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March 15, 2012
PBS' 'Inside E Street' Takes On the Broken Promises of Electric Deregulation in Texas
Some 10 years ago, commodities and energy company Enron led a successful lobbying effort to deregulate Texas electricity markets. A free-market, we were told, would foster competition, keep power prices low and improve customer service. Yet over the last decade, none of these promises have been kept ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Didn't Take Long at All For Perot Museum of Nature & Science to Make Its (Big, Big) Money
Photo by Anna MerlanApparently, this is how you announce you've raised $185 million a year earlier than expected.For days we've been promised a major announcement today from the Perot Museum of Nature & Science; as in, said the week's worth of press releases, "a MAJOR announcement" would be m ... More >>
Film
June 10, 2010
Casino Jack & The United States of Money
Photo by Anna MerlanApparently, this is how you announce you've raised $185 million a year earlier than expected.For days we've been promised a major announcement today from the Perot Museum of Nature & Science; as in, said the week's worth of press releases, "a MAJOR announcement" would be m ... More >>
Music
June 11, 2009
Dope opera: A New York music prof takes aim at Dallas' new arts center. Misses.
Photo by Anna MerlanApparently, this is how you announce you've raised $185 million a year earlier than expected.For days we've been promised a major announcement today from the Perot Museum of Nature & Science; as in, said the week's worth of press releases, "a MAJOR announcement" would be m ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
From Ithaca, New York, An Apology to the Citizens of Dallas. And, An Explanation.
David YearsleyDuring the weekend, I exchanged a few e-mails with David Yearsley, the Cornell University associate music professor who, as you'll no doubt recall, attacked the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with all the subtlety of a Longhorn bull mounting a comely heifer. Turns out, more than ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2009
Jeez, Somebody Really Doesn't Like the Looks of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts
That somebody is Cornell University associate music professor David Yearsley, whose university bio says that during the past two decades, he's "immersed himself in the musical culture of the German Baroque." He's certainly going for baroque with this intriguingly punctuated essay posted to Alexander ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2009
Breach of Faith Redux: Is the Army Corps of Engineers Learning From Past Mistakes?
Jim SchutzeThe Trinity River in June 2007On February 11, I wrote a piece for the paper version of Unfair Park in which I said officials in New Orleans shared blame for the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Specifically, I wrote, "The locals had pushed and pulled for a century to get t ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2008
Pairing Off: Chicken Fried Steak
Texas should be ashamed of itself.In the old days this state produced larger than life heroes--men like James Fannin, Clyde Barrow and "Hollywood" Henderson. But now, after two from the Bush clan (three if you count Neil), a Rove and the guys at Enron, all we can cling to is our national dish.And c ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2008
Anyone Else Remember That Blockbuster-Enron On-Demand Box?
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2008
Former Observer Editor to Clean Up Spitzer's Mess
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2008
Wagman the Dog: Or, Enron Did It!
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2008
AFI Dallas Fest Sneaks a Peek with Hunter S. Thompson, Ellen Page and Helen Hunt
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2008
Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner Are Oscar-Nominated Again. Kinda. More Than You, Anyway.
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Home Entertainment
May 10, 2007
Hitchcock on Holiday
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2006
Cruisin' with Cuban
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
October 23, 2006
There's Always a Reason to Drink
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2006
EW Does Dallas
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2006
The Skilling to Pay the Billing
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2006
To the Defense of Enron
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
Home Entertainment
April 13, 2006
Naomi Then and Now
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there's something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster's, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and ... More >>
News
March 9, 2006
Oscar Overhaul
The Academy--y-a-w-n--Awards desperately need a shot of sports
Blogs
March 6, 2006
And the Oscar for Best Seat Goes to...
The Academy--y-a-w-n--Awards desperately need a shot of sports
Blogs
March 2, 2006
Flogging Blogs
The Academy--y-a-w-n--Awards desperately need a shot of sports
Home Entertainment
January 19, 2006
Swindled Art
The Academy--y-a-w-n--Awards desperately need a shot of sports
Dining
December 29, 2005
Is Screwing Hip?
We twist open 2005 for a nip. Is this a sign of things to come?
Film
December 22, 2005
Backhanded Slapstick
Jim Carrey's brand of fun warms a reheated Dick and Jane
Music
November 24, 2005
Heavenly
San Francisco's best band talks Libya, casinos and candles
Film
October 13, 2005
Truth Syrup
An intriguing cover-up tale melts into a melodramatic mess
Film
April 28, 2005
Scoundrel Time
Alex Gibney expertly captures the lies and fall of Enron
News
July 22, 2004
TX Eff U
Plus: After Moses; Word Up
Calendar
April 8, 2004
A-Go-Go A-Here-Here
Bizarro's PolitiComedy-A-Go-Go will have you laughing all the wayto the voting booth
Dining
November 13, 2003
Wharf Arf
The Wharf @ Bayview Marina floats and sinks
Music
October 16, 2003
The Nokia Unwired Tour
October 21
Calendar
October 2, 2003
This Week's Day-By-Day Picks
October 21
Dining
May 15, 2003
Crazy Eddie
Eddie Merlot's on its way to Frisco
Calendar
November 21, 2002
Vroom Vroom
The Dallas Collector Car Auction kicks the tires on some oldies but goodies
News
November 21, 2002
The Emperor's Checkbook
Dallas City Hall finances could be our own little Enron
News
August 22, 2002
Cat Scratch Fever
Plus: Good to The Bone, Eat Your Heart Out, Do the Perp Walk
Culture
May 9, 2002
Pyramid Schemes
The geezer from Giza reigns in The Curse of the Mummy at Pocket Sandwich Theatre
Music
May 2, 2002
Super Furry Animals
May 3
Culture
April 11, 2002
When Online Got Off Base
Or: How Mark Cuban would have--and could have?--saved the music biz
News
April 11, 2002
House of Cards
Enron's collapse may have been engineered from the top, but low-level employees played parts, too
Film
April 4, 2002
The Big Hurt
Pauline and Paulette, about a neglected retarded woman, is hard to ignore
News
April 4, 2002
The Claim Game
Why is everyone trying to decide which reporter "broke" the Enron story? Money.
News
February 28, 2002
Boom
Plus: She's a Keepie, The Fix Is In, Kill Us With Crap
News
February 14, 2002
Vote for Dad
Plus: Golden Gramms
Music
February 7, 2002
Career Moves
Loudon Wainwright III brings his listeners along for the ride
News
February 7, 2002
Enron's End Run
To make a mess as big as the Enron debacle, you need some friends in high places--Texas Senator Phil Gramm and his wife, for instance
Film
January 24, 2002
Moth-Eaten
In this tricked-up ghost story, the truth is way out there
News
October 5, 1995
Yemengate
In a tiny Middle Eastern country, government officials have accused Dallas oilman Ray Hunt's company of cheating them out of millions.
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