Vice

This was in June. After a long training session one morning, my Muay Thai class moved into the big room to spar. My friend (let’s call her Susan) and I began fighting. Nothing serious. We weren’t, like, unloading on each other. But when I tried to teep kick her in the solar plexus, Susan blocked [...]

With a median household income hovering around $39,000, a population of roughly 240,000, and a drug war leaving decapitated heads strewn about like jack-o-lanterns on Halloween just over the border in Mexico, the small town of Laredo, Texas, feels stuck in some transitory phase, as if it were a half-conceived movie set transferred 250 miles [...]