Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Oscar winner documents the collapse of Enron in vivid detail and with cinematic flourish.

"...failures as well successes? The Enron debacle – the bankruptcy scandal that demolished the Houston corporation that was ranked..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Report

Senator takes pity on poor little CEOS; and Propaganda Rules!

"...grab multimillion-dollar golden parachutes as their corporations plummet into bankruptcy, even as their employees and retirees are left totally..."

April 15, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...a major donor to the Texas Republican Party. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Leif Clark approved the bid Wednesday following a..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...offices of Haynes and Boone LLP. On Wednesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Leif Clark will consider the "highest and best"..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

John Wooley Fights Back

The Schlotzsky's Original takes to the Web and the warpath

"...immediately convene its annual shareholders meeting and suspend its bankruptcy proceedings. The sandwich chain's new management filed for Chapter..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

"...the Austin-based Schlotzsky's sandwich chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday. Recent attempts to stop the hemorrhaging included firing..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Mickey

Mega-author John Grisham wrote and financed the making of this Little League baseball film starring Harry Connick Jr.

"...with mountains of medical bills, which resulted in a bankruptcy filing, which necessitated some fraudulent reporting to the government,..."

May 14, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TEA Takes Over Eastside Charter School

The state steps in at the Texas Academy of Excellence

"...staggering debt load. On Monday, the academy filed for bankruptcy in federal court...."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...The trustee in Gary Bradley's bankruptcy case has asked the court to freeze the assets..."

June 20, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...capital losses for tax purposes. They rescued him from bankruptcy half a dozen times before he found "success" with..."

May 30, 2003 Column

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...A bankruptcy judge has set an Aug. 5 trial date for..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature

Women's Work Is Never Done

Started in 1978 as a grassroots feminist arts collaborative, Women & Their Work has evolved into an Austin institution, which has survived collapsing economies and shifts in location and mission to become one of the city's premier visual arts spaces.

"...a one-room office over the Revco drug store, in bankruptcy now, which just shows you that some art is..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...a series of financial transfers before he filed for bankruptcy last year and then provided false information to the..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature

Naked City

Bradley's Buda Dream

"...The trust is a focal point of Bradley's ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. Though such trusts are usually exempt from bankruptcy,..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Dancing About Architecture

Mars Music store goes the way of Halley's Comet.

"...closed a number of stores following its day in bankruptcy court. Well, now that the company has given up..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Another festival weekend, this time jazz; plus Mars Music not going under, and Bill Hicks -- still dead, more CDs.

"...Life on Mars? Despite a well publicized bout with bankruptcy court for Mars Music, those in Austin who depend..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Gary Bradley's Bitter Wisdom

Gary Bradley contemplates life.

"...am concerned, the Gary Bradley story ends with this bankruptcy."..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Feature

The Hightower Lowdown

Kmart gives its CEO the blue light and workers the pink slip; corporate taxes disappear into the Bermuda Triangle; Vignette rewards failure.

"...the new chief executive of Kmart, which recently declared bankruptcy, and his special is a fabulous pay package that..."

May 3, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

"...of controversy and the widening ripples of the Enron bankruptcy scandal, public utilities chairman and former Enron executive Max..."

Jan. 25, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Hightower Lowdown

PG&E's shell game, Bush Incorporated & Nestle's genetic engineering

"...Third, while Pacific Gas and Electric is in bankruptcy, its parent company, PG&E, is wallowing in money. PG&E..."

June 15, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Ruling the Roost

Austin Preeminent Concert Promoter Ponders Retirement

"...lost several fortunes, ridden deals to the edge of bankruptcy, and played chicken with the IRS since his arrival..."

June 1, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Naked City

The old Cinema West is back on the leasing block; meanwhile, its former tenant, now Megaplexxx, has moved south and is doing better than ever.

"...Jennifer Hussey and Rich Finney filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, with the idea being that Avatar..."

May 25, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Pola X

Carax's follow-up to The Lovers on the Bridge is based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre, or the Ambiguities, and is rich in images and ideas. A man who shuffles between the houses of his mother and fiancée becomes involved with a woman who says she is his illegitimate sister.

"...Lovers on the Bridge allegedly sent several producers into bankruptcy and re-editing hell, and earned Carax a permanent reputation..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

"...Heritage USA's master builder Roe Messner, Messner's imprisonment for bankruptcy fraud, her addiction to the sedative Ativan, her bout..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Notice

Watch out far too many local public service organizations are holding very cool events this hot summer.

"...those who commit acts of clinic violence from using bankruptcy proceedings to escape paying the penalties for their violent..."

June 23, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

High-Tech Heist

A former Power Computing company employee stole memory modules and drew a 25-year prison sentence.

"...job. Company rumors said Power Computing would file for bankruptcy by the end of 1997...."

Dec. 24, 1999 News Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

Sand Beach Battle

Sand Beach Reserve on the north shore of Town Lake is the subject of a land-use and legal dispute.

"...in the deal ultimately bankrupted him; Mullen filed for bankruptcy in 1998, still owing Lumbermen's $2.3 million.)..."

Oct. 1, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Image Over Substance

Perry's Past

"...had managed to extract $2.5 million from VPG in bankruptcy court. (Although the company declared bankruptcy in 1996, it..."

Oct. 30, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Writes of Spring

Off the Bookshelf

"...was growing up in the 1950s, public drunkenness, filing bankruptcy, having an abortion or a child out of wedlock,..."

April 3, 1998 Books Review

Concrete Carpet Ride

Jim Bob's Road to Nowhere

"...bust in the late 1980s, the two later declared bankruptcy, and their boondoggles cost taxpayers millions upon millions of..."

Dec. 27, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

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