In case you missed it this a.m., David Flick had a piece in The News about Bingo Gossip and Missy Mouser, the 26-year-old one-woman show running the pub that caters to the 80-and-up crowd for whom the phrase “ball lifter” refers to “the mechanism used to raise the ball from…
So much for Shale.tv, which was to be the online “news” outlet for Chesapeake Energy starring, as you’ll no doubt recall, Tracy Rowlett, who left KTVT-Channel 11 for the venture. Notes the Fort Worth Business Press this afternoon: “Jerri Robbins, public relations manager, said the move comes in response the…
If you’ve always wondered what it’d be like to listen to Jim “The Great Optimist” Schutze talk to WFAA-Channel 8’s John McCaa for, like, 12 uninterrupted minutes, today is your lucky day. –Robert Wilonsky…
Editor & Publisher has picked up on Daily Cartoonist blogger Alan Gardner’s item concerning The Dallas Morning News’s decision to drop 14 comic strips. Of course, the paper is conducting a poll to see which strip readers would like returned to the funny pages; but comments posted to Gardner’s item…
Hate to follow any news story, especially one from a pub I used to work for, but sometimes it can’t be helped. Especially when someone like brother reporter John Council looks toward the sky and notices it’s falling on the Dallas County Republican Party. In this week’s Texas Lawyer, Council…
Dan Foote, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald Baylor University’s W. R. Poage Legislative Library is “celebrating the art of editorial cartooning” with the exhibition “Drawing Power: Original Editorial Cartoons,” which features such familiar locals as Bill DeOre, ex of The Dallas Morning News, and Dan Foote, with whom Schutze…
The Portable People Meter is listening to everything you listen to. So, like, beware? For years, this is how Arbitron measured radio ratings rather crudely, but also quite simply: Participants, selected at random, would fill out diaries in which they listed what they were listening to and when for a…
Because it’s brilliant. Not that No. 81’s whining. Because he never whines, especially not after losses to NFC East rivals during which his number was called a little too often. Never ever. And Keyshawn Johnson will never get tired of being called “Sheshawn” after today. A smackdown in two parts…
Lara Solt, a Dallas Morning News staff photographer, just won an online-photography award from the Military Reporters & Editors Association for a collection of images that chronicled a U.S. Marine’s recovery after a bridge exploded beneath him in Iraq. Corporal Eric Morante lost a leg, underwent extensive surgeries and endured…
As Uncle Barky’s site has remained relatively mum since news of his “procedure” last week — save for his Paul Newman obit on Saturday — several Friends of Unfair Park have asked about Ed’s health status. So, this brief update, as the Dean of TV Criticism isn’t one for hogging…
Charged with misdemeanors. But not indicted with a felony. Got it? Acting on an educated hunch, I made a call this afternoon to Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney David Hagerman. Sure enough, he confirms that a grand jury on Thursday returned a three-count, Class A misdemeanor complaint against Live 105.3…
Yesterday, Ed Bark had big news for those who continue to wonder what in the hell KXAS-Channel 5 was thinking when the NBC affiliate opted not to renew meteorologist Rebecca Miller’s contract back in March: She’s going to sub on KDAF-Channel 33’s 9 p.m. newscasts Thursdays and Fridays, beginning tonight…
Everyone’s getting a big giggle out of 143-year-old New York Post Page Six columnist Cindy Adams’ reference today to Preston Hollow as “a town outside Dallas” known for its “horse stables, lake views, mountain views, golf club views.” Notes a Post comment, “Cindy Adams has perhaps sampled the manure addiction”;…
The “B” in The Ticket’s BaD Radio show Deadspin’s been decidedly Dallas-centric in recent days, but never more so than moments ago, when it posted a photo of KTCK-AM’s Bob Sturm, who kinda says that, yeah, ESPN’s ripping off his 7-year-old concept that involves power-ranking NFL franchises throughout the league’s…
Back on the air. Back to his old self? Radio is a changin’. Arbitron recently awoke to the digital age and began more accurately deducting ratings via new electronic portable people meters. So instead of humans flippantly filling out diaries with No. 2 pencils, we’ll now get a much more…
As you’re no doubt aware, Jeff Pearlman’s tell-most Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is in stores. And this morning, The New York Times features a lengthy Q&A with the author, in which he picks Michael Irvin as the most “indispensable”…
For the last little while, the great Frank Luksa — who’s written for every single local daily in the history of ink, danged near — has been contributing to ESPN.com. For instance, a couple of months back, he offered up tales from Dallas Cowboys’ training camps past. This morning, as…
Nice photo of Tracy Rowlett in this morning’s New York Times, in a story about Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s Shale.tv, due to launch sometime this month. As you no doubt recall, the former KTVT-Channel 11 anchor doesn’t take kindly to folks who dismiss the site as an online informercial for the…
Sarah McDaniel For those who like to do their Sunday-morning reading on a Thursday, two local items of note in The New York Times’ sportsy supplement Play. One’s a lengthy, engrossing Mimi Swartz-penned piece on the selling of Parker’s Nastia Liukin — whose name is misspelled throughout much of the…
I know — this is very last-minute. But, if nothing else, you will have a second chance to catch KERA-TV’s second installment of Nowhere But Texas if you miss tonight’s airing, which begins at 7 p.m. on Channel 13, natch. There’s a Saturday-morning rebroadcast at 11:30, and it’s worth a…
Speaking of Mayor Tom, as we were below, turns out you can speak to the man himself in a couple of hours. He’ll be appearing on KERA-FM (90.1) at 1 p.m., as the guest on Krys Boyd’s Think. As for the subject: “What does the future hold for Dallas and…
Probably should have mentioned this, like, oh, I dunno, Friday maybe? But, yes, I did host a late-night music show on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) on Saturday night that lasted till the wee small hours of Sunday morning. It’s called Till 2, as in: Nothing good ever happens after 2…
