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November, 2008 Dallas Observer The moment I walk into the Girls Room, I feel out of place. The studio’s wide, mirrored space is punctuated by gleaming silver poles that extend from floor to [...]

May, 2008 Dallas Observer He stopped the white Volvo. It was a sunny December day in 2006, and they’d been driving through Burleson as he prepared to finish his second Iraq tour after two [...]

September, 2009 Dallas Observer I‘m on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who once worked for Gandhi and who specializes in the virtues of discipline and peace. Naturally, I’m [...]

July, 2007 Dallas Observer Elias dangles the dead iguana by the tail. His friends close in around him, watching hungrily. With a knife he slices through scaly green skin and peels it back to [...]

August, 2008 Dallas Observer His nightly transformation began with a twinge. Then, gnawing and relentless, it consumed him. At 45, “Steve” was a hard-charging sales manager [...]

September, 2007 Dallas Observer Jacoby James’ palms were sweating. It was almost his turn. As a camera flash illuminated the curtains in front of him, he waited to have his senior picture [...]

April, 2007 Dallas Observer Amanda Salcido was standing in line clutching a package of ground beef when she saw the $100 bills. The man in front of her at the United Supermarket opened his wallet [...]

August, 2001 The San Francisco Chronicle Growing up in a noisy household of 13 children, the two brothers were serious and self-directed, with boyhood dreams that foreshadowed the men they would [...]

April, 2001 The San Francisco Chronicle Dressed in matching pink hospital robes and blue caps, 10 Mayan women chat about defying Guatemala’s religious and cultural norms. The women, who are [...]

December, 2001 The San Francisco Chronicle Against a lush, green landscape of trees wrapped in crawling vines, men in cowboy hats stand smoking cigarettes next to piles of perfectly stacked cedar [...]