Northeast El Paso's big room makes a wish of its address. 11:11, at 9740 Dyer Street Suite 117, is a 1,200-capacity music and concert venue that has become the city's main stop for touring electronic acts and hip-hop headliners - Showtek, Ghastly, Borgore, James HYPE, L.A. Guns and a steady run of rap bills have all worked its stage, most promoted by the Wasted Presents crew whose takeovers fill the calendar. The room is built for production: a state-of-the-art sound system, concert lighting, a.....

A concrete sombrero crowns downtown El Paso. The Abraham Chavez Theatre at 1 Civic Center Plaza, beside the convention center, is a 2,500-seat concert hall whose circular, column-free Brutalist form - cast-in-place concrete walls, lozenge-shaped openings and a saddle-backed cable-hung roof that dips in the middle like a hat brim - made it the city's most recognizable building the moment it rose. Designer Bernard Mulville of Garland and Hilles was a Taliesin Fellowship alumnus, and the low ellipt.....

A 24-year-old talked his father into bankrolling a comedy club in 1986, and four decades later it is the longest-running comedy club in Texas. Bart Reed's Comic Strip opened on 18 February 1986 at 6633 North Mesa in El Paso, moved to Gateway Boulevard after its first twenty years to follow the city's eastward growth, and now operates at 1201 Airway Boulevard in the Airway Junction Shopping Center, minutes from El Paso International Airport. The club is a showcase room in the classic sense - pro.....

One Civic Center Plaza has been the address where El Paso gathers since 1974. The Judson F. Williams Convention Center - named for the former mayor and universally shortened to the El Paso Convention Center - anchors the downtown civic campus it shares with the Abraham Chavez Theatre, whose sombrero-shaped silhouette is one of the city's visual signatures, a few blocks from the Santa Fe Street international bridge to Ciudad Juarez. A 20-million-dollar expansion and renovation in 2002 gave the b.....

When it was dedicated on 21 May 1942 - with a chuck-wagon dinner of barbecue and beans for nearly 7,000 guests - the El Paso County Coliseum was reckoned the largest and finest structure of its kind between Los Angeles, Denver and Fort Worth. Architect Percy McGhee designed the building and contractor R.E. McKee raised it for 321,000 dollars at 4100 East Paisano Drive, opening as the El Paso County Live Stock and Agricultural Exhibition Building with the Sheriff's Posse Rodeo as its first event......

The bar's backyard doubles as a dog park - regulars bring their dogs to the show, and the calendar mixes punk bands with pet adoption events. Gringo Theory Patio Bar, on El Paso's east side, is a neighbourhood patio bar built around exactly that combination: cold drinks, open air, live local music and a firmly dog-friendly door policy. The format is Texas patio-bar classic: a compact indoor bar opening onto a large outdoor yard with picnic tables, string lights, yard games and a stage end where.....

An intimate performance space within El Paso's historic Plaza Theatre complex, the Philanthropy Theatre offers a close, personal alternative to the grand main hall next door. Created as part of the centre's annex when the landmark Plaza Theatre was restored and reopened in 2006, the small room seats around two hundred people and has become a favoured venue for events that thrive on a tight, up-close connection between performer and audience. The theatre is a compact, well-appointed room with ra.....

The city demolished its own City Hall to build a ballpark, and fans walked across the border bridge to fill it. Southwest University Park at 1 Ballpark Plaza opened on 28 April 2014 in downtown El Paso, a 78-million-dollar Populous design squeezed onto six acres in eleven months - one of the tightest sites and fastest builds in Minor League Baseball history. The El Paso Chihuahuas - the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres - packed the stands from day one, with Juarez fans crossing the ne.....

The ceiling shows the June sky over the Southwest, stars astronomically correct, clouds drifting on cue - and it has been doing it since Hoover was president. The Plaza Theatre at 125 Pioneer Plaza in downtown El Paso opened on September 12, 1930 with the film Follow Thru before a capacity crowd of 2,410, advertised as the largest theatre of its kind between Dallas and Los Angeles. Architect W. Scott Dunne's Spanish Colonial Revival house was an atmospheric palace in the full 1920s sense - the .....