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Law and Disorder

In Janice Law's quests for a judgeship, the fourth time was a charm -- and now an alarm for the rest of the courthouse

Border Patrol Amps It Up This Weekend

In Janice Law's quests for a judgeship, the fourth time was a charm -- and now an alarm for the rest of the courthouse

Border Town Blues

St. Jubilee's Bryan Contreras overcomes a harrowing background to explore the duality of the Tex-Mex thing

Goin' South

I learned many things when I accompanied a trio of bounty hunters to Mexico to fetch a fugitive drug suspect. Foremost among them: never leave your map at home...

Static

I learned many things when I accompanied a trio of bounty hunters to Mexico to fetch a fugitive drug suspect. Foremost among them: never leave your map at home...

Hispanics Delivered by Border Midwives Are Having Trouble Getting U.S. Passports

Post-9/11 worries target South Texas

Peace -- For Now

A caravan to Cuba isn't hassled. Yet.

Letters

A caravan to Cuba isn't hassled. Yet.

Immigration: Cubans Enter U.S. at Texas-Mexico Border

A caravan to Cuba isn't hassled. Yet.

Music Deaths

The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns

Labor Day Show at Proletariat

McAllen sextet will wind down audiences from three-day weekend

Border Fence May Destroy Wildlife Habitat

U.S. Fish and Wildlife services spent $80 million to reclaim wildlife habitat in South Texas. Now Homeland Security is ready to wipe that out.

Frankie G Gets Busted

McAllen DJ found with marijuana

Shorthanded

Foreign pickers aren't getting through the post-9/11 barricades to harvest U.S. crops

School's Out

Dallas outshines Houston when one magazine rates education

Life on the Sunny Side

A lucky few homeless people experience life ten miles out from the Pierce Elevated

Hip-hop, Tejas

Latinos take on rap music and make it their own

Cancún Cuisine

Take a little trip to Cascadas Cantina y Restaurante

Float Like a Butterfli, Swing Like a Trapeze

Whether boogying on the floor or dangling from the ceiling, Yvette Perez's dancing divas want to be artists, not eye candy

North Guadalajara

Fonda Dona Maria transforms into a colossal palacio

The Bored Patrol

Border Patrol agents in South Texas contend they are getting paid to stay put as illegal immigrants go around them. Is this how the much-hyped crackdown along the Rio Grande is supposed to work?

Texas Thunder

Stay true to Pantera. They're true to you.

Death and the Salesmen

Psst: Wanna buy a truckload of smoke-damaged caskets?

RV Xmas

In which our intrepid reporter goes searching for the heart of America on a trailer pad. And finds disappointment, isolation, kindness and a great way to cook himself a turkey.

The Woman George W. Bush Didn't Marry

The question is why

Shades Of The St. Patricio Brigade: Conjunto Meets Irish At The I-Fest

Photo by Olivia Flores AlvarezConjunto Los Diamentes opened the Roomstore Latin Stage on Sunday. The high-school group came in from La Joya, Texas ("You know where McAllen is?" asks 16-year-old accordionist and music arranger Roger Guerra. "It's a little lower from that.")Since they aren't a profess ... More >>

Artist of the Week: BetterLuck

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.For some reason, back in 20 ... More >>

The Feds Stage A Blitz On Illegal Gun Sales In Houston, And Rack Up Numbers

​For most of the spring and summer, a souped-up squad of 100 ATF agents was running all over Houston and South Texas doing everything possible to slow the raging river of guns illegally flowing into Mexico.Agents followed up old leads, tracked down new ones, made scores of arrests, confiscated hun ... More >>

We've Got Flatline. Clear! Houston Can Jump-Start the Heart of a Music Career

Flatline feat. Trae, "Fuckin With Texas" @ Yahoo! Video Back in 2007, we came across a hip-hop video on YouTube that featured Trae, so naturally, we eagerly clicked on it. The track starts off with a sick Bun B sample. "You fuckin with Texas, you fuckin' with the best/ I ain't hard to find/ I'm in T ... More >>

Big Brother Is Watching You Buy Cellophane

​Police in the Rio Grande Valley have a new tactic in the war against pot smugglers: staking out office supply stores. In three cases since last November, suspects have been followed after making large purchases of cellophane. Here's more on the most recent case, from Valleycentral.com. U. ... More >>

SXSW Aftermath: The Texas Garage-Rock Torch Passes At The Continental Club

Photos by Brittanie SheyChristopher Gerniottis of Zakary Thaks (left) joins Austin's Ugly Beats​ In February, Magnolia City Mixtape mentioned a piece in Texas Monthly about the storied history of garage rock in Texas written by Aftermath nerd-crush Michael Hall. (His reporting has gotten men on de ... More >>

Further On Up the Road

Excerpts from the Press's copious online coverage of SXSW.

Jennifer Martinez: Posing As A Bribe-able Immigration Official

If you're going to bribe someone, at least make sure they're legit​A woman who posed as an immigration officer took cash from hopeful immigrants, promising to get the papers, will get almost five years in prison for her trouble.Jennifer Martinez, 36, of McAllen, was sentenced here in Houston today ... More >>

Tiffany Young-Hartley: Plot In Mexican Lake Pirate Murder Thickens As Body Proves Hard To Find

Tiffany Young-Hartley: Questions​October certainly came in like a lion for residents of the Rio Grande Valley. On October 1, news broke of the alleged murder of an American jet-skier on border-straddling, allegedly freshwater-pirate-infested Falcon Lake. A recap for those who don't want to clic ... More >>

Falcon Lake: Case Closed? Five Remaining Oddities In A Very Weird Case

One more thing, ma'am....​After the murder and decapitation of one of their own, Mexican investigators are calling off the search for David Hartley's body, temporarily at least.So, is it case closed? Is STRATFOR's theory -- that Hartley was gunned down by Zeta thugs who believed he was a scout for ... More >>

Walmart Wants to Be Friends on Facebook

​Although Texas has weathered the economic downturn better than most states, that's small consolation to those residents still unable to feed their families. According to research published by the Food Research and Action Center earlier this year, Texas has the 13th-highest rate of food hardsh ... More >>

Taco Palenque

​Although Texas has weathered the economic downturn better than most states, that's small consolation to those residents still unable to feed their families. According to research published by the Food Research and Action Center earlier this year, Texas has the 13th-highest rate of food hardsh ... More >>

Texas Catfight Videos: Ferocious Filmed McAllen Brawl Bests Beaumont Battles

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 Chuck E. Cheese Throwdown, a new champion has emerged. After you see it, we think you'll agree with ... More >>

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

The Grand Plaza, in all its grandness​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 Edinburg. The girl, named "Ms. G" in the police reports th ... More >>

Bartender Chat: Kallie Weyland of Byzantio

​After braving the icy winds this week in search of a worthy Bartender Chat candidate, I was very pleased to meet Kallie Weyland at Byzantio. Not only was the place warmly lit and inviting, she also had some great stories to share over samples of her signature Ginger Pomegranate Martini.

Pro Life Group Uncovers Health Problems at Clinics

​Texas abortion clinics are plagued with health and administrative violations and have tons of gross medical waste, including fetal remains, in open trash bins outside their doors, according to the results of a three-month undercover study by Christian pro-life group Operation Rescue. The gro ... More >>

Houston Allergies: Why Are You Sniffling? There Are 65 U.S. Cities Worse Than Us

At least you're not in Knoxville​Spring is in the air, but you may not be able to smell it if you're wheezing and sniffling and full of phlegm. Take heart, though: You could be living in Knoxville, Tennessee. That city is the worst in the U.S. for spring allergies, according to the latest ra ... More >>

Jose Maravilla: Most Detailed Public-Masturbation Story Ever

Jose Maravilla: Taking care of himself.​We here at Hair Balls are not a squeamish lot. We make no pretensions towards being a "family newspaper." Hell, as a blog, we are not even a newspaper at all. We are gonna go ahead and assume that the opposite is true at The Monitor, the daily paper in ... More >>

Fetuses In A Public Landfill: Not The Way It's Supposed To Happen

Just no​We all know that the souls of aborted babies go to live with Jesus, but what of their earthly remains? Well, in Texas, they legally can't be disposed of in landfills -- which is exactly where the remains from two abortion clinics have been going, according to Texas Commission on Enviro ... More >>

Texas School Buying "Smurf Turf" Football Field; Superintendent Speaks To Criticisms

"Smurf turf" is coming to Canutillo High. ​West Texas' Canutillo Independent School District hasn't been bringing in much green of late so they've decided to sing the $350,000 blues. Last week, CISD board of trustees approved the installation of a "smurf turf" field that will replace, for "s ... More >>

Too Much Pavement

Houston's strip malls increase heat, pollution.

Alleged McAllen Starbucks Masturbator Immortalized in Song

Jose Maravilla, celebrated in song​In the borderlands of South Texas, there has long been a tradition of immortalizing revolutionaries in song. Corridos, as these tunes are known, date back to the decades before the Mexican Revolution, and have been written in honor of people like Emiliano Zap ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street: 99 Percent Protesters March to City Hall for Occupy Houston

Photo by Rachel Bohanan​See lots more pics of the protest in our slideshow. Joining a movement of protests across the country, several hundred Houstonians gathered at Market Square Park this morning to march to Hermann Square in front of City Hall, which they plan to occupy indefinitely in so ... More >>

Adrian Parada Jr.: Border Patrol Cop Accused in DWI Death Rocks The Affliction T-Shirt in Mugshot

Photo by McAllen PDAdrian Parada Jr.: Left the Ed Hardy shirt at home.​A Border patrol agent has been charged with intoxication assault for causing an accident that has left one person in critical condition. The victim is on life support, meaning the charges against Adrian Parada Jr. may be u ... More >>