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Randy Travis: Common Bat or Buffy Vampire?
Randy Travis is the guy in the middle, in case you didn't know.
Reuse Jeans sent out an email today to share pictures from the Jan. 21 grand opening of its new store at the Shops at Park Lane. In the email, they were sure to note how grateful they were that country singer Randy Travis had been able to stop by (see photo above.)
This new photo, and Mr. Travis’ recent Denton County Sheriff’s Department mugshot, have sparked an intra-office disagreement.
Settle the argument: Does he look more like a vampire bat or a vampire from the TV shows Buffy and Angel?
How Do People FEEL About Khloe Kardashian Odom?
Tim linked to Khloe Kardashian Odom’s interview with NBC Channel 5 in Leading Off, but in his usual quest to make a sex “joke,” he skipped over basically 98 percent of the content of said interview. Including:
“I got Mason chaps, a suede vest, a cowboy hat,” she said. “I got Mason a ton of stuff. Robert and I got two cowboy hats.”
Mason will surely blend right in. More interesting, for our purposes:
“Coming here, I can honestly say I have never felt more genuinely loved,” she said. “It’s not phony. People are just genuinely nice to you. They really just want to be helpful or hug you — but hug you not in a creepy way. It’s the Southern hospitality.”
Admittedly, I don’t know much about the Kardashians, but whenever they’ve been mentioned on FrontBurner, the reaction in the comments is, let’s say, divisive, especially regarding Khloe. In the office, however, she seems to be pretty much universally liked, if not loved. And according to her, that’s the reaction she gets around town. So, though I know how this will go, I’ve made a poll, to make this all scientific-like. It’s after the jump. If you don’t feel like voting, here is Beyonce’s “Love On Top.” Just because.
Harry Potter Disgusted by Rick Perry’s ‘Homophobic’ Views, Brokeback Mountain Jacket
Daniel Radcliffe, currently at a theater near you in The Woman in Black but best known as the star of the Harry Potter films, gave an interview to the UK gay magazine Attitude, which the UK newspaper The Guardian recaps.
In it, in addition to declaring that he’s a “militant atheist,” he decries the GOP presidential hopefuls, especially Gov. Rick Perry:
He went on to say that he has been “disgusted, amazed, stunned” by candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, such as Rick Santorum or Michele Bachmann, who have been openly hostile to gay rights.
“But they disgusted me less than candidates like Rick Perry, who made that ridiculous advert wearing ‘the Brokeback jacket’, and I think pretend to be homophobic just to win votes.”
You remember the ad he’s talking about, right?
(H/T: DMN Trail Blazers blog)
Why D Magazine NEEDS To Adopt TMZ’s Headline Style, Via the Deion-Pilar Divorce
DEION SANDERS I NEVER Offered Cash for Ass
DEION SANDERS Pilar’s Trying to EXTORT Me
PILAR SANDERS SLAMS DEION He’s a No-Good CHEATER … and a MEGA-Narcissist
DEION SANDERS Daughter SLAMS Step-Mom — You’re a ‘Gold-Digging H*e’
And so on. Do people click on those because they’re sensational subject-wise? Of course. Oh my lord. But also, because they generally make sure to CAPITALIZE a word in most headlines. That tells me, as a reader, “There is something important here. Something IMPORTANT. SOMETHING important.” See? You want to click on that sentence don’t you? But you can’t, because all it would do is highlight the sentence, and not take you to a magical, grammatically suspect blog post. Anyway, I’m doing this from now on.
Rating Super Bowl Ads With Dallas-Fort Worth Locals: Words With Friends and Double the Deion
Here’s a breakdown of how North Texas residents fared in their Super Bowl commercial appearances. We’re rating their contributions only, not the entire ad. Starting with the cream of the crop:
The guys who came up with the greatest time-waster known to man, Words With Friends, had the best moment in this Best Buy ad, tweaking the recent Alec Baldwin-American Airlines brouhaha over playing the game on the plane. They show up at about the 30-second mark. Rating: 9 out of 10
Josh Hamilton on Alcohol Relapse: ‘I Can Be Very Deceptive, Very Sneaky in a Lot of Ways’
During the press conference he held just now, Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers comes across as a humbled, contrite man who continues to deal with an addiction that can seize hold of him in moments of weakness. He called Monday night a “weak moment.”
“It never gets easy,” he said.
Based on his account of the evening, it was far more than just a drink or two. He said he had 3 or 4 drinks with his dinner (after a difficult personal family matter drove him to be at a restaurant by himself.) Then he called teammate Ian Kinsler for company. Kinsler stayed with him for awhile, and they moved to another place after the first place they visited closed. Later, Kinsler went home, and Hamilton promised him he was not going to go out again on his own.
But he did. He went back to the place they’d just left and had more alcoholic beverages. No one saw him drinking, he said, since he has a way to keep people from seeing him do it.
“Once I do drink, I can be very deceptive, very sneaky in a lot of ways,” he said.
The extra danger for Hamilton is his history with other drugs, and there’s no telling, once he starts drinking, when the “switch will flip” and he might be led to those other vices. He said he didn’t use anything else that night and has been tested twice for drugs since then.
He thanked the Rangers for their support and didn’t field any questions.
Why Mark Cuban is Dominating the Shark Tank, Needs to Invest $25,000 in Me
It's good to be Mark Cuban.
I’m a fan of the ABC show Shark Tank, in which entrepreneurs ask for investments from a group of venture capitalists (the “Sharks.”) Some of the business ideas are great (like the “Netflix for kids’ toys”) but others seem to be ideas that the producers only allowed to get on the air because they’re so laughable.
During the second season Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban made several appearances, and in this current season he’s become a regular. At first I found him to be a nice addition, but his celebrity power — he’s by far the most famous of the “Sharks” — is killing the game of it. Entrepreneurs seem to get weak-kneed when they see Cuban, and they’re willing to accept lesser deals from him (rather than a better deal from another Shark) just for the chance to continue to bask in the glow of his star power. The playing field is tilted in his favor.
Also, on last week’s show, he invested in a website where a guy will draw a cat for you for $10. The idea was worth a good laugh on TV, but I thought surely the Sharks would say thanks-but-no-thanks. Cuban put $25,000 into this “business.” He said he was investing more in the guy himself than in the cat-drawing enterprise.
And because of Cuban’s star power? TMZ says the cat-drawing website has gotten over a thousand orders in a few days, when it had been averaging fewer than 40 in a week. Cuban tells TMZ he is “fired up.” Basically he thinks he’s found himself the next Cosmo Kramer.
Mr. Cuban, I will sell you 33% of any of the following ideas in exchange for $25,000:
Where Did Khloe Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and Rob Kardashian Eat Lunch Yesterday? Do You Care?
"Celebrities" are "people" too.
The restaurant sent over this photo, and the details.
Today Khloe, Kris Jenner and Rob Kardashian ate lunch at Arcodoro & Pomodoro. They loved the carpaccio, pizza, and Khloe’s risotto. Rob had to slip out early in order to catch a beauty treatment. They spent most of the meal trying to teach Rob to be nicer to women. The girls were heading out to go shopping afterward. CHA-CHING.
Later in the day, Khloe shocked the world with this tweet before the Dallas Mavericks game:
My sisters just surprised me in Dallas!!!! @KimKardashian and @KourtneyKardash what what!!!! The game is going to be wild!
Someone give this woman a radio show.
Local Newspaper Awkwardly Stretches For Dallas Angle on Oscar Nominations
I spent a number of years writing for community newspapers. I understand that sometimes you’ve got to try to shoehorn national stories into your coverage by dressing up a lede or writing a headline to suggest an AP-written story has more local significance than it really should. But look what DallasNews.com has done with this morning’s Oscar nominations:
By that headline, you might think that Dallas expat actor Owen Wilson were himself nominated for an Academy Award. Though I think his performance might have been worthy, he’s not. Midnight in Paris really only has that single, tenuous local connection.
So it’s a stretch. Which wouldn’t be so bad except that there’s another film on the list of Best Picture nominees that actually had segments filmed in downtown Dallas: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. The Chapel of Thanksgiving and Reunion Tower can both be prominently seen in the movie.
Plus Art and Seek notes a local nominee in the Best Animated Short category.
But yes, I know, Owen Wilson has got more star power.
Glenn Beck Gives Tour of His New Las Colinas Studio, the “American Dream Labs”
That there is a video of Mr. Glenn Beck—who comes across like that uncle of yours who spends all his time in his wood-paneled den fiddling with electronic doodads he bought at RadioShack—giving a tour of his new HQ being built at the Studios at Las Colinas. You may remember that he was initially going to set up shop in a former megachurch in Southlake, but he decided instead to work from the place that made Walker, Texas Ranger such an iconic television program.
He’s calling the place the “American Dream Labs,” and he hopes that it both inspires and will “drive the left out of their mind.”
Speaking of the left being driven out of places, July 26-28 might be a good time to plan to leave town for your summer vacation this year. Those are the dates when thousands of Beck’s acolytes will descend upon Dallas-Fort Worth for his “Restoring Love” event, which will conclude with a rally at Jerry’s Death Star.
(H/T: NBCDFW)
Things I Wonder: The Dallas Cowboys Edition
What would an Eminem frustration rap about the Cowboys sound like? *
*Yes, it’s behind a paywall. The takeaway is Eminem is a Cowboys fan and he’s frustrated.
What Shawn Marion Will Serve Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom at His Welcome-to-Dallas Dinner
An artist's rendering of the scene at Shawn Marion's house, come January 26.
The internet is abuzz with news that Dallas Mavericks player Shawn Marion will host a “Welcome Reception to Dallas” on Jan. 26 for Khloe Kardashian and his new teammates Lamar Odom, Vince Carter, and Delonte West.
I’m sure Tim’s invite is in the mail, as evidenced by the photo above that proves that he is a close, personal friend of Shawn Marion. Here’s what he’ll be eating, according to the just-received press release:
Nick & Sam’s Steakhouse Executive Chef/Partner Samir Dhurandhar is designing the reception’s menu. According to Dhurandhar, “my reception menu will be inspired from the menu of Khloe and Lamar Odom’s wedding. I have contacted my friend, Todd Hatoff from Allen Brothers, who is personally sending us the Wagyu Kobe Beef for the Wagyu sliders. In addition to the sliders, a few ‘for sures’ include my version of chilled heirloom tomato soup with burrata, jumbo shrimp cocktails, our signature fried lobster, lamb chops and other surprises.”
Dallas Nightlife Photos of 2011: ‘The Situation,’ Snoop Dogg, Pam Anderson, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Gene Simmons, and Many More
Plenty of just-plain pretty people too, like these ladies at the Joule.
Thanks largely to Super Bowl XLV and the Dallas Mavericks’ trip to the NBA Finals, 2011 was a celebrity-packed year for the Dallas nightlife scene.
Check out our absolute favorite nightlife photos of the year. Right here.
D Magazine Readers’ Favorite Stories in 2011
Our list of the most popular features on DMagazine.com in 2011 can’t help but make you hungry, as our dining coverage continued to be the best in the city.
See our top 10 most trafficked stories of the year right here.
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