John Bloom

Jan 21, 2013 — By Jim Atkinson and John Bloom

Urban refugees fleeing high-tech Dallas have created ersatz rural communities in the nearby countryside. This isolated, pastoral life sometimes erupts into adultery and murder.

Jan 21, 2013 — By Jim Atkinson and John Bloom

Candy Montgomery thought her affair with Allan Gore was over, until she found herself fighting for her life against Allan’s wife.

Feb 1, 2006 — By John Bloom

From Red River to Rushmore, the 25 best Texas films on DVD.

Nov 1, 2004 — By John Bloom

And they most definitely conquered. The inside story of how a ragtag bunch of hippies made the wildest Texas movie ever (and spilled no more fake blood than was absolutely necessary).

Apr 30, 1982 — By John Bloom

Beyond Greed is the tale of the Hunts’ journey from silver spoon to silver lust. In Sing Me Back Home Merle Haggard takes a quick look at his life (too quick). Billy Clayton has Gavels, Grit & Glory--or so says his biographer.

Mar 1, 1982 — By John Bloom

Celebrity is Thomas Thompson’s flawed venture into fiction; The Last Texas Hero deserves a twenty-yard penalty; Peeper is to be read only to find out who the real Tom is.

Nov 1, 1981 — By John Bloom

He’s the man with the Word, and the Word is for you.

Sep 30, 1981 — By John Bloom

In With No Fear of Failure you’ll learn how you, too, can turn rags into riches. Daddy’s Girl knows Southern discomfort. Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission is the history of our own little OPEC.

Aug 31, 1981 — By John Bloom

Vesta Cawley turned to the city bureaucracy for help with a problem that didn’t matter to any of the other 900,000 residents of Dallas. But it should have mattered more to city hall.

Aug 31, 1981 — By John Bloom

All this twenty-year-old University of Houston student wants to do is jump father and run faster than anyone else ever has.

May 31, 1981 — By John Bloom

From its headquarters in the wilds of Dallas to remote jungle outposts all over the world, Wycliffe Bible Translators is defying bitter opposition and dedicating itself to speeding up the Second Coming.

Mar 1, 1981 — By John Bloom

Onstage, all happy lounge acts are alike; offstage, all unhappy lounge acts are unhappy in their own ways.

Feb 1, 1981 — By John Bloom

Ranger was the most romantic field in the early oil boom. Now a major company is risking its future to prove that romance still lives.

Dec 1, 1980 — By John Bloom

Cable TV has Dallas in its coils; acupuncture has its day in court; sex education has parents up in arms.

Aug 31, 1980 — By John Bloom

An informant offered to lead a journalist to Europe’s largest cache of stolen art. Soon they were trapped in a web of lies, suspicion, treachery, and impending death.

Jul 31, 1980 — By John Bloom

Those luck Arabs, with all that oil! The only problem, as a Saudi finance minister points out, is that oil is all they have.

Jun 30, 1980 — By John Bloom

A critic’s practiced eye scans the oil giants’ yearly self-portraits.

Jun 30, 1980 — By John Bloom

Reading Big Oil’s annual reports for the truth about profits is a little like drilling for oil in the Baltimore Canyon: you know it’s there, but how deep will you have to go to find it?

May 31, 1980 — By John Bloom

A lot of farmers and gardeners think Congressman Kika de la Garza is a pest.

Apr 30, 1980 — By John Bloom

The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.

Mar 1, 1980 — By John Bloom

When the cable TV salesman comes calling, you should fully expect your city council to sell you down the river. Not that they mean to do it. It’s simply that history shows most city councils don’t know the first thing about cable. People who can barely figure out the briefs…

Mar 1, 1980 — By John Bloom

In Texas the best way to get rich in cable television is to know just a little about TV and everything about politics.

Mar 1, 1980 — By John Bloom and William Broyles

No news is bad news.

Feb 1, 1980 — By John Bloom

The art of romantic osculation barely survived the jaded seventies. Now it’s time to rediscover the private delights and civic benefits of real kissing.

Dec 1, 1979 — By John Bloom

Whose blonde, curly scalp are the farmers after how do the rich and powerful run? Why, pray tell, does Houston need parks?

Nov 1, 1979 — By John Bloom

A down-home journalist; the privileged pew; gas for a price.

Sep 30, 1979 — By John Bloom

Who turned off the melting pot? Vietnamese and Texans fight on the coast.

Sep 30, 1979 — By John Bloom

South Padre defiled—and you were there; the joy of six hundred maniacal flute players; Dallas’ love-hate affair with Fair Park.

Aug 31, 1979 — By John Bloom

B-a-a-d government meddling irks Texas goat and sheep raisers; something’s rotten in Rotterdam, and it’s driving up oil prices; and the world’s best gymnasts are coming to Cowtown.

Jul 31, 1979 — By John Bloom

Valley politicos block minority TV; Dairy Queens reign in small-town Texas; woman diver yearns for Acapulco cliffs; Houston takes its lumps.

Jul 31, 1979 — By John Bloom

Were the words of Russian exile Georgi Vins heard over the din of the Southern Baptist Convention?

Jun 30, 1979 — By John Bloom

Suffering the lines at the gas pump; gambling in the magazine business; a dragnet for the Southwest’s sneakiest thief; what’s Dallas’ secret?

May 31, 1979 — By John Bloom

Who is the mayor of Cowtown? Who is that man in the ski mask? Who wants Caddo Lake’s water?

Apr 30, 1979 — By John Bloom

Playing chicken on the Houston Ship Channel; jousting with 700-year-old knights; will John Hill run for governor again?

Apr 30, 1979 — By John Bloom

Sherman’s First United Pentecostal Church believes persecution is good for the soul.

Apr 1, 1979 — By John Bloom

Striking the right chord with the Fort Worth Symphony and the wrong one with Mexico; grounding Wayland Baptist’s Flying Queens.

Mar 1, 1979 — By John Bloom

And Prairie View A&M will ship you out of the ghetto straight into the middle class.

Jan 1, 1979 — By John Bloom

Taking it off at the last of the real burlesque joints; holy war on Austin’s Baptists; why Texas’ election system is stuck in the Dark Ages.

Dec 1, 1978 — By John Bloom

The dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes.

Dec 1, 1978 — By John Bloom

The dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes.

Nov 1, 1978 — By John Bloom

Fighting the foolproof crime, playing games you can’t win, building an ice cream empire, and raising hell in Baylor.

Sep 30, 1978 — By John Bloom

Bucking the U.S. Air Force, breeding horses for royalty, and hightailing it out of town before the Corps of Engineers gets you.

Aug 31, 1978 — By John Bloom

Lasers have been heralded as the greatest discovery since the computer, but they may be hazardous to your health.

Aug 31, 1978 — By John Bloom

Welcoming danger with open arms, horse trading over tax relief, picking juries by their faces, and searching after the perfect twirl.

Aug 31, 1978 — By John Bloom

Help! I’m a prison on the freeway and can’t get off.

Jul 31, 1978 — By John Bloom

Plainview puts a lid on deviate sex; billions of animals sleep in a freezer; oil spills are coming and we're not ready.

Jun 30, 1978 — By John Bloom

Psychiatrists send men to death row; Texas’ loop coasters give up-side-down joyride; Diablos play baseball with Kleenex and kazoos.

May 31, 1978 — By John Bloom

Taking on the Shah of Iran in Beeville; trying to save an eaglet in Waco; juggling sex in Galveston; flipping the switch on nuclear power; and fighting panjic at monstrous DFW Airport.

May 31, 1978 — By John Bloom

Life is a riffle. Cancer is a riddle. Are they all the same riddle?

Apr 30, 1978 — By John Bloom

Braniff is hopping the Atlantic to London; Pan Am is just hopping mad.