Roberto José Andrade Franco

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Open Road

The Promise of El Paso’s Magic Landing

Two people embrace while others move around in the background offering fist bumps under blue sky along the Rio Grande

Drive

The Hugs Not Walls Program Reunites Families Along the Rio Grande

A mountain scene, in which the summit of the mountains resembles the facial structure of Abraham Lincoln

A Road Trip Along the Rio Grande Invites Reflection on Grief and Family Bonds

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The Whoopee Bowl in Far West Texas Is Flush With Stuff

Houston Poet Lupe Mendez Grew up With Feet in Two Worlds

Architecture

The Church at the Heart of El Paso’s Segundo Barrio

El Paso’s Elotes El Vaquero Has Perfected the Beloved Mexican Snack

Preserving the Mexican Barrio in Dallas’ Oak Cliff Neighborhood

History

The Complicated History of Texas Revolutionary Hero Juan Seguín

The El Paso Altars to La Virgen de Guadalupe

Can Sewage Water Save El Paso?

A Reader’s Maiden Voyage Into the World of Lonesome Dove

A Longtime Texan Searches for the Soul of the State

Riding High in El Paso’s Lowrider Scene

A Lucha Libre Movie at SXSW Calls Attention To Femicide in Juárez

Sports

How Lucha Libre’s Mexican Style of Wrestling Unites Two Countries

The Big G in the Big D

Texas Forever … and Ever … and Ever

Open Road

An El Pasoan Returns Home a Year After the Tragedy

In Search of Fried Oreos at the Big Tex Fair Food Drive-Thru

When the Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys Came to El Paso

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