Brandy Ruiz is the former Editor-in-Chief of Minero Magazine, UTEP’s student led bilingual publication. She is also a former participant of the 2021 NAHJ Student Project , and a former social media and TikTok intern for El Paso Matters. She has done radio stories for KERA and Borderzine.com. She is about to complete an undergraduate degree in Multimedia Journalism with a minor in Political Science and Marketing at the University of Texas at El Paso by Spring 2023. Her interests are the internet, arts and culture, politics and more.
It was Christmas-day 2010 when the University of Texas at El Paso graduate Lucie Calderon made an account on Instagram, the same year the app was launched.
She was ten years old, posting “a million”...
In an art gallery facing the El Paso Star, the sound of drums and bass guitars reverberated off the walls as Jamal Streeter and musicians Micheal Green, Elizabeth (Liz) Pursel and Tristan Lopez were rehearsing...
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...
In between the Elephants and Malayan Tiger exhibit on the night of Sept. 10, the El Paso Zoo in collaboration with the Instagram pages @Girlswihtluv and @epkpop_events, held a K-pop celebration with music,...
In the final round of Battle of the Bands (BoB), out of five bands who initially participated, only one came out on top: Melancholy 10.
The jazz-influenced indie group of seven students from the University...
“I get really bored of music (genres) easily,” said Angel Prieto, lead singer in the band Low Perfection.
Prieto, Isaac Delgado on the drums, and Kevin Salazar on the guitar, sat together for...
Minero Magazine and The Prospector made their way to Hoover House, residence of the President of The University of Texas at El Paso, on Aug. 5 to interview President Heather Wilson, Ph.D. She shared the...
“Dream-pop,” Acid Wave member Jet Gil-Robert said.
It is how she would describe her group, Acid Wave’s music. The band is composed of Gil-Robert on the keyboards, Eva Vasquez on guitar, Isanette...
“I can't describe my music, its influenced by a lot of things or it's influenced by a lot of other music,” Che Ulibarri, the leader of Melancholy 10, a band participating in the Battle of the Bands...
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...
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...
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...
The Aug. 3 Walmart shooting is among the deadliest in United States History, where 23 lives were lost to the alleged gunman Patrick Crussius.
Just down the street from the Walmart, is Ponder Park. The...
On the morning of Aug. 3, on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso, sidewalks were empty. The quiet singing of the local birds became the soundtrack for the few members of UTEP staff who found...
On the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), where Bhutanese inspired architecture with themes of orange and blue are highlighted in a sunny city, UTEP students are going back to school....
Sitting in a make-shift photo studio inside of a garage of an east El Paso home, photographer, student, server, band-member and local business owner Jasmin Campoya said in her 5-year photography career,...
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...
For nearly 100 years, Basillio Gonzalez’s family has been involved in the business of photography. Whether it was taking photos, running a photography studio in 1914 like his grandfather, Basilio M....
Bouncing between El Paso and Austin, Texas, this University of Texas at Austin student began his photography career with just an iPhone in a highschool journalism class. After enrolling in UT Austin, he...
See the Starry Night & more in person
‘Beyond Van Gogh’ a traveling, immersive art experience is coming to El Paso and Albuquerque. The experience is expected to be held in El Paso between November...
UTEP decreased the amount of Black History events on campus and Black student organizations are not happy about it.
Though Black History Month has come and gone, Black students said...
The ultimate staple of the college experience: the coffee shop. Maybe you like one that has a bit of a darker, cozier ambiance or you prefer one that feels light and open. Or maybe, you just have never...
When students Jose Lucero and Carla Irigoyen-Amparan arrived at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) the morning of March 7, they weren't aware that UTEP President Heather Wilson had sent an email...
Relieved to see another human being in person, not on a screen of a class zoom meeting, walking in between the Bhutanese inspired buildings of the University of Texas at El Paso-- albeit wearing face...
See the 'Starry Night' in person
‘Beyond Van Gogh’ a traveling, immersive art experience is coming to El Paso and Albuquerque. The experience is expected to be held in El Paso between November...
It is Caleb Jackson’s first semester at the University of Texas at El Paso as a military-affiliated student studying business after leaving the military just two months ago and he, along with other...
Her pink satin gloves had been raised high above her head which made finding her in the crowd easy where in the small bar, filled with young, colorful people packed to the corners, she might have otherwise...
The team behind the FitFam Instagram account speaks about the controversy, the reasons behind keeping their identities anonymous, and the trials and tribulations of citizen journalism.
In between...
How a pandemic, a social movement and two presidential candidates have re-shaped the American voter
Pandemic, protests and politics. Throughout the year 2020, a tumultuous political...
Utilizing your platform to protest, different methods to use social media to bring awareness, and how to be a better ally.
The black square that took over Instagram on June 2 highlighted how aware...
What makes a burrito?
The warmth of the folded flour tortilla seeped into the skin on his fingertips. Like a marshmallow, any tiny bit of pressure created a small u-shaped dent on the edges. Manuel...
When the sun finally peaked out from behind the cloudy sky, the white crosses of the Walmart memorial gleamed- a result of the reflective puddles that were left behind from the rain. The many flowers...
Rene Armendariz delivers pizza. On Monday through Thursday, when he’s not programming for the Ysleta School District, he’s sticking the blue and red dice on the top of his car and delivering the Mix...
