Yesterday, the Chronicle gave Tilman Fertitta a boatload of free publicity for his downtown aquarium, with front page coverage (including color photo) and more coverage inside the newspaper. Today, the editors try their best to
It’s bad enough that Jack Sweeney and Jeff Cohen empowered MeMo effectively to destroy the Chronicle Features section, renaming it after a symbol that the Chron presses apparently can’t reproduce in small type (since corrections
According to a Wall Street Journal article reprinted in the Austin American-Statesman, Houston is ground zero in an escalating grocery business battle between longtime Texas grocer HEB and retail giant Wal-Mart: Although H-E-B is relatively
The Chronicle made a rather silly gaffe in the * section on Wednesday: How about that Dan and those cute sayings? Ha ha ha. What great fun! Of course, it would have been nicer if
The Chronicle points out today that TxDOT is giving Galleria-area shoppers a Christmas present, of sorts: Just in time for the annual Christmas shopping rush, TxDOT will close access to one of Houston’s busiest malls
Remember back in the ’80s, when conventional (media) wisdom suggested that Ronald Reagan’s “twin deficits” in trade and the budget were going to usher in the next great depression? It didn’t quite work out that
In this KHOU-11 story about Mayor White’s new bike program, there’s a quote that should be music to the ears of Heights residents worried about the possibility of a toll road running through their backyards:
David Cobb posts his excellent weekly roundup of live rock music here. Unfortunately, this is kind of a slow weekend for live Texas/alt-country/Americana acts around town. Here are a few shows that caught my eye:
The Houston Chronicle attempted to whitewash its massive layoffs and cost reductions (coming about, no doubt, because of a decreasing revenue) back in October by promising exciting new products. It doesn’t appear that the newspaper
The Christian Science Monitor has an intriguing story about a newspaper in Chile with a new approach: […]it’s a revolution in journalism, a reader-driven product that reflects the changing values and interests of a postdictatorship