Saul Elbein

  • 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

  • Report on Latest Budget Cuts Says Schools Can’t Go on Like This Forever

    Last year, as you may recall, the Legislature cut $5.4 billion from the state’s public education budget. By now the effects are starting to [...] Full Story

  • Bad Medicine

    The case of Dr. Rolando Arafiles could well be the oddest in the history of Texas medicine. In 2008, Arafiles was hired as a [...] Full Story

  • The Boy from Haskell

    If you want to clear a room in Haskell, this is how you do it. You walk in. You sit down. You say, “I’m [...] Full Story

  • Cuero Bets on Fracking

    In 2008, Petrohawk Energy sank an oil well on Charlotte Krause’s land in the green fields north of Cuero. Drillers bored into the shale [...] Full Story

  • Get Your Norteño out of My Conjunto

    McAllen Everything is going fine until Lupe Saenz sees the CDs. I’m paying my check at a run-down diner in downtown Mercedes, a town [...] Full Story

  • 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