News & Politics
July 10, 2014
Asylum Politics
Why did dozens of Sikh detainees in a federal facility in El Paso go on hunger strike in April?
El Paso
Music
June 25, 2014
How To Survive As An Austin Rock Club For Four Decades
The "Live Music Capital of the World" is also a live music venue cemetery. The University of Texas-area bar Hole in the Wall is an exception.
The Daily Post
June 17, 2014
Austin and El Paso Would Both Like to Have Major League Soccer Teams
World Cup fever is spreading!
Food & Drink
April 16, 2014
A Summer Weekend in El Paso
One family’s journey into enchanted enchilada land.
The Culture
April 8, 2014
True Colors
As a teenager I thought a quick paint job would help my family blend in to our white suburban neighborhood. Now I'm glad it wasn't that simple.
The Daily Post
January 15, 2014
What’s The Point Of This Weird Lotto/Taxicab Scam Someone Is Attempting In El Paso?
It would be frightening if it weren't so weird, dumb, and ineffective: A new scam that attempts to prey on the elderly involves calling people up, telling them they've won the lottery, and then sending a cab to their house. The big flaw? No one has of yet gotten into
Books
December 1, 2013
Best-Selling Gay Novel Turns Fifty
John Rechy, whose novel "City of Night" was wildly successful when it was published in 1963, grew up during the Depression, the youngest of five children born to a Mexican family in El Paso.
Sports
October 23, 2013
It’s Time to Embrace the El Paso Chihuahuas, Everybody
After months of speculation and a "name the team" contest that garnered over 5,000 submissions, El Paso's new AAA-affiliate for the San Diego Padres finally has a mascot—and it's small enough to fit in your purse.
Music
September 30, 2013
Why Did ‘Breaking Bad’ Name Its Final Episode After Marty Robbins’ “El Paso”?
Let's take a spoiler-free look at "Felina" and Marty Robbins' classic outlaw ballad.
Food & Drink
June 10, 2013
Juan Marquez, Baker
“[The bakery] was our business, our living room, and our bedroom. Heck, it was even my nursery.”
Politics & Policy
February 13, 2013
Egypt Looks to El Paso for Water Wisdom
The city's massive inland desalination plant is drawing admirers from near and far.
Politics & Policy
February 6, 2013
El Paso Named Safest U.S. City
And the border was declared secure. What does this mean for immigration laws?
Food & Drink
January 30, 2013
Where to Eat Now
And the year's best new restaurants are...
Media
January 24, 2013
A Tale of Six Cities
Modern Texas, as told through the archives of Texas Monthly.
Border & Immigration
January 24, 2013
The Other Ellis Island
Segundo Barrio, with its turn-of-the-century tenement buildings and dozens of brightly colored murals, is one of the most historic neighborhoods in the country. As the first community that immigrants encounter after crossing the Rio Grande from Juárez, it is known as the Ellis Island of the border, and over the
El Paso
January 24, 2013
An Ode to Album Park
Forty years ago I would burrow inside the nose cone of a three-story rocket slide at Album Park. Not Eastwood Park—officials have force-fed El Pasoans that name since the park opened, in 1968, but, like ketchup on hamburgers, we don’t ever use it. Peering through the steel rods that made
El Paso
January 24, 2013
A Night at Chico’s
Savoring an institution from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.
El Paso
January 24, 2013
The Best Laid Plan
El Paso’s latest urban redevelopment scheme is one of the nation’s most far-reaching and innovative. It is also, as any resident will tell you, one of its most contentious.
El Paso
January 24, 2013
Pride and Prejudice
It’s time for Texas to get smart about its westernmost—and most ignored—city, where an old pass tracks the route of our future.
Books
January 23, 2013
Horsemen, Goodbye
Thoughts on the gradual march of civility and urban sprawl across the lost frontier.
Editor's Letter
January 23, 2013
February 2013: The Cities Issue
Looking ahead to our next forty years.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Six World Records Set in Texas…and Four More That Need to Be
World's biggest Frito pie? Check. Most consecutive back handsprings? Got it. Largest pecan pie? Indeed. But when it comes to some truly important Guinness records, Texas is playing second enchilada.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UTEP Prez Says Miners Can Take Oklahoma
At last weeks UT system Board of Regents meeting, University of Texas at El Paso president Diana Natalicio told UT-Austin president Bill Powers that the Miners plan to soften up OU on Saturday.
January 21, 2013
TEA Sanctions El Paso School District Following Cheating Scandal
El Paso, which is no stranger to scandals, is facing another nick against its reputation after the TEA found its school district to be engaging in "unethical and illegal acts."
Bum Steers
January 21, 2013
Two Strip Club Related Fatalities Make Headlines
In El Paso, a man suffers a heart attack at the Red Parrot, while in Houston a dancer known as "Pocahontas" is a murder suspect.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Talking Tacos With Gustavo Arellano
The "¡Ask a Mexican!" columnist and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America talks about Tex-Mex, Houston versus Dallas, and Ray's versus Henry's.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Not Many Texans Think Perry Should Run for Governor in 2014
Only 29 percent of Texans would support Perry for a fourth full term.
January 21, 2013
Houston is “America’s Fattest City”
Houston returns to the top of a Men's Fitness survey that also includes El Paso, Arlington, and Dallas.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
“Occupy” Still Occupying Texas Cities Peacefully
Police in New York City forcibly removed the flagship Occupy Wall Street protest early Tuesday morning. Nothing similar has happened here in Texas . . . yet.
Technology
January 21, 2013
Industrial Evolution
As much as anything, the Texas economic miracle depends on water. Lots of water. So what are all those power plants, refineries, and factories going to do as the state gets drier and drier and drier?
Art
January 21, 2013
Texas Treasures
My journey in early Texas art began while I was a student at Southern Methodist University, where I studied Frank Reaugh pastels and met Jerry Bywaters. After 24 years at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, curating exhibitions and traveling the state, I’ve come up with a list of greatest hits.
Art
January 21, 2013
The Art Lover’s Companion
More than sixty art insiders gave us their list of favorite works of art to see in Texas. So grab your notepad, sketchbook, or iPad and take the ultimate tour of must-see art in Texas.
The Culture
January 20, 2013
101–125
From John Warne Gates peddling barbed wire in San Antonio to a group of cowboys and ranchers holding the first rodeo in Pecos
The Culture
January 20, 2013
101–125
From John Warne Gates peddling barbed wire in San Antonio to a group of cowboys and ranchers holding the first rodeo in Pecos
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
Near/Far
Despite rampant fears to the contrary, the bloody drug violence in Mexico hasn’t spilled over into Texas—but that doesn’t mean it’s not transforming life all along the border.
Food & Drink
January 20, 2013
Let’s Have Mex-Tex
Where’s the best place to get a perfect plate of enchiladas? A chile relleno to die for? A salsa you’ll never forget? Come along on our tour of the fifty greatest Mexican restaurants in Texas, from Hugo’s, in Houston, to Tacos Santa Cecilia, in El Paso. This is not your
Border & Immigration
January 20, 2013
My Tío, the Saint
Meet Toribio Romo, the patron saint of immigrants.
Border & Immigration
January 20, 2013
A Q&A With David Dorado Romo
Not everyone can claim to be related to a certified saint, but David Dorado Romo can. The author and El Paso native traveled to a tiny town in the Mexican state of Jalisco to learn more about his father’s second cousin, Santo Toribio Romo, and discovered some interesting things about
Web Exclusive
January 20, 2013
Long Division
Nate Blakeslee talks about immigration and the media coverage of border spillover violence.
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
Dream of a Common Language. Sueño de un Idioma Común.
The future of Texas depends on how well we are able to educate kids who can’t speak English. Has an elementary school in El Paso figured out the best way to do it?
Texas History
January 20, 2013
A River Runs Through It
At the port of entry in El Paso, I always tell the agents, “American,” but what I really want to say is “fronterizo”—I’m from both sides.
Street Smarts
January 20, 2013
Downtown El Paso
1. Crave Kitchen and BarSmack in the middle of El Paso’s Cincinnati Entertainment District is this industrial-cool restaurant that attracts everyone from college kids to suits. Inexpensive yet chic design solutions generate a big impact: Outside, a marquee-style arrow glows with yellow bulbs to amp up the drab facade, while
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
And Justice for Some
How the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals mistakes toughness for fairness—and gives the state a black eye.
Feature
January 20, 2013
Badges of Dishonor
Two Border Patrol agents are sent to prison while the dope smuggler they pursued and wounded is granted immunity by federal prosecutors and goes free. A miscarriage of justice? Not so fast.
Travel & Outdoors
January 1, 2013
Embracing the Pass
Was I giddy from the altitude or just happy to be strolling the sidewalks of El Paso?
September 14, 2012
Teacher in El Paso Reportedly Asks Students to Draw 9/11 Attacks
Fourth graders drew disturbing pictures depict the planes hitting the twin towers and people jumping out of buildings.
Music
May 31, 2012
Five New Albums You Shouldn’t Miss
Including new sets from Alejandro Escovedo, Rhett Miller, and more.
Music
May 4, 2012
Rapper’s “Gay Is Okay” Song Goes Viral
A YouTube video posted by Adair Lion, an El Paso-born rapper, has been viewed more than 100,000 times and was dubbed “The World’s First Pro-Gay Rap Song.”
April 27, 2012
Toilet Paper Fire Burns 53,000 Acres
Thirty-year-old Rodrigo Ulloa-Esquivel of El Paso attempted to "leave no trace" by burning his used toilet paper, but ended up starting a devastating wildfire in New Mexico's Lincoln National Forest.
The Texanist
March 31, 2012
The Texanist: Are “Truck Nuts” Appropriate?
How to respond to those weird bumper testicles, pledge allegiance to the flag, ask to see the top of someone’s boots, and decide between sweet and dill.