Email Author Jesse Hyde

Awards

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published February 26, 2009

  "Guantanamo's Final Days"

• 2010 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published February 26, 2009

  "Guantanamo's Final Days"

• 2008 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, published March 8, 2007

  "House of Death"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published March 8, 2007

  "House of Death"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published September 7, 2006

  "Cruising with the Whore Cop"

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2006 Stories by Jesse Hyde

• The Holiday Hughes

  published December 28, 2006

  Black Nativity is the re-telling of the birth of Christ from an African-American perspective. Written by Langston Hughes, who died... More >>

• Levelland

  published December 28, 2006

  James McMurtry, son of author Larry McMurtry, fronts a band called the Heartless Bastards. He also recently won the 2006 Americana Song of... More >>

• Secret Justice

  published December 21, 2006

  One April morning, Richard Chichakli, a slender man of Syrian descent, was sitting behind his personal computer, checking e-mail and preparing for... More >>

• That Magic Moment

  published December 21, 2006

  Forever Plaid is the story of four singers—Sparky, Smudge, Frankie and Jinx—who are on their way to a big gig when their... More >>

• Holiday on Ice

  published December 21, 2006

  The other day former Stars great Brett Hull was on the Ticket trashing the NHL execs for all their pea-brained ideas to make the sport more... More >>

• Mary's Place

  published December 14, 2006

  One of my first Dallas Observer stories was on an "apparition" of the Virgin Mary that appeared in the bark of a tree in Oak Cliff. Turns... More >>

• Jingle Spurs

  published December 7, 2006

  Michael Martin Murphy doesn't call himself a country artist, and with good reason. He's a "singing cowboy poet," and his are the sorts of... More >>

• Old Building, New Lives

  published November 30, 2006

  Larry James steps through the dusty glass doors of his new building and flicks on a low-powered flashlight. He points the light toward a bank of... More >>

• Full Metal Sculpture

  published November 23, 2006

  Artists have been bending metal into art for thousands of years, and they're still at it. Through December 23, the University of North Texas... More >>

• Highway Robbery

  published November 9, 2006

  Something wasn't right. Jack Cox could feel that in his gut. The seal on the trailer had been broken. The trailer's identification number had been... More >>

• Reverse Rat

  published November 9, 2006

  In December 2004, Roy Combs, a career criminal who ran a South Dallas car lot, was named as one of 23 members of a criminal organization that... More >>

• 'Foot Hills

  published October 26, 2006

  Hecate Hill is this really cool place where Bigfoots hang out. And they don't take too kindly to being killed, OK? So when these hunters in... More >>

• Caught Cold

  published October 12, 2006

  By the time the detective got there, the girl was more or less dead. She had been raped, that much he figured from how they found her--lying on... More >>

• Mexican Murder Mystery

  published September 21, 2006

  On the morning of September 3 in Mexico City, a maid was cleaning rooms at the hotel Maria Cristina. After knocking repeatedly on the door of a... More >>

• Days of Yore

  published September 21, 2006

  Gary W. Moore never knew that his father once had a promising major-league baseball career. At 15, his papa, Gene Moore, was the best... More >>

• Little Steps

  published September 14, 2006

  From the outside, Paul Westbrook's house looks pretty normal. White brick, two stories, a few shrubs out front, nothing special. Judging by... More >>

• Panorama

  published September 14, 2006

  If it weren't for photographers Eliot Porter and Robert Glenn Ketchum, the environmental movement wouldn't be where it is today. Porter... More >>

• Cruising With the Whore Cop

  published September 7, 2006

  The cop is finishing his second tater tot when a call comes over the radio. Officer Spearmint has just caught a girl and her pimp. They're across... More >>

• Sock Hop

  published August 31, 2006

  Kenny Wetzel called the Dallas D.A.N.C.E. (Dancer’s Annual National Competition Extravaganza) the "best party in the nation." Coming... More >>

• Out of Focus

  published August 17, 2006

  It's just after 2 p.m. at Bryan's House, and most of the 2-year-olds have fallen asleep for their afternoon naps. They sleep in a semicircle, each... More >>

• Rose Is a Rose

  published August 17, 2006

  Rosalind de Rolon, besides having a fantastic name, is also a former journalist, diplomat and religious scholar who spent 12 years studying the... More >>

• Smoke It Up

  published August 10, 2006

  When I used to live in New York I never went to plays, except the one time my brother came into town with free tickets to something called Tony... More >>

• Other Sides of the Story

  published August 3, 2006

  When CNN news chief Eason Jordan made the off-handed remark last year that U.S. soldiers were deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq, killing... More >>

• Thou Shalt Not

  published July 27, 2006

  The votes have been cast. It's over. For good or bad, Gene Robinson, son of a Kentucky tenant farmer, has made history--and captured the world's... More >>

• The Plague

  published July 20, 2006

  It's well past midnight in Leander, Texas, and as usual, Travis Wilson can't sleep. His skin is itching. It's always itching. He tries not to... More >>