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Returning War Contractors Face Second Battle, Against Insurance Giant AIGnew
Whatever your role in the U.S. war effort, if you were injured overseas, at least you'd be covered back home, right?
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
11-16-2012 |
War
Tags: war contractors
Houston Babylonnew
Four of the spookiest true tales in the city's history.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
10-24-2012 |
Features
Santa Muerte: The Patron Saint of the Drug Warnew
Need help killing someone? Or cementing a drug deal? This may be the saint for you.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
09-13-2012 |
Features
Tags: mexico drug war
White Linen Fightnew
As a Houston charity event grew, so did promises, expectations and disappointments.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
08-08-2012 |
Features
Preppers Ready For When The Shit Hits The Fannew
Preppers ready themselves for an uncertain future.
Houston Press |
Brittanie Shey and John Nova Lomax |
06-21-2012 |
Disasters
Houston's Babies Play Baseball 1860s-Stylenew
There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
05-16-2012 |
Sports
In Search Of Spring Breaknew
Spring break on the Gulf Coast ain't the party it used to be.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
03-28-2012 |
Travel
Breaking It Downnew
It may not be PTSD or brain injuries that pose the most long-term danger to our surviving vets from their Middle East tours.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
03-14-2012 |
War
Tags: PTSD, war trauma
The Peddlernew
Both in and out of prison, Brian Wulwell spent his life selling people baubles and trinkets. Now he's upped the ante.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
09-23-2011 |
Crime & Justice
The Man Who Sued the Popenew
Houston's Daniel Shea thinks Joseph Ratzinger has a lot to answer for if he'd talk.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
04-27-2010 |
Religion
Tags: Daniel Shea, Joseph Ratzinger
Where Running a Light and Killing Someone Does Not Automatically Mean You're in Troublenew
Steve Morrison probably never knew what hit him that April afternoon in 2008. After the swimming-pool company owner eased off the brakes of his green Saturn and headed south down Hillcroft across Westpark, a Nissan Frontier driven by a 28-year-old Salvadoran immigrant slammed into him.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
02-09-2010 |
Crime & Justice
O'Brien's Song: Now, the Activist Must Fight for His Lifenew
For Tim O'Brien, grad school, and life in general, are full-contact sports, and heaven protect anyone who gets in the way of his idea of justice.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
12-15-2009 |
Civil Liberties
Ghost Riders: Bicycling in Houston is a Killernew
According to data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Houston is almost always the most dangerous place in Texas to ride a bike. There is also lots of anecdotal evidence.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
10-13-2009 |
Transportation
Life in Texas, One Year After Hurricane Ikenew
Back in December, we spoke with a number of people in Galveston, Bolivar and along the bay about how they were coping with the storm. For the one-year anniversary, we tracked most of those same people down and talked to a few more. Here are their stories.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
09-15-2009 |
Disasters
Los Lobos Leaves Disney to Reembrace Their Aztlan Rootsnew
Los Lobos are nothing short of a national treasure. Maybe their blend of norteno, cumbias, boleros, blues, country, funk, soul and good old rock and roll is not the signature sound for all of America, but it certainly is for that part which some view as "Aztlan," which includes both Texas and the band's East L.A. home turf.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
04-28-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Los Lobos, rock music
