Articles for March 11th, 2010
Stars Slash Ticket Prices
Apparently losing is not a good strategy for putting butts in seats. The Stars are slashing ticket prices for the next six games (Friday, March 12 vs. Los Angeles Kings; March 14 vs. Colorado Avalanche; March 16 vs. San Jose Sharks; March 18 vs. Philadelphia Flyers; March 20 vs. Ottawa Senators; March 21 vs. Phoenix Coyotes) by as much as 75 percent. Upper level seats are now $10 (reg. $40) and lower level seats are now $40 (reg. $85 to $120). Go here if you’re interested. This is good news for fans. Not so much for someone trying to sell the team.
Bucks Burnett and His Beloved Eight-Track Tapes in the Wall Street Journal
Tons of good stuff in this profile of all-around good guy Bucks Burnett, tied to the opening of a temporary, one-month-only eight-track museum opening in conjunction with NX35, and I recommend you read it as soon as you finish this terse yet charming blog post. Two things I’ll note before you move on:
– Great sub-head: “Tiny Tim’s Former Manager Hopes to Open Museum for Obsolete Music Format.” I’d read that story even if I didn’t already know Bucks.
– Favorite part: “He wants to open an eight-track museum. ‘There are only two choices. A world with an eight-track museum and a world without an eight-track museum,’ he says. ‘I choose with.’”
Okay. Get to it.
Merlin Olsen and a Dallas Icon
There’s a great story from the 80’s about Merlin Olsen, who died today. Some might remember him from his days as one of the LA Rams’ “Fearsome Foursome”; others might recall his roles as Father Murphy and in Little House on the Prairie.
What’s the Dallas connection? Follow the jump. (more…)
A Play at the Wyly on the Cheap: Fat Pig for $5 (Or Less)
One of the best deals in this city (besides the $2.50 happy hour hamburger at Dakota’s) is the Dallas Theater Center’s Pay What You Program. Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig (part of the Beauty Plays trilogy), directed by Kevin Moriarty, opens in previews tomorrow night. Normally tickets run $15 to $40. But tomorrow, if you walk up the box office, beginning at 10 a.m., you pay what you can. Note: it’s not Pay As Little as You Want. If you’re a Booker T student, sure, buy a ticket for $5. But all you trust fund layabouts out there, don’t abuse the muse. If you can pay more, please do so. (In fact, Jacob Cigainero, the DTC’s PR puck, tells me that they make less money than they normally would when they run this program.) For more details, go here.
Jake and Vienna Take in a Mavs Game
If you watched the just-concluded season of The Bachelor — or, if like me, you just read Laura’s scathing recaps of the show — then you know who Jake and Vienna are. No last names needed (since I don’t know them). Last night they were at the AAC, watching the Mavs get their 13th consecutive win. The great Raya Ramsey, whose lovely forehead I can see two cubicles over as I type this, was there last night and took these pics (which are copyrighted so hard that you better not even think about putting them on your site. I’m looking at you, US Weekly.) More proof that Mark Cuban is savvy: he saw that Jake was tweeting from the game and made sure he and Vienna got on the jumbotron. Check out Cuban’s tweet.
Catching Up With the Kenny Goss Crowd
Joyce Goss may be a world-class beauty who oversees a cutting-edge international art collection. But she’s also a frank-talking, down-home gal who was brought up on a peanut farm south of San Antonio. Her brother-in-law, Kenny Goss, may be all hitched up with musical superstar George Michael. But he’s also a guy who loves big dogs and hitting the Whataburger drive-through late at night. That’s what you learn sharing a luncheon table with this dynamic duo (photo of the pair by Jeanne Prejean). You also learn they’ll soon shutter their Goss-Michael Foundation on Cedar Springs. Ran out of space there, it seems. They’ll open again in September in a new location–details not finalized yet–that will be three or four times larger. And, that ain’t just a “Careless Whisper.”
Leading Off (3/11/10)
1. Guess what? It’s technically legal for you to talk on a phone in a school zone! So forget those darned kids and their stupid safety. Get on that phone and start chatting!
2. On his way to lunch one day, Bryan Jacobs saw a woman weaving in and out of traffic on I-35. When she hit a wall, he realized she was knocked out, so he pulled his truck in front of her car and forced her to stop. Doctors discovered the woman had a tumor on her brain. Jacobs is now nominated for a national award called Citizen Service Above Self Honors. I like Jacobs. Not just because he saved a woman’s life and possibly other lives, but because of his view on marriage: “I’m glad to know she and her husband, who have only been married a year, get to bug each other for another 70 to 80 years,” Jacobs said.
3. I don’t think it’s ever too early to start thinking about corny dogs, fried Elvis sandwiches, chicken-fried bacon, and—my favorite part of the State Fair—OU/TX. So I was elated to see that the State Fair theme has been announced: it’s “Super Sized Fun.” See what they did there? They tied it in with the Super Bowl. Maybe Big Tex will do one of these.
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