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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
El Paso's Eloise restaurant announces closure at end of July
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The owner of El Paso's Eloise restaurant announced on social media on Friday afternoon, May 30, that they will close their doors at the end of July. 'Our lease is up for renewal and due to some pretty chaotic economic conditions, we made the decision to not renew our lease,' Jim Ward, owner of Eloise Restaurant and Bar, said. Ward said the restaurant's last day of service will be on July 31. 'We did just want to take a second and say how much we've enjoyed the past 13 years. Being a part of this community means everything to us and the support and love you all given us and our staff means everything. For now, we're going to put Eloise on a shelf and we will go from there,' Ward said. Eloise originally opened in 2012 along Shadow Mountain Drive in West El Paso as a coffee shop. Since then, Eloise has grown into a restaurant and bar and relocated to a larger space down the street at 126 Shadow Mountain, Suite A. For more information about Eloise, you can visit their Instagram and Facebook accounts. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Irish Times
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Books in brief: No Ordinary Bread; Journeywork: A Creative Life; and Can I Have Your Charm Bracelet When You Die?
No Ordinary Bread By Jim Ward Ace of Swords Publishing, €18 An ambitious, promising debut novel of conflicting ideologies fishing for men's souls. The story is set in rural China in the midst of the civil war, and is experienced through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy witnessing first-hand the spiritual revolutions within the country: both the surgent Chinese Communist Party, and the Catholic Church missionaries in the determined teachings of a Belgian Jesuit. A clash of wills is inevitable and lives are changed forever. Ward writes in an unadorned, straight-ahead style (which works well considering the narrator), and he shifts easily into expansive, more philosophical realms when the political provocateurs push their way to the centre of the story. A cleverly structured historical novel, rich with lively dialogue; a fine first book. NJ McGarrigle Journeywork: A Creative Life By Dave Duggan Nerve Centre, £12.99 Derry-based writer and dramatist Dave Duggan's luminous collection of 13 essays offers a deeply personal map of a life shaped by story, language, resilience, and artistic vocation. Moving between memoir, reflections on illness, his working-class background, and meditations on creative practice, Duggan explores imagination with clarity, grace, and hard-won wisdom. 'Adapt and persist. Don't doubt,' he urges, a quiet anthem of endurance throughout. The author is edging towards 70, but his work exudes the energy of a writer just beginning – curious, lucid, and alive to the world. 'My father had books. My mother had songs,' he writes. With wit, humility and insight, Duggan weaves local politics, international literature, and poignant moments, including an Oscar nomination for Dance Lexie Dance, into a celebration of creativity, resilience and artistic bravery. Adam Wyeth Can I Have Your Charm Bracelet When You Die? A Dublin Childhood By Sheila Hamilton Hen's Teeth, €17.50 Esther, an adored aunt of the child narrator, is having man trouble. 'Hold the bone and the dog will follow', is her mother's play-hard-to-get advice. 'He's gorgeous looking, a model for a coddle he'll do for a stew!', says a sister. Everyday joys and cares in two loving households fill two-thirds of this endearing 1970s-1980s south-inner-city memoir 'sprinkled with the lightest embellishment'. Childhood is followed by interludes in New York and Amsterdam that do not lessen the family bonds as cruel illnesses blight the adult lives of the author, her mother and Esther. Hilarious, then heartbreaking, this is a story 'shared with love' and with charm. Ray Burke
