Television

Top Chef Seattle: It's over. Really. We Promise This Time.

The Top Chef: Seattle season finale was really good last night. Kristen and Brooke competed for the Top Chef title in front of a live audience and had to serve up dishes for the whole audience of 160 people, plus past winners of Top Chef, plus the judges. They were told to plan for five courses, but ... More >>

Tyler Florence Signing Books at Williams-Sonoma Today at Noon

Tyler Florence, host of several Food Network shows including "Iron Chef," "Food 911" and "Tyler's Ultimate," will be at Williams-Sonoma at NorthPark Center at noon today (Monday, Dec 10), signing copies of his new cookbook, TYLER FLORENCE FRESH. After a peek at the book online, in the introduction ... More >>

European Election Monitors Find U.S. Elections Are Expensive, "Unduly Politicized," Other Shockingly Obvious Conclusions

At the end of October, highly watchable Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott threatened to press charges against any "U.N. poll watchers" who might "interfere with Texas elections." Not to be outdone, state officials in Pennsylvania and Iowa also started threatening to arrest people. Those "poll wa ... More >>

The Angelika Goes Mad

Does My Smoking Pot Support Mexican Cartels?

And why don't more Mexis appear on television news talk shows?

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 >>

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop: Try Harder

Diary of a late-night diva.

Forget Demi: It's Grand Prairie's Own Selena Gomez That Disney's Pushing Now.

​Can you smell it? That intoxicating blend of corporate America, young Hollywood and mall food courts wafting around town today -- that's from one Selena Gomez, who is indeed back home in Dallas today, promoting the two fairly major projects on her immediate horizon, her FOX studio film called Mo ... More >>

A Guy's Guy: Food Network's Fieri is Awesome, Dude

Food NetworkYou go, Guy.​There may be no other Food Network personality worthy of not just one but, count 'em, two Screen Bites reviews than Guy Fieri. Already the raucous center of a previous appreciation of his kitchen-bound program, Guy's Big Bite, which single-handedly proved that Fieri p ... 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 >>

MTV Issues Cattle Call for Fat Local Teens

Students have long worried about the pounds they'll put on during their freshman year of college, but an increasing number of graduating high school seniors are trying to lose significant amounts of weight before they arrive on campus. ​Those dieting teens are the focus of I Used to Be Fat, a ... More >>

Jon Stewart Spends 22 Minutes With T. Boone Pickens, "The Wilt Chamberlain of Fracking"

​Speaking of vehicles powered by compressed natural gas ...Mayor Tom Leppert was deeply involved in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board's decision (after much debate and delay) to spend $210 million to convert its liquefied natural gas and clean diesel bus fleet to CNG. Mayor Tom was also deeply i ... More >>

Watch: Old 97's Went To "Champaign, Illinois" On Last Night's Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Old 97's, Jay Leno, David Spade and, wait, is that a witch?​ Rhett Miller, Murry Hammond, Ken Bethea and Philip Peeples popped up on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night to perform "Champaign, Illinois" from their just-released The Grand Theatre, Volume One -- not because it's the single, ... More >>

Watch: Midlake Performed "Acts Of Man" on Later...With Jools Holland Last Night.

Midlake's Tim Smith looking forlorn on Later... With Jools Holland last night.​Seems we've been in the business of posting video's of Midlake playing all over England recently. But, hey, we promise that this one's really worth your time. See, performing on Later...With Jools Holland is kind of a b ... More >>

In Case You Switched Providers in Recent Weeks, Dish Network, FOX Kiss and Make Up

Dish'ers, you're now free to watch FX's The League again. And if you're not, you should.​That's the word from the Dish Network, which just sent word that, nope, it's not gonna drop regular ol' FOX from its line-up after all. And, matter of fact, those 19 regional sports nets axed on October 1, inc ... More >>

Tell Me A Story (Cuento)

Color Us Excited

Mr. Important

Jessica Simpson Talks Romo and Why, Yes, She May Indeed Be "Sexual Napalm"

Tony Romo's been all over the place this week: on Jimmy Kimmel Live, in that what-the Super Bowl video and, last night, on the Late Show With David Letterman. Well, actually, Romo wasn't on Late Show -- he was just the topic of conversation. The Richardson native was ostensibly visiting Letterman to ... More >>

St. Vincent To Perform On Jimmy Kimmel Live Tonight

​Indeed, Dallas native Annie Clark will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight performing, one would guess per the protocol of these things, to close out the show. Were I a betting man, I'd say the song we're going to hear tonight is "Marrow," the rousing song track Clark stunningly performed during her ... More >>

Kids and 'Dults Get Wiggly

Wanna Produce Channel 5's Newscast?

​Because, like, you so totally could. Says so in this just-posted job listing on the KXAS-Channel 5 Web site:NBC Universal's Owned and Operated Television station in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, KXAS TV, is looking for a Newscast Producer. As a Newscast Producer, you will produce a live newscast wi ... More >>

Politically Incorrect

Today in Music News: Eminem Live On Tape, White Stripes Not Far Off, M.I.A Needs Oprah

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009...Booking residencies on late night talk shows has become quite the fad this year. But I think Eminem needs to figure out what a residency actually means. Like Prince did with Jay Leno, Eminem will perform for three nights on Jim ... More >>

Party In the Back

The Backyardigans visit Nokia

Dancin', Dancin'

Not-quite-celebs tour their smooth moves

Chin For Charity

Jay Leno brings the funny for Casa Jay Leno brings the funny for Casa Mañana

Luke Campbell Talks Tying The Knot, Hip-Hop And Finding His Son's Porn Collection

Blair Bitch Project

Boys will be girls in The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode, a ribald triumph of low comedy and high production values

Disney Channel Fits Colleyville's Demi Lovato For A Glass Slipper

She's now lined up to be the next Hannah Montana.

Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers and ... Dallas' Demi Lovato?

Former Dallas Police Detective Says Good Morning America

Debbie Does Dallas

The DSO welcomes a legendary song and dance dame

Talk to Me

Ferguson to cause swooning at Bass Hall

So You Think You'll Go?

Casey Thompson is America's Sweetheart -- And $10,000 Richer For It

Ready to Rumble

Dallas entrepreneur pushes his own brand of ultimate fighting

Talking Head

Bob Woodruff gets personal at Borders

Out of Exile, Scott Sams is Back

Tracy Rowlett Talks About Leaving Channel 11, The Good Ol' Days and and Stations Obsessed With "Car Wrecks and Fires"

He's Crafty

Mourning News

Drowning in Camp

The Aqua Rangers take Lakewood

Prime Time Laughs

Elmo's World

Sesame Street Live colors it in

Red Planet Rocks

Muppets and Martians party hardy

Naked Ambition

Jamie Oliver shows his twist at Central Market

Law & Disorder

As one of TV's best and best-loved series launches a new spin-off, its creator grapples with the aftershocks of terror

Donal in the Middle

Grounded for Life

KERA's fading signal

Richie Meyer prepares to leave behind a struggling public radio station