Steve Kaplowitz is celebrating an impressive milestone as he marks 30 years on the air with 600 ESPN El Paso and Townsquare Media this June. To commemorate this significant achievement, a special celebration will take place on Friday, June 27th, at Kings X, located at 4119 N. Mesa, from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM. Kaplowitz has been a prominent figure in El Paso's sports media landscape since he began his career in 1995 on the KLAQ Morning Show with Buzz Adams. Over the years, he has built a legacy as the longest-running daily sports talk host in the city, covering notable local sports stories, UTEP athletics, high school sports, and major events like the Super Bowl and HBO Boxing.
They're harmless ... as harmless as plastic ocean litter can be anyway ... they're small and they have a very unique look after being through wind, rough currents, weather and getting scraped by sea salt. Unexplained piggy banks, of unknown origin, are washing up on Texas beaches. Again.
We all know how crazy hot the last couple of summers have been and summer of 2025 looks like it will be just as hot, (El Paso is 3rd fastest warming city), so staying inside is a good idea in general. Be sure and stay hydrated too, heat exhaustion and heat stroke come on quickly. Learn how to prevent them here.
Ever wondered why some grated Parmesan is on store shelves while others are tucked away in the fridge? It turns out, there's a cheesy reason behind it.
Texas is famous for all kinds of big things ... and small things too ... and they're not all necessarily good. We have big traffic jams and big taxes for example. We also have big, (gigantic actually), freight trains. Trains are necessary but they have gotten so long that they've become an unsafe, pain in the butt.
Supposedly temporary nuclear waste dump sites were approved for use in the Permian Basin back in 2021. Even then, questions were raised about how "temporary" these waste dumps would be as they were designed to last decades.
Take 3 or 4 friends with you and you could elect yourself mayor. The visitors to residents ratio in this tiny, yet famous, Texas town is 50,000 to 3. On any given day, there may be 100 or more visitors in town to have a beer and catch one of the almost constant concerts while weekend music festivals can draw over 1,000.
The Bureau of Land Management oversees pretty much all the open, vacant, land owned by the United States government and they seem to have decided that Uncle Sam has got way too much.
The New Mexico state emblem represents several different things and was a sacred symbol of the Zia Pueblo. It was "appropriated" for use on the state flag in the 1920's. The theft of the design began with the theft of a pot.
Despite all the flack Willie Nelson has taken for his pro marijuana attitude and 4 arrests for possession ... he was one of several artists busted in Sierra Blanca, near El Paso ... he has proudly and downright flagrantly kept on puffin'. Those days are over.
People lucky enough to have been born in Texas are already special but some are even more special than others. No matter the state, peeps born on these dates are different.
According to horoscope.com: "Numerology is an ancient study that draws meaning from different numbers, number combinations, letters, and symbols in your life".
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