Saul Elbein

  • Intent To Harm

    Before everything happened, nurse Anne Mitchell says Kermit had a good little hospital. “We had an excellent nursing staff. We had great doctors. We [...] Full Story

  • Combating an Invasion

    Arundo donax, the giant cane that is taking over the Rio Grande Valley, is virtually indestructible. Burn it out, and it sprouts from the [...] Full Story

  • The Extra-Lite Gov

    This story was corrected and updated on Nov. 4. During the 2007 session of the Texas Legislature, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst brought the Senate [...] Full Story

  • Fantastic Fest: Crossing the Line with

      We all know that there are 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. We all know that many of those have come [...] Full Story

  • Fantastic Fest: Digging Up

    I sat in last night on a screening of The Dead, a new zombie movie by the Howard and (X) Ford, an up-and-coming British [...] Full Story
  • Demonstration of traditional amaranth cooking techniques.

    The Seeds That Time Forgot

    Once, amaranth was a staple of Mesoamerican civilization. Now a Oaxacan nonprofit is trying to bring it back. Full Story
  • Keystone XL Pipe Line: Pipe Dream

    Iron Hands Behind the Pine Curtain

    I watched him being loaded into the van. The pepper spray had not been washed off; his face was swollen and contorted, with long ropes of mucus hanging from his nostrils. Full Story
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    Keeping Time In Lockhart

    The story of how Galbraith ended up devoting his life to the care and restoration of antique clocks reads like a fairy tale. It dates back 30 years to a now-vanished neighborhood in Austin, to the day when a simple act of kindness changed Galbraith’s life forever. Full Story

  • Fehrenbach’s Texas

    When I met T.R. Fehrenbach, the fam-ous Texas historian, I found an old man given to gloomy pronouncements about mortality wearing a camel hair [...] Full Story

  • No Shows: Why So Few Texans Bother to Vote

    I WAS SITTING IN A COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER in the Houston suburb of Alief trying to get a glimpse of the state’s future. Alief [...] Full Story