On a clear Sunday morning, sisters Josey and Christina “Teeny” Pickett met up at UTEP’s Centennial Plaza to embark on a strenuous masked run. Although the sisters live on opposite sides of El Paso, training ...
Starting this fall, El Pasoans and other residents of the 915 area code will have to dial a 10-digit number — rather than seven digits — to make local calls. The change is needed to ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Liberty is the core of American life. Patrick Henry’s dramatic speech at the Second Virginia Convention which concluded with, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” is widely credited for setting ...
By Claudia Hernández/Borderless Magazine On a warm February afternoon, Susana Coreas stands outside the door of Casa de Colores in Ciudad Juárez holding a phone in one hand and a 50 peso bill in the ...
An El Paso rabbi’s campaign to make people aware of the importance of charity was on display Wednesday in the Texas House of Representatives. Plastic yellow arks — charity boxes provided by the Chabad Lubavitch ...
A unique binational news collaboration will begin publishing stories this week about significant issues facing El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. The partnership, called Puente News Collaborative, will begin with a two-week series of stories that ...
For the refugees who have spent months (or even years) stuck waiting in Mexico in the dangerous Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program, the art-covered walls of El Paso’s Casa del Refugiado are a colorful and ...
Each February, El Pasoans participate in Black History Month events like parades, art events, and much more. But many don’t know the long and rich history of El Paso’s African American community. From Buffalo Soldiers ...
Some El Paso librarians have been reinstated to their jobs, two days after the city sparked public outrage by sending them layoff notices. Sue Barnum, a longtime librarian who received a layoff notice on Wednesday ...
For the first time in nearly half a century, El Paso has a new private skyscraper, WestStar Tower. The behemoth structure forged almost entirely of aqua glass and steel stands at around 280 feet from ...
The city of El Paso on Wednesday informed 75 furloughed employees — mostly library workers — that their jobs are being permanently eliminated. Officials said the employees would be offered other jobs in the city, ...
Every time Gina Ramos looks at her teddy bear, she remembers her father. The bear is a deep indigo color, made from one of her father’s shirts. “It’s a blue shirt I had given him ...
The Supreme Court on Monday gave El Paso’s Tigua Indians at least a small victory in their long-running gambling fight with the state of Texas, asking the Justice Department for the first time to weigh ...
Whenever Maria Garcia arrives in El Paso after being away for a while, she notices the change in her body immediately. Her neck and shoulders “make peace with each other” when she inhales the desert ...
The question “ARE YOU OK?” sprawls across the back of an ink-drawn cicada in the new show opening at Galería Lincoln this week. It’s a fitting question for artists, nearly a year into the global ...
Human remains were discovered this week as crews worked on a water and wastewater project in Sunset Heights, triggering an archaeological investigation that put the work on hold. The remains were found Tuesday near the ...
I didn’t go to a single movie theater in 2020. Not one. Partially, this is one of the costs of being a college student with no car and no theaters next to campus, but more ...
Remove your shoes, open the door, ring the bell three times and walk toward the altar to pray. That’s what Hindu devotees do every time they enter the Southwest Hindu Temple on El Paso’s West ...
By Rabbi Stephen Leon There is a huge secret which lives in our unique city of El Paso. Most of our residents are unaware of it and yet this secret has had an impact on ...
The phone is ringing off the hook and people are lined up outside of Bowie Bakery in West El Paso. The shop is only allowing three customers inside at a time as a COVID-19 precaution. ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Often in conversation nowadays people share with me that — although they continue following social distancing guidelines and all — they are emotionally done with this virus. The constant disruption of ...
Students at UTEP will present their documentary photography projects to the public virtually on Wednesday evening. Working all semester, students in Corrie Boudreaux’s digital photography class visually documented the impact of the pandemic in the ...
This story has been updated with photos and a video of Saturday’s birthday celebration for Estine Davis. Estine Davis has been cutting hair in El Paso for almost 70 years, most of it at her ...
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg A friend confided in me that Thanksgiving this year will be dreadful as he won’t be celebrating with family back east. I hear this sentiment from so many here in town ...
The Lopez family always gets together to celebrate holidays and important events. They are a big family, and on a typical Thanksgiving day, cousins cross over from Juárez, kids fly in from out of state, ...
By Anna Aleman The world’s oldest and largest mega event, the World Expo, will be hosted for the first time in the Middle East. El Paso is one of 28 cities across the United States ...
For the hundreds of El Pasoans grieving the death of a loved one to COVID-19, even the practice of mourning has been dramatically reconfigured because of the pandemic. El Paso religious leaders expressed sadness over ...
TORNILLO, Texas — Damaris Duran models how to solve an algebraic equation, drawing directly on a large screen at the front of her classroom. She adjusts her microphone headset as she walks her eighth-grade students ...
By Pat Thompson In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus activated his National Guard to block nine black students from entering Little Rock High School. President Eisenhower responded by ordering the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division ...
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At home this past weekend, I had the pleasure of streaming “Godzilla vs. Kong,” but the experience was far from pleasurable. There are no spoilers here, and this is not a movie review, but an ...