Email Author Keith Plocek

Awards

• 2007 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published May 18, 2006

  "Needling the Haystack"

• 2007 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published February 9, 2006

  "Shortchanged"

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2007 Stories by Keith Plocek

• High School Photo Contest

  published November 15, 2007

  The start of a new school year is rife with expectation, so it comes as little surprise that the latest round of our high school photo contest... More >>

• Dinner Is Served

  published September 13, 2007

  The pans have been floured, the ballots cast. It’s time to announce the winners for the July and August installment of our photojournalism... More >>

• Artists' Lofts

  published August 2, 2007

  No one knows for sure when the first Paleolithic cave-dweller stuck a mammoth tail in crushed-up berries and began painting stick figures on the... More >>

• Tidal Wave

  published July 19, 2007

  Last month we asked Houston's high school kids to send us photos of water, and we got caught in a tidal wave of quality. This was probably our... More >>

• Li'l Cap'n Travis

  published July 12, 2007

  From the sound of "My Ship Is Coming In," a smooth-as-silt track near the end of Li'l Cap'n Travis's latest platter, you'd assume the Austin... More >>

• Not Just for Text Messages

  published June 14, 2007

  The theme for May's photo contest for high school students was camera-phones. We didn't care where the kids pointed and clicked, so long as their... More >>

• That's Game

  published May 17, 2007

  The theme for April was sports, and a rookie stepped up and took home the prize. Newcomer Danielle Riley of Westchester Academy of International... More >>

• Spy Stories

  published May 3, 2007

  Four days before Christmas, 1988. A flight takes off from Heathrow, headed for New York. Thirty-eight minutes later, one blip on the radar becomes... More >>

• Snap Big Shots

  published April 19, 2007

  Last month we kicked off our yearlong photography contest for Houston-area high school students and received more than 100 photos of animals.... More >>

• Art Capsule Reviews

  published April 5, 2007

  "Allison Hunter: New Animals" "New Animals" is a continuation of Allison Hunter's "Simply Stunning" series, which showed at New York's 511... More >>

• Art Capsule Reviews

  published March 29, 2007

  ".....all of the above" Judy Pfaff is considered a pioneer of installation art, and she's got the MacArthur Fellowship to prove it. Her... More >>

• Art Capsule Reviews

  published March 22, 2007

  ".....all of the above" Judy Pfaff is considered a pioneer of installation art, and she's got the MacArthur Fellowship to prove it. Her... More >>

• Art Capsule Reviews

  published March 15, 2007

  ".....all of the above" Judy Pfaff is considered a pioneer of installation art, and she's got the MacArthur Fellowship to prove it. Her... More >>

• ".....all of the above"

  published March 8, 2007

  In the seminal CGI flick Tron, Jeff Bridges plays a hacker transported into a video game environment where he must perform all kinds of... More >>

• Good Budd

  published February 22, 2007

  On the floor at Lawndale Art Center rests a globe -- just your typical globe, save for the fake explosives duct-taped to it. A couple of... More >>

• How to Hide Your Weed

  published February 1, 2007

  He looks like a good cop. He's got the 'stache, the short-cropped hair, the pushed-out chest and the shiny badge. He sounds like a good cop too;... More >>