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  • 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

    December 31, 2009

    Our Most-Viewed Posts of 2009

    Awwwwwww...​When we sat down to assess our most popular posts of the year, the result wasn't entirely unexpected -- a blend of the sublimely bizarre, the achingly silly and the shockingly outrageous news from the year. In short, the average American's news interests in a nutshell. Below are o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    If Dallas Can Sponsor Their Landmark Implosions, So Can We

    Hair Balls was excited to learn that Kraft Foods (specifically Kraft Macaroni & Cheese) is a frontrunner in the race to sponsor the implosion of Texas Stadium. Actually, we were first awestruck to learn about it, because we didn't think you could sponsor the destruction of buildings unless you l ... 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 >>

  • News

    December 17, 2009

    A Quiet Hell

    Thanks to lax enforcement by TCEQ, plants along the Houston Ship Channel launch tons of toxic gases into our air, and face little penalty even when they exceed pollution limits over and over again.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    KBR Rape Victim's Arbitration Award Not So Final Yet

    ​Just when it looked as if the legal battle between former KBR contractor Tracy Barker and Halliburton, which used to own KBR, was about to come to a multi-million dollar conclusion, filings made today in the rape case seem to indicate there is still some ways to go until it is all over. More th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    The (Alleged) Dick-Measuring Lawsuit Ends With A Whimper

    ​It was a case that ended as strangely as it began. In April, Hair Balls told you about a lawsuit filed in Houston federal court aimed at Glacial Energy Holdings alleging that its CEO in 2007, Gary Mole, dropped trou at a work dinner, tried to force his way into the room of Amparo Gasca, who was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Yep, Speculators Caused Last Year's Oil-Price Spike, Rice Says

    ​A couple of researchers at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy have released a study that gets close to proving that speculators caused oil prices to shoot up in 2008. This theory is nothing new, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the agency that regulates U.S. futu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    The Crucifer of Blood at the Alley Theatre

    Todd Waite as Sherlock HolmesThe Crucifer of Blood, this year's ExxonMobil Summer Chills series at the Alley Theatre is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Sign of Four which was the second novel he ever wrote about Sherlock Holmes (after A Study in Scarlet). As Hair Balls wrote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    For This Awful Economy: The Five Best "You're Fired" Scenes

    As someone who's been there, I can empathize with the folks from the Houston Chronicle, Schlumberger, and a host of other companies whose employees have gotten the axe in recent weeks. Not being an HR manager, I can unfortunately only offer up a collection of "laid-off scenes" to help you briefly f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Don't Worry About That Plane Buzzing Downtown Houston. Really

    Houstonians downtown during today's lunch hour were treating to a very curious aerial display as they walking to and from their offices. A small single-engine was seen doing swoops and twirls in between our tallest skyscrapers. The plane's flight was mostly up and down Main, but the flight plan seem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Health Code Roundup: Health Department Violations Waning?

    I don't know whether to be impressed or disgusted. That's because I'm not sure if all the restaurateurs have been on their best behavior, or if the Health Department has just been sitting around playing GTA4 on the Xbox 360s they got for Christmas, because there were no health code violations whatso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Oldies, And Not Goodies, On The Pollution Front

    The wheels of environmental justice move ever so slowly. To call it a snail's pace would be an insult to mollusks everywhere. But it is what is, as we say in the parlance of our times, so now we have the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assessing penalties against two local polluters for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Shell Oil Finally Gets Fined For What It Puts Into Deer Park's Air

    It took awhile, but state environmental regulators and Shell Oil finally came to meeting of the minds about a slew of pollution violations committed at the Deer Park refinery. Upshot: Shell will pay a $345,744 penalty for 35 emissions events and record-keeping violations that occurred from 2004 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    Places That Are Open -- Constantly Updated

    It took awhile, but state environmental regulators and Shell Oil finally came to meeting of the minds about a slew of pollution violations committed at the Deer Park refinery. Upshot: Shell will pay a $345,744 penalty for 35 emissions events and record-keeping violations that occurred from 2004 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2008

    Protests Against ExxonMobil, But Not In Houston

    It took awhile, but state environmental regulators and Shell Oil finally came to meeting of the minds about a slew of pollution violations committed at the Deer Park refinery. Upshot: Shell will pay a $345,744 penalty for 35 emissions events and record-keeping violations that occurred from 2004 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2008

    Halliburton Depositions Could Start Soon in Iraq Case

    It took awhile, but state environmental regulators and Shell Oil finally came to meeting of the minds about a slew of pollution violations committed at the Deer Park refinery. Upshot: Shell will pay a $345,744 penalty for 35 emissions events and record-keeping violations that occurred from 2004 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    Houston Dissed, A Continuing Saga

    It took awhile, but state environmental regulators and Shell Oil finally came to meeting of the minds about a slew of pollution violations committed at the Deer Park refinery. Upshot: Shell will pay a $345,744 penalty for 35 emissions events and record-keeping violations that occurred from 2004 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    High Gas Prices: Protests, Segways and Prostitutes

    It took awhile, but state environmental regulators and Shell Oil finally came to meeting of the minds about a slew of pollution violations committed at the Deer Park refinery. Upshot: Shell will pay a $345,744 penalty for 35 emissions events and record-keeping violations that occurred from 2004 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    Small Town Sausage at Krolczyk Meats

    It took awhile, but state environmental regulators and Shell Oil finally came to meeting of the minds about a slew of pollution violations committed at the Deer Park refinery. Upshot: Shell will pay a $345,744 penalty for 35 emissions events and record-keeping violations that occurred from 2004 ... More >>

  • Music

    June 5, 2008

    High Gas Prices Still Hurting Touring Bands

    Notes toward a post-cheap-gas touring economy

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    Dewberry Time

    Notes toward a post-cheap-gas touring economy

  • Culture

    May 15, 2008

    Angry Scots and pidgin tongues

    Notes toward a post-cheap-gas touring economy

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2008
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    October 25, 2007

    Bright Idea: Scalping Entries to the Houston Marathon

    Notes toward a post-cheap-gas touring economy

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2007

    Take a Hike: Would an Extra Dollar a Gallon Keep People Thin?

    Notes toward a post-cheap-gas touring economy

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2007
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    March 12, 2007

    So Many Bad Jokes, So Little Time

    Notes toward a post-cheap-gas touring economy

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2007

    Don't Read This

    Notes toward a post-cheap-gas touring economy

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    Low-Cost Housing

    A home for a buck, with one catch

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Who Cares?

    Celester Hall went to Afghanistan to help the troops and make his fortune. He came back deaf, in diapers and looking for benefits.

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    Letters

    Celester Hall went to Afghanistan to help the troops and make his fortune. He came back deaf, in diapers and looking for benefits.

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2004

    Spray It Loud

    Grafitti collective Aerosol Warfare cans the elections in its new show

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Gambling on Iraq

    Hundreds of Houstonians have signed up for wartime jobs with KBR. The hefty paychecks come with a scary, bloody price.

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    Dance Fever

    HISD kills a reality show on high school dancers

  • News

    May 27, 2004

    Welcome to Fire Island

    While communities across the country block LNG terminals, Quintana just shrugs

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    While communities across the country block LNG terminals, Quintana just shrugs

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Hurtt So Good

    A real shake-up at HPD? We thought that was impossible

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    All Aboard

    Since 9/11, tanker sailors are having a tough time making it to dry land in Houston

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Party Like It's 1899

    Super Bowl week turned out to be a slow one for HPD's vice squad

  • News

    September 11, 2003

    Blunt About High Fashion

    Roll up more than your sleeves with this clothing line

  • Calendar

    August 28, 2003

    Trailer Treasure

    Tired of galleries? Head to "Trailer Park"

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Breaking the Mold

    Plus: Bias -- By Whom?, No Alternative, South Park Fallout

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Name-Calling at the Pump

    Lessee dealers in the gas business

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    Adrift

    Has the fight over port expansion turned a bay watchdog group into a rubber duck?

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Trading with the Enemy

    Houston oil companies maintain their profitable ties to Libya, in roundabout ways

  • News

    April 24, 1997

    Smile! It's Earth Day!

    Houston oil companies maintain their profitable ties to Libya, in roundabout ways

  • News

    February 27, 1997

    The Insider

    Houston oil companies maintain their profitable ties to Libya, in roundabout ways

  • News

    July 6, 1995

    King Benjamin's Mine

    Save the politics for later Boss Hall's going for the gold right now!

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