Bad Blood in Flower Mound
What do phallic vegetables, narcotics passwords, butt-pinching, and gas drilling have in common? They’re all related to a bizarre political melodrama unfolding in the...
Rising Partisanship
Examples of Tarrant County judges putting ethics above politics are not hard to find.
In 2008, a Republican judge ruled that Democratic Fort Worth City...
Wear Wars
This much is indisputable. Texas is redneck territory. The flipside: Texas is also becoming browner, gayer, and more feminine every day. I had never...
Prophet of Boom (and Bust)
The worst economic cycle in more than half a century has everyone from struggling homeowners to former Federal Reserve chairmen shaking their heads in...
House (of worship) party
What’s that thing about one flap of a butterfly’s wings can alter history? By that theory, a butterfly must have flapped its wings sometime...
Primal Love
My spirit animal does not live inside a fantasy world, nor does he appear in misty dreams that I can barely remember upon waking....
Carrying Away the Stones
Two nearly 90-year-old stories came together in a polychrome sandstone retaining wall. Wearing a small, forgotten commemorative plaque, it faced the athletic field on...
Roller Derby Madness
Two teams line up on an oval track. Four blockers wearing team uniforms, quad skates and protected by helmets, kneepads, and elbow and wrist...
Portraits With Strangers
On a quiet Friday morning at the Mud House Cafe on Cherokee Street in St. Louis, I stared outside at streets still wet from...
Private Prisons, Public Pain
Reeves County straddles I-20 in West Texas, between Odessa and El Paso. Pecos is the county seat, anchored in cowboy mythology. Tiny homes, many...
