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Chevron Corporation

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    State Sues to Close Midtown Convenience Store; Is City Trying to De-Funk Midtown?

    Acting through the Harris County Attorney's Office, the State of Texas is suing the Fannin Food Mart and the property's landlord, Jae Kim. The state claims that the property is a public nuisance and neither Fannin Food Mart's registered agent Azeem Ali Noorani nor Kim have done anything to abate t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Taste Test Marathon: The Power Bar Challenge

    Photos by Christina Uticone​With the Chevron Houston Marathon looming, running and fueling and hydrating are trending topics online and off. My preferred workout fuel is actual food, although I've been known to supplement with a bar or a shake along the way when short on time. Generally I save ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2012

    40th Anniversary Chevron Houston Marathon

    Photos by Christina Uticone​With the Chevron Houston Marathon looming, running and fueling and hydrating are trending topics online and off. My preferred workout fuel is actual food, although I've been known to supplement with a bar or a shake along the way when short on time. Generally I save ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Free for All: Art Without a Price Tag

    We've got our weekend figured out and it's filled with everything from Olympic runners to e-books to comics. On Friday, we'll be at "and everything in between," the latest exhibition of Curtis Gannon's artwork. The show, at the Spacetaker ARC Gallery, is a collection of new works by Gannon, featurin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Tort Reform: Rick Perry's Latest "Emergency"

    Tort "reform" will solve all our problems​The AP is reporting that Governor Rick Perry has declared yet another right-wing hobbyhorse to be emergency legislation: a tort reform bill. Republicans reflexively shout "tort reform!" at the drop of a hat, even though Texas -- via the big corporate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Carb-Loading for the Marathon? Here's Where to Do It

    Photo by Eda CherryCarb-loading: Serious[ly awesome] business.​In the book Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains, the necessity of carb-loading before any highly strenuous, acutely physical activity is explained as, basically, the hoarding of glucose -- your body's fundamental energy source ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2011

    39th Annual Chevron Marathon Houston

    Photo by Eda CherryCarb-loading: Serious[ly awesome] business.​In the book Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains, the necessity of carb-loading before any highly strenuous, acutely physical activity is explained as, basically, the hoarding of glucose -- your body's fundamental energy source ... More >>

  • News

    November 25, 2010

    Four Loko No Mo'

    Drink faces Texas ban.

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Chevron Phillips Settles Suit Over Pollution At Baytown Plant, No Thanks To TCEQ

    Chevron-Phillips: The TCEQ wouldn't step in, so local groups did​After years of illegally emitting carcinogens and other toxic pollutants into the air, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company has agreed to a settle a lawsuit against it and clean up its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown."We can all breathe ea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Bob Cavnar: Five Questions With A Deepwater Horizon Expert

    Bob Cavnar is not happy with investigative efforts so far​Bob Cavnar is an oil-industry insider who quickly became an expert-in-demand for reporters covering the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the resulting Gulf oil spill. He's written a book on the event, Disaster on the Horizon, and will b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Top 5 Food Network Chef-Inspired Halloween Costumes

    You can be Mario Batali in just a few easy steps.​Halloween is upon us, yet again. And every year, Halloween costumes get either sluttier or blatantly, intentionally lamer. (Witness our sister blog, Art Attack, for more ideas on how to achieve the latter.) So what does a food-loving, non-slut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    'Funeral for the Gulf' Endures Weak Turnout, But Message Is Still Made

    Photos by Chasen MarshallStrength in any numbers​A wise Hairballian philosopher once posed the question: If a demonstration happens in Downtown Houston and few come out to participate, does it still happen?In the instance on Thursday afternoon, the answer was yes. Though well intentioned, the "Fun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Chevron Protests Result In Arrests Downtown

    Photo by Liana Lopez Carted away in comfort​ At least four protesters were arrested this morning at a demonstration outside a Chevron shareholders' meeting downtown. The protesters moved past temporary police barricades and sat on the ground after they were refused entrance into the buildin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    A to Z Food & Deli # 7: A Chevron Breakfast

    ​I love food served at gas stations and convenience stores. Every time I've passed by that Chevron on Montrose and Alabama, I've seen that picture of a two-egg breakfast plate on the window outside. And every time, I think, "Does their breakfast really look like that?" I got up early one day a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Big Rip of Amen Recordz Breaks Down The Convenient-Store CD Economy

    The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Have something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email it to introducinglisto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    "Why Can't It Be More Like Jazzfest?" Rick Mitchell Debunks The Top 10 Gripes He's Overheard About Houston's iFest

    All photos courtesy of www.ifest.orgOzomatli: 8 p.m. Saturday, April 17, Bud Light World Music Stage​ A couple of days ago, Houston International Festival Director of Performing Arts Rick Mitchell emailed Rocks Off and asked us if we'd mind reprinting something he wrote for the blog on iFest's Web ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    The Weekend In Photos

    Not everyone was at the Houston Chevron Marathon this weekend, even though we couldn't have had more perfect weather for it. Some of you were at pubs and clubs, some of you were getting your roller derby on, some of you were at a burlesque show (naughty!) and some of you were at our very own Artopia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    A N00b Runs the Houston Chevron Half-Marathon

    Photos by Jason McElweenie / Click here for a slideshowRunners in the marathon, some of whom dressed like Disney characters.​Every January for the last several years I have stood on a curb along Allen Parkway, cheering for my friends in the early hours of a Sunday as they competed in the Chevr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Fast As You: Rocks Off's Playlist for Sunday's Houston Marathon

    anythingaboutcars.comThe 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner. Please keep your drooling to a minimum.​ The drinking stops tonight. Rocks Off is joining 30,000 other crazy, hardy souls to run the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Half Marathon this Sunday. (We're running the half - it's only our second race ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Chevron Kicks Out Activists From Its Marathon Expo

    ​A group of marathon runners were kicked out and banned from the Chevron Marathon Expo for displaying material that was critical of the oil company, but one of the runners tells Hair Balls that the group is continuing as planned. "We are still going to, at least try to, run the race on Sunday. We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Pop Rocks: The Year In Houston Movies

    Like most years, 2009 wasn't hugely eventful for Houston as a movie town. There wasn't a big, locally filmed tentpole release like Armageddon, and most news revolved around the death of one of the city's biggest celebrities or, to a much lesser extent, the inaugural Cinema Arts Festival.Some movies ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Violence And Kidnapping In Nigeria Makes Its Way To Houston Courtrooms

    photo courtesy of beckstir01 Kidnappings, pipeline bombings and vigilantism has become a way of life for both offshore oil workers stationed along the coast of Nigeria as well as the oppressed native insurgency groups who carry out the violence. (Check out this week's feature about one Texan's re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Boudin Balls with a Gooey Surprise

    Photo by J.C. ReidOn a recent trip to the Bolivar Peninsula with a carload of friends, I stopped in the small town of Winnie, Texas for a quick pit stop at the local Texaco gas station that had a hot food counter serving mostly pizzas and fried foods. These counters, combined with a few picnic tabl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    12th Annual Texas Children's Hospital Kids' Fun Run

    Get up all you baby couch potatoes, it's Fun Run time

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2008

    Five Very Bad Christmas Ads

    The Christmas shopping season is in full swing, such as it is this year. The airwaves are full of idiotic giggling women who have been waiting patiently and desperately to see if they'll get a ring from their boyfriend, because Lord knows no woman would ever bring up the subject of marriage herself. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    Places That Are Open -- Constantly Updated

    The Christmas shopping season is in full swing, such as it is this year. The airwaves are full of idiotic giggling women who have been waiting patiently and desperately to see if they'll get a ring from their boyfriend, because Lord knows no woman would ever bring up the subject of marriage herself. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    Tensions Are Rising

    The Christmas shopping season is in full swing, such as it is this year. The airwaves are full of idiotic giggling women who have been waiting patiently and desperately to see if they'll get a ring from their boyfriend, because Lord knows no woman would ever bring up the subject of marriage herself. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2008

    Texaco Gets A Little Closer To Oblivion

    The Christmas shopping season is in full swing, such as it is this year. The airwaves are full of idiotic giggling women who have been waiting patiently and desperately to see if they'll get a ring from their boyfriend, because Lord knows no woman would ever bring up the subject of marriage herself. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2008

    Bummer: Downtown YMCA to Be Demolished

    The Christmas shopping season is in full swing, such as it is this year. The airwaves are full of idiotic giggling women who have been waiting patiently and desperately to see if they'll get a ring from their boyfriend, because Lord knows no woman would ever bring up the subject of marriage herself. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    High Gas Prices: Protests, Segways and Prostitutes

    The Christmas shopping season is in full swing, such as it is this year. The airwaves are full of idiotic giggling women who have been waiting patiently and desperately to see if they'll get a ring from their boyfriend, because Lord knows no woman would ever bring up the subject of marriage herself. ... More >>

  • News

    June 19, 2008

    Bayousphere

    The Christmas shopping season is in full swing, such as it is this year. The airwaves are full of idiotic giggling women who have been waiting patiently and desperately to see if they'll get a ring from their boyfriend, because Lord knows no woman would ever bring up the subject of marriage herself. ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 15, 2008

    Angry Scots and pidgin tongues

    The Christmas shopping season is in full swing, such as it is this year. The airwaves are full of idiotic giggling women who have been waiting patiently and desperately to see if they'll get a ring from their boyfriend, because Lord knows no woman would ever bring up the subject of marriage herself. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Chevron Houston Marathon

    Runners from around the world will challenge the race’s course records

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2007

    Bright Idea: Scalping Entries to the Houston Marathon

    Runners from around the world will challenge the race’s course records

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Woodwind Lakes: Danger — Baby on Board

    Two feet below the inviting backyard was a sludge pit bubbling toxic waste

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Woodwind Lakes subdivision built on oil and gas field turns on neighbor who pointed out the contamination

    Two feet below the inviting backyard was a sludge pit bubbling toxic waste

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2006

    Everybody, Run!

    Two feet below the inviting backyard was a sludge pit bubbling toxic waste

  • Music

    October 2, 2003

    Kurtis Blow

    Saturday, October 4

  • Dining

    October 18, 2001

    Dude, Where's My Car?

    Regina Ruiz

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    Letters

    Boiled by Oil, Try Gas Station Work, Rollin' with Ralph

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Pumped Dry

    Gas station dealers find big oil blocking the way in their struggles against extinction

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Paying the Price

    Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Name-Calling at the Pump

    Lessee dealers in the gas business

  • Calendar

    September 23, 1999

    Driving Ambition

    Lessee dealers in the gas business

  • News

    October 2, 1997

    The Insider

    Lessee dealers in the gas business

  • News

    August 28, 1997

    The Insider

    Lessee dealers in the gas business

  • News

    July 17, 1997

    The Insider

    Lessee dealers in the gas business

  • News

    May 29, 1997

    The Insider

    Lessee dealers in the gas business

  • News

    February 27, 1997

    The Insider

    Lessee dealers in the gas business

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