Oprah Winfrey

Of Lance, Scientologists and Other Liars, Or Why the Truth Hurts

The weekend draws mercifully close, and I feel a need to revisit a couple themes touched on here earlier in the week. We started with Lance Armstrong on Monday. I predicted he would fake-confess and then offer a jail-house rationalization to the effect of, "I didn't do nuthin'." I admit this predict ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Will Reveal His But to Oprah

Let me tell you in advance what Lance Armstrong is going to say to Oprah today. And how do I know? Well, obviously, I do not. But it's just as obvious to me that I do. Everybody knows by now that world cycling mega-star Lance Armstrong of Austin is going to confess to Oprah Winfrey today that he's ... More >>

Springtime for Hitler, Mid-Summer

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets to This Weekend's Urgh! A Music War Screening

I feel like Oprah! We can't stop giving stuff away! Today, we have two pairs of tickets to this weekend's screening of Urgh! A Music War at Texas Theatre. Friday night, after the film, stuck around and see Peopleodian, Nervous Curtains and After Hours With George Quartz. Nervous Curtains just allude ... More >>

Cable TV Programmers Make Bait-and-Switch a High Art

Drunken yoga does not equal female empowerment. Show of hands: Who remembers when cable TV's A&E channel featured real art for entertainment? Been a long time, right? Back in the 1990s, the Arts & Entertainment channel, as it was known then, specialized in high-culture programming. Ballet. Opera. ... More >>

Bring On the Meatless Mondays

​Happy belated birthday, sweet infant Jesus! Now that all that trimming the tree and wrapping presents is over, all Santa's cookies have been eaten, and all the stores are ready to mark down all the stuff you just bought by 60 percent, we can look ahead to the dawning of another year and the d ... More >>

Whitt's End: 2.19.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I'm setting the over/under on Tiger Woods saying the word "sorry" in this morning's sanitized statement at 4.5, and I'm taking the under. I'll also be shocked if he cries. At some point he will, b ... More >>

Top 10 Most Annoying Diet Fads

In a rare unguarded moment, Jared Fogle appears without a pair of pants in his hand.​Grapefruit can change your life. Cabbage soup, too. Balancing the right carbs with the right fats extends one's youth. Smoking shaves off the pounds. Eating only vegetables is ethically right...While Americans did ... More >>

Purple Ovation

Days Gone Bite: Steak And Eggs

Steak and eggs, Denny's-style.​The classic combination hasn't disappeared. In fact, during a recent visit to Fort Worth, I spotted the option on Grace's dinner menu.Once upon a time, however, this double-wallop of protein was such a common feature it rivaled (perhaps even beat out) bacon and eggs, ... More >>

Monday's Unverified Fact About New Orleans

​The semi-daunted 'Boys head to the town that France built on Saturday night. A "fact" about the 'Aints:It was only when he made the soup for a team pot luck dinner that Saints quarterback Drew Brees learned 'gumbo' is not made with Dubble Bubble.**Source: A national tabloid ran this as a secondar ... More >>

Things I'm Thankful For

​It has been a difficult year so far, at least for many people. We've dealt with a media blitz over Sarah Clampett's new book, a couple of bozos named Jon and Kate, the continuing presence of Oprah...oh, and that economy thing.Still, there are many things to be thankful for this holiday season. Th ... More >>

Dale and Oprah, Curbing Their Enthusiasm

Dunno how we missed this -- well, actually, I do, since nobody 'round here watches the 5 o'clock news. Anyway, thanks to WFAA-Channel 8 for posting to YouTube this afternoon a clip of Dale Hansen with yesterday's special guest anchor, one Oprah Winfrey, with whom Dale took issue for introducing the ... More >>

A Day at the Fair: Weather, Winners and Winfrey.

Oprah's the one in the hat. The Cowboy hat.​This was the plan: Cowboys will trounce the sorry ass Chiefs, so I'll sneak off with friends to the Fair on Sunday afternoon and let TiVo leisurely give me the highlights when I get home. During a Cowboys game Fair Park shouldn't be too crowded. A ... More >>

Why Do We Love Oprah? Because We Also Love McDonald's

​I've spent some effort avoiding this day, hoping it would never, ever come. But all of my valiant, last ditch efforts--a quick search for an apartment in Allen, begging to work from a Starbucks in Oklahoma City for a day or two--fell through.Now I'm trapped. Although I've spent much of my adult l ... More >>

Oprah Says Thanks, Y'all, For the "Food Coma'" and the State Fair Memories

Patrick MichelsOprah turned up in the crowd Monday morning in this slimming cardboard number, hoisted by the good people of Stolen Oprah.​ After holding court around the fairgrounds on Sunday, Oprah turned out for her show's taping this morning in her Stetson, boots and blue jeans, dropping "y'all ... More >>

Everybody Gets Fried Butter!

Flickr photo: cmiked​A good Friend of Unfair Park who was out at the State Fair of Texas today sends word: OMFG, Oprah! Fried butter for everyone! Nice photo of the clusterflock at top -- especially of WFAA's Cynthia Izaguirre, who looks damned happy to be there -- but this one's the keeper.

If You're Not an Oprah Winfrey Fan, You May Want to Skip the State Fair of Texas Monday

​Specifically, you'll want to stay away from the Chevrolet Main Stage at 10 a.m., when Oprah Winfrey will begin taping her State Fair of Texas special that'll also include a performance by Martina McBride. Winfrey's production company just sent the details for her appearance, if you have further q ... More >>

Today In Music News: Crystal Castles Show Stopped, Jigga And Oprah Are BFF and Jacko's Movie Being Released

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, August 11, 2009...Police shut down an all-night rave when fans of opening band Crystal Castles jumped from balconies onto the floor.  Well, at least they played this show. Jay-Z is Oprah's newest favorite thing?  I smell a 50 Cent diss tr ... More >>

Whitt's End: 7.24.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Once upon a time Walter Cronkite was the "most trusted man in America." His death got me wondering who wears that crown today? The answer hurts: Oprah. *Sure smells like the Dallas Mavericks - who lo ... More >>

Chewing the Fat: Or Not Chewing The Fat--Same Thing Either Way

Books about dieting and weight loss. Geez, the shelves are packed full of some expert's latest "scientific" finding, or maybe a "re-discovery" of what humans are supposed to eat in the wild (nuts, berries and kuchikami at parties). The one thing all the books share in common is a claim to being the ... More >>

Read, Speak, Learn

Chewing The Fat: Drink To Your Health

Lately I've been worried that the olives in my martini just aren't enough. They're kinda old-fashioned, after all, and the jar says nothing about polyphenols or flavonoids. So where am I supposed to get the essentials, like antioxidants and anthocyanins, without sacrificing alcohol content? Acai be ... More >>

Tomorrow, Protestors to Demand Petland Hop Off the Puppy Mill Pronto

Tomorrow up in Plano, animal-rights activists are scheduled to bark at Petland, which is being accused of selling dogs bred in puppy mills. The exact location's 340 Coit Road near the Bush Turnpike, if you're in the area and wondering about the barking. (No word about plans for the Preston Forest lo ... More >>

In Living Color

See The Color Purple at Fair Park

Greggo: After The Show

Unmentionables

Notes on Warming

Hicks and Hassell show at the MAC

You'll Do As He Says

Buzz the Park

Smurf Fetish

The Blue Man Group plays the AAC

Give 'Em Sommore

Forbes: Adios, Earth Biofuels.

Flagpole Runna

If Memory Serves

Imp Of The Perverse

Songs, Stars and Stripes

A Very Long Run

New releases available this week

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Paint by Numbers

Inside the life of Southlake's child prodigy artist, 15-year-old Olivia Gennett

Bein' Green

Don't Mess with Erin

Fat Chance

Jump-start diet resolutions

House of Pain

It's Kingsley vs. Connelly in a heart-wrenching real estate battle

Best Thai Restaurant

Banana Leaf

Best Place to Beat the Heat

Joe Pool Lake/Cedar Hill State Park

Best Rest Rooms

Café Patrique

Analyze this

From his seat on Oprah, Dallas' Dr. Phil McGraw reigns as the king of quick fixes for troubled relationships. But what about his own?

Not nearly Beloved

Toni Morrison's novel makes an awkward transition from page to screen

Bull--it's what's for dinner

The cows aren't the only ones pumping out manure in windy Amarillo, where Oprah is giving the cattlemen a lesson in steer wrestling

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX