Only about 300 breweries survived the U.S. Prohibition after 1933, and by 1982 only 50 breweries remained active in America. In the vacuum of beer emerged a homebrewing renaissance that has taken root since and grown into the craft beer culture we know today. Now there are over 2,000 independent craft brewers in the United States and growing.

 

Celebrating this blossoming craft beer culture, Nahum Avila has created the Sun City Craft Beer Fest (SCCBF) - taking place for the second year in a row on downtown El Paso streets, Saturday, October 4, 2014 . We had a moment to ask the event organizer a few questions about the festival and his personal tastes.

 

Q. So far, we know that this year Sun City Craft Beer Fest has a larger downtown footprint with a huge canopy for more shade, more live music and better perks. Surely the response from the first festival last year contributed to coming back, what kind of feedback did you receive?

 

 

 

The El Paso Chihuahuas, in conjunction with Leg Up Entertainment and GECU, present the first-ever Mexican Baseball Fiesta. The Fiesta features two teams from Mexico, Los Naranjeros de Hermosillo and Los Tomateros de Culiac�n, members of the Pacific League of Mexico.

 

The GECU Mexican Baseball Fiesta is a fun atmosphere similar to the league's regular season games with music, food, and entertainment. The Mexican Baseball Fiesta debuted as a four team tournament in 2011 in Tucson, Ariz., an event that also featured Hermosillo. 

 

Building from the success of the previous three years, the Mexican Baseball Fiesta has grown throughout Arizona, Northern Mexico, and Texas. This year's action will include exhibition games in six cities and run through October, prior to the start of the season.

 

The Pacific League of Mexico was founded in 1945 and plays from October through February. The champion of the league, also referred to as the Winter League of Mexico, plays in the Caribbean World Series, a title taken home by the Naranjeros in February of this year.

 

Los Naranjeros are based in the Capital of Sonora. Los Naranjeros de Hermosillo are one of the most successful teams in the Mexican Pacific League, having won 16 league titles and are the recent winners of the Caribbean Series title, their second in league history. In 1976, they became the first Mexican team to win the Caribbean Series. Former Hermosillo players include Curt Schilling, Larry Walker, Fernando Valenzuela, Erubiel Durazo and Vinny Castilla.

 

Los Tomateros are one of the most popular teams in the Mexican Pacific League. They have won nine Mexican Pacific League Championships, most recently in 2004. In that same year they went on to win the Caribbean Series with a lineup that featured several Major League players including Ramiro Pena, current second baseman for the Atlanta Braves. Other players include Rodrigo Lopez, Oliver Perez, Luis Ayala, Jose Silva and Benji Gil.

 

September 28th-29th, 2014

Games: Sunday- 3:05 p.m. Monday- 6:05 p.m. 

Southwest University Park 

Downtown El Paso

Cost: $5-$40

 

Trap is a music genre that originateed in the early 2000's from Southern hip hop in the United States. It is typified by its aggressive lyrical content and sound, which incorporates 808 (deep low-loud bass) drums, double-time, triple-time and other faster division of hi-hats, pitch-down vocals, layered synthesizers, and cinematic strings. 

 

In 2012, a new movement of electronic music producers and DJs emerged who began incorporating elements of trap music into their works. This helped expand its popularity among electronic music fans. A number of stylistic offshoots of trap developed, which in the latter half of 2012 gained a rise in viral popularity and made a noticeable impact on dance music. 

 

TrapFest is the America's Premier Trap and Bass Music Tour and this year in their second edition in downtown El Paso the festival's line up includes: Loudpvck (pronounced 'loud pack'), DJ Sliink, Green Lantern (associated and praised by Jay-Z, Eminem, and NAS), Lookas, Vinnie, Riot Ten, and many more prominent Trap performers. 

 

Saturday September 29th, 2014 at 7:00

Cleveland Square Park

510 N. Santa Fe

Downtown El Paso 

Cost: $30-$40

 

Last Thursdays with the Downtown Arts District returns this Thursday, September 25th, 2014. Last Thursdays is a monthly art walk organized by community artists and business owners supported by the Museums and Cultural Affairs Department.

 

Last Thursdays showcases art galleries, Pop-Up art installations, live artist performances, live-music, and free admission to special exhibitions at some of the Downtown museums. September Highlights Include:

 

El Paso Museum of History located on 510 N Santa Fe St. and the El Paso Museum of Art located on 1Arts Festival Plaza will be open until 9pm with free general admission. The El Paso Exploreum & Artisan Gallery located on 300 W. San Antonio Ave. will be open from 6 to 8 p.m with free admission. 

The Grocery Gallery located on 305 Chihuahua, Loft Light Studio located on 315 S. El Paso Street,Purple Pop Up Gallery located on 227 N. Mesa, and The Rock House Cafe and Gallery located at 400 W. Overland Avenue will be open featuring local artists food and entertainment.

 

Thursday September 25th, 6-10 p.m.

Downtown Arts District

Downtown El Paso

 

  

The 2014 - 2015 Showtime! El Paso Concert Series is celebrating 81 years of entertaining El Paso and surrounding areas!! 

 

Showtime! El Paso is a relatively new name for one of El Paso's oldest organizations. Until 2003, they were known as El Paso Community Concerts. The all-volunteer organization is dedicated to bringing quality entertainment at an affordable price to El Paso, Texas and surrounding areas. 

 

Fernando Varela is the first performer of the Showtime! El Paso 5-concert series. Varela grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico imitating the musical acrobatics of the iconic Michael Jackson. Those melodious antics, indeed, helped the young Fernando Varela to develop a strong, tenor voice, paving the way for his discovery on YouTube by one of MJ's producers, hit-maker and 16 time Grammy Award Winner - David Foster. 

 

Ultimately, Fernando won Foster's "Born to Sing" contest culminating in a guest appearance with David Foster and Friends at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. Fernando's performance was reviewed as a show stopper and has been followed by numerous appearances with Foster, singing alongside an incredible list of super stars including Barbra Streisand, Lionel Richie, Neil Diamond, Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, Seal,  Jewel, Robi Draco Rosa, among many other superstars. 

 

Regular Season Adult $85, Regular Family $205 (Family rate is good for two adults and all children ages 6-18), Youth / Student $35 age 6-18 / full-time student 19-25 with ID, Parking Pass $30 (all five concerts)

 

September 28th, 2014 at 2:30 p.m.

Abraham Chavez Theatre

1 Civic Centre Plaza 

Downtown El Paso

 

Get everything you need for your fiestas, and celebrations. Shop DWNTWN to experience the border culture while having unique and diverse shopping opportunities at many of the retailers located downtown. 

 

Visit Mercado Paisano located at 400 S. Oregon to find Mexican arts and crafts, Mexican cuisine, and an extensive variety of stores that will make you feel that you are actually in Mexico.

 

Downtown offers you a wide variety of goods at unbelievable prices. Stop by and encounter the latest in fashion in retails stores such as Krystal Jeans, Hollands, Continental Dry Goods, and many more! 

 

Stores such as Mr. Hats, La Coqueta, El Loco Gamez, are among the many stores that offer you the biggest variety in accessories for you or your little ones to be ready for school. 

 

Look good and smell good! Perfumeria Rachelle I & II, Genesis Perfumeria, S K Cosmetics, La Pila Relojeria, GJ Jewelry Shop, and dozens of other stores offer you the greatest selection of beauty supplies and accessories. 

 

Shopping builds an appetite? Downtown is known for the most delicious authentic food from a variety of eateries such as La Feria Grill, Caf� Colon, Hello Day Cafe, and Hong Kong Express. 

 

Do not limit yourself to the stores listed above there about 300 stores located downtown where you can get great products for the best prices while enjoying the rich borderland culture!

Inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative to reverse America's obesity epidemic, Move! El Paso - Walking Trails is an initiative of the City of El Paso Department of Public Health in collaboration with community partners. 

 

It identifies and establishes safe walking trails and maps to encourage, support, and promote daily walking and other physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle. Experts recommend 30 minutes of moderate-level physical activity every day in order to improve and/or maintain a person's health. Walking is an activity that can be divided into three, 10-minute or two, 15-minute sessions. 

 

Join the movement and bring your walking shoes this Wednesday to do some locomotion and walk around our beautiful downtown. 

 

Walking improves the confidence, energy, and wellness. Join the walk along with Chico from the El Paso Chihuahuas in the breeze way for refreshments and goody bags after walk. For more information call Jessica Concha at 915.212.1276

 

Wednesday October 1st, 2014 at 11:30 a.m.

City Hall 1 

Corner of North Campbell & East Main  

Downtown El Paso

Cost: free

Artist and Farmers' Market takes place every Saturday morning. The market offers original arts and crafts, food vending, regionally grown agricultural products and entertainment from local artists, artisans and farmers in El Paso County.

 

Established in 2011, the market offers residents and visitors the
opportunity to shop in an outdoor setting while enjoying great food and free
activities for the entire family. 

 

Help support your local artists and farmers by shopping local every Saturday at the Downtown Artist and Farmers' Market! 

 

 

Free Parking is available.

Saturday September 27th, 2014.

9am-1pm

Union Plaza District, Downtown El Paso

 

 

 

For 40 years, FEMAP has responded to the healthcare challenges of the community. In 1973, the goal of Guadalupe Arizpe de De la Vega was to make family planning and prenatal care accessible to women living in poverty. 

 

Inspired by a vision to provide access to good medical care education for future and expectant mothers in Ciudad Ju�rez, Guadalupe Arizpe de De la Vega built a two-room clinic named Clinica de la Familia which became Hospital de la Familia in 1976. By the late '70s the nongovernmental nonprofit FEMAP (Federacion Mexicana Asociaciones Privadas de Salud y Desarrollo Comunitario A.C.) was born.

 

Over the years, FEMAP has grown to two full-service inpatient hospitals; a nursing school; and has implemented community based programs in the areas of health, the advancement of children and adolescent's emotional and physical development and economic growth through the micro-finance program.

 

Today, nurtured by an army of volunteer health promoters, FEMAP's community programs are far-reaching and our mission has grown to encompass improving the overall quality of life of the individual, the family and society through education, research and service in our bi-national community.

 

The annual FEMAP Gala (A Paso Del Norte Foundation Challenge Fund Event) raises money for the programs and services in Cd. Juarez. The gala is a truly bi-national event attended by both Mexican Nationals and Americans not only from El Paso and its sister city in Cd. Juarez, but from Houston, Santa Fe, New York and Monterrey, Mexico City and Chihuahua.

 

For more information and to reserve a spot contact Anna Aleman at 915.544.4151. Tickets per person are $150 or $1,750 for a Corporate Table that sits 10 people. 

 

Friday September 26th, 2014 at 7  p.m. 

El Paso Convention Center

1 Civic Center Plaza 

Downtown El Paso 

 

 

Members of the reenactment group Historic Interpretations Inc. will bring to life four of the artworks in the European Collection. The group will reproduce the hair, clothing, and accessories worn in the paintings and engage visitors in conversations from the viewpoint of people pictured.

 

Visitors can also try some hands-on activities from the periods in which the artworks were produced. In addition to the Kress Collection, the St. Francis retablos in the Roderick Gallery will also be given life when the Reverend Shannon Collis of St. Francis on the Hill Episcopal Church conducts a blessing of the animals. Reverend Collis will conduct a formal blessing at 11:30 on Arts Festival Plaza, just outside of the museum, and give informal blessings throughout the day, so people can bring pets to the plaza anytime.

 

Want to visit the exhibitions as well? Don't worry, volunteers will be available to watch over the animals of those who wish to spend some time in the museum. Historic Interpretations Inc. includes professional historical costume designers and professional actors, one of whom recently guest-starred on an episode of the television show Drop Dead Diva.

 

September 27th, 2014 starting at 11 a.m.

El Paso Museum of Art

1 Arts Festival Plaza 

Downtown El Paso

Cost: Free 

  

 

The Plaza Theatre is a historic building in Downtown El Paso and stands as one of the city's most well-know landmarks.

 

Renowned throughout the United States for its beauty and architecture the Plaza Theatre hosts Broadway performances, concerts, film festivals, and numerous other events. 

 

This Tuesday you have the opportunity to fully experience the Plaza Theatre in a two-hour tour inside and out of this beautiful establishment. 

 

Interested parties will meet in front of the Plaza Theatre, underneath the marquee. For this and other information call 915.534.0660

 

Plaza Theatre

125 West Mills Avenue

Tuesday September 30th, 2014 at 12 p.m.

Downtown El Paso 

The Alzheimer's Association's Walk to End Alzheimer's is a united movement to reclaim the future for millions.  Nearly 2,500 people from the El Paso are expected at this year's event to raise awareness and funds to fight Alzheimer's disease.

 

Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's participants will participate in a non-competitive, fun walk and will learn more about Alzheimer's disease, advocacy opportunities, clinical trial enrollment, and support programs and services of the Alzheimer's Association.  

 

Each walker will also join in a meaningful tribute ceremony to honor those affected by Alzheimer's disease.

 

The end of Alzheimer's disease starts here. Register online at alz.org/walk

 

Saturday October 4th, 2014

Southwest University Park

Downtown El Paso

 

BorderSenses presents: The Barbed Wire Open Mic Series (BWOMS), El Paso's premiere open mic venue.

 

BWOMS celebrates free speech through the arts, and allows community members a platform from which they can express their poetic perspectives and unique voices. Whether you come out to perform, or to just enjoy the art, it's free and fun for everybody!

 

Anyone can perform any type of artistic expression at this event. This includes poetry, freestyle rap, music, comedy, drama, prose, visual art, or any other type creative expression. It's basically a variety show that features the people of our community from the El Paso/Juarez. The BWOMS is a BYOB event and welcomes all ages. Signing up to perform starts at 8 p.m.

 

Rock House Cafe & Gallery

400 W. Overland Avenue

Saturday September 27th, 2014

8:30 p.m. 

Downtown El Paso

 

Whether you moved to the United States for better school and/or work opportunities or to be with your family, this beautiful land gives you the right to earn your United States of America citizenship.

 

The extensive procedures and paperwork can be a hassle, the El Paso Public Libraries are helping individuals with Citizenship classes to help and ease the load of this important process. 

 

The classes are offered every Tuesday in all library branches at 5 p.m. For Additional information call 915.543.5433

 

Tuesday September 30th, 2014

El Paso Public Library-Main Branch

501 N. Oregon Street

Downtown El Paso

 

The El Paso Museum of History has offered a variety of classes where students can develop or master a new skill. The classes have varied from language learning, dancing and interpretive arts, as well as photography and other visual arts. 

 

Join the Yoga Classes at the Museum of History taught by instructor Chris Borunda. Learn the Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures. Yoga is widely practiced for health and relaxation. Class is for adult women and men. 

 

Classes are only $10 for museum members and $20 for non-museum members for the entire 8-week session. 

Saturday September 27th at 9-10 a.m.  

El Paso Museum of History

510 N. Santa Fe 

Downtown El Paso 

 

 

The World Cinema Series continues with another film screening. This event is free, however a $3.00 suggested non-member adult donation is appreciated and will be used to purchase books for the Algur H. Meadows Library. 

 

Due to restrictions imposed by the film licensing organization the museum is not able to publicly list of the titles of the films being shown. 

 

Seating is limited to 220 people and is on a first come, first served basis. Entrance stickers may be obtained at the El Paso Museum of Art Store

 

Saturday September 27th at 2 p.m.

El Paso Museum of Art Energy Auditorium

1 Arts Festival Plaza

Arts District

Downtown El Paso 

 

Easy, Fun, Free, and Couple Friendly. Every Tuesday dusk explore Downtown El Paso and enjoy a bike ride with friends and loved ones. This ride is perfect for dates, spinning legs, and just checking out a different ride. 

 

Explore a fun and different mean of transportation and bring your well working bicycle, water, and your helmet for an amazing summer ride. 

 

The event is free and hosted by Chuck's Bicycle Repair. The group meets at Soho Sports Pub at 7 p.m. to embark on the ride. 

 

Tuesday September 30th, 2014

Soho Sports Pub

500 North Oregon St. 

Downtown El Paso

 

Offices are equipped with designer furniture, fiber optics, telecom systems,secretarial services, cafe lounge, and open spaces for events. 

More information call 915.539.2083

 

Saturday September 27th, 2014 at 8 p.m.

Station Urban Offices

500 W. Overland Ste. 250

Union Plaza

Downtown El Paso

 

There is a common phrase among sportscasters that certain athletes "play the game the right way" - their fundamentals are so sound, their skill set so honed that they could be considered a case study in the most proper way to approach the sport they represent.

 

Tyler, Texas based newcomers Fit For A King just might represent how that metaphor applies to a band. By forging ahead on their own path, making music well beyond their years and making it from the heart. The hotly tipped metalcore band has been elbowing its way onto the national scene as a full-time touring outfit, cultivating fans at an alarming clip with a crushingly heavy, artful take on the genre that gives subtle tips of the hat to bands as diverse as Circa Survive and Linkin Park. The band's passionate music, coupled with an explosive live show, has made Fit For a King a sensation in the independent music scene.

 

This rock show will be complemented similar genre bands as: Being as an Ocean, Gideon, Wolves at the Gate, and Capsize. 

 

Hard tickets for the show can be found at Maria's Closet, Bowie Feathers, Eloise and All That Music, and online at trickyfalls.com

 

Saturday September 27th, 2014.

Tricky Falls

209 S. El Paso 

Downtown El Paso

Cost: $15