The Student News Site of The University of Texas at El Paso

Minero Magazine

The Student News Site of The University of Texas at El Paso

Minero Magazine

The Student News Site of The University of Texas at El Paso

Minero Magazine

Violencia en Ciudad Juárez: Cómo protegerse a sí mismo y a su bienestar

Violencia en Ciudad Juárez: Cómo protegerse a sí mismo y a su bienestar

Brandy Ruiz and Maria Luisa Guerrero Duran August 12, 2022

Ciudad Juárez está experimentando violencia en las calles. El 11 de agosto, las autoridades locales informaron de un motín que estalló en una prisión estatal conocida como CERESO No.3. El subsecretario...

An Interview with Award-winning Filmmakers

Brandy Ruiz, Editor-in-Chief August 5, 2022

Native El Pasoan Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera were special guests at the 2022 Plaza Classic Film Festival. The husband and wife duo featured their own films including The Infiltrators (2020), a film...

A Night for Remembrance, Gathering

A Night for Remembrance, Gathering

Brandy Ruiz, Jasmin Campoya, and Ethan Thomas August 4, 2022

The Aug. 3 Walmart shooting is among the deadliest in United States History, where 23 lives were lost to the alleged gunman Patrick Crussius. Just down the street from the Walmart, is Ponder Park. The...

El Pasoans continue to reflect, meditate and heal

El Pasoans continue to reflect, meditate and heal

Brandy Ruiz, Editor-in-Chief August 3, 2022

On the morning of Aug. 3, on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso, sidewalks were empty. The quiet singing of the local birds became the soundtrack for the few members of UTEP staff who found...

Rescue Runners walk the Mutt-Mile for pet adoption

Rescue Runners walk the Mutt-Mile for pet adoption

Ethan Thomas, Photographer August 2, 2022

El Paso Animal Services is navigating critical capacity, but a group of volunteers donate their Sunday mornings to convene under Spur 601 and walk dogs with the Rescue Runners. All in order to bring relief...

Q&A: El Paso Photographers & Business owners weigh in on El Paso’s photography scene

Q&A: El Paso Photographers & Business owners weigh in on El Paso’s photography scene

Brandy Ruiz, Editor-in-Chief July 18, 2022

In El Paso, a former wedding photographer whose photography business had been passed down 100 years, a sports-turned portrait photographer published in both Billboard and People magazine and a female photographer...

Sun City Kitty

Sun City Kitty

Brianne Williams, Writer May 13, 2022
Sun City Kitty opened its doors for business on May 1, 2022, kicking off their grand opening at the Sunland Park Mall.  The cafe was projected to see 3000 customers on opening day, but quickly surpassed that within a couple of hours. A crowd of eager cat-lovers surrounded the large opening of the cafe’s entrance waiting for a chance to meet the Sun City kitties and sip on some coffee. 
The cast of Jersey Shore visits El Paso

The cast of Jersey Shore visits El Paso

Brianne Williams, Writer March 7, 2022

The cast landed in El Paso, Texas on Friday, March 4. DJ Pauly D, one of the Jersey Shore members was scheduled to make an appearance the same day at the 11:11 EPTX event venue and he brought the Jersey...

Permission to stan: K-pop fan culture in El Paso and how it led to opening a new business 

Permission to stan: K-pop fan culture in El Paso and how it led to opening a new business 

March 2, 2022

Lizbeth Lopez, a 21-year-old Korean pop (K-Pop) fan, doesn’t speak Korean, but her favorite songs are in Korean and her favorite artists are the members of the Korean Pop boy-band BTS which stands for...

UTEPS Space Force

UTEP’S Space Force

Jorge Solis, Writer February 23, 2022

What happened to it? It has been six months since the University of Texas at El Paso joined the Space Force University Partnership Program. Ten other universities, including the University of...

Reproductive Freedom March

Reproductive Freedom March

Jorge Solis, Writer February 7, 2022

By Jorge Solis One month following Texas’ new ban on abortions before six weeks into pregnancy, which is too early for many women to realize they are pregnant, the women of El Paso decided to make...

The Asylum of El Paso

The Asylum of El Paso

Brianne Williams, Writer February 7, 2022

  Nothing sets the “spooky season” like the opening of haunted houses across El Paso. From the Eastside to the Westside, El Paso offers numerous attractions, with various themes. However, this...

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