Every weekday, dozens of inmates are released on parole from Huntsville State Penitentiary, the largest prison release center in Texas. With a bus ticket voucher and $100 release check, most of them take in their first moments out with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. In this pivotal […]

There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, and it’s run by three exonerated men with decades in prison served between them.

Informant examines Brandon Darby, a radical activist turned FBI informant who has been both vilified and deified, but never entirely understood.

“Ordinary people” respond to come-on ads on the back pages of magazines (“Send in Your Lyrics and Make $50,000 in royalties!”), mailing in their heartfelt but often bizarre poems to “music industry” companies that, for a fee, turn those poems into real recordings.

Roger Corman would swoon at the DIY antics employed by Nigerian moviemakers, churning out nearly 2,500 straight-to-video releases a year, they’ve made the West African nation the world’s third-largest movie market after the U.S. and India.

Fed up with the mass migration of their community, the small town of Alberto creates a one-of-a-kind tourist attraction – a simulated nighttime border crossing, complete with fake border patrol chasing balaclava-clad coyotes.