Mike Rhyner

Strong Mayor: Mike Rawlings Loses the Game but Wins the Crowd at Literacy Center Benefit

Damn. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings got me last night. I resisted, but he got me. Anyway, I finally found the answer to a question that has long nagged me. When he does that affable dumb jock routine? Yeah. He's about to take you for a whirlwind visit to the cleaners. My wife was already falling out ... More >>

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 >>

A Cooking Show Starring Drunk Chefs and Late-Night Munchies? The Ticket's Onto Something.

Thursday evening The Hardline spent a segment tossing around ideas for a cooking show. Sure it has nothing to do with sports, but that's nothing new for you P1s out there. Mike Rhyner brought to the table a cooking show based on headlights. Yes, headlights. Particularly on a sufficiently breasted f ... More >>

A Rambling Item Starring David Seeley, Tango, Gary Myrick, Joe "King" Carrasco and the Crowns, Mike Rhyner and Lisa Loeb

Via.Tango and the work of the great Bob "Daddy-O" Wade​Speaking of late, great Lower Greenville venues ...Last weekend the boy and I picked over Paperbacks Plus, where I found a copy of David Seeley's Too Cool to Get Married, a 1989 paperback collection of pieces written for, mostly, Texas Monthly ... More >>

From 1971, Supreme Court Justice Douglas's Thoughts on DPD's Raid of Burns's Dallas Notes

​That copy of Dallas Notes you see above was loaned to me yesterday by one Mike Rhyner, who, as it turns out, was a contributor to the late Stoney Burns's Buddy magazine way back when. Its pages are brittle; it falls apart when you just look at it. Contained within, on Page 3, is a story headlined ... More >>

Today's KZEW Blast From the Past: LaBella and Rody (and Mike Rhyner) on Trial!

Gosh, it's been ... what ... four whole days since the last mention of The Zoo? But I can't help myself: While scouting the YouTube for something wildly unrelated, I came across this just-posted flashback courtesy one "Walter from Waco" (oh, the memories): an old KZEW-FM TV ad starring Johns LaBella ... More >>

All About the All About Uptown Fest

Photos by Sam MertenMike Rhyner​Despite the rain early on Saturday, I found myself at the All About Uptown Festival for the third-straight year, and it wasn't until checking out the festival's website just now that I realized it's only the third year of its existence. Not a heckuva lot has cha ... More >>

If You've Ever Wanted to Host a Show on The Ticket, Here's Your Big Break. Seriously.

​Whilst combing through the Internets for an Unfair Park item, I just came across this job posting: "Host Ticket Top 10 (Full-time) Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket." No kidding? I called Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, to see what the what -- like, did Chris House get fired? ... More >>

Gig Alert: Get Covered With Xerofest at Lee Harvey's on Saturday

​You may (or may not) recall a story I did in the print edition a few months back where I chronicled the mass amount of cover/tribute acts that call Dallas-Fort Worth home. Well, several of the acts mentioned in my story will gather this Saturday at Lee Harvey's for something called Xerofest. You ... More >>

What Is On Mike Rhyner's Mind Today? Schutze's Column on Adamson High School.

If you, like Mike Rhyner, are interested in the historic significance of this Oak Cliff landmark, all ya gotta do is click this.​Earlier today on The Ticket, Hardline host Mike Rhyner brought up two of our favorite subjects: Dallas's demolition of what little history it has left (especially downto ... More >>

Whitt's End: 11.13.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *OK, so let it be known that my buddy and Ticket founding father Mike Rhyner has been/is calling for a Cowboys' appearance in this year's Super Bowl. This, after 14-plus years as president of the a ... More >>

Celebrating the Rather Random 36th Anniversary of the Launch of KZEW-FM

​Been feeling awful nostalgic for KZEW in recent days -- maybe it has to do with the latest eff-you over on 93.3; maybe it stemmed from catching a vintage clip last week on The Ticket, where someone had dug up Mike Rhyner talking media-league softball way back when. So, of course, I visited The Zo ... More >>

Lights Out!

Welcome to the dark side.Over on The Ticket, Mike Rhyner (aka "Baseball Jesus", the cockiest nickname in the history of sports, by the way) is quick to identify the "catastrophic moment." The play/incident/injury/whatever that signals the beginning of the end each Texas Rangers' season. Over ... More >>

Let Me Ask to Speak with the Sportatorium

Back when I was just a punk - okay a younger punk - there was this show on Channel 8. Best I can remember, it came on Saturday nights at 6:30 and featured station manager Mike Shapiro answering viewers' questions about programming choices, etc. It was decades ahead of its time in yanking back t ... More >>

Rocky's Road Back to Woodrow

As we mentioned yesterday, Dallas-born blues guitar great Rocky Hill will be buried today in Hopkins County, with a funeral beginning at 1 p.m. followed by a graveside service. Soon as we noted his death on Friday at the age of 62, Friend of Unfair Park LakeWWWooder sent us this photo of Hill at the ... More >>

Girls 61, Boys 44

Mike Rhyner actually drained this 3-pointer. The rest of Team Ticket's night was considerably suckier. One player wore low-top running shoes and - duh - sprained his ankle. A guy in only a diaper was escorted out by security. And, in the end, the teen-aged girls reduced the mid ... More >>

Corby Davidson Ain't Going Nowhere

The Snake performing at Ticketstock 2008, as captured by Brian DarleyAnd neither's Mike Rhyner, which you already know if you read Richie's piece last Friday about how "The Hardline" was awful close to moving from KTCK-AM to the recently launched The Fan located at 105.3 on Your FM Dial. Said Rhyner ... More >>

Welcome to Training Camp. Er, Paradise

The Human Touch

Behind the Scenes: The Making of the Greg Williams Story

The Hard Lie

How former Ticket host Greg Williams destroyed the most dynamic duo in Dallas talk radio through drugs, deceit and disaffection

Your Weekly (Daily?) Ticket/Ex-Ticket Update

No, Wait -- There's Greggo!

Greg Williams: Life After The Hardline

Greg Williams Has "Resigned" From The Ticket. And That Is That. Right.

The Last Word on The Ticket's "He Who Must Not Be Named"

Hammering Out a Deal

Dallas Talk Radio Drums Up Local Music Support

Hammer Still Missing From Tool Box

The Ticket Mystery: Solved?

Hardline History

Gordon Lightfoot and Mike Rhyner form an unlikely bond

Sump'n Else

Local rock legends reunite

Reviewing the Revue, Part Two (With Audio!)

It's "Hardline" Out Here for a Wimp

That's the Ticket

Power Trip

Behind the Music: Courtside

So Far, So Great

Sweet Greggo

Mike Rhyner's Penis | Butt-Rock Beating

A Dirty Dozen

Rhyner's revolution spawns 12 successful years for The Ticket

Best Sports Talk Show

The Hardline KTCK-AM 1310, The Ticket

Best Sports Talk Show

The Ticket Top 10, KTCK-AM (1310)

Best Sports-Talk Show

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

WWJD?

Plus: Dalbie and Tex, A List

Best Sports Talk Show

The Hardline/Dunham and Miller

Race riot

Hosts at The Ticket say it's only a game when they play the race card

Talking up The Ticket

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

Aural Sex

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