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.....

The sellout figure was invented on opening night because the PA announcer liked the number two - and 12,222 stuck for four decades. The Don Haskins Center at 151 Glory Road in El Paso opened on 3 February 1977 as the Special Events Center, a 10-million-dollar octagonal arena on the University of Texas at El Paso campus that replaced Memorial Gym as home of Miner basketball. Its street address is the story: Glory Road was renamed for the 1966 NCAA championship won by Texas Western - as UTEP was t.....

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.....

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.....

A cornerstone of the independent music scene in El Paso, the Lowbrow Palace is a small live-music venue that has become a favoured stop for touring bands passing through the far west of Texas. Located on East Robinson Avenue near the university district, the intimate room has built a loyal following for its eclectic programming and relaxed, no-frills character, offering a vital platform for both emerging and established acts in a border city often overlooked on the touring map. The venue is a c.....

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 stadium is carved into the Franklin Mountains at 3,910 feet, and the first play ever run in it went 54 yards for a touchdown. Sun Bowl Stadium at 2701 Sun Bowl Drive on the UTEP campus opened on 21 September 1963 with Texas Western's Larry Durham breaking his run on the opening snap - a 30,000-seat county-built bowl that grew to 52,000 in 1982. The stadium carries two football identities: home of the UTEP Miners, and host of the Sun Bowl itself - one of college football's oldest bowl games,.....

West El Paso built itself a Scottsdale-style resort club, and the promoters stopped needing to send the city's partygoers to Vegas. The Elmont Social is the live entertainment arm of The Elmont at 240 West Castellano Drive in Montecillo, El Paso's first smart-growth community, opened on April 19, 2025, as part of a 95,000-square-foot complex. The parent property covers the full resort menu: a swim club with a lazy river, zero-entry pool, three large slides and two full bars; the Evaga Desert Ki.....