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Broward - Palm Beach

Residents of a Davie trailer park think their contaminated water is making them sick

Allan Payan lifts a photograph from a shelf inside his singlewide trailer home. The smiling... More >>

Dallas

Dallas Cast Reunion Leaves Fans Southforked

Thirty years after Dallas, fans worldwide came, saw and were conquered.
This wasn't supposed to be a story about a catastrophe. This wasn't supposed to be about a... More >>

Denver

Denver Snowboard Bandits lived for excitement, but the FBI got the final thrill

For photos of the Snowboard Bandits in action, go to westword.com/slideshow. The guy in the... More >>

Houston

The Collector: Mack McCormick's Huge Archive of Culture and Lore

A great American folklorist has spent a life squirreling away bits and pieces of Texas culture. Now time is running out on him and his inventory.
An evening at Mack McCormick's house in Spring Branch always has the same structure, if vastly... More >>

Kansas City

117 Homicides and Counting

As City Hall tries to fix its Aim4Peace program, the killing continues.
Anti-violence activists pull up to the corner of 27th Street and Benton, cars following as... More >>

Miami

A Stripper, a Mobster, and a Murder

Yep, that's Miami.
Hauling a fishing rod and bait, Orlando Maytin and his 12-year-old son trudged through a vacant... More >>

Minneapolis

The Green Institute faces possible foreclosure after 15 years

It was ahead of its time, but now the nonprofit has a looming debt problem
ANNIE YOUNG WENT to bed exhausted. For more than 12 years, the large, outspoken woman had been... More >>

Phoenix

Can Maynard James Keenan Put Arizona Wine on the Map?

Early-afternoon sun shines intensely on the sleepy vineyard, where row after row of grape-laden... More >>

San Francisco

Voodoo on the Vine

The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
In a remote corner of the Benziger Family Winery, you can just barely hear the tour guide's... More >>

Blog

Stlog

Will Smith: "I Could Absolutely be the President of the U.S."

Thu Nov 20, 11:01 AM

Will Smith, in a deep-blue V-neck sweater with tailored collar peeking out, enters and eyes an African-American reporter sitting in the back of the room. "Barack’s the President," he quips, "you don’t have to sit back there." We all... More >>

Columns

Letters

RFT readers pen sweet shout-outs for Dr. Wizard
Wednesday, November 19
NEWS REAL, NOVEMBER 13, 2008 Wonderful Wizard of SLU Well-played: As a university instructor myself, I often feel as though my students look at... More >>

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