Community Video: St. Anthony’s Bazaar 2012, El Paso, Tx

Posted by on Sep 10, 2016 in Blog, Border Culture | 0 comments

What started as a small Catholic community fair 53 years ago to support St. Anthony’s Seminary, 4601 Hastings, has grown to be an annual end-of-summer tradition for thousands of all faiths and backgrounds from throughout El Paso. The biggest draws for the St. Anthony’s Bazaar are the homemade gorditas and the evening concerts, but there’s plenty going on in every corner of the sprawling estate built by prominent...

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Chico’s Tacos recipe brings out the fans for El Pasoan’s Tumblr blog

Posted by on Oct 3, 2013 in Blog, Border Culture | 0 comments

Blogger Alley Nomi found a recipe for success in attracting followers just by posting a simple recipe titled “How to make Chico’s Tacos at home”. She’s been posting about “sex, drugs and rock and roll,” on her playful blog of  pop culture links, quotes, photos and plenty of attitude for several years now, but putting up a homemade Chico’s recipe brought in the crowd. Apparently, the answer is “Oh...

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From modern masters to podcasts, America’s literary innovation starts at the border

Posted by on Mar 25, 2013 in Blog, Border Culture, New Media | 2 comments

You may not at first think of the U.S. Southwest as an incubator for literary innovation until you realize that its artists  know that borders are artificial  and arbitrary and they can’t resist crossing them. And it is obvious El Paso, Texas, has become a key stop on the journey with the likes of literary stars Cormac McCarthy, Dagoberto Gilb,  Raymond Carver, Pat Mora and José Antonio Burciaga passing through. Now author Benjamin Alire...

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Twitter adds 100 more cities to Trends; El Paso, Juárez still don’t make the list

Posted by on Dec 10, 2012 in Blog, Border Culture, Community | 0 comments

Once again the wit and wisdom of the fourth largest city in Texas and the heart of the Paso del Norte corridor is disregarded as Twitter announces the addition of 100 more cities worldwide to its Trends list. Neither El Paso nor Juárez were included as an option in last week’s update of the Twitter feature that highlights the top conversation topics in a geographical area. OK, granted the top trending topics in El Paso tend to be...

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Social media giving life to ‘Beautiful Bones’ Day of the Dead art project

Posted by on Nov 30, 2012 in Blog, Border Culture | 0 comments

The artist’s studio is in Las Cruces, his home is in El Paso, but thousands of dollars to support his dream of bringing elegant skeletons to life are coming in from near and far thanks to digital networking and the social fundraising site Kickstarter.com For eighteen months artist Wayne Hilton has sewn, beaded, glued and shaped the 15 exquisitely elaborate figurines at the heart of the Hermosos Huesos (Beautiful Bones) Project.  Made of...

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Hundreds of tourism experts promote El Paso experience tweet by tweet at SoMeT

Posted by on Nov 12, 2012 in Blog, Border Culture | 0 comments

It was the ultimate social media scavenger hunt as tourism industry workers from around the world zeroed in on El Paso, Texas, last week in search of fresh ideas and West Texas flair. More than 230 attendees for the Social Media Tourism Symposium packed conference rooms at the Judson F. Williams Convention Centre in El Paso to learn new ways to use social media to attract visitors to their cities and get them to stick around longer once...

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