EL PASO, Texas — Minerpalooza is back for its 32nd year. Organizers say it’s expected to be bigger and better than ever. The event is not just for UTEP students, but for the whole family. “We expanded our footprint, we redid the layout,” said Mallory Payan, UTEP’s associate director of student engagement and leadership center.
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Top10.com compiled a list of recipes for prepared meals that can be made in bulk to last the whole week.
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American Home Shield reviewed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2021 American Time Use Survey to see how much time the average American spends on daily chores.
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CNN — American adults are missing something: exercise. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a study which found that less than a quarter of adults are meeting physical activity guidelines. In 2020, only 24% got enough aerobic and strengthening activity to meet federally recommended guidelines. The U.S. Department of Health and Human
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EL PASO, Texas – Our first Sweet Play of the Week winner for the 2022 season went to Blake Randag & the Coronado Thunderbirds. As winners of the sweet play, the entire team got a box of cupcakes courtesy of Albertsons. They have also been named this week’s Community Champions. Community Champions is sponsored by
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By Pete Muntean, CNN Major US airlines have updated their customer service agreements following pressure from the Biden administration to step up consumer rights in the wake of a summer plagued by flight cancellations and delays. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue and Southwest (pdf) have all published updates to their customer service
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You may have heard, after 40 years, there’s finally a new model of the iconic sports car from the ‘Back to the Future’ movies. The new DeLorean Alpha5 electric car looks nothing like the last model made before the company went out of business in 1982. It still has the trademark gull-wing doors, but that’s
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Playhouse is featuring its latest production, “Becky’s New Car.” Minden Dickson and Yvette Jones joined ABC-7 to talk about the production on ABC-7 at Noon Friday. The comedy with serious overtones runs from August 26 through September 11. For more information, click here.
Continue Reading By David Williams, CNN A Nebraska man paddled 38 miles down the Missouri River on Saturday in a “boat” made from a hollowed out pumpkin to celebrate his 60th birthday and hopefully set a Guinness World Record. Duane Hansen set out from the public boat docks in Bellevue, Nebraska, at about 7:30 a.m. in the
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Hemp-derived THC is legal in Minnesota as July 1st, 2022, and Bebe Zito, a popular ice cream shop in Minnesota, has just released a new flavor that celebrates the new law. The Minnesota ice cream makers fittingly called the new flavor “Pineapple Express”. Pineapple Express is also the name of a strain of Marijuana
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El Paso, Texas– ABC-7’s very own self proclaimed tequila expert, Iris Lopez, spent an evening with the man behind the new El Paso tequila brand, El Perro Grande, to see what makes his tequila the best in the borderland. “What we wanted to do was make a really good tequila that could represent the region,”
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EL PASO, Texas – Have you ever considered being a dog walker? The kind of job where you have two, three, four, or more dogs on the leash at one time? If the answer is yes, this weekend will make your dreams come true! On Saturday, August 27, you’ll have an opportunity to walk one
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Just weeks after announcing it was raising the price of the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup, Ford announced it is similarly boosting prices for its other popular electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E. When Ford begins taking orders on Tuesday for the 2023 model year Mach-E, prices will be about $3,000
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Kick off the back-to-school season with these tasty and healthy plant-based snacks for your children, compiled by Thistle.
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From American women winning the right to vote to the #MeToo movement, Stacker draws on a number of historical and archival sources to explore the past 100 years of women’s history in the U.S. and around the world.
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo and Toyin Owoseje, CNN A Miss England finalist has become the first ever beauty queen to compete without wearing any makeup in the pageant’s nearly century-long history. Melisa Raouf, a 20-year-old college student from south London, moved forward at the pageant’s semifinals on Monday after opting for a barefaced look. Now, she’ll compete
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NEW YORK, New York — National Dog Day is today and the time to celebrate your canine friend has arrived. National Dog Day was founded by Colleen Paige in 2004, and since 2013, the holiday has has been officially recognized and viewable on the New York State Senate’s website. Dogs aren’t just lovable and loyal,
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Google will start to label places that offer abortion services. The company says it will be prominently displayed in its search and map products to help women looking to get the medical procedure. Facilities will be labeled as “provide abortions” and “might not provide abortions.” Many places that call themselves crisis pregnancy centers only counsel
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico– An exciting day for mariachi in the Borderland. The 29th annual Las Cruces International Mariachi conference is back with its biggest celebration since its COVID-19 hiatus. They announced the headliner Thursday for their “spectacular” event. Shaila Dúrcal was announced as this year’s spectacular headliner. She’s headlined before and is making her return to the Pan
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California is expected to ban new gasoline car sales by 2035. The California Air Resources Board will vote on the measure this afternoon. If it passes, it would be one of the first such bans worldwide. The vote comes after Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order in 2020 mandating that all vehicles sold in the state
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EL PASO, Texas — El Perro Grande Tequila has two new tequilas coming to shelves in El Paso this Fall with an award-winning bottle unique to the region. The brand, which is about three years old, produces tequila out of Jalisco, Mexico. Creator and founder Renard Johnson, who is also the founder of METI Inc.,
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso Restaurant is about to celebrate a grand opening, one that seemed unlikely just four years ago. The owner started selling food out of the back of his car. After years of struggle, El Chucoviché Mariscos is turning a new page on its business. The owner said sleepless nights
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NEW YORK, New York — Do you have a tattoo you regret? If you do now is a good time to make up for it with one you’ll treasure forever: a tattoo of your dog. Online pet product retailer BarkBox will pay you to get that tattoo. The company kicked off the contest last week.
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CALIFORNIA — Authorities in California are cracking down on A-list celebrities who are blatantly using way too much water. Many of these over-users are hit with fines but it has not curbed water use. To help, authorities will now install flow restriction devices. These devises remove the functionality of irrigation systems causing frustratingly slow- dripping
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Nicki Minaj has put female rappers back at the top of music charts. “Super Freaky Girl” — debuts at No. 1 this week as both the most-streamed and highest-selling song in the country this week. Not only does it mark Minaj’s first totally solo No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but it’s the first
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Giggster combed historical archives to compile a collection of photos that best illustrate life in LA during the 1950s.
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IoT Secure collected interesting facts and statistics about the impact of smart technology on sustainability efforts from industry experts and news reports.
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EL PASO, Texas — A 64-foot mountain lion mural made of trash collected from around El Paso and located on the side of the One San Jacinto Plaza building downtown has been completed. Green Hope Project and other partners brought Portuguese artist Bordalo II to El Paso after five years of planning. The downtown mural
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Learn the history and trivia of various dog breeds with Stacker‘s compilation of real ‘Jeopardy!’ questions.
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EL PASO, Texas — A ribbon-cutting ceremony and opening reception for an art windows unveiling will be held by the El Paso International Airport and the Museums and Cultural Affairs Department at 1 p.m. Monday in the La Placita Shopping Center, The exhibit features local artists Adrian Lopez and Lorena Rocha Williams and will be
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