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  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Why Saturday's Cowboys Game Is the Most Important Game Ever (This Week, Anyway)

    Davynin, Via.​[Editor's note: For those who might have forgotten, Michael Corcoran is formerly of the Austin American-Statesman and Dallas Morning News, a one-time Observer contributor and one of my favorite writers in the history of ink. This morning, he dispatches this preview of Saturday night' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    FedEx is the Way to Go and Other Shipping Lessons From the Big North Texas Drug Bust

    Don't trust him. He might be a drug mule.​Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade's worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The acc ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    When Operation Streamline Deters: One Immigrant's Story

    Don't trust him. He might be a drug mule.​Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade's worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The acc ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    A Report from Juarez, the Bleeding Front Line of the War on Drugs

    Don't trust him. He might be a drug mule.​Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade's worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The acc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Dude Food: Avila's

    Noah W. BaileySeriously, Avila's, somebody could have parked there.​Avila's 4714 Maple Ave.214-520-2700Dude Factor: 8, or "Nuevo Laredo", on a scale of  1 ("Stays in Mexico") to 10 ("El Paso")A wise man once said "don't shit where you eat, kid." Whoever built Avila's blatantly ignored his adv ... More >>

  • News

    December 11, 2008

    How Can DISD's Michael Hinojosa Still Love His Job—and Keep It?

    Noah W. BaileySeriously, Avila's, somebody could have parked there.​Avila's 4714 Maple Ave.214-520-2700Dude Factor: 8, or "Nuevo Laredo", on a scale of  1 ("Stays in Mexico") to 10 ("El Paso")A wise man once said "don't shit where you eat, kid." Whoever built Avila's blatantly ignored his adv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    Like a Bat Out of Hell, the USA Film Festival Schedule is Released

    Noah W. BaileySeriously, Avila's, somebody could have parked there.​Avila's 4714 Maple Ave.214-520-2700Dude Factor: 8, or "Nuevo Laredo", on a scale of  1 ("Stays in Mexico") to 10 ("El Paso")A wise man once said "don't shit where you eat, kid." Whoever built Avila's blatantly ignored his adv ... More >>

  • News

    January 24, 2008

    Patrolling South Texas for Illegal Immigrants

    Border Patrolman Jorge Diaz left Mexico at 12. For 20 years, he's trolled the South Texas brush for illegal compatriots.

  • News

    March 8, 2007

    House of Death

    A dozen men were tortured, killed and buried in a small house in Juarez. Three years later, the U.S. government is still trying to cover up what happened.

  • News

    December 28, 2006

    Coming Out Swinging

    Latino activist Carlos Quintanilla's combative style makes enemies, even among his friends

  • Music

    August 18, 2005

    Shawn Sahm, Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers

    Friday, August 19th, at Sons of Hermann Hall

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    Bubba Patrol

    The Minutemen are ready to patrol Texas' border. Are we ready for them?

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Dancing Across the Border

    Born in Mexico and raised by Celso Piña, sonidero music is taking over Dallas' Latino nightclubs. Is it here to stay?

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Trick Town

    Boys will be boys, especially in Nuevo Laredo, Where legal prostitution draws generations of Texas men across the border for cheap, sleazy and anonymous sex

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    A Real Bangfest

    Pounded by state regulators and rabbit-punched by promoters, the gladiators at Fighter's House struggle for legitimacy

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Children of the Storm

    Hurricane Mitch left thousands homeless, jobless, and alone, forcing them to cross the border in search for new lives in America. And those were just the kids.

  • News

    May 28, 1998

    Plugging the hole

    A bungling bureaucracy allowed murder suspect Maricela Martinez to escape to Mexico

  • News

    January 15, 1998

    Crime and no punishment

    A legal loophole lets illegal immigrants get out of jail nearly free

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