Minero Magazine

04/25/2023

Happy Monday Miners!

Our semester is coming to an end and we wanted to do a little giveaway to celebrate.

We are gonna have two lucky winners.
1. To those who follow us in all of our socials. Vintage Minero t-shirt, water bottle, backpack and pens.

2. To those who follow us on any one of our socials. Vintage Minero t-shirt, sun glasses and pens.

All you gotta do is:
- Follow us on all our socials
- Share this post on your story.
- Send us proof that you followed the steps through DM.

The winner will be announced May 5!!

Good luck Miners!

04/13/2023

At the beginning of March, one of our writers went to Downtown El Paso and spoke with some of the migrants at the Sacred Heart Church. A month later, the migrant crisis at the border spiked. Read about the why of this situation at Minero Magazine



https://mineromagazine.com/3858/bordercommunity/3858/ #

Since last year the City of El Paso has been the forefront of the migrant discussion as thousands of individuals from Central and South America make their way to the United States in search of jobs, money and well-being. This dream is not a new idea as millions of migrants fled from every inch of...

03/07/2023

When it comes to topics regarding issues involving women’s mental health and body image, it can be perceived as a taboo conversation in different environments. AS IF! Leave it to the brave women of the Sun City to not only highlight the importance of these conversations but create a space where they are encouraged.

On Feb. 24 the actress Alicia Silverstone visited El Paso to be a keynote speaker for the Junior League of El Paso's 2nd Annual Women's Wellness Summit.

https://mineromagazine.com/3849/bordercommunity/lessons-from-a-clueless-icon-learning-to-embrace-the-importance-of-womens-wellness/

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When it comes to topics regarding issues involving women’s mental health and body image, it can be perceived as a taboo conversation in different environments. AS IF! Leave it to the brave women of the Sun City to not only highlight the importance of these conversations but create a space where th...

03/07/2023

The sound of cars speeding down the freeway is heard daily, but on Lincoln Park Day, those sounds are muffled by the sound of conversations about paint jobs, engines and car meets. Across the park, brightly painted cars, merchant tents and lawn chairs are occupied by car enthusiasts, merchandise and people of all ages. Many are dressed in Chicano fashion from zoot suits to buttoned-down flannels.

Read all about the lowrider culture at the border on our website.

https://mineromagazine.com/3841/artsandculture/el-paso-lowriders-classic-car-culture-on-the-border/

The sound of cars speeding down the freeway is heard daily, but on Lincoln Park Day, those sounds are muffled by the sound of conversations about paint jobs, engines and car meets. Across the park, brightly painted cars, merchant tents and lawn chairs are occupied by car enthusiasts, merchandise and...

02/16/2023

La atleta de División 1 de UTEP, Mahrianna Petree, compartió su viaje con la revista Minero y cómo fue capaz de convertirse en estudiante-atleta mientras equilibraba su vida estudiantil y personal, así como la incorporación de las nuevas leyes NIL en su vida.

https://mineromagazine.com/3829/sports/mahrianna-petree-and-the-world-of-college-basketball/

Mahrianna Petree and her sisters were holding toy basketballs before they could walk. “My dad told us that when we were little girls, there were basketballs in our cribs,” Petree said. Petree is a senior at the University of Texas at El Paso and a Division 1 athlete. Petree recalled that her fat...

02/08/2023

Hola Miners!
En nuestra nueva edicion de Minero Magazine, Carlos Castro habla sobre el mural de material reciclado hecho por Bordalo II, que se encuentra en el centro de EP, y su aportacion al movimiento del arte funcional.
No te lo puedes perder!

Si uno camina por la intersección de las calles Franklin y North Mesa en el centro de El Paso, será imposible ignorar el colorido mural de un puma que se postra ominoso sobre los transeúntes a su alrededor. Se trata de una figura hecha con piezas de basura de diferentes colores reacomodadas en la...

02/07/2023

Hey Miners!
Have you read our most recent issue? Don't forget to pick up your copy of Minero Magazine, Spring 2023.
Read all about nostalgia and how it influences social media, fashion and the content we consume such as films, music and fashion. Our writer Yoali Rodriguez talks about the psychology behind why we go back to past trends seeking comfort and how it eventually becomes part of our present and our identity.

Read more about it, and our other stories featuring UTEP's basketball, the El Paso lowrider culture and functional art.

Whether you love to rewatch your favorite shows at a certain season, re-read your favorite book over and over, or participate in a TikTok trend that reconnects and ignites your inner child; there is no denying the presence of nostalgia as a staple in our generation. With the transition to normalcy f...

11/08/2022

Today is Election Day! 🗳️

Incumbent Texas Governor Greg Abbott and gubernatorial candidate, and El Paso-native, Beto O’Rourke made stops in the Sun City while early voting was taking place to encourage voters before Election Day. Energizing younger voters can be what plays one of the biggest roles during the 2022 midterm elections, and the candidates took two distinctly different approaches to their visits.

To read more about what they said and how the events went, visit the link in our bio. 🔗

Make your vote at UTEP’s Union East!

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10/18/2022

In between gray rock walls and beneath the sweat-inducing glare of the noon El Paso sun in 2020, David Gámez, a student at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and leader of UTEP’s Blockchain Miner’s Club, trekked down a concrete pathway to a desert-toned door. He had been knocking on every door in an East El Paso neighborhood, a requirement of his day job prior to the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the time, Gámez worked for a local solar panel company as a sales representative selling solar panels. He would go knocking door to door to earn, at some times, $6,000 from commission.

“Those deals… they can treat you really nice or you can go a while without making (anything),” Gámez said.

He was good for a while, he said. That is until the COVID-19 pandemic reached El Paso.

Read about David Gámez & his journey with crypto-currency at the link in our bio. 🔗

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09/20/2022

La frontera entre México y Estados Unidos es un lugar único en donde chocan dos culturas, divisas, y los principales idiomas de la región: español e inglés.

Sofia Valenzuela, una estudiante originaria de El Paso, Texas, y Ciudad Juárez, de género fluido, de 22 años que estudia psicologíacon una concentración en estudios de la mujer y de género en la Universidad de Texas en El Paso, relata que apenas está empezando a aprender cómo funciona el lenguaje inclusivo en español.

Valenzuela cuenta que para ella este ha sido un proceso difícil ya que al pasar más tiempo en Estados Unidos que en México, para luego terminar mudándose a E.U.A., alcanzó un punto en el que se desconectó del español, al menos gramaticalmente.

Ella decidió dedicarle más empeño en aprender mejor el idioma inglés por su necesidad de tratar de perfeccionar su acento y para poder encajar mejor en El Paso. Es por eso por lo que se le complica entender el lenguaje inclusivo en español, pero ella afirma que no es imposible y que está dispuesta a hacerlo.

Leer mas en el enlace de nuestra biografía. 📍

Historia y fotos por Juan Pablo de Anda de Alva
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Read the english translation at the link in our bio.📍

08/22/2022

Missing out on Texas Western Gold Rush, but still want to know how it went? 🤔

Minero Magazine will be doing post-performance interviews with each group live! Stay tuned & set a reminder! 🎸⏱

08/19/2022

On Aug. 22 the second round of Battle of the Bands, a competition where five local groups compete to participate in the University of Texas at El Paso’s annual Minerpalooza, will start off with a performance from Melancholy 10, Sultanes de Yonke and Acid Wave.

Keep up with the competition, bands, and performances with Minero Magazine's live results.

Battle of the Bands allows five local groups to participate in the University of Texas at El Paso’s annual Minerpalooza, a festival hosted by UTEP’s Division of Student Affairs’ Student Engagement and Leadership Center. The bands Melancholy 10, Acid Wave, Low Perfection, Sultanes de Yonke, and...

08/12/2022

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 de Seguridad Pública de México, Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, dijo que los miembros encarcelados que se pelearon eran miembros de dos organizaciones criminales y que la pelea terminó con dos mu***os y decenas de heridos.

Desde entonces, la violencia ha estallado en las calles dejando aterrorizados a los civiles en Ciudad Juárez y del otro lado de la frontera, asusta dos por sus familias y amigos en Juárez. En la violencia, nueve, incluidos cuatro empleados de la estación de radio, murieron, dijeron funcionarios de seguridad locales.

Además, si usted es un estudiante en la Universidad de Texas en El Paso, puede contactar a consejería y servicios psicológicos ( ) al (915) 747-5302 para hablar con un profesional licenciado en salud mental para usted o para otros estudiantes.

Para obtener más información y los consejos en inglés, vaya al enlace en nuestra biografía. 📍

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08/12/2022

☀️Summer is NOT over yet. With that being said, we have some must-read titles chosen for each of the zodiac signs. Have you read any of these?

Read more about each book at the link in our bio. 📍

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08/10/2022

We like to think we're Leech Grove, but really, we're the Union. What's your favorite spot on campus? 🤔

Find our newest issue of Minero Magazine at the Union Aug. 24.

08/09/2022

Fans across the Sun City gathered at the Don Haskins Center on 151 Glory Road, Monday, Aug. 8, for the band Big Time Rush’s Forever Tour.

After splitting in 2013 to pursue solo careers, the band reunited and began releasing new music in 2021. Before the split, Big Time Rush had a Nickelodeon sitcom that ran for four seasons between 2009 and 2013. The band released three albums in that time period.

Though the concert started at 8 p.m., fans began waiting outside hours before, with lines hugging the curb and extending down North Mesa Street toward Village Inn, a few blocks away. Some fans had been waiting months to hear the recently reconnected band sing live.

Read and see more about Monday night's concert at the link in our bio.

📰 Story by BriBri Williams
📷 Photos by Ethan Thomas

08/05/2022

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 that won multiple awards at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary followed a group of “Dreamers” who infiltrated a Florida migrant detention center and fought for the rights of the undocumented from within.
Since the premiere of their film, both Rivera and Ibarra became MacArthur fellows and received up to $685,000 in award. The MacArthur fellowships are considered one of the most prestigious awards in philanthropy.

Watch our interview with the filmmakers at the link in our bio.

08/04/2022

The transition from high school to college can be exciting for some, but may be terrifying for others. From cost, to the amount of traffic to get to campus, to classes and everything in between, it can be a lot to take in all at once, especially if done alone.

If you have lifelong friends that have ventured off to different universities and you are stressing over making new ones, this story is for you. Minero Magazine gathered some tips and strategies for incoming freshmen who may be worried about making new friends.

Find out how at the link in our bio. 📍

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08/02/2022

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 to these animals that spend a majority of their time packed together, with numbers almost three-times what the shelter was built to house.

Rescue Runners is meant to enrich dogs, helps release energy and gets them acclimated to being in a more social environment, around other dogs and people.

The weekly event takes place Sunday mornings 8 a.m.-10 a.m.

Read more about the group at the link in our bio. 🔗🐶

08/01/2022

Sometimes finding the right item to show off your school pride can be seriously hard. Wanna know what our favorite items are? Check out our favorite merch at the link in our bio.

07/18/2022

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 who prints and creates all of her own canvases are just a few people that Minero Magazine spoke to about their experiences taking photos in El Paso, Texas. 📸

You can find more advice, our conversation and their stories at the link in our bio. 📍

06/30/2022

⛏UTEP Writers, editors, photographers & graphic designers: Minero Magazine is looking for you.

Express your creativity through writing, design or photography at your school’s bilingual, student-led magazine. 🖋The Applications for the Fall 2022 semester are now available on MineTracker and can be found in the LINK IN OUR BIO. 🔗All positions are paid.📍

Minimum requirements to apply:

- 2.5 GPA minimum
- Enrolled at UTEP at least part-time

For more information, feel free to DM us. We look forward to seeing your applications soon! 💃

05/21/2021

A new organization has made its way to the University of Texas at El Paso, encouraging women to pursue a healthy lifestyle all while being part of an uplifting community that assures they are not alone in their fitness journey.

As part of their mission statement, CHAARG, which stands for changing health, attitudes and actions, aims to “liberate girls from the elliptical and show them that fitness can and should be fun.”

Read more about this new organization at the link in our bio. 🔗

Story by: Ariel Castillo
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05/18/2021

FitFam is what you want it to be. Or at least, that’s what their bio said.

The account with over 175,000 followers as of May 2021, had initially existed as a fitness account dedicated to workouts, workout-related memes, and occasionally other city-related jokes until the account began to receive many submissions from local El Pasoans. So now, its a mix of everything.

If you scroll far enough, you’ll find that the account’s Instagram feed features images and videos about the El Paso shootings, car accidents, police reports, weather updates, local protests, COVID-19 updates, and memes.

Because of this, El Pasoans might look to FitFam for the latest updates on breaking news.

So, who is the team behind the masks?

Read more: Link in our bio 🔗
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05/14/2021

Go Miners!

UTEP's "Mining Minds" sculpture will be illuminated in blue and orange each evening through Sunday, May 16, in honor of UTEP's classes of 2020 and 2021. ⛏🎓

05/13/2021

05/11/2021

That’s our online editor😎!

Ep. 24! What does a bilingual MFA program look like in practice? Antonio Villaseñor-Baca of The University of Texas at El Paso joins Jared to talk about studying cross-genre work in English and Spanish, launching a music magazine between degrees, and how reading a diverse canon helped him take pride in his Xicanx identity.

Antonio Villaseñor-Baca is a Xicanx bilingual journalist, photographer, poet and writer from El Paso, Texas. He spends his time listening to music and working towards his MFA in creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he taught Rhetoric and Writing Studies courses. Antonio also serves as an online editor for Minero Magazine and has written for YR Media, 18-to-29 Now, Borderzine, and El Paso Inc. He has published poetry in Rio Grande Review, Mojave Heart Review, and Norte/Sur. He focuses on short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual/photographic narrative. Find him at his magazine, Con Safos Magazine.

Listen to this conversation anywhere you get podcasts. https://www.jaredmccormack.com/mfawritersantoniovillasenorbaca

05/10/2021

Minero Magazine welcomes Brandy Ruiz as its new Editor in Chief👏🏼

Brandy Ruiz is a multimedia journalism student at UTEP with a minor in political science and marketing. She became a writer and copy-editor for Minero magazine during her first year at UTEP and has since gone on to intern and write for a non-profit online news organization, NOWCastSA.com. Additionally, Ruiz at 17 years old interned for Latinitas, an online publication for young Latinxs and was selected to participate in the NAHJ Student Project 2021. She is interested in pursuing political journalism, entertainment and social media.

Brandy can be reached at [email protected]
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04/12/2021

✏️STUDY VIBES ✏️

You’ve been sitting on your bed all day with Blackboard open on your laptop, an open textbook, and a notebook with an empty page laying on the corner of your bed. You can’t figure out why you can’t focus on your assignment or where to even begin. Now, imagine being just a year away from graduating, an MCAT in a few months, and being the first in your family to become a doctor.

has some tips for you! Watch the video at the link in our bio.

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03/10/2021

A quote from Toni Morrison. Morisson, a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor, left a legacy of change, strength and pride in being a woman.

We highlight her words today in honor of Women's History Month.

Morrison's novels display exquisite writing and centralizes African American characters and their experiences.