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May 22, 2012
UT's School of Public Affairs Trimmed the Wrong Letter Out of its Graduation Program
What is the single most embarrassing thing that could happen to a college? Accidentally writing 'pubic' in the school's title in the graduation program, of course. Hands down. No, not down there, gosh. And with the tagline 'Unlimited Possibilities' ... you just cannot make this stuff up. To the gr ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
St. Vincent Sets Sept. 13 Release For Third LP, The John Congleton-Produced Strange Mercy
St. VincentTwo years after the release of her sophomore (and breakout) album, Actor, the Dallas-born guitar heroine Annie Clark, who performs hauntingly gorgeous music under the name of St. Vincent, has just announced that her third full-length album, Strange Mercy, will be released via the 4AD ... More >>
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February 21, 2011
Three Local Legislators Talk to Texas Tribune About What Needs to Go From Public Ed Budget
Texas Trib's editor Evan Smith just posted his lengthy chitchat with three state House first-termers -- all Republicans, all from 'round these parts (Dallas's Stefani Carter, Mesquite's Cindy Burkett and Grand Prairie's Rodney Anderson). The full sitdown runs a little more than 37 minutes, but Smith ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
Tom Leppert Gets Texas Tribuned
First thing Wednesday morning down in Austin, Mayor Tom Leppert visited with Texas Tribune editor Evan Smith about a whole host of subjects -- among them, right off the bat, why Leppert endorsed Gov. Rick Perry earlier this month, despite the fact his is supposed to be a nonpartisan position. Also o ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
Band Name Alert: Rick Perry Fatigue
Sam MertenNational Public Radio's John Burnett went to the State Fair of Texas and asked those lined up to buy fried whatnots: Are you tired of Governor Rick Perry? Why, yes! Um, no, not at all. Maybe? (Perhaps Burnett should have waited till he read this morning's paper.)Evan Smith, ex-Texas Mon ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
Spokesman Takes Blame For Claiming DA Craig Watkins "Helped Free 20 Wrongly Convicted Prisoners" in Campaign E-Mail
Sam MertenDoes it matter how many folks Watkins exonerated? When it's the cornerstone of a campaign, you betcha.While it's well-known that Dallas County leads the country with a whopping 22 exonerations since 2001 -- 20 of which resulted from the preservation of DNA evidence -- there's been s ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
Evan Smith Puts Craig Watkins on Witness Stand, or: The Entirety of Yesterday's Interview
TribLive featuring Dallas DA Craig Watkins from texastribune on Vimeo.Whilst browsing the Vimeo moments ago, I came across the entirety of Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith's chat with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins yesterday at the Austin Club. It was just posted. We posted a ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Sounds Like DA Craig Watkins's Interview With Evan Smith Is Going to Be Revealing. Ish.
Justin DehnIt's been interesting this morning, trying to piece together exactly what Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is telling Texas Tribune editor-in-chief Evan Smith. At this very moment they're doing a TT sitdown at the Austin Club, and I've been following along via Twitter. The ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Watkins: "We Started To See Things That Just Didn't Make Dallas Government Look Good"
As promised below, Texas Tribune has indeed posted a snippet of editor-in-chief Evan Smith's interview with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins conducted this morning down in Austin. And, as promised, Watkins does indeed say, rather emphatically, that his office's investigation into the do ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
The Missing LINC: City Says Texas Trib's Payroll Database Has At Least One Oopsie
Dallas City Hall ArchivesI've been pestering Frank Librio in Dallas City Hall's Public Information Office for The Official Word on Harold Nogle, who, according to Texas Tribune's city payroll database, is the fourth-highest-paid city official. And, while he was at it, maybe he had some more info ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Rick Perry, "Second Coming of Ronald Reagan"? Well, If It's In Newsweek.
Maybe you've seen the latest issue of Newsweek on newsstands -- that cover's hard to miss. It's kind of the all-Texas issue, matter of fact, with Evan Smith contributing this piece about the hubbub over the high-school social-studies curriculum and Daniel Gross's essay about how "the Texas turnar ... More >>
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September 16, 2009
What Evan Smith Learned at Texas Monthly: Kelly Clarkson Doesn't Move Magazines
It's been two months since Texas Monthly's president, Evan Smith, announced he was leaving the magazine to go into the virtual newspaper business as CEO of Texas Tribune. In the October issue of the Monthly, Smith offers his adios: "What I've Learned." And among those myriad lessons is this one: ... More >>
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July 17, 2009
Texas Monthly's President, Evan Smith, Will Now Be CEO of New Texas Tribune
Evan SmithRemember how, earlier this week, we mentioned that Austin venture capitalist John Thornton was starting an online newspaper, the intention of which is to cover Texas and specifically Austin? Well, now we know who the CEO of that paper's gonna be: none other than Texas Monthly's president a ... More >>
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May 8, 2009
As Bud Shrake Once Wrote, "Birth is Real, Death is Real, and All Between is a Game."
Edwin "Bud" Shrake, the Fort Worth native and former Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News sportswriter, died this morning in Austin at the age of 77. He wrote a lot of essential books, including the best-selling sports tome of all time, but longtime fans will fondly recall his Willie Nelson a ... More >>
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March 13, 2009
Luke Wilson Scrubs In to Accept Rushmore's Texas Film Hall of Fame Honor
As promised this morning, here's Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore -- though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke's in the thing for all of the one scene, so how'd he get the honor? Hell, ... More >>
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May 20, 2008
Former Observer Editor to Clean Up Spitzer's Mess
As promised this morning, here's Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore -- though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke's in the thing for all of the one scene, so how'd he get the honor? Hell, ... More >>
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April 23, 2008
Craig Watkins "Doesn't Care About Good Press," Gets More
As promised this morning, here's Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore -- though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke's in the thing for all of the one scene, so how'd he get the honor? Hell, ... More >>
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March 12, 2008
Get Higher With Avery
As promised this morning, here's Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore -- though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke's in the thing for all of the one scene, so how'd he get the honor? Hell, ... More >>
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February 20, 2008
Avery: Mark Cuban's a Good Provider
As promised this morning, here's Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore -- though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke's in the thing for all of the one scene, so how'd he get the honor? Hell, ... More >>
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June 26, 2007
C'mon, PC World, No Unfair Park?
As promised this morning, here's Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore -- though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke's in the thing for all of the one scene, so how'd he get the honor? Hell, ... More >>
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June 20, 2007
Wednesday P.M. Throat-Clearing
As promised this morning, here's Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore -- though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke's in the thing for all of the one scene, so how'd he get the honor? Hell, ... More >>
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June 1, 2007
Who Reads Unfair Park?
As promised this morning, here's Luke Wilson accepting the Texas Film Hall of Fame award for Rushmore -- though, as I vociferously and rather drunkenly pointed out to Texas Monthly president Evan Smith after the ceremony, Luke's in the thing for all of the one scene, so how'd he get the honor? Hell, ... More >>
News
June 30, 2005
Seriously Kinky
This Texas Jewboy wants to be the next governor of Texas, and if you think he's kidding, the joke may be on you
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April 4, 2002
The Claim Game
Why is everyone trying to decide which reporter "broke" the Enron story? Money.
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March 29, 2001
Brave New World
What's new, CueCat? A redesign, a rediscovery and re: layoffs.
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June 8, 2000
Mr. Smith arrives
Texas Monthly's new man has plan: long stories, pop culture, and don't suck
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August 19, 1999
Buzz
Dixie Chicks cover up, Bill Rojas' not-so-humble beginning, Dallas Mavs slide shows!
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February 4, 1999
Texas Monthly's Midlife Crisis
Dixie Chicks cover up, Bill Rojas' not-so-humble beginning, Dallas Mavs slide shows!

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