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Budweiser Buddy Cups: A Dumb Idea That Could Be Made Brilliant

Budweiser has so many bad ideas. For instance, putting a Clydesdale'a handler alongside a parade route when children are milling about. Everyone knows a Clydesdale will make a run for it if it sees the handler who raised from a foal before selling it to a beer company. Horses slip when running on pa ... More >>

Congressman Louis Gohmert Really Has No Clue How Gmail Works

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was first passed in 1986, when the thought of storing an electronic message online for any length of time must have seemed absurd. So Congress, in its foresight, gave law enforcement incredibly easy access to emails older than 180 days old. No search warrant ... More >>

The Dallas Observer Has New Owners; Village Voice Media, Backpage Split

The longtime owners of the Dallas Observer have sold the paper and its 12 Village Voice Media sister publications to a group of VVM executives, creating a new holding company and cutting ties with Backpage.com, the controversial classified advertising company. So: We have new owners, but the same o ... More >>

Nicki Minaj at Verizon Theatre

Sunday, July 29, at Verizon Theatre

Next Week, Pete Sessions Explains Why Giving Facebook Money is Good for You

While some in Congress have raised concerns about Facebook's privacy policies and others are already grousing about the company driving the "biggest Mack truck ever driven through the stock option loophole" with a $16 billion tax deduction, a pair of local congressmen are liking Facebook very much. ... More >>

Love Train

Friday, February 17, at the American Airlines Center

Dallas News Publisher, CEO Jim Moroney Addresses Tuesday's Newsroom Layoffs

Among the 38 let go from the Dallas Morning News yesterday was Lee Hancock, who said her goodbyes on the DMNCuts website: "I am grateful for the fun it's mostly been. I hope for better, happier days for all who remain." It wasn't so long ago that the newspaper ran the ad you see above, celebrating s ... More >>

The Dandy Warhols, Hopewell

Saturday, November 13, at GranadaTheater

Local Woman Mad For Mad Men, or: Help a Dallas Actress Get a Small Part on a Big TV Show

​Perhaps you've heard of Tiffany Lonsdale, who counts among her stage-and-screen credits Bedroom Farce at Theatre Three, several commercials and a few indie productions. Clearly, she has plenty of friends: Many of them have e-mailed in recent days begging us to push her attempt to land a walk-on r ... More >>

Erykah Badu's Singing for H&M -- Which, Turns Out, Finally Appears to Be Heading to Dallas

​A couple of nights back I was watching Channel 8 when, strange, an H&M ad popped up -- strange since there's no H&M in Dallas yet despite your myriad requests. Turns out the hip-n-affordable clothier has launched a national ad campaign -- featuring, as Pete pointed out this morning, none ... More >>

Those Burger Commercials of Yore

It's still National Burger Month, so we here at Days Gone Bite are celebrating the ultimate meat sammich with a look back at some of the more memorable fast food burger commercials.Feel free to link to your faves in the comments, as we're really just hitting the Biggies that crop up here in the Lone ... More >>

Dallas News Publisher Jim Moroney Really Wants to Stress, "Our Content Isn't For Sale"

News publisher Jim Moroney​Late this evening, Dallas Morning News publisher and chief executive officer Jim Moroney called to discuss editor Bob Mong's memo concerning the paper's new "business/news integration," which has some of the paper's section editors reporting directly to newly assigned ad ... More >>

Jerry Jones Will Figure Out How to Wring Every Last Dollar Out of Cowboys Stadium

Patrick MichelsTomorrow, Jerry Jones will display just how he plans to use his video screen to air the biggest advertisements you can't fast-forward through.I saw this just-moved press release concerning an 11 a.m. press conference at Cowboys Stadium tomorrow, featuring Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jo ... More >>

Food For Thought 5.26.09

"We're seeing comfort foods, back-to-the-basics foods do real well in this economy and that's speaking to some of the success we're seeing with hot dogs." (Todd Hale, senior vice president for consumer and shopper insights at Nielsen, on the 5.3 percent booset in revenue for hot dog companies--would ... More >>

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

What's Killing TV? Easy: No Car Ads.

Belo Corp. -- the Dallas-based broadcaster that, of course, counts WFAA-Channel 8 among its 20 owned-and-operated TV stations around the country -- announced this morning that on April 30, it will release its first-quarter earnings. Bloomberg today reports it could be an especially interesting read ... More >>

Food For Thought 3.31.09

"I just wanted to find a way to save money. We have to sell ads for our yearbook, for our school newspaper. I don't think this small amount of advertising will change my classroom." (Jeb Harrison, history and economics teacher at Pocatello High School in Idaho, who agreed to carry an ad for Molto's ... More >>

From Outside Dallas, A Campaign Against Family Place's Ad Campaign

Cowboys 27, Packers 16

Craziness Continued ...

Sean Avery Just Got The Gap a Free Ad on Unfair Park, Genius

Oscar Nominee's Big Rig Infomercial to Premiere Next Friday at Angelika

Sell, Sell, Sell

See the ads of yesteryear at Webb Gallery

Design For Dallas

How Many Texas Clichés Can Mike Huckabee Fit In One TV Ad?

Laugh Laugh

Bruce Bruce hits Addison

Mayor Tom Habla Bueno Español

модальный глагол ты похожий газета?

Hyundai Drives from Dallas to S.F.

Funny Money

Hostess With the Mostess

TXU Is All Coal-Fired-Up Over "Stop TXU" Ads. Surprising Much? Didn't Think So.

The Day the McKinney Courier-Gazette Got Bought By Some Yankees

Texas Bard

Guy Clark remains an understated statesman of true country

Down Belo

Mosquitos

Thursday, November 11

Bobgoblin

Friday, July 30

Best Sign That 93.3 FM is Cursed

The Bone's ratings

Flour Power

The Light Crust Doughboys spread some old-time commercial radio

Get Offa Our Cloud

The DMN dips its toes in the waters of "private pleasures" advertising

Best toy store

Lakeshore Learning Store

Clearing the air

The motive behind a series of Bush attack ads may have been business, not politics

The more things change...

The more Bobgoblin -- er, the Commericals -- have a new name

See your world on a small screen at the 11th Annual Dallas Video Festival

Bottom of the ninth

Permit hearings begin in TXI's quest to become the nation's largest toxic waste incinerator

Lex and Terry's wet dream

Can two transplants from the land of Lynyrd Skynyrd and fart smells find the key to radio fame at Dallas' Q102?

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Buzz

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX