and cultural comment. Like allegory even. So un-20th Century. But still so peculiarly contemporary and hip. When art and poet friends from out of town came to visit us, I’d send them first to see Cesar’s paintings, then I’d tell them to walk by to see Luis Jimenez’ “Los Lagartos” in the Plazita and then go to the museum. They would always come back talking about Cesar’s work, especially El Carnaval Social. But for those of us who were involved in the downtown cultural life of the 90s and the first few years of this century, the paintings had an added dimension—the people in the paintings were people we know! I for one wanted to have the names of everybody in those paintings. So I started talking to Cesar.
Tags: /the percolator /cesar ivan /artist /bobby byrd /poet /el paso /texas /luis jimenez /downtown
July162008
City to fix West Side rock-wall menace - El Paso Times »
the problem with this is why would someone buy a house below this address, and if they lived through the developer’s messy addition, why didn’t they raise holy hell? further, why did this have to go to council?
if they tried to get help from district 1’s representative, was this person a listener, an advocate, or (ahem) a blank wall? seems obvious to me. in addition, newspapertree covered the story here.
The massive, crumbling rock wall at 118 Northwind Drive will be fixed by the city after residents of the West Side neighborhood told the City Council they feared for their safety and their homes.
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According to the El Paso Central Appraisal District, the property is owned by Claudia and Raul Revilla. The couple’s address is listed as a post office box, and they don’t have a listed telephone number.
Tags: /northwind fiasco /claudia and raul revilla /disctrict 1 /el paso /texas /condemned property /stormwater consequences
July42008
From the lack of common sense files :: Police investigate shots fired on West Side - El Paso Times »
El Paso police were investigating shots fired at about 2:30 p.m. Friday on the mountain trails uphill from the Dakota Ridge area of the West Side.
Police said they located a group of out-of-town people that were apparently practice shooting in the mountains when they startled a man walking on a mountain trail.
There were no reported injuries. An investigation was underway.
In February, there was a similar incident about a mile away when shots may have been fired at a woman mountain-biking on a trail off Calle Lomas Drive.
Anthony Gun Range
OK, here’s the deal. A lot of people here have bought into the trap that tourists/new military people that visit/move here from outside the area are good for the economy. Sheesh. But how many have 
thought this through to the affect they have on our health and safety?
N.B. The paths mentioned in this article come down the mountain and dump (read suddenly turn into asphalt walking paths) adjacent to high dollar neighborhoods, as opposed to the marvelously scenic and practical Anthony Gun Range (see above) that is in the middle of nowhere off I-10 at the Vado exit. Suddenly, I feel like I’m in Santa Fe again, Arrow.
Tags: /el paso /texas /guns /neighborhoods /safety /flickr /anthony gun range /common sense
