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Remnants del ‘Hood

Rem­nants del ‘hood, El Paso — March 14, 2010 There ain’t much left. Mostly the pick­ins’. This was the Grand High­way, the Span­ish Trail, the begin­ning of the end of the long jour­ney from East to West or vice-versa, the tip of the arrow into the dart board that was Down­town El Paso. Inter­state came and went around, […]

El Paso Dreamin’

Town for sale, El Paso — Feb. 2010 From the movie The Bor­der: Marcy (Valerie Per­rine) : (Show­ing her Bor­der Patrol hus­band brochures about El Paso, try­ing to talk him into mov­ing there, at their break­fast table, in Los Ange­les) Honey some­times you gotta dream. Char­lie Smith (Jack Nichol­son) : (Paus­ing, fur­row­ing his now sig­na­ture brow) […]

Turtle In New Mexico

Turtle/New Year’s Eve 2009, New Mex­ico Las Cruces New Mex­ico on New Year’s Eve 2009. Tur­tle, 17, born and raised in this south­ern New Mex­ico town. Apache. Defi­ant and alive. It was as good as Times Square. Bet­ter. 2010 Res­o­lu­tions? Nah. Just keep looking.

New Mexico Juke

Las Cruces, NM/Dec. 14, 2009 Juke boxes. They’re  a “warm fuzzy,” no mat­ter how you cut it. No? I just wanna dance. It’s the hol­i­days. Time to dance. And stare at the wall (and the Web) and have lux­u­ri­ous long lunches (and per­son­ally enrich­ing) with good friends, now, in the rush of my life, long over­looked. I’m […]

Que Miras Musico: Change

Musi­cos, El Paso — April 2009 Wary eyes. Everyone’s wary, in El Paso/Juarez, these days. The bor­der is at war, with itself, with it’s two yin/yang sides, with the Inte­ri­ors of each of the two sides. Everyone’s won­der­ing where it’ll end, where they will fall on the have and have not scale, what’ll be left of this […]