She was 14 and awkward. She was being forced to marry a man she had just met.
In my hometown, whenever a lover leaves, a fight fractures a friendship or a job is lost, we take all of that anxiety and we build a 50-foot effigy of Old Man Gloom we call Zozobra. Then we burn him. Photos by Jay Dryden.
A trip to Santa Fe means you can't escape experiencing beautiful art all around - both natural and man-made. Photos by Jay Dryden.
Taking its name from the Thai word for "airplane," Khruangbin, pronounced "croo-ng bin," plays music that sounds like a microcosm of Houston, with inspiration as eclectic as any feeder road strip mall. Photos by Jay Dryden.
An attorney now suing the city on behalf of a Houston strip club has questioned the propriety of tactics used by undercover vice officers.
Annie Dillard has a tendency to write the literary equivalent of an earworm. "Every day is a god," she observes, and it's the sort of phrase you'll find yourself thinking over and over again, as catchy as any pop song's hook.
I first visited the city in 2007, in time to see Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista firebrand and revolutionary, inaugurated once again as president of Nicaragua. Two years after his inauguration, I returned to see the changes Ortega has made with his presidency.