| Michael Dell Climbs Back in the Saddle
Boomerang CEO Michael Dell's immediate solution to his company's deepening crisis is to scrub all bonuses for 2006, but he promised people above-market raises. For an incentive, he's offering a shortened vesting period of three years for future grants. Michael said in an internal e-mail last Friday that escaped into the wild over the weekend - complements of the Austin American-Statesman - that the company is handicapped by a money-leaching bureaucracy, described as its "new enemy," and that he will reduce the 20-odd CEO reports to 12. There won't be a COO or a new CEO either. Michael reiterated that he plans to be CEO for the next few years. However, Paul Bell, who runs Europe, is going to be put in charge of the US and the company is looking for a chief marketing officer.
Plans set for new multicultural house
The College has unveiled plans for renovations for 30 College St. The building, which currently has nine residential units, will provide a new home in the 2007-2008 academic year for the student multicultural organizations that currently use Boody-Johnson House On February 2, Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs Margaret Hazlett shared the plans, drafted by a local architect, for the renovation of 30 College St. with the student groups that will no longer have access to Boody-Johnson House. "I had a meeting with them to put my designs on the table to get their feedback. I gave the plans to Hillel and offered other club leaders the plans to take back to their groups," Hazlett said. According to Hazlett, the plans for 30 College St. strongly reflect the input of students.
In Case You Missed It—February 6, 2007
After a heavier article last week, today I want to review an artist and a movie that are both just pure, unabashed fun. Ricki-Oh: The Story of Ricki (1992) Ricki-Oh is one of those rare spectacular failures that should have known it would be impossible to take itself seriously, a movie in which someone's face is cut off with a wood plane in the opening scene. The story centers around Ricki, a young kung fu master, who is put in prison and proceeds to punch, kick, and mutilate his way through the prison's evil masters. These include, but are not limited to, a man who uses knitting needles for weapons, a man who can morph into a mix between the Hulk, Confucius, and Steve Buscemi, and a “man" so effeminate that I didn't realize he was male until I researched the movie afterward.
How now, Cowtown?
The Amon Carter is filled with American art and is best known for its Remingtons and other western art. It also has a sweeping view of the Fort Worth skyline from its second story. It's free, too. The new entry, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is a big space that uses light and shadow in some pretty amazing ways to showcase its permanent collection and edgy, specially curated shows. It's not free, but it's only $8. It's just a short walk from the museums to the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, which honors such diversely talented women as Willa Cather, Patsy Cline, Dale Evans and Annie Oakley. The performance centerpiece of Fort Worth's arts scene in downtown: Bass Performance Hall, home of the Fort Worth Symphony, Texas Ballet Theater and Fort Worth Opera.
'Lost' is back, Diversions catches you up
"Lost" returns this Wednesday with the bulk of its third season, and we here at Diversions consider it our civic duty to provide the information needed to enjoy the show when it begins. First of all, "Lost" takes place on an island, a very large island somewhere around Australia that is filled with strange powers, people and polar bears. The island also somehow allows people in wheelchairs to walk and cures people of cancer. The show opens with a plane crashing on the island, a plane that luckily carried a doctor (Jack), a hunter (Locke) and an ex-Iraqi Republican Guard torturer (Sayid) among the 40 some survivors.
The show at its very core is a mystery. There are constantly strange and unexpected things going on and the excitement of the show is watching the characters figure out what's happening (or die trying).
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