Subject: Jesse Jones

• Last Night: The Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

  July 30, 2007

• Letters 09-21-2000

  Listen to the Music, Still Fuming, Building Bonds

  September 21, 2000

• Overblown and Underrated

  So you know Houston's goats, heroes and high points? Think again.

  February 1, 2001

• King Kinder

  Rich Kinder has made a cool billion dollars since leaving Enron. Now he’s ready to take over the world, or at least the nearest pipeline.

  March 6, 2003

• Pride of Place

  Scenes from the 15th annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

  July 29, 2004

• R.I.P. Jerry J. Moore, In The Obscurity He Hated

  A Houston businessman who makes the Forbes 400 list of richest people twelve times, who gained fame for his large and luxurious car collection....a guy like that dies, you kinda expect the Houston Chronicle to notice.But apparently not.Jerry J. Moore died November 23 and, as best we can determine, the only mention of it in the Chron is an obit paid for by his survivors.Moore was long gone from his `80s heyday, when he was developing shopping malls and flaunting a net worth of $500 million.He was

  December 1, 2008

• All About Elyse

  March 2, 1995

• Old Boys at Play

  March 30, 1995

• Post Mortem

  April 27, 1995

• The SAs a girl, she tried to break the color barrier in Houston schools. As an adult, she worked in the African liberation movement and against apartheid.

  June 8, 1995

• The Insider

  June 6, 1996

• Do Not Go Gentle

  September 10, 1998

• Castles for Welfare Kings

  October 15, 1998

• Letters

  November 12, 1998

• Brother, Can You Spare a Vanity Video?

  November 19, 1998

• Letters

  December 3, 1998

• Herding Cats in District 5

  An effort to sort out black council candidates backfires

  July 31, 2003

• Remembering Molly

  She was always more than what she seemed

  February 15, 2007

• Ready for Some Football?

  The Houston Symphony sure is

  September 14, 2006

• Eaten Alive

  January 26, 2006

• Best Book About Houston

  September 23, 2004

• Dry-Aged Discrimination

  What grade of beef are the steaks at The Capital Grille?

  June 10, 2004

• Get Your Kicks

  A Texas filmmaker looks at small-town life through a windshield

  January 1, 2004

• Sidebar

  September 4, 2003

• Best Lobby

  September 26, 2002

• A Fixer-Upper

  Jones High needs a lot of renovation -- and not just the buildings. At least HISD can't pretend it doesn't know it has a problem. Its own task force told it so.

  May 30, 2002

• The Great Divide

  Principal Lawrence Allen is a role model to some, an inept bumbler to others. Jones High School is split: Magnet-program parents versus the local community. It's up to Superintendent Kaye Stripling to make it right. Lucky her.

  March 7, 2002

• Choking the Critic

  Why is the Chronicle so sour on hiring a full-time restaurant reviewer?

  August 30, 2001

• Texas Gothic

  A timber baron's descendants head into courts and crypts in their decades-old effort to reclaim their birthright and big bucks from an arch-nemesis: his secretive third wife

  May 17, 2001

• Best Place to Smoke

  September 21, 2000

• Can the Band Play On?

  The Houston Symphony opens its new season without a music director, an executive director or a clear vision for the future. Only one thing appears certain: The post-Eschenbach era is going to look a lot different.

  September 7, 2000

• From PACman to Port Chairman

  After a career serving kingmakers, can Jim Edmonds really be his own leader?

  June 22, 2000

• The Good, the Bad, the Imprisoned

  Houston's best politicos were not always the ones elected -- or the ones who stayed in office

  December 30, 1999

• Houstowne, Texas

  Shrouded by mists and unrecovered documents, the history of Houston is still worth a probe

  December 30, 1999

• It's Joe B.'s World

  In the Kingdom of Bob, lawyer Joe B. Allen is the prime minister of vested interests

  February 2, 1995

• Little Big Crony

  Bob Lanier's buddy Billy Burge wants to play the power game the way it was played in the old days. . . . . . But the rules have changed.

  October 20, 1994

• Some Further Thoughts on iFest, and Festivals

  Photos by Chris Gray Skyscrapers - something you won't see at Austin City Limits. Western Swing maidens the Quebe Sisters performed in the shadow of the Jesse H. Jones Library.Previously, Rocks Off's idea about what a "festival" should look like, and what to expect, came from his experiences at Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, various one-offs at Austin's Auditorium Shores and - though he's never been - what he's heard/seen/read about Jazzfest, Coachella, Bumbershoot, et al. Eithe

  April 20, 2009

• Hit Hermann

  May 21, 2009

• Aftermath: David Byrne at Jones Hall

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty David Byrne knows about living in the moment. The white-haired former Talking Heads frontman and unofficial U.S. ambassador for Third World pop, whose hair was as white as his (and his band's) wardrobe, was a genial host at Jones Hall Monday night. "It's nice to be in Mr. Jesse Jones' hall," he said shortly after walking onstage. "I was reading up about Jesse Jones, but I have some more reading to do." After making that stale joke about how New Yorkers pronounce "Houston"

  June 16, 2009

• David Byrne Mystified by Houston's Sprawl, Loves Jones Hall

  Craig HlavatyYesterday one of our readers (thanks, Mimi!) posted a comment with a link to David Byrne's blog about the white-haired world-pop eminence's thoughts and experiences while on tour. Apparently Byrne got to spend quite a bit of time in Houston, because the entry surrounding his (excellent) June 15 Jones Hall show is fairly long. Byrne, who took a bike ride around downtown and what sounds like the Fourth Ward/Upper Montrose area shortly after his bus pulled up to Jones Ha

  June 25, 2009

• David Byrne Bikes Houston

  Photo by Craig HlavatyFormer Talking Head David Byrne (we're nor sure, but we're guessing he hates that description) was in town recently for a show at Jones Hall.Byrne has become a biking fanatic these days; he's also an occasional diarist about his tour.His piece on Houston has him complaining about the heat (he's not alone), the architecture and the fact that oil companies have designed the place. Woke up on the bus and looked out the lounge window onto a parking lot with a few cars evenly sp

  June 25, 2009

• Houston 101: Where Kingmakers Reigned And Plotted

  For decades, vital issues affecting the U.S. and Texas were hashed out in Suite 8-F of the Lamar Hotel in downtown Houston.The suite had only two rooms and a kitchenette and it was decorated in whatever the relevant time period's definition of "tacky" was, but it became the Unofficial Capital of Texas.George R. Brown of Brown & Root was the nominal host, but the guest list included people like Jesse Jones, owner of the Chronicle, William Hobby (owner of the Post), Clint Murchison, LBJ and Jo

  July 14, 2009

• Houston 101: A Convention Center Built In 64 Days

  ​In 1928, Jesse Jones -- grand poobah of Houston, Lord of Suite 8-F -- was determined to bring national glory to his town by hosting the 1928 Democratic convention. Cleveland, San Francisco and Detroit also wanted the prize, but Jones took a $200,000 check to the bidding committee and got the nod.The only trouble was, Houston didn't have a facility big enough to house a national convention.Jones vowed to build "a $100,000 tabernacle seating 25,000." He didn't quite do that, but he didn't do to

  July 28, 2009