Email Author John Nova Lomax

2011 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Wilber Adalid Rodriguez: Homeless Man Murders Another Over National "Honor"

  published Mar 10, 2011

  You'd hope that San Antonio residents Wilber Adalid Rodriguez and Jose Antonio Rodriguez would find a way to get along. As the old blues song goes, they were both poor boys a long ways from home: the ... More >>

• The Great Heights Art Heist: The Aftermath

  published Mar 09, 2011

  Developments continue in the case of H Gallery, the Heights art gallery we featured last week that is alleged to have been ripping off artists for the past several years. Last Saturday, H director He... More >>

• Scott Stewart: Front Porch Fracas Over Crack Cash Lands Lufkin Man in Jail

  published Mar 08, 2011

  While Scott Stewart might not charge much in rent, the 38-year-old East Texas landlord definitely does prove that adage that you get what you pay for. And there's another old chestnut his alleged acti... More >>

• Cover Story: Connecting H Gallery to Three Prominent Recent Art Scams

  published Mar 02, 2011

  This week's feature is the account of an alleged art heist conducted by an art gallery in the Heights. Over a dozen local and Texas artists claim that Heidi Powell-Prera and her mother Sandy Bernstein... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Great Heights Art Heist

  published March 3, 2011

  For local artist Claire Richards, the opening night of her first solo exhibition, at a Heights artspace called H Gallery, should have been an... More >>

• Doug Supernaw: Troubled Former Country Star Surfaces in Bandera

  published Feb 24, 2011

  Since we published our 2007 cover story on troubled one-time country star Doug Supernaw, our site has become something like the de facto Web site for the former Houstonian. He now has v... More >>

• Gerry Todd Greenwood: Drunk at Meeting with Probation Officer

  published Feb 22, 2011

  Who knows why 34-year-old Gerry Todd Greenwood allegedly deemed it a good idea to get plastered last Friday morningr Maybe it was the spring air we've been enjoying. Maybe Thursday night never ended f... More >>

• Morris Edwin Burnett: Reckless, Boozy Jerk Threatens Mom, Son He Almost Ran Over with Bronco

  published Feb 18, 2011

  All along the Texas coast, the weather has been glorious, and Wednesday morning in Corpus, a 63-year-old mom and her 40-year-old son decided to take advantage by taking their dog for a walk on an isol... More >>

• Tommy Joe Kelley: Slasher Nabbed, and, Um, Tired Austinites Breathe Sigh of Relief

  published Feb 17, 2011

  Tommy Joe Kelley's reign of terror appears to be at an end. The 56-year-old drifter was quietly nabbed by Austin cops last month on a trespassing charge and booked into Travis County Jail under what p... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Five Video Games More Tasteless Than Call of Juarez: The Cartel

  published Feb 15, 2011

  Even though the Mexican Drug War continues unabated a few hundred miles down the Southwest Freeway, this news that there is a South of the Border-themed Grand Theft Auto video game in the works someho... More >>

• Tangerine: Yacht Rock, Golden Triangle-Style

  published Feb 11, 2011

  Ahh, Yacht Rock... Yacht Rock...Back in 2006, when we were still the music editor here, this unlikeliest of pop revivals filled our tattered sails with it's magical zephyr: The raw power of really smo... More >>

• Alejandro Gonzalez: Firefighter Canned After Workplace Tryst Wants Job Back

  published Feb 10, 2011

  Say what you will about Mission firefighter Alejandro "Alex" Gonzalez: that he thinks with his dick, that he was perhaps overly consumed by the Valentine's Day spirit to the detriment of the community... More >>

• Scam Alert: Shady "Baseball Players" Looking for Tix to Hawaii

  published Feb 10, 2011

  So I just happened to be working from home yesterday afternoon when, a little before 3 p.m., there was a loud knock at the door followed by an insistent ring. I got up to answer, and the caller seeme... More >>

• Emilio Villanueva: Teen Bandit Foiled by Stubborn Power Cord (Allegedly)

  published Feb 09, 2011

  For a time, before he was yanked back to reality, everything seemed to be going so well in Emilio Villanueva's restaurant heist. Yesterday in Corpus Christi, the 17-year-old runaway concealed his Du... More >>

• Oscar Gonzalez Jr.: Valley Teacher in Hot Water After Marriage to Lolita Turns Sour

  published Feb 08, 2011

  Just in time for the run-up to Valentine's Day comes this tale of romance vengeance from the Rio Grande Valley... In April of 2009, love bloomed in a science classroom at Economedes High School in Ed... More >>

• Texas Catfight Videos: Ferocious Filmed McAllen Brawl Bests Beaumont Battles

  published Feb 04, 2011

  Well, Beaumont, your reign as Capital of Texas Catfights was short. Not ten days after the wide publicizing of the long-running BMT Brawlz series of DVDs and the debut of the now nationally-infamous... More >>

• Joseph Michael Weeks: Teen "Male Whore Dog" in Trouble Again, for Doing What Male Whore Dogs Do

  published Feb 02, 2011

  Back in July, hours before he allegedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl who was messed up on cough syrup, a Lufkin mother called Joseph Michael Weeks a "male whore dog." And now, while out on bo... More >>

• Miranda Phillips: Poses As Medical Pro in Attempt to Score Purple Drank

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Although Miranda Phillips claimed to be working for a doctor in Livingston, employees at the Lufkin Walmart's pharmacy thought something was fishy about her phoned-in request for a prescription last D... More >>

• Jeffrey Stern: Bellaire Attorney Indicted in Failed Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Wife

  published Jan 31, 2011

  Over six months after the arrest of his mistress Michelle Gaiser, prominent Bellaire attorney Jeffrey Stern has been indicted on two counts of solicitation of capital murder in the attempts to take th... More >>

• Victor Ray Wortham: Loud Gum-Smacking Spurs Domestic Violence Complaint

  published Jan 31, 2011

  Let's face it: sharing space with someone who smacks their gum can be damned annoying. Still, we think Lufkin's Victor Ray Wortham might have slightly overreacted when his wife's gum-popping allegedly... More >>

• Aaron Scheerhoorn: Newly Formed Group Hopes to Honor Him by Improving Montrose

  published Jan 28, 2011

  It was one of the year's more horrific widely publicized murders. In mid-December, in a case that echoed that of Kitty Genovese, 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoorn was stabbed to death in front of Club Blu... More >>

• Randy Carl Russell: Pentecostal Preacher, Terroristic Threat

  published Jan 27, 2011

  An East Texas Pentecostal preacher is reportedly free on bond after allegedly threatening to kill his daughter's boyfriend and his family. Last Wednesday, Randy Carl Russell, the 52-year-old pastor o... More >>

• San Antonio Kidnapping Turns Out to Be Inception-Like Non-Event

  published Jan 26, 2011

  All San Antonio was aghast this morning at what looked like a dreadful crime: 28-year-old Adam Richardson told police that three to five armed intruders had broken into his apartment overnight and dra... More >>

• My Chase Bank High School Checking Account Nightmare

  published Jan 26, 2011

  UPDATE: It's one thing when banks screw me, quite another when they screw my son. I wasn't going to let this stand, so this morning I went back to Chase, dressed head to toe in black. I took a tape ... More >>

• Fifteen-Year-Old Bride Detained After Fracas in Corpus Walmart

  published Jan 26, 2011

  An 18-year-old man, his 15-year-old wife and a 19-year-old friend of the couple were jailed in Corpus Christi after a fight with store security at a Walmart. According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Ti... More >>