Subject: El Paso

• Dallas' "Bewildering" Group Home Problem

  October 16, 2006

• Dallas to El Paso: Give Us All Y our Teachers

  June 2, 2006

• Test Patterns

  May 16, 2006

• Press Releases...With a Kick!

  April 6, 2006

• Narcing on The News?

  March 15, 2006

• The Broken Promises of NAFTA

  August 28, 2007

• A "House of Death" Lawsuit is No Mas

  September 17, 2007

• Ain't Life Grand? It Is, At Least According to Preservation Texas.

  February 8, 2008

• Tom Waits Announces Upcoming Tour, Plays Dallas on June 23

  May 5, 2008

• Tommy Lee Jones on the "Fascist Madness" of a Border Fence

  May 12, 2008

• On the Border, Off the Fence

  May 16, 2008

• Line Up Set for Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest. Fun? You Bet.

  August 20, 2008

• Over The Weekend: Bob Log III At Club Dada

  Bob Log III, Willem Maker, El Paso Hot ButtonClub DadaMay 29, 2009 Better Than: Jumping 12 school buses on a Harley XR-750 only to find out you missed the thirteenth one. Jon Prior Bob Log III is a rocket man.The crowd at Club Dada slowly trickled in after the late sunset on Friday. Tattoos swirled from arm to arm, holding women in dark jeans or rockabilly dresses. Then, from the dressing room appeared a bird, a plane, no... just Bob Log III. Wearing a fighter pilot helmet with a

  June 1, 2009

• The Rap Up: Syntax Strange

  October 17, 2008

• The Day Before the Big Game, Bruce Sherbet's Pep Talk

  November 3, 2008

• Lunar eclipse

  April 3, 1997

• Through a Lens Darkly

  December 11, 1997

• Chewing the Fat: Wednesday Ground 'Round

  If you're like me - broke and shameless - Jason Roestel at the Examiner has some tips you might find handy the next time you head to the cinema. I can personally verify that most of his tricks are both effective and ridiculously common-sensical. For the ballsier boozehounds among us, he details an advanced method involving a beer growler at the end. A woman in El Paso claims to have found a mouse in her Chinese food. (I highly recommend the video.) This isn't even the most upsetting part

  February 4, 2009

• Tangled web

  March 19, 1998

• Mayor Tom and Texas's Other Big-City Mayors Ask Governor for Help Handling Homeless

  Gabriel Metsu's Man Writing a LetterNever had time to make it to the Texas Big Cities Mayors shindig at City Hall today. But no matter: Meranda Cohn at Dallas City Hall this evening forwards along a copy of the mayors' letter to Governor Rick Perry, in which Tom Leppert, Bill White (Houston), Mike Moncrief (Fort Worth), Phil Hardberger (San Antonio), Will Wynn (Austin), John Cook (El Paso), Robert Cluck (Arlington) and Henry Garrett (Corpus Christi) spell out their "short list of critical legisl

  February 6, 2009

• Getting dumped

  July 23, 1998

• The New York Times Paints a Portrait of Blind Denton Artist John Bramblitt

  "Self Portrait Trio" by John BramblittThere has been no shortage of stories about John Bramblitt in recent years, as evidenced by the "news" page on the Denton artist's Web site. Four years ago, Mika Ferris even made a documentary titled, simply, Bramblitt. After all, his is an extraordinary tale: The 37-year-old El Paso native and University of North Texas graduate experienced vision loss throughout much of his life (due, he believes, to brain seizures that began when he was 2) and went complet

  February 17, 2009

• Road Trip: On the Set of Local Filmmaker Tom Huckabee's Carried Away

  Patrick MichelsFort Worth-based filmmaker Tom Huckabee's first feature was a post-apocalyptic William S. Burroughs adaptation, in which a 19-year-old Bill Paxton gets a brainwashing and a sex change from militant feminists.For his second feature now, 26 years later, Huckabee is tackling slightly milder themes, like family ties and caring for the elderly. In Carried Away, which has been filming around Dallas and Fort Worth over the past few weeks, a guy liberates his senile grandmother from her n

  March 2, 2009

• Cat Scratch Fever

  August 22, 2002

• House of Death

  A dozen men were tortured, killed and buried in a small house in Juarez. Three years later, the U.S. government is still trying to cover up what happened.

  March 8, 2007

• Ask a Mexican

  Tongue untied: tracking the history of pachucos, from Mexico to East L.A., via El Paso

  September 11, 2008

• Ask a Mexican

  An Anglo fool and his money are soon parted

  August 28, 2008

• Ask A Mexican

  All good things come from Texas—in food, anyway

  December 6, 2007

• Wives And Daughters

  July 26, 2007

• Wait, Wait. Don't Leave.

  July 26, 2007

• Bow to Your Partner

  February 1, 2007

• Napoleon the Great

  May 24, 2007

• ˇAsk a Mexican!

  January 11, 2007

• Bet on Black

  Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

  January 12, 2006

• Troubled Waters

  September 8, 2005

• Trip to Bountiful

  Oh, the talent given us at this year's remarkable Dallas Video Festival

  August 4, 2005

• Letters

  January 20, 2005

• Bob Schneider and Salim Nourallah

  Thursday, August 26

  August 26, 2004

• In the Ring

  Smackdown offers a Wrestlemania souvenir

  April 1, 2004

• Ticket to Ride

  It's good news for bad people as low morale saps Dallas cops' will to work

  March 13, 2003

• 2003 SnoCore Tour

  February 15

  February 13, 2003

• Drive Away

  Sparta leaves At the Drive-In, expectations and a so-called hiatus behind

  April 25, 2002

• Run Over

  Small towns in the Big Bend area brace for an onslaught of Mexican trucks rolling their way thanks to NAFTA

  July 5, 2001

• The Angel of Juarez

  Hundreds of poor Mexican girls have been abducted, raped, and murdered on the streets of Ciudad Juarez. They were forgotten and mostly ignored by authorities until Esther Chavez came along.

  January 4, 2001

• Black Hole Sons

  Now a trio, Austin's Rhythm of Black Lines is the world's darkest jam band

  November 30, 2000

• Death in the Desert

  Gary Patterson flew to El Paso for a job interview--and never returned. It took nearly two years for the Texas Rangers and Waco police to unravel the bizarre web of lies and treachery that led to his disappearance.

  October 26, 2000

• Dallas-Fort Worth: A Good, Strong Metro

  Brookings InstitutionLast night the Brookings Institution released a study tracking recession and recovery in the 100 biggest metro areas in the U.S., and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington ranks as one of the so-called "strongest 20 metros." Indeed, Texas takes several of the top spots: Austin-Round Rock, El Paso, Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, McAllen-Edinburg-Pharr and San Antonio also show up amongst the Strong 20, after Brookings researchers added up figures including unemployment rates, average wage

  June 17, 2009

• First Look: Split Peas Soup Cafe

  ​2533 McKinney Avenue is one of those locations. Vaguely familiar yet often overlooked, the unusual Mediterranean-style building with the wrap-around patio has always suffered from something of an identity crisis. Expect a few rounds of "It was that French place, remember? Then the Italian place...didn't they move?" when arranging a date at its newest incarnation, Split Peas Soup Café. And then buckle in for more multiple personality confusion. One thing this nearly month-old Uptown spo

  August 3, 2009

• The Mars Volta

  September 10, 2009

• Gig Reminder: The Mars Volta at The Palladium Ballroom Tonight

  In this week's paper, I talked briefly about tonight's Mars Volta show at the Palladium Ballroom...It's been eight years since the break-up of At the Drive-In, the influential post-hardcore El Paso outfit that, post-dissolution, saw its members split off into the separate factions of Sparta and The Mars Volta.The former took a simple enough alt-rock route to moderate success. The latter, meanwhile, delved off in an altogether new prog rock direction, with nary a glance back. Sure enough, five s

  September 16, 2009