While handling the "Mexican Intervention", General Pershing lived on Fort Bliss and his former home still stands. Which is cool since, it seems, he may still live there. Something does anyway ...
Proper hydration in a city as hot as El Paso is super important, no matter the season. In fact, during winter, it can be even more important so, drink up folks.
A ton of El Pasoans speak Spanish ... 67% according to a recent study ... and, (thanks mostly to Fort Bliss and the constant influx of military from all over the country), there's a pretty decent number of other languages being spoken here.
El Paso has, and has had, a number of concert venues and each one of them has seen some incredible shows. They all have amazing history but "Tricky" had character.
Last weekends snow "storm" was pretty cool, (no pun intended), but in true El Paso fashion; our first taste of winter was way short lived and very short of record breaking.
With the calendar turning toward the final 11 games of the regular season, the margin for error continues to shrink for the UTEP men’s basketball team (7-13, 3-6 CUSA).
A vicious murder in El Paso was apparently the first of 3 gruesome, unsolved crimes. The 3rd, (seemingly final), one was near Houston and the killer himself may have also died.
A famous 1930's gangster, perhaps the most famous of them al, has a place right here in the Borderland. 2 actually - 1 in Old Mesilla and the other in Cloudcroft, New Mexico.
There are two individuals on both sides of Super Bowl LX with ties to El Paso and UTEP. Let's jump into some of the most notable ties to the Super Bowl for the 915.
In 1959, some people pulled a suitcase from the Rio Grande on El Paso's west side and discovered a headless, handless, legless torso within it. The limbs and skin removed with an almost surgical precision.
El Paso is a very warm and welcoming city and that includes the furballs. Dogs are welcome all over El Paso, in bars, in parks ... they can even take a dip to cool off at a dog friendly city water park.
With explosions shaking the ground around Christo Rey, the iconic statue remains untouched, holding its ground while changes ripple through the landscape.