D Magazine's EarBurner
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D Magazine's EarBurner
EarBurner is a weekly conversation about North Texas issues (and a lot of other stuff). It is hosted by the editors of D Magazine, the city magazine of Dallas.
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191: Actress Giovannie Cruz did bad things in "Superman" and got to meet a real hero, Flo from Progressive
In this movie-intensive episode, D Magazine contributing editor and noted cinephile Eric Celeste joins Tim Rogers at the Old Monk to hear Giovannie’s...
190: Remembering the Great Zac Crain
In the Roman Catholic tradition, there's something called a year's mind. It's a requiem Mass held on the one-year anniversary of someone's death. That...
189: Sarah Saldaña, former director of ICE
Sarah was the U.S. Attorney for the North District of Texas before Barack Obama appointed her head of ICE in 2014. She talks with Tim about why the ag...
188: How to Judge BBQ, Cake, and Fort Worth Women
It's a themed episode! Kathy tells us about a controversy she experienced while judging cakes for the State Fair of Texas. Brian covers the same groun...
187: Bull Riding and Cooper Flagg
Our own Mike Piellucci talks about one of the world's best bull riders, John Crimber, who lives with a bunch of other badass Brazilian bull riders in...
186: The Best Barbecue in Dallas 2025
We discuss meat and the proper smoking thereof. Plus what is "motorcycle paint" and who in the D Magazine office is most likely to assassinate whom? O...
185: The Best New Restaurants of 2024
D Magazine’s dining critic, Brian Reinhart, joins Tim and Kathy to talk about the Dallas dining scene, the origin of Texas toast, how the Rice Univers...
184: Bobby Abtahi unpacks the raw deal on Fair Park
If you listened to the previous episode of EarBurner (and you should), you know that Bobby Abtahi was sitting at the table at the Old Monk as Matt and...
183: Mike Rawlings on Props S, T, and U
On your November ballot, there will appear 18 proposed amendments to the Dallas city charter, which is quite something. Three of those props—S, T, and...
182: Barak Epstein previews the Oak Cliff Film Festival
The Oak Cliff Film Fest runs this year from June 20–23. Barak is one of the smartest, funniest dudes in Dallas, so it's always a pleasure to have him...
181: Julia Heaberlin thrills us
In another lifetime, Julia was Tim's boss at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Now she's a best-selling author with six novels to her credit. Her latest i...
180: Mark Melton fights illegal evictions
In the May issue of D Magazine, Matt Goodman wrote a story titled "The Lawyer Who Landlords Don't Want to See in Court." That would be Mark. Sort of b...
179: James Faust loves movies more than you do
James is the artistic director of the Dallas International Film Festival, which runs from April 25 through May 2. We talked about how many movies he h...
178: Megan Kimble on why highways kill cities
Megan spent four years researching and writing her new book, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. Here's wh...
177: Mike Mooney's sex-trafficking podcast
Mike used to work at D Magazine. Now he doesn't. But he's got a new podcast that dropped April 11 on Audible. It is titled Hold Fast. Over nine episo...
176: Greg Brownderville starts a literary festival
Greg is an SMU professor who hails from Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas. He's also the lead singer for Beekeeper Spaceman and the editor of the Southwest Revi...
175: Joel Klatt on the new UFL
You probably know Joel from his appearances on the Ticket and his Fox Sports work on college football. Along with Curt Menefee, he'll be calling the f...
174: Troy Aikman's many slights
Over the years, starting in 1992, D Magazine has unintentionally caused the man grief. In this episode, Tim and Zac run through the slights—but only t...
173: World Cup and Arlington mess
Right here you've got another chat recorded on the shady side of White Rock Lake, at Goodfriend. The boys tackle the goofiness of what one local offic...
172: A giraffe death and the mayor's shoes
We're doing a thing. Sometimes we'll have a guest on the pod, sure. But sometimes (if we stick with it), Tim and Zac will simply go to a bar near thei...
171: Casey Gerald on Erykah Badu
Casey is one of the most committed magazine writers working today. When he profiled Leon Bridges for Texas Monthly, he rented a house and bought a cra...
170: Tim DeLaughter Broke His Depression With a New Album
Tim is a Lakewood dad with four kids and a wife who runs a restaurant (Lounge Here) to which he is sometimes summoned to do handyman work. He's also a...
169: Joshua Ray Walker Almost Could Have Died
Start here if you don't know who Joshua Ray Walker is. Short version: Rolling Stone said of Josh: "country's most fascinating young songwriter is a...
168: A Spy Novel by a Former CIA Officer
David McCloskey used to work in the CIA. Now he's a novelist and does most of his writing in coffee shops on Greenville Avenue. Which ones? He wouldn'...
167: A Drunken Conversation Over a Long Meal
This one is a bit of an experiment. When we learned that Catbird, a fancy "Best of Big D" award-winning joint in downtown Dallas' Thompson hotel, was...
166: The Forest Theater and Sunny South Dallas
OK, first Zac and Tim talked a bit about how to pronounce Lionel Messi's name and whether his recent performance in Frisco (which Zac witnessed in per...
165: Life and Death and Basketball
Michael Sorrell is the president of Paul Quinn, the oldest historically Black college west of the Mississippi. He died in 2008. True story. The man's...
164: Nick Badovinus, Dallas Restaurants, and Radio
Nick is in the pantheon of Dallas chefs. His new(ish) joint, the Brass Ram, in the East Quarter of downtown Dallas, occupies a space that once housed...
163: Oak Cliff Film Festival 2023
Barak Epstein from the historic Texas Theatre joins us to preview the 2023 edition of the Oak Cliff Film Festival, which runs June 22–25. Movies discu...
162: Dallas Noir Film Fest
Once upon a time, Tim was a schoolmate at K.B. Polk Elementary with a guy named David Hale Smith. That fellow wound up becoming kind of a big-deal lit...
161: Abraham Alexander is the next big thing
Abraham Alexander is buds with Leon Bridges, a connection that helped him get into the studio to record his debut album, SEA/SONS, which dropped April...
160: The most expensive bed in Dallas
Would you spend $500,000 on a bed? The Swedish company Hästens thinks some of you in town will. They just opened a new store in Dallas. Tim and Zac t...
159: The allure of Western snap shirts
Y'all, get ready. Tim and Zac are about to become proper influencers. For the first time, they are reviewing a product, a Western pearl-snap shirt mad...
158: A Vaughan bros doc and the word "bruh"
EarBurner is still trying to find its sea legs, even after 157 episodes. In this one, Tim and Zac make a long-distance call to Kirby Warnock, out in B...
157: Tim and Zac on Mayor Johnson's BDE
This episode is an experiment we're calling an EarBurner Quickie. No guest. It's just Tim and Zac in the podcast kitchen, cooking up a special dish to...
156: Jay Jerrier knows dough
Jay started Cane Rosso with his first restaurant in Deep Ellum 12 years ago. Now the dude employs 520 people in his pizza empire. He's got a salty mou...
155: Frank Campagna is the Godfather of Deep Ellum
If you've lived in Dallas for any length of time, chances are you've encoutered Frank's art. He estimates that he has done more than 1,000 murals in D...
154: Jonathan GNO White breaks up
GNO is a poet who not long ago put out a collection titled "101 Break Up Poems." In this EarBurner, he explains why he nicknamed himself GNO (pronounc...
153: Peter Johnson makes good trouble
Rev. Peter Johnson came to Dallas in 1969 on a mission: to secure distribution for a documentary about Martin Luther King Jr., the proceeds from which...
152: Victor Vescovo goes deep
Victor's bio sounds like a fabrication: he has summitted the seven tallest mountains on earth, and he built his own submersible to dive solo to the bo...