Emmy Awards

Cartoons, Not Animation

With big-studio millions behind him, Genndy Tartakovsky still goes it alone.

Tom's Treats Tries, But Nothing Can Replace Cookie Talk. Except This List.

Video: Tom's Treats: Rangers vs. Angels - 07.31.12 Maybe you experienced the awkwardly awesome Cookie Talk segment(s) during the Rangers broadcast. Maybe you didn't. For those suffering from the latter, above's a tip of the amazing iceberg that is now Tom's Treats. Squirming yet? Thought so. Cooki ... More >>

Top Hits and Perfect Tens

If You Weren't Paying Attention For the Past Decade, the Calatrava Bridge Will be Recapped in 30-Minute Documentary

Just when you thought the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge had been thoroughly feted, the Trinity Trust sends word that the celebration's not quite over yet. On June 13, WFAA will premiere Bridging the Trinity For the Love of the City, a half-hour homage by local filmmaker Judy Kelly. From Trinity Trust ... More >>

The Master List: The Best Things to Do in Dallas This Weekend, January 6-8

Cowboys fans can admit it: We cried a few sports tears when our playoff dream evaporated on Sunday night. But so be it. We know must move past another dismal season of professional football and look forward to the remaining college bowl games. Sure, these guys aren't making big money like Tony Romo, ... More >>

Haha New Year!

Dallas Film Society's Art of Film Event Returns to Hall of State, This Time WIth John Lithgow

Might we see Buckaroo Bonzai on the big screen when John Lithgow comes to town next month? Maybe so, maybe so.​Last year's inaugural Art of Film event at the Hall of State was quite the wingding as the great Elvis Mitchell and Robert Duvall informally, thoughtfully and quite giddily chatted about ... More >>

Sing Kee Chinese BBQ's Rock Fish Hot Pot: The Perfect Dish for Waiting Out the Rain

​Last night my family and I putzed around Richardson looking for some decent ethnic eats. I Yelped and I Googled and I finally decided that Sing Kee Chinese BBQ looked like a decent spot for a late meal. When I walked through the door, the clouds swelled behind me, and by the time I sat down ... More >>

Top Chef: Texas is Official; Emeril Lagasse and Hugh Acheson Will Judge

Emeril: Top Chef's new jurist.​Official word just came from Bravo: The next season of Top Chef will be set in Texas. You already knew that if you've been following any number of blogs, including City of Ate, where we broke the story that the state will shell out an estimated $400,000 to see ... More >>

Really, We Have to Wait a Whole Year Till Modern Family Cast Comes to Brinker Forum?

Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet will be at the Winspear in April​Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season's TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season's Brinker Inte ... More >>

More Proof That Toadies Guitarist Clark Vogeler Is The Most Talented Dallas Musician in Film...

​The most accomplished area musician in the realm of film and television? C'mon, that's an easy one. It's Toadies guitarist Clark Vogeler, long an Emmy winner thanks to his work on the editing team behind TV's Project Runway.And, now, another cool feather in the guitarist's cap: The documentary fi ... More >>

Shirley That Didn't Really Happen!

Rangers' Games Have Gotten Really Interesting ... in the Stands

Either reporter Jim Knox deserves a couple Emmys or else his office -- otherwise known as the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington -- has become baseball's most fertile field for intriguing off-the-field story lines. Colby Lewis' post-paternity-leave return to the mound stunk like a bin full of dirty ... More >>

Downright Loopy

Robert Wuhl Assumes the Position at WaterTower's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival

Robert Wuhl​Robert Wuhl is bringing his solo show Assume the Position to the Out of the Loop Fringe Festival at WaterTower Theatre in Addison next week. The two-week festival opens tomorrow with a lineup of more than 20 different performances of drama, dance, music and comedy. It's an enjoyably fr ... More >>

It's Official: John Rhadigan Is The New Play-by-Play Voice of Your Texas Rangers

Flickr user: HooverStreetStudios​The rumor's been circulating for days that John Rhadigan would replace ousted-in-October Josh Lewin as the teevee play-by-play man for the Texas Rangers, pairing him with analyst Tom Grieve. The team just made it official in a release that follows in full. But long ... More >>

The Texas Rangers Are Better, But Who's Gonna Talk About 'Em?

​So now that the Texas Rangers have a hitter (Adrian Beltre) and a pitcher (Brandon Webb), they've got one more important hole to fill this off-season: Television play-by-play voice. Remember just before Game 5 of the ALDS, the Rangers announced they weren't bringing back nine-year veter ... More >>

Lance Rock Your Socks Off

MasterMinds: Matthew Posey, Joel Hester and Karen Blessen Are Winners in Our Inaugural Creativity Awards

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Just for Laffs: Down to City 'Hall O' Death' for KDFW-Channel 4's Roast of Social Media

​If you woke up this morning respecting your local news broadcasters a little too much, well, witness the healing power of the KDFW-produced video after the jump. Since it hit the station's Facebook page yesterday morning, it's been drawing raves from ROFL'ing commenters, but if, like us, you mis ... More >>

Model Watch: It's Makeover Time, Angels!

Let's be honest: We can just post this pic of Dallas model Ann and walk away, right?​For another week, we watch America's Next Top Model so you don't have to. That, right there? That's a solid. So then, to commence with the recapping.Last night's episode began with the de rigueur reality-show open ... More >>

Gail Simmons Sees How the Cookies Crumble on Top Chef Just Desserts

Gail Simmons​The Emmy-winning and highly rated Top Chef franchise on Bravo puts the icing on its cake with this week's debut of Top Chef: Just Desserts (10 p.m., Wednesday, September 15, then moving to its regular slot at 9 p.m. the following week). Hosting the competition among 12 top-flight ... More >>

Will You Take The "Panty Challenge"?

​Irving-based Kimberly-Clark, they of the toilet paper and tampons and whatnot, are already in the business of being in your business, as it were, so maybe we shouldn't be too surprised that they're currently looking for 250-word essays on how your underwear got to be so nasty."Project Makeunder," ... More >>

God, I Hope I Get It: As Hamlisch Takes Over DSO's Pops, A Talent Search at Arts Magnet

Elaine LinerSing us a song, you're the Piano Man, Marvin Hamlisch!​Marvin Hamlisch has his EGOT. That's Emmys (four of 'em), Grammys (four), Oscars (three) and a Tony. The composer of A Chorus Line and the film score for The Way We Were also has a Pulitzer Prize and three Golden Globes. So he's go ... More >>

ESPN Pay Tribute to Producer Leah Siegel, Whose Battle With Cancer Ended This Morning

​After the jump is ESPN's tribute to Leah Siegel, a Dallas-based producer for the network who, during her tenure at the Worldwide Leader, garnered a handful of Emmy Awards. Leah died early this morning, about two years after doctors discovered she had stage four breast cancer -- right after she'd ... More >>

Hash Over: Flavors of Passion Awards, Russo's Pizza Eating Challenge, Grape Wine Dinner, Bread Winners Turns 16, and More

​Sure, the Oscars have already passed and the Emmys are still a couple of months away, but that doesn't mean award season is taking a breather. This Thursday, July 22, the Flavors of Passion Awards will celebrate world class excellence in Latino cuisine. The Flavor of Passion Awards will reco ... More >>

Earth, Winds And Fenton

The Lost Toadies Record Finally Earns Its Release

Good Godfather! Al Pacino's Bringing a Greatest-Hits One-Man Show to AT&TPAC in November.

​Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-'11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS -- quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the atten ... More >>

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The Red Vag Of Courage

Backdoor to 2010

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Tim DeLaughter Gets Nominated For An Emmy

It was back in January when we learned that Polyphonic Spree frontman Tim DeLaughter had written the theme music for the Diablo Cody-penned Showtime series United States of Tara. Well, six months later, more on that front: DeLaughter's been nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the ... More >>

A Dish Called Wanda

Crazy For Tryin'

Tomlin's Tops

The legendary Lily lands at the Bass

Nixon, the Composer

Hopkins shows off his musical side

Get Ready

Nokia hosts a tempting evening

The Brady Bunch

Dallas gets a dose of Wayne

Angry Dennis

Miller spits all over Bass Hall

Blue Symphony

The DSO dives in

Fear Factor

Stupidity reigns at Nokia

Double Chuck

He's Osgood as he wants to be

Kid Show

Casa Mañana gets rocked Schoolhouse-style

Dirty, Dirty Man

Legendary Laughs