Pipe Dreams

Chapter 37 From Robert Bryce's new book on Enron

"...near-constant uproar. One of the state's biggest utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, went bankrupt, and another, Southern California Edison,..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Playback: The New Vulcan Gas Company

You heard right, hippie – a new Vulcan Gas Company

"...electronic dance music focus had been christened the Vulcan Gas Company after the legendary Congress Avenue psych-rock incubator (1967-70),..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Pipe Schemes

"...over billionaire Kelcy Warren's plan to force a gigantic gas pipeline through our area to connect with another pipeline,..."

June 23, 2015 Postmarks

Naked City

Longhorn Pipeline says it isn't responsible for an unauthorized redesign of an anti-pipeline group's Web site.

"...Go to the Protecting Individuals Protecting the Environment (PIPE) Coalition Web site (http://www.pipecoalition.cc) and what you'll find there..."

May 5, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

Naked City

PIPE Coalition, an anti-Longhorn Pipeline group, has sued its Web designer for allegedly changing the site's content.

"...the man he hired last year to build his anti-pipeline Web site. Heckler has filed a civil suit against..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

Mobile Home Residents Protest Negligent Management

Tenants struggle with disrupted gas and trash services

"...to install fencing led to the puncture of a gas line, cutting off natural gas needed to heat stoves..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

What Not To Wear on Your Walls

Dress your dorm room right with Austin purveyors of poster art

"...Planet K (five locations around Austin, www.planetktexas.com) and the Gas Pipe (two Austin locations, www.thegaspipe.net) – offer more stoney,..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

After a Fashion

How Your Style Avatar sleeps at night

"...WTF? I accompanied a friend to the Gas Pipe recently, on his quest to buy some sort..."

July 11, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Two-Wheeled Texas

Bikers' best bets on the highways and byways

"...electric scooters shop says, “No noise, emissions, license, insurance, gas, or war.” Now that’s progress. 1122-B S. Lamar, 447-4220...."

June 13, 2008 Features Feature by Angela Armstrong

Atonement, Etc. -- Top 10-plus, Special 2002 bonus edition

Books for which we confess our true feelings, reconsider our disdain, or finally find room: top 10-plus, 2002 edition …

"...are two books I urged upon people this year. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron by..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Books Feature

Trash of the Titans Offends Neighbors, City Board

Neighbors rack up more complaints about Northeast landfills -- and the city Environmental Board joins the fray.

"...addressed other problems, most notoriously the smell of rotting, gassy garbage sometimes detectable more than five miles away...."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

$1,000 Worth of Gold Rolling Papers Hidden in Austin

Find the golden briefcase and reap the 24k rewards

"...Shine Papers lists Oat Willie’s, Gas Pipe, Smoke N Chill, and Adult Video Megaplexxx as..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Events Post by Kevin Curtin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Mr. Gas Pipe is left-handed...."

March 7, 2014 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Raccoons, the Beatles, biblical weapons, and more

"...Mr. Gas Pipe is left-handed...."

Jan. 29, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Daugherty Repeats the Empty Bus Myth

No one takes mass transit in the city – except for all these people on the bus with me

"...“Getting mass transit to western Travis County is a pipe dream, because we can’t get people to ride mass..."

Oct. 14, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Chapter 5: An Ongoing Odyssey

Twenty years of The Austin Chronicle: the final chapter and coda

"...discovered my future boss had a calendar from the Gas Pipe, I was filled with the sense of relief,..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Public Notice

Life's a Drag When You Got Strap-On Envy

"...radio station. Back then, it was KTSB, a small "gas pipe" cable station. KTSB became KVRX when an agreement..."

April 10, 1998 Column by Kate X Messer

Naked City

A pipeline explosion in North Austin raises questions about Longhorn Pipeline's plan to run gas through a 50-year-old pipeline across the Edwards Aquifer.

"...If you thought the anti-pipeline coalition fighting the Longhorn Pipeline in Austin would make..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

How Do You Formulate a Grand Prix?

The race to nail down an F1 deal involves multiple entities

"...have already requested a permit to relocate two old gas lines (a 24-inch gas main and a 4-inch liquid..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Gasoline Alley

The proposed Longhorn Pipeline fuels debate because of its proximity to South Austin neighborhoods, schools, and Edwards Aquifer.

"...Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Pipeline Safety released a preliminary environmental assessment of the proposed..."

Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Mike Jasper

Riotsville, USA

Standout doc about the Sixties explores still relevant lessons in police oppression

"...like a mini-tank replete with ear-piercing sounds and a pipe that blows out smoke and tear gas. The amount..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Controversial Pipeline to Cross the Hill Country

The PHP presents potential risks to Edwards Aquifer, and there is little Austin can do about it

"...City Council adopted a resolution opposing the Permian Highway Pipeline, a natural gas line planned to transport methane from..."

Sept. 13, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Standing Rock’s Civil Disobedience Reaches West Texas

“It’s the Rio Grande. It’s sacred to many people."

"...caravan of cars pulled up in front of a pipe yard on the west side of Alpine, Texas –..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

Who the Hell is this Seth White?

And what, if anything, do RPGs and LARPing have to do with art?

"...White. “For cutting, it uses water instead of tank gas. It creates its own hydrogen gas from the water..."

July 30, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'It All Leads Back to Texas'

Robert Bryce on the Texas-Washington-international crony network

"...King spoke to Bryce about his new book, about Pipe Dreams, his earlier book on the fall of Enron,..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...bedfellows are lying in the path of the Longhorn Pipeline. A Monday press conference at the Capitol brought together..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

The Showdown at Lick Creek

As once clear water runs dark, a community defends its natural heart

"...inspectors had discovered the complete failure of a filtration pipe in the detention pond. The vertical riser pipe is..."

July 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Letters @ 3AM

As much fun as it is to blame speculators and oil companies, and as certain as it is that some reforms would help, the real culprit is global demand

"...him, he'll fall." I wrongly predicted $4 a gallon gasoline by the spring of '06, underestimating (as I often..."

July 18, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

Austin slowly thaws out from an unprecedented – but not entirely unexpected – disaster

"...an area of East Austin near Givens Park lost gas service Wednesday, which Texas Gas Service said would take..."

Feb. 19, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Book Reviews

"...Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enronby Robert..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Books Feature by James McWilliams

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