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Wall Street

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg: 10 Reasons Why I'm Not Spending $40 To Buy A Facebook Share

    Here's a scoop: Facebook is having an IPO today. This under-the-radar stock sale will make billions for investors. Although everyone is keeping things on the down-low, the IPO means -- I'm guessing here, Wall Street is really not my forte -- that you can buy a share of Facebook stock, currently tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Amazing Houston Business Journal Scoop: Onion Article Probably Not True

    Hold on to your hats, take a seat, take a deep breath, do whatever it takes to absorb some shattering news: An article in The Onion is probably fake. This earth-shattering scoop is brought to you by the Houston Business Journal, with an article entitled "Houston PR Pro Contemplates The Onion's Frac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Bill Moyers at Progressive Forum: An East Texas Sage's Optimism Twists in Today's Ill Winds

    Bill Moyers believes that the sun-baked scattered bones of Wall Street's carcass are being picked clean by "animal spirits" -- namely, hyenas, and that these scavengers believe that they are justified, indeed morally sanctioned, in behaving as such, and that nobody in government is willing or able t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Last Night: Five Finger Death Punch, Hateebreed, All That Remains at House of Blues

    Photos by Marc Brubaker​Confidence in our domestic brand of capitalism may be approaching new lows these days, but Five Finger Death Punch rolled into the House of Blues on Tuesday night riding high on the American dream. The L.A. headbangers' new album, American Capitalist, debuted at number ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street: 99 Percent Protesters March to City Hall for Occupy Houston

    See lots more pics of the protest in our slideshow. Joining a movement of protests across the country, several hundred Houstonians gathered at Market Square Park this morning to march to Hermann Square in front of City Hall, which they plan to occupy indefinitely in solidarity with the Occupy Wall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    For Friday the 13th: Five of the Unluckiest Texans Ever

    Investors held on too long.​Beginning with LaSalle, the French explorer who survived shipwrecks and cannibal Karankawa Indian attacks only to perish at the hands of his own men near Navasota, some people in Texas have had some pretty damned hard luck. You might lay some or all of the blame at ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

    Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    SexBeerandMoney.com -- The Ten Most Expensive Domain Names

    You'd be CRAZY not to want in on one of these domain names!​There was a time when a million bucks was a lot of money for a domain name. That's exactly what Cool.com went for back in 2000. Today, that's chump change when you are talking about the most expensive domain names on the Web. Keep in ... More >>

  • Film

    November 4, 2010

    Greed, Interrupted

    Part meltdown memoir, part essential finger pointing, Inside Job will make you seethe.

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Last Night: Accept And King's X At House Of Blues

    Photos by Mark Britain​Accept, Kings X House of Blues October 13, 2010 While modern heavy metal is split into so many categories and subsets that you practically need a field guild to tell your headbangers apart, things weren't so complicated back in the early '80s when Germany's Accept had t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    The Strand Walking Tour

    Learn about the larger-than-life past of Galveston Island's historic downtown district

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Save A Houston Librarian, Buy A Book

    ​While Hair Balls is fearful of ever-expanding government power and its attendant death panels and Wall Street takeovers, there is one government institution we absolutely love: libraries. We're total whores for literacy and recreational/ educational reading. Which is why we're stoked for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    ZZ On NPR -- Everyone In Houston Has A Story About Them

    A few weeks after they taped the show when it came here, you can listen to the bearded ones of ZZ Top as they play "Not My Job" on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me."Were three guys; we know three chords," Dusty Hill says of recording the group's new album."Everyone in Houston has a ZZ Top story -- eit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Fails Of The Week: Glastonbury "Ice Ice Baby," Sony "No Beyonce On YouTube," Fat Mike The Peeing Clown And... Bono

    If you're reading this, you're either on the Internet, or else you've mastered multi-dimensional thought-projection processes that would make Michio Kaku cry like a little girl. We'll assume the former, and just in case you don't already know, the Internet has decided that the word "failure" is too ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    How To Help Wall Street Bankers In Haiti's Time Of Need

    ​We Americans are a generous people. In the days after the devastating Haitian earthquake, we whipped out our credit cards and donated millions to relieve that stricken, jinxed nation.But until Thursday, when the Huffington Post got wind of the practices, the major credit companies (including ... More >>

  • News

    October 29, 2009

    No Justice

    We've bailed out the banks. When do we go after the crooks behind our financial collapse?

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    For National Boss Day: The Five Most Misundrestoor Bosses In The Movies

    It's National Boss Day, because apparently getting more weeks of vacation, a higher salary, and an actual office with privacy isn't enough. You can be forgiven if it slipped your mind. After all, you were probably busy using the phone in your cramped, depressing cubicle to argue semi-publicly with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Continental Airlines Manages To Piss Off India

    Continental Airlines is having a tough stretch -- its CEO quit, its recently announced earnings are dismaying Wall Street (What do those two things have in common? Hmmm....), its laying off a bunch of workers, and now it's got the parliament of India all in an uproar.Indian politicians are shocked, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2009

    Project Row Houses: Classified X

    Even Lena Horne couldn’t make up for Mammy

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Win a Songwriting Session With Guy Clark... For a Price

    Imagine getting some pointers on the links from Tiger Woods, cooking lessons from Bobby Flay or a one-on-one session with Bernie Madoff where the infamous Wall Street financier explains how to bilk investors out of millions of dollars. When it comes to songwriting, especially of the Texas persuasion ... More >>

  • Music

    April 9, 2009

    Heavy Lifting

    Cocky Cocktails at Anvil Bar & Refuge

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Our Robb Walsh Gets Plagiarized In Journalism's Mini-Scandal Of The Day

    Photo by lovelypetalBreaking news: Ocala, Florida, has an "award-winning lifestyle magazine."Further breaking news: That magazine steals. A lot.A local paper in Ocala (we assume it too is award-winning) has the story of how Ocala Magazine's editor, Heather Lee, was a enthusiastic plagiarist.A story ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Our Robb Walsh Gets Plagiarized In Journalism's Mini-Scandal Of The Day

    Photo by lovelypetalBreaking news: Ocala, Florida, has an "award-winning lifestyle magazine."Further breaking news: That magazine steals. A lot.A local paper in Ocala (we assume it too is award-winning) has the story of how Ocala Magazine's editor, Heather Lee, was a enthusiastic plagiarist.A story ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Lexington, Concord...and Discovery Green: The Revolution Begins

    Photo by John Nova LomaxInspired by the "Chicago Tea Party" of CNBC fame, right-wingers from coast to coast gathered to protest, um, a bunch of stuff. Creeping socialism, Wall Street, arms control, liberals in general, freeloaders... You name it, these folks are pissed about it. About 300 people (by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    The Bush Twins' Real Letter to the Obama Girls

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Music

    November 6, 2008

    Fund-raiser Blues

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    Still Hiring – the Houston School District

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    The Busiest New Airline Route Is In Houston

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    Black October, Set to Music

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    Aftermath: The Walkmen, Little Ones and Young Mammals at Walter's on Washington

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2008

    So Long, Opus

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    Book Review: Smart Cookies' Investment Guide

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    Where's Houston's Hurricane Relief Benefit?

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    In Other News, Wall Street is Collapsing

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    The "Wall Street Drunk" Video Becomes a Hit

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Bush: Wall Street Was "Drunk"

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2008

    Miss Pop Rocks Has the Flu

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    September 20, 2007

    Feeling Feverish?

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 27, 2006

    Stranger than Fiction

    Did you hear how the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, recently sent an open letter to the Obama girls, offering up advice for surviving life in The White House? Now, to be honest, I thought their original letter was a truly sweet and lovely gesture, and I actually think the Bush twins have turned ... More >>

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Gaps in Coverage

    GlobalTec employees apparently aren't all they make themselves out to be

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Wize Guys

    Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2005

    Food for Thought

    Broadcast-news veteran Linda Ellerbee wants you to Take Big Bites

  • Culture

    March 13, 2003

    Family Circus

    The Alley and Alegría offer all-ages shows that adults will actually enjoy

  • Dining

    October 11, 2001

    Stirred and Shaken

    Morton's Mortini

  • Film

    February 17, 2000

    $tocks and Bonding

    Boiler Room steams with the stark greed of go-for-brokers

  • Music

    September 2, 1999

    Local Music News

    Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Letters

    Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion

  • News

    June 13, 1996

    Watch out, stock market,, here come the SOES BANDITS

    And they're ready to make money the old-fashioned way: By outsmarting the big guys.

  • News

    June 30, 1994

    Food Fight

    The Landrys came to Houston with good food and good ideas. But a good family squabble let Tilman Fertitta step in and carve himself an empire.

  • News

    February 17, 1994

    Dying for Dollars

    As the death-care industry booms and consolidates, Houston's Service Corporation International is leading the way

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