Gordon Keith

How a Sports Talk Station May Also Be the Best For Music Fans: A Report From Ticketstock

There is one radio station in DFW that takes the time to play an interesting mix of music every day. This same station also takes the opportunity to discuss and explore music in ways that all the other stations are sorely lacking. The thing is, this station just so happens to be the area's number on ... More >>

The Ticket's Sean Bass and His Sobering Stance on Driving Drunk

After surviving the drunken-driving accident that killed his girlfriend, a local sports-talker takes his pain on the air.

We're About to Find Out How Much Someone Will Pay for JFK's Ride Back to Love Field

​This is the week Barrett-Jackson auctions off the 1964 Cadillac Hearse that transported President John Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field. Me, I've got my eye on this sweet '75 Pacer. But the rest of the car world -- or, at least, the 1,200, give or take, who make up the Profes ... More >>

Yet Again, An Attempt to Sell the Hearse That Took Kennedy From Parkland to Love Field

Barrett-Jackson​A quick look-see reveals efforts to sell the 1964 Cadillac Hearse that transported President John Kennedy from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field have failed at least once before -- in 2007, when Arrdeen Vaughan, the Alvarado funeral-home owner who'd had it for decades, came ... More >>

One Day Before Winspear Event, Jamie Foxx Cancels Due to Work on Tarantino Movie

​The AT&T Performing Arts Center is about to send out a formal release, but long story short: Jamie Foxx isn't coming to the Winspear Opera House tomorrow night after all. The Terrell native was supposed to take part in the Brinker International Forum, for a Q&A hosted by none other than G ... More >>

What Are You Thankful For?

Sitting around the house waiting for Turkey Day to roll around got me to thinking about all the things I'm thankful for. Of course, I'm lucky to have my family and friends and, these days, I am very thankful to have a job. But musically speaking, the Dallas scene has provided many a band, show and ... More >>

Fun With Audio, Part 1: Craig Miller, George Dunham Learn How to Pronounce "Mary Suhm"

​Two items-for-listening this morning: First up, a by-request; then, Schutze combs through his recordings archives and discovers he's sitting on a JWP best-of.Here, to begin, is a segment that aired on The Ticket Friday morning -- one week after Craig Miller and George Dunham acknowledged that the ... More >>

Liam Roybal, Just Blame Gordon Keith

​Yesterday -- thanks to Gordon Keith, thanks to Midwest Sports Fans, thanks to Deadspin, geez -- we met Lil' Ron Washington, otherwise known as Liam Roybal of Keller, poor feller. Turns out, the 7-year-old had no intention whatsoever of going as the Rangers' skipper's Mini-Me for Halloween. He was ... More >>

That's the Way Halloween Costumes Go

​At the very top of Deadspin at this very moment you'll find the photo of mini-Ron Washington at left, which began with a tweet from one Gordon Keith. I asked Gordon where he got it: "Someone sent it to me," he reports from San Francisco. And then Jerod at Midwest Sports Fans picked it up; then, D ... More >>

Well, It Is Cycling Weather: An Early Look at Plans For This Year's Cyclesomatic

​For those who like to plan ahead (or for those of us who need a few weeks to, oh, I dunno, stop smoking and pump up their tires and generally reconsider several other unhealthy life choices), this heads-up: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff this morning released the details for Cyclesomatic 2010, a four-da ... More >>

"Cyber Dissidents" at Dubya Institute, Wrong-Way Tickets and a $100,000 Dare

Terry Dorsey ... for now​A few news and notes with which to end your red-flag Tuesday:The Bush Institute on the SMU campus today announced its very first "human freedom" event, scheduled for April 19 at the James M. Collins Executive Education Center: The Conference on Cyber Dissidents: Global Suc ... More >>

Someone at the F.B.I.'s Having Way Too Much Fun Naming Bank Robbers

Earlier this month, the so-called Billy Mays Bandit robbed a Wells Fargo on S. University in Fort Worth.​This morning's New York Times heralds the debut of the F.B.I.'s Web site featuring the most-wanted bank robbers in New York and New Jersey. Of course, that's old news 'round these here parts: T ... More >>

The Great Gordo and the Earnest Hemingways

This morning, I stumbled across this freshly posted video of The Hemingways performing at the Rhythm Room on August 21, 1991. This gift was bestowed upon the Internet by one Doug Baxter, lead guitarist for the group and, apparently, its chief archivist. But you're no doubt more interested in the bes ... More >>

Um, About That Whole Tony-Candice Thing

​I heard Gordon Keith on The Ticket this morning referencing this "story" concerning Tony Romo's alleged engagement to CW33's Candice Crawford. Apparently, the tale has made the rounds far beyond 1310: "News outlets from across the country and throughout DFW are calling us looking for an answer," ... More >>

Picture Show: Rhett Miller and The O's at The Granada

Hal Samples​ Rhett Miller's benefit show in the Cystic Fibrosis Concert Series took the stage at The Granada Saturday night, with The O's opening the night, and Gordon Keith playing host.There's some video of Keith and Miller onstage at the end of the night over on Unfair Park, but for a complete ... More >>

Unlikely Pairings, in Photo and on Video, With Which To End Your Monday

Justin TerveenKeeping Rosa Parks company at the DART West End Station that bears her name​So, how to end a Monday: with a Justin Terveen photo snapped downtown over the weekend, or with Gordon Keith and Rhett Miller performing the WKRP in Cincinnati theme song in a video sent to me by a Friend of ... More >>

Drew Barrymore Whips It

All photos by Rachel Parker​Drew Barrymore was an hour late for our interview this morning to talk Whip It, and couldn't have been more apologetic; she got waylaid by "studio business," hence our stunningly in-depth 10-minute chat, ah well. But judging by a comment posted to our heads-up about Bar ... More >>

Let Me Ask to Speak With the Sportatorium

Steal from Channel 8's old Let Me Speak To the Manager and The Ticket's old Ask the Hard Line and what do you get? A Tuesday variably recurring time-waster featuring a bunch of people asking questions and one poor schmuck doing all the answering. Q: Who do you consider the most knowledgeab ... More >>

Credit Crunch: George Dunham, I Feel Your Pain

Credit where credit is due. Seems like a simple concept. But in today's 24-second news cycle the genesis of "breaking news" often finds himself as nothing more than the guy at the bottom of the dog pile. Forgotten. Squashed. Raped of credit. Example #1: The Ticket's George Dunham. Got a Ticket ... More >>

Gordo vs. Nasty? Everything's a Joke Until the Cops are Called

Gordo at the Super Bowl: Shaking hands, kissing babies and getting strangled.Got interrupted from The Ticket's Dunham & Miller this morning by tennis, and phone calls and, well, life. I missed Gordo's wireless microphone bits, which is rare for me. I also, apparently, missed a f ... More >>

Whitt's End: 1.23.09

 *I know I'm in the minority, but I kinda like the Rangers' Alternate 2 uniforms blue. Oops. I seem to have misspoke one word out of turn. In an abundance of caution, let me try it again. I know I'm in the minority, but I kinda like the Rangers' Alernate 2 blue uniforms. See. Si ... More >>

Jerking While Working, or: Swear, Lady, Those Are Just Ants in My Pants!

Stories like this are why we've opted for the Termibot. Hell of a way to kill bugs. Courtesy Courthouse News Service this morning comes this story out of Plano: Laura Grant is suing Terminex in a McKinney courthouse, claiming that in March of this year a termite inspector named Mark Brackenridge ... More >>

The Great Gordo’s TV Show: Average Gordo

Ed Barks, Tracy Bites Back

Ed Bark, Liver Than You'll Ever Be

Tony Romo Has 67 Million Reasons to Be Alive

No Homes for the Homeless, Again

Beyond the Norm

But Do Not Multiply

Ankarlo Off a KLIF

Mong: "We're Righting the Ship." So, There.

Re: Damn the Man

Re: Damn the Man

Damn The Man

Violence in the Village

Best Sports-Talk Show

Pretty much all of 'em on KTCK-AM (1310), The Ticket

Boys to Men

How did the juvenile jokesters at The Ticket respond to real-life terror? Real well.

:cueless

Buzz hacks through the past in search of the cool cats and fools of the year that was

Best Sports Talk Show

The Hardline/Dunham and Miller

Best Dallas Maverick for a day

Gordon Keith

Buzz

What's in a name; Don't let the doorknob hit you; Payment due

Scene, heard

Conspiracy theories; Bella Union strikes; a Wreck of a Room; X marks the spot

Scene, heard

DOMA 2000 (of course), Baboon takes it live; Elliot Smith helps The Toadies; and much, much more

James McMurtry

Monte Montgomery

Collect them all!

Naked and proud and stupid -- meet the new Woodstock

Buzz

Talking up The Ticket

Or: Why The Fake Johnny Oates is better than the real thing

1998 Best of Dallas

Sports

Aural Sex

Holly Mullen meets Dunham and Miller, the radio jocks whose sports talk show leaves Dallas women panting for more