I consider myself to be fairly well-informed when it comes to news matters. I keep up with breaking news on MSN.com, and I supplement that with occasional magazines in the store that catch my eye. Usually I pick up magazines that offer additional coverage of a news story or someone who wants to offer a different take on what is actually going on.

After all, I am a writer. I need to know more about what's going on – or at least think I do – than most people. To me, the world is an immensely interesting place. I rely on books, movies, and fact-based films like this one to keep me on top of my game.

I even check out the BBC websites and other internationals news sites to see what's going on in other parts of the world. Still, no matter how hard you try, there's simply too much going on to keep abreast of it all.

It doesn't help when a story is casually brushed under the rug and kept out of the news.

That's what's been going on down in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican town that has grown large enough to straddle the border between Texas and Mexico. "This city kills people," says Charles Bowden, author of Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future.

The figures vary, but most experts and political activists agree that over 400 young Mexican women have been kidnapped, raped, murdered, and tossed out into the desert in the last 13 years. In addition to that, over 4000 more people have gone missing in that same time period, and most – if not all – of those are presumed murdered as well.

Steev Hise describes himself as a cultural artist. He claims to focus on the "appropriation and recontextualization of pre-existing cultural artifacts in other words, making new art from the old."

After watching his work in On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez, I think he's more of a journalist than he might perhaps realize or want to own up to. His portrayal of the problem in that city is at once matter-of-fact and moving. His investigation into the causes is extremely well thought out and presented in a manner that is easy to understand, even if the subject matter is so hard to take.