Scott Chaffin points me to this Tim Rogers post over at D Magazine’s blog: Last week, I made the offer to buy the first beer for any fired Newsy who cared to meet at the
Thursday, The Houston World Affairs Council will be sponsoring a luncheon talk by former U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson, one of the legislative architects of America’s foreign policy towards Afghanistan in the 1980s and the obvious
The Chronicle specializes in simplistic house editorials, and today’s endorsement of Proposition 1 was certainly a good example. Indeed, the headline really tells you all you need to know about what’s coming: Proposition No. 1
The Chronicle again runs one of those insipid “Another Voice” editorials, in which they take another newspaper’s editorial, chop it down, and present it on their own rather empty editorial page. Today, the newspaper that
Three weeks ago, KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel broke the story that a construction firm had basically abandoned construction on the Westpark Tollway in the middle of the job. Yesterday, Harris County Commissioners Court terminated the contract
We noted a few weeks ago that the Chronicle buried some rather ominous news about “restructuring” at the newspaper in the business section. We speculated at the time that layoffs were coming. Now, the shoe
David Barron reports that local sports talk radio station KILT-610 will be getting some competition shortly: Houston will add a second all-sports radio outlet in late December or early January, when KBME (790 AM) switches
MeMo says she doesn’t like the term “mainstream” media: 3. Russell Simmons says “mainstream” — hate that word — media simply don’t get the impact of hiphop culture. Ummmm, no spit. Which means “mainstream” media
KPRC-2 is reporting that security around the ship channel has been increased: Harris County authorities stepped up security Monday around the ship channel as Election Day draws near. Officials said they have not received a
My good friend and current Tulsa resident David Hamby emails the following news: Your Houston Chronicle reader representative had a column reprinted in Sunday’s World. It was about the feud between Eminem and Michael Jackson.