There Will Be Oil
Pen in hand, Tucker Dean stopped to sign his name.
“I want to help out any way I can,” said the UTA drama major. “I...
I Want A New Drug
In 2011 at the recently shuttered TCU-area dive bar The Cellar, Elle Hurley did what she had done dozens of times before: She took...
Paving the Way
There’s a 17-year-old boy in foster care whom Jackie Davis visits almost every week. Davis is the boy’s mentor and, unquestionably, his friend. Recently,...
Final Encore
In the eyes of the law, Gregory Charles McCain put a gun to the head of the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend a half-hour...
An Art Pilgrimage
It’s been two weeks since I drove from Fort Worth to San Francisco. The trip, which also took two weeks, gave me a taste...
Old-School Museum
Rick Wilkins stood staring at the dozens of pieces of the Scopitone, a massively tall coin-operated musical video machine from the 1950s that he...
Best Root to Mexico
I wasn’t quite sure what I’d run into when I recently took off from Joshua in a rental car with my former wife, Chepa,...
High Waters
The rain began lightly. Julie Amendola knew to keep a watchful eye on the nearby Trinity River. Heavy rains had been causing it to...
¡Fuera Trump!
At Mexico City’s historic central square, or zócalo, Jose Adan Garcia Canales was busy balancing a small pipe organ on a wooden peg. He...
Welcome to Stop Six
Regina Blair’s “Hillary for President” t-shirt was drenched with sweat as we sat in the sweltering July heat. Before meeting her at her mother’s...
