Even queer lingo doesn’t get past gay ‘A Way with Words’ host and logophile Martha Barnette RICH LOPEZ | Contributing Writer getrichindallas@gmail.com We applaud when someone like NBA player Jason Collins comes out of the closet. But why was he in the closet anyway? No, not metaphorically, but really. Is “the closet” some arbitrary [...]
SEXIEST BARTENDER Mikey Nguyen, TMC: The Mining Company 3903 Cedar Springs Road Open daily until 2 a.m. Caven.com As everyone knows, nothing is sexier than a guy who doesn’t think he’s sexy. So when Mikey Nguyen learned he has been voted Dallas’ sexiest bartender, his initial reaction was something like, “Are you sure they got the right [...]
Rawlins Gilliland’s pledge to KERA listeners? Less boring, more fabulous ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com Although Rawlins Gilliland would never describe himself as a mad prophet of the airwaves, he does have at least one thing in common with Howard Beale from Network: He’s mad as hell, and he’s not gonna take it [...]
ON AIR | Chase Brooks’ ‘Reckless After Dark’ is the only show on Fish Bowl Network that brings a gay voice to the Internet air waves. Local 19-year-old radio jock Chase Brooks is making his play to become the gay Howard Stern RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer lopez@dallasvoice.com Never underestimate the power of youth — [...]
By ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com Coping with a crush on radio’s most disarming intellectual PUTTING A FACE TO THE VOICE | Public Radio sex object Ira Glass will appear through the DMA’s Arts & Letters Live series. IRA GLASS Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Drive, Richardson. June 12 at 7:30 p.m. $25–$45. DallasMuseumofArt.org [...]
By ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor jones@dallasvoice.com Veteran radio personality Rick Vanderslice returns to the broadcast airwaves with a new young partner and the same old passions ON THE AIR THE RICK & R.J. RADIO SHOW airs locally on 1360 AM Sundays, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. and streams on RationalRadio.org. It may be no accident [...]
By Arnold Wayne Jones Life+Style Editor After surviving quadruple bypass surgery and a stroke, Jack E. Jett, Dallas’ weirdest media star, returns to radio GETTING SOMETHING OFF HIS CHEST: Could Jack E. Jett’s new favorite bar be… Zippers? THE RETURN OF THE KING "The Jack E. Jett Show" return June 20 and 21, 1–3 p.m. [...]
VOICE OF PRIDE: Takei becomes Sirius announcer. The first voice listeners heard on Howard Stern’s debut on Sirius satellite radio was newly out actor George Takei, famous for his Mr. Sulu role on “Star Trek.” The radio host and Takei struck up an unusual friendship during Stern’s terrestrial days. Takei officially came out in October [...]
