Subject: Plano

• Six Degrees of Separation

  September 7, 2006

• Weekend Music: Allen Oldies Band, True Colors Tour, Tom Waits and a Really Strange Japanese Guy

  June 20, 2008

• Texas Horror Movies: The Top Five

  August 18, 2008

• Waldhauser Watch

  A story about the new life and old ways of a notorious killer spurs indictments and national coverage

  December 30, 1999

• Possible Loophole To Get Out Of Those Red-Light Camera Tickets

  A Dallas judge has ruled that the company operating that city's red-light cameras violated state law by operating without a private investigation license. So what's the big deal?Well, American Traffic Solutions, the Arizona-based company that operates the cameras in Houston, isn't licensed in Texas either, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety's online records. (Read the whole saga in this "journal of the politics of driving".)   The whole thing started when the wife of Da

  December 2, 2008

• The Race Matter

  January 5, 1995

• The Pride Of Spring, TX, Doesn't Blow It For Halo Fans

  Stephen Rippy grew up in Spring, and unless you're into gaming you've probably never heard of him.But if you are into games, perhaps obsessively, then you're familiar with his work -- he provides the soundtrack for such titles as Age of Empire and Age of Mythology.But that was peanuts compared to his current project: providing the soundtrack for Halo Wars, the latest spin-off of the Halo series.You fuck up Halo, you are dealing with a legion of fanatics who will splatter the walls of message boa

  February 25, 2009

• Sexual Healing

  August 20, 1998

• Making a Killing

  October 22, 1998

• A Killer By Any Other Name

  November 19, 1998

• Merry Xmas, Mr. Waldhauser

  December 24, 1998

• Status Report

  January 14, 1999

• Killer On The Loose

  June 24, 1999

• Translating The Dallas Cop Who Hassled Ryan Moats

  By now you've no doubt read accounts and watched the video of a Dallas cop harassing Texans running back Ryan Moats, who was rushing to the hospital to see his dying mother-in-law in the few moments she had before dying.We've lived in Dallas in the past, and it's obvious what happened here is the classic "failure to communicate."As a way of helping, we'll translate some of what Dallas cop Robert Powell said as he chatted with Moats while his mother-in-law was moments away from dying.What Powell

  March 27, 2009

• Widening the Waldhauser Net

  July 15, 1999

• Crime Doesn’t Pay(back): A Houston Press Special Report on Court-Ordered Restitutions in Texas

  December 4, 2008

• A Mainstream Mormon's Test of Faith

  October 30, 2008

• What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales

  July 17, 2008

• Savage Sports Fans and Mexican Overcrowding

  June 19, 2008

• Lights On or Off?

  The fight for a TV show about truth, justice and high school football

  November 9, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  February 16, 2006

• Eaten Alive

  January 26, 2006

• Podnography

  And you thought those audio files were only used for music

  December 29, 2005

• Pick Me Up

  Turnout at Houston's swingers clubs swells with the young, hip and restless

  October 13, 2005

• Texas Burger Binge

  August 25, 2005

• Got a Light?

  All kidding aside, why smoking may be good for Houston

  May 12, 2005

• Insanely Guilty

  A mother sets out to save her children, by killing them. Texas usually jails such women, but that may be changing.

  January 20, 2005

• Pimp My Ride

  Why buy a Hummer when you've got the army?

  August 5, 2004

• Plano Tex-Mex

  Mi Cocina's food may be tepid, but the margaritas are magnificent

  May 27, 2004

• Racket

  Country Legends 97.1 takes over as the number one C&W station in town

  August 14, 2003

• Pass the Salad

  This dance festival has got the world's best ingredients

  April 17, 2003

• Ice Ice Maybe

  A decade after Vanilla Ice melted down, he's back with the man who made him

  July 4, 2002

• Wizard of Boz

  Boz Scaggs evolves along with his beloved R&B

  October 18, 2001

• Fade to Black

  Viewers for Quality Television disbands, because there is none left

  January 18, 2001

• Letters

  Investigate CEP, Santa Fe's Shame, Politics Makes Strange...

  October 12, 2000

• Payback Time

  The latest victims of death merchant Davis will recoup their losses - when he's dead

  June 8, 2000

• Death (Row) Watch

  Odell Barnes joins a growing list of death row inmates whose convictions have become a lot less clear-cut during the appeals process.

  January 27, 2000

• Fatal Attraction

  In the cultlike customs of Texas A&M, tradition is life. Even in death.

  December 2, 1999

• The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker

  Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.

  June 17, 1999

• Nice Guy, Nice Songs

  From 4-H to Miss Molly, Hadden Sayers keeps aiming for the next plateau

  January 26, 1995

• Press Picks

  January 19, 1995

• Perverts, Beware

  May 28, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas, Part 2: "Trinity"

  [Note: This week Rocks Off is looking at the musical heritage, highs and lows, for each of the five possible states that might result should Texas secede from the U.S. like Gov. Rick Perry wants it to. Yesterday we began with the Panhandle/West Texas "Palo Duro" territory; today it's northeastern quadrant "Trinity."] View Five States of Texas in a larger map Trinity Capital: Dallas Patron Saint: Blind Lemon Jefferson ​Lesser Icons: T-Bone Walker, Alex Moore, Old 97's, Pantera, The D.O.C., Ray

  August 12, 2009

• Times Writer Dumps on Texas' JC Penney, Because We're Just So Damn Fat Here

  ​JC Penney is the reliable standby of malls across the Midwest and in Texas; for the past 20 years the company's been headquartered in Plano, the mall-infested suburb of Dallas.They've decided to open a Manhattan branch, and were met with heaps of condescending scorn from The New York Times' "Critical Shopper," played in this instance by Cintra Wilson, a writer who's always been heavy on the snark.It's difficult to take in just all the sneering aimed at us corpulent, tasteless slobs between th

  August 12, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Plano Balloon Festival

  Photos by eppytx​Every fall for the past 29 years, the skies over Plano come aglow with colorful aircrafts and odd hissing sounds that signal take-off for flight The Plano Balloon Festival will celebrate its 30th anniversary Sept. 18-20. It's an event that has raised more than 2 million dollars for non-profits in the Plano area, and has helped sustained a sport that utilizes the oldest form of human-carrying aircraft. Texas Traveler has always been afraid of heights. That feeling of bein

  September 8, 2009

• The Dallas Observer Learns About Interviewing Bill White

  Photo by Sam Merten​Our sister paper the Dallas Observer tagged along recently as Houston mayor Bill White visited a suburban deli and learned what it's like to deal with the generic, content-free answers the big man uses when he doesn't want to reply to what you're asking.The headline? "Will Senate Hopeful Bill White Consider Jumping Into the Governor's Race if Kay Bailey Hutchison Keeps Her Seat? We're Still Not Sure, and We Asked Him Four Times.""Houston Mayor Bill White's speech Saturday a

  October 26, 2009