Ellen DeGeneres

One Million Moms Strikes Again: The Real Reason JC Penney President Michael Francis Got Canned

Update at 4:54 p.m.: JC Penney just sent me a statement. As expected, it makes no mention of One Million Moms: Michael's departure does not signify a change to jcpenney's long-term transformation plans. We remain focused on our vision to becoming America's favorite store through great product and e ... More >>

One Million Moms Doesn't Like JC Penney's Two Gay Dads At All

Because their attack on JC Penney for its (obviously homosexual) relationship with Ellen DeGeneres only brought the Plano-based clothing retailer to its knees, the anti-gay, pro-crazy group One Million Moms is back to deliver the finishing blow. The department store chain sent out a subversive litt ... More >>

Pastor Lou Engle is Coming to Dallas to Fight Abortion -- and He Needs Your Help, Ladies

A while back, for reasons I happily can't recall, I took the step of following the staunchly anti-gay pastor Lou Engle on Twitter. Engle is the founder of TheCall, a traveling circus of politically focused intolerance, and he makes his living (as much as $90,000 in a year, tax records show) by shari ... More >>

One Million Moms Is Now Calling For A Boycott Against "Blasphemous" GCB

Back in February, it was semi-big news when a group called One Million Moms called for a boycott of Dallas-based J.C. Penney. The reason was the company's new spokeswoman, Ellen DeGeneres, who you will be shocked to learn is gay, and thus obviously unfit to sell pleated Dockers and window treatments ... More >>

Last Night: An Horse at The Loft

An HorseThe LoftMay 22, 2011Better than: Tying me kangaroo down, sport.An Horse​Australian duo An Horse rode into town on the leading edge of last night's storm system for a show at The Loft. The storm was a likely contributor to the smallish turn-out -- 80 people, maybe. Blame the band for the we ... More >>

Pet Sounds

Animal psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick hears voices, the dog and cat kind.

Fantasia, Eric Benet

Thursday, December 2, at VerizonTheatre, Grand Prairie

Don't Get GLAAD Mad: A Month After KLIF Host Chris Krok Went After Joel Burns, An "Apology"

Chris Krok​Fort Worth city council member Joel Burns's "It Gets Better" speech, delivered in front of the city council last month, proved an inspiration to countless picked-on gay kids across the country -- Ellen DeGeneres too. Turns out, there was at least one person who didn't dig it: KLIF's Ch ... More >>

Steaks and Bids

Today's Other Can't-Miss TV Event: Fort Worth Councilman Joel Burns Goes on Ellen

Eight days ago, Joel Burns delivered to his Fort Worth city council colleagues the "It's Get Better" speech since heard 'round the world. Today, he went on Ellen DeGeneres's show to discuss what the host calls a "real and raw and moving" moment. Burns's mother, who was in the audience, disc ... More >>

Today In Music News: Madonna Gets Back To Her Hip-Hop Roots, The Stooges Plan New Album And Ellen Leaving Idol

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, July 30, 2010....Madonna is going back to hear hip-hop/street roots with a new tour. Wait, what?Iggy Pop plans on recording a new album with The Stooges.Ellen DeGeneres has decided that she works too much and doesn't like hurting people's feelings, ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Today In Music News: Courtney Love Is The Villain Again, DeGeneres Replaces Abdul and Mars Volta Takes A Chill Pill

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, September 11, 2009... Sooooo, Courtney Love didn't authorize the use of Kurt's likeness for Guitar Hero 5? But Activision has a agreement signed by her? Huh. Maybe she just forgot she signed it? Who's the logical choice to replace Paula Abdul on ... More >>

Whitt's End: 9.11.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *As for August's PPM radio ratings - surprise! - 1310 AM The Ticket continues to dominate. Among men 25-54, The Ticket remains No. 1 in the market leading every hour from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. ... More >>

In Order to Get Her Life "Back to Normal," Bachelor Not-Winner Goes to Ellen

ABC-TVMelissa Rycroft, I thinkI enjoy television as much as the next 5-year-old, but somehow I've managed to miss every single second of The Bachelor -- Ellen too, except when DISD rising star Dalton Sherman got his free computer back in September. Alas, the two titans of TV dip chocolate into peanu ... More >>

Liz Lemon Couldn't Get the Oprah Intro. But Please Welcome Dalton Sherman!

Dalton Sherman Goes on Ellen, Gets a Computer and Printer

For Art's Sake: Spending a Day at the Dallas City Arts Festival

Bentley Green is Ellen DeGeneres' New Favorite 6-Year-Old Rapper

Fifteen Minutes of Fame

It's tough to crack the Bernhard mystique

Oscar Oversight

Never fear, we won't let the Academy Awards ignore sports

Scene's top DVD picks for the week of October 11.

John Taylor Fan Fiction

With the release of Duran Duran's Astronaut, a writer reconnects with her childhood crush--literally

Dirty Jokes

Blondes have more fun

Dukin' It Out

Tom Wopat puts on the razzle-dazzle

Depress Tour

I coulda sworn I was there when they turned on the TV

Undersea No Evil

Parents, take heart: Finding Nemo is better than the average Disney 'toon

Funny Face

Ellen Degeneres has a point

Ice Age

Plus: Dog Day, One Sick Circus, Enough of Ellen

Get It Straight

The road to Ellen was paved with the best of intentions

Viva V-Day

SMU and UNT present The Vagina Monologues

Emmy or Not to Emmy?

That's been the long, hard decision for TV academy chairman Bryce Zabel

TV or Not TV

At least there's less junk this year

Happy Love

Tired of downers? In Big Eden, life is full of gay twists

Missive as catalyst

The Love Letter is a sunny romance with roots in an earlier era

TV or not TV?

Ron Howard fiddles with the question

Afterthought special

The classic children's story deserves better than this misconceived mess

Straighten up and fly right

American Airlines refuses to let a threat from the religious right steer the company off its gay-friendly course

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