Subject: Gang Violence

• Cover Story: Tango Blast Houstone

  August 15, 2007

• A Modest Proposal: Teach the Gangbangers Respect

  June 26, 2008

• Five Spot: Five Reasons Not to Mess With Trae

  August 15, 2008

• Kicking the Gang Attraction

  In Gulfton, soccer is much more than a game

  July 13, 1995

• See Juarez

  From a forthcoming book by Charles Bowden and the street shooters of Ciudad Juarez The photojournalists of the border are capturing the grisly face of the future. And it's a lot closer than you think.

  December 11, 1997

• Redemption Rap

  Nuwine takes God to the gangstas

  September 30, 1999

• Someone Has To Keep Up With the Pot Demand From HISD Teachers

  Another HISD teacher's been nabbed for pot today; this time a special-ed teacher from the Harper Alternative School. This makes about 14 billion HISD teachers arrested in the last two weeks, officials estimate. (And by "officials," we mean us.)So the U.S. Department of Justice's newest National Drug Threat Assessment, released today, shouldn't be a surprise when it reports that Asian gangs have greatly increased their production of indoor-grown pot in the Houston area."Asian DTOs [Drug Trafficki

  December 15, 2008

• Play It Again, Sam!

  January 20, 1994

• The Crip Patrol Rolls

  May 12, 1994

• The Gangs Among Us

  July 14, 1994

• Cyberdreams

  December 1, 1994

• The Great Smokeout

  May 11, 1995

• The Tango Blast Houstone Gang Takes A Hit

  Local and federal agents in an anti-gang task force charged with waging the much-debated "War on Drugs" have nabbed another round of bad guys, this time more than a dozen members of Texas' largest prison gang, Tango Blast Houstone. Acting Houston U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson announced today that 14 members of the highly-decentralized yet populous Houstone gang have been indicted on five counts related to the possession and distribution of marijuana and cocaine. The indictments are the result of the

  January 21, 2009

• Battle Scars

  February 1, 1996

• Roots Rasslin'

  May 23, 1996

• Hip-Hop Down Under

  August 7, 1997

• New North Heights Hipster Hang: Big Star Bar

  October 9, 2008

• Bacliff Wiggers

  September 11, 2008

• Gangsters in Bacliff

  September 11, 2008

• Big Trouble at Brittle Spy

  Another Saturday Asian Night, another dead body on NoDo's streets

  January 23, 2003

• Best Graffiti Artist

  Next

  September 20, 2001

• Chuck Rosenthal, Nan Goldin and Soulja Boy

  January 17, 2008

• Chuck Rosenthal: So Tough on Crime That a Suspect Goes Free

  January 3, 2008

• Gang Lite?

  A new kind of gang in Texas and Houston promises protection but no lifelong commitment

  August 16, 2007

• Mail Sacked

  The state says Texas prison inmates can't write to one another

  April 24, 2003

• Midnight Thugs

  January 19, 2006

• Cowboy Noir

  Riding horses, sucking dust and planning for the big time

  August 19, 2004

• Crackdown

  The city is your playground

  March 15, 2007

• Copycat Killer

  Saints Row shamelessly apes Grand Theft Auto.

  October 5, 2006

• Gridiron Gang

  Heavily padded football movie hits all the familiar notes

  September 14, 2006

• Deep Doo-doo

  A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are after your money again

  June 22, 2006

• Street Fighters

  The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it

  November 10, 2005

• Dance, Dance, Revolution

  Hip-hop, clowns and war dances meet on the street in Rize

  June 23, 2005

• Can't Get Arrested

  Try as we might

  June 23, 2005

• Tempting Teens

  Does a police sting program make kids into too-easy targets?

  August 14, 2003

• God Forsaken

  The brutal, brilliant City of God takes us inside Rio de Janeiro's urban decay

  March 6, 2003

• Mean Streets

  Martin Scorsese looks at the roots of New York's violence, with mixed results

  December 19, 2002

• Moving On

  Continual crime, aging apartments and new activism collide as the fight for Fondren Southwest's soul rages onward

  October 17, 2002

• South Park Monster

  June 6, 2002

• Gangstas in Paradise

  Galveston has beautiful beaches, the Strand and Moody Gardens. North of Broadway it has the projects, crippling poverty and big-city problems. And now the bad guys are back.

  December 6, 2001

• Murals and the Mind Police

  William Steen started a youth project for East End artists. And an HPD cover-up ended it.

  July 20, 2000

• Down for the Count

  "El Matador" Chavez fought his way to the top of the boxing ranks. Now he hopes to make his greatest comeback - if the INS will let him in the ring.

  June 29, 2000

• Letters From the Inside

  Ricardo Lara spent 19 years in Texas prisons. He got out the other day.

  April 27, 2000

• Prepare for Landing

  The appropriately named Jet Li may prove Americans are finally primed for Far East mayhem

  March 23, 2000

• Gang of One

  Critics say cops and prosecutors are too quick to label some minorities as gangsters

  February 17, 2000

• Bacliff's 4th Street Players Gang Gets Hit With Federal Prison

  As Hurricane Ike threatened the Upper Texas Coast, we went to press with the story of the 4th Street Players, a predominantly white Anglo street gang in the Galveston Bay town of Bacliff. Nine members of the gang, who wore red colors in emulation of LA's Blood gangs, had been arrested in May of last year after a two-year investigation by the FBI, DEA, ATF and several local law enforcement agencies and charged with numerous crimes related to the sale of cocaine, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine

  May 5, 2009

• Crips and Bloods: Made in America

  May 14, 2009

• La Migra Arrests A Whole Bunch Of Gang Members

  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency -- ICE to illegals and legals alike -- has announced the results of a big round-up of gang members in Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi who are undocumented aliens."Operation Community Shield" resulted in the arrests of 116 gang members and associates, ICE spokesman Gary Palmore says."The gang members taken into custody during the enforcement action are linked to at least 14 street gangs, including: Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Surenos Trece, Aryan

  June 30, 2009

• Akira

  July 2, 2009

• You've Heard It Effin' Before: Cops Wash Out With Soap Another Galveston County Potty-Mouth

  ​We really thought we wouldn't be writing again about people getting into trouble with the law in Galveston County because they cursed. But goshdarnit, it just keeps popping up.Whether it's a frustrated woman in a Wal-Mart, a guy arguing over his neighbor's dog poop, or even a guy from fuckin' Queens (the official name of the NYC borough), cops keep handing out tickets for potty mouths in the priggish county.Now they've done it again.The Galveston County Daily News reports on four yutes who we

  August 20, 2009