Gang Violence

The Crucifixion of Juarez

On the front line of the U.S. war on drugs, a Mexican city bleeds to death.

Behind the Lyrics: Bunz is Twin City's Lifeline to Houston Hip-Hop

[Ed. Note: We temporarily interrupt our real-time SXSW coverage to give you something else to read about for one of the last times this week.] Richmond and Rosenberg are tough places to describe, partly because there are many faces to the two towns, which are referred to on the streets as just one ... More >>

Club's Landlord Blamed In Lawsuit For Gang Killing

​If a bunch of dudes get in a fight outside of a night club and one them kills another, is it the fault of the bar's landlord?That's essentially the question at hand in a lawsuit filed in Harris County District Court, claiming that poor security at the Kahlua Disco club near the Sharpstown mall he ... More >>

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' Que ... More >>

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 associate ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 mem ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Bacliff Wiggers

The other kind of white gang

Five Spot: Five Reasons Not to Mess With Trae

A Modest Proposal: Teach the Gangbangers Respect

Celtic Scots and Hispanic Mexicans

Chuck Rosenthal, Nan Goldin and Soulja Boy

Cover Story: Tango Blast Houstone

Crackdown

The city is your playground

Copycat Killer

Saints Row shamelessly apes Grand Theft Auto.

Gridiron Gang

Heavily padded football movie hits all the familiar notes

Deep Doo-doo

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

Street Fighters

The Warriors nicely complements the bloody cult classic that inspired it

Dance, Dance, Revolution

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

Can't Get Arrested

Try as we might

Cowboy Noir

Riding horses, sucking dust and planning for the big time

Tempting Teens

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

Mail Sacked

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

God Forsaken

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

Big Trouble at Brittle Spy

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

Mean Streets

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

Here Comes Pancho Claus

This Latino Santa wears a zoot suit, not a sombrero

Moving On

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

Wading It Out

Plus: Weekend Warier, Sidewalk Shame

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.

Best Graffiti Artist

Next

Truckadelic

Thursday, June 21, Continental Club, 3700 Main

Murals and the Mind Police

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

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.

Letters From the Inside

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

Prepare for Landing

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

Gang of One

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

Redemption Rap

Nuwine takes God to the gangstas

Night & Day

June 18 - 24, 1998

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.

Hip-Hop Down Under

Roots Rasslin'

At Tugboat Taylor's gym, would-be wrestlers are taught the eternal verities: It's more fun to be a heel, but heels always lose.

Battle Scars

Cypress Hill's B Real looks to the future, but can't forget his past

Kicking the Gang Attraction

In Gulfton, soccer is much more than a game

The Great Smokeout

Massive HPD sting nails desperate teenage cigarette thieves

Cyberdreams

A ragtag group of Houston filmmakers eye the future, and make a hit in Dallas

The Gangs Among Us

Asian crime is growing. Asian immigrants are its main target. And the HPD hasn't a clue what to do.

The Crip Patrol Rolls

Disabled activists take businesses to task over accessibility

Play It Again, Sam!

Police try another less-than-zero-tolerance plan