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- Good Night to The Muse
- The Oscars: Predictable and non-memorable
- Currently available on DVD "Client 9 : The Rise a...
- Da Mayor stumbles on his way out the door
- Currently available on DVD: "Animal Kingdom"
- Oscar Best Picture Rap-Up w/Shane Dawson
- My Top 25 College Basketball Teams
- My Top 10 NBA teams
- Currently available on DVD: "Enter the Void
- Currently Available on DVD: "Lebanon"
- Currently available on DVD: "Micmacs"
- Jewish mysticism
- Jewish Haiku
- My Top 25 College Basketball teams
- My 10 Top 10 NBA Teams
- Currently available on DVD: "Let It Rain"
- The House Republicans' destructive propoposed budg...
- Time Out's misguided list
- A dog hero
- Dallas mayor's race: Hunt's out (forever); Rawling...
- Robert Plant and Patty Griffin rock in a Band of J...
- No comment necessary
- Yet another reason not to trust Fox News
- An Oscar race between two legends
- Currently available on DVD: "Cyrus"
- D-Wayne got Carriedaway once again
- Irreconcilable Differences
- Should Jonestown get another Super Bowl?
- Currently available on DVD: "Mother and Child"
- My Top 25 College Basketball teams
- My Top 10 NBA Teams
- Beware of the legendary Bat Dog
- Snow Day
- World's greatest film editor explains why 3D doesn...
- Currently available on DVD: "Joan Rivers: A Piece ...
- Currently available on DVD: "Soul Kitchen"
- Currently available on DVD: "The Girl Who Kicked t...
- The poor, poor film critics are getting their feel...
- How to shoot a movie like a freakin' genius
- He's running
- New York Times opines on D/FW food
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About Me
- Pete Oppel
- I have scratched together a living, in one way or another, as a writer for more than 60 years now. I was a free-lance writer during the early stages of the Vietnam War. I was the Southwest Division Overnight News Editor for United Press International back when UPI was a legitimate news gathering organization. Following that, I went to the Dallas Morning News where I became the first person to write about rock 'n' roll on a daily basis for a Texas metropolitan newspaper. I later became the News' entertainment editor. Following some stints with a couple of prominent PR firms, I had the extraordinary good fortune to team with two communications legends, Ken Fairchild and Lisa LeMaster, as part of one kick-ass media consulting/crisis communications team. That was followed by stints as a department head with the City of Dallas (and its public information officer); the Dallas Northeast Chamber of Commerce where I had the good fortune to meet and work alongside some of this city's business and political titans; and editorial director for QuestCorp Media until that company went out of business. Now officially retired, concentrating on this blog.
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