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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
6/5: Atlanta’s Richard Blais in “Top Chef” finals, local couple needs votes to win “Today” show wedding
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Meredith Ford, our food critic, had heard before the show started airing, that Atlanta’s brilliant chef Richard Blais would make the finals of Bravo’s addictive reality show “Top Chef.”
She was right. Bravo tonight aired the penultimate episode where they went from four to three. Blais, the last guy standing, won the challenge, which was making three dishes centered around pork. Since they were in Puerto Rico, he blended Latin influences with a bit of Southern cooking. And he gets to take home a 2009 Toyota Corolla.
Based on his multiple victories, Blais is a favorite to win this next Wednesday, though Stephanie has been equally consistent and could easily win this. Lisa, the beeyotch of the show (91% of texters wanted her to go home), somehow beat out the much more likable and arguably more talented Antonio. Then Lisa had the nerve to get peeved when Stephanie and Richard failed to properly congratulate her. Very uncomfortable finale scene.
-Vote for metro Atlanta couple Darnell Suggs and LaDonna Bradford, who are vying to win a free wedding on “The Today Show.” They have beaten three couples and are in the final two. We’ll find out next Wednesday if they make it.
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-Atlanta rapper Ms. Cherry is in the top 3 in VH1’s “Miss Rap Supreme” after nasty witch Chiba was surprisingly ousted on Monday’s episode. Finale is next Monday.
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6/4: A morning with Kevin & Taylor/Steve Barnes & Holly Firfer (briefly) on YouTube
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Fish’s Kevin & Taylor is now one of the longest continuous running morning show sin town, with V-103’s Frank & Wanda the only one I can think of that has exceeded them. (The Regular Guys have also been around longer but not at the same place and Steve & Vikki are taking a six-month break.)
I don’t listen to them often enough so I caught them nonstop from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Their main talking point the two hours was a listener who asked if he was over the top for telling an 8 year old at a movie theatre who was shoving his chair with a curt sarcastic remark. “Anytime you want to stop kicking my seat is fine with me.” One caller said the adult should have talked to the parents. Another said he merely should have been more polite about it. It was a good topic for the family-oriented audience the Fish has (as in “safe for the whole family.”)
The cliche is that a good male-female team is like an old married couple. And after a decade on the air, Kevin and Taylor definitely fit that with natural, good-natured banter, even when they are arguing. At about 8:25 a.m., Kevin said Taylor always wants to prove she’s right, no matter what. Taylor said Kevin was like that, too, but Kevin brought up how she had to Google something to show she was right and he wasn’t.
And after playing a song called “Happy,” he noted to Taylor, “I’m changing this song from happy to whatever makes you happy.”
After the news at 8:40 a.m., he went back to the topic:
“Here’s the classic ‘I’ll prove you wrong Taylor techniquel. If I say I love ‘Grease’ and Erik Estrada was great in it. She has the need to say, ‘I don’t know much about movies but that’s John Travolta!’ “
“No I don’t!”
“I really don’t know much about this but you are wrong,” Kevin said, reiterating the concept. “You have techniques!”
“You’re fragile and want to be right so I have to soften it,” Taylor said.
“You have to be right about that, too!” Kevin said.
At 8:50 a.m., a caller defends Taylor and then says, “I don’t want you two fighting in the morning, If I have to put you both in time out, I will!”
Debbie, another caller, said Taylor was right, that Kevin had missed something a previous caller had said.
“Why am I taking abuse for the entire gender?” Kevin asked.
“You are very sensitive today, Kev.”
“Keep the compliments coming sista!”
“You’re a great guy but very unique and tender hearted,” Taylor said.
Later, Taylor told a story about seeing “Iron Man” with his son Kyle. A bunch or gabby teens came in so they moved seats instead of confronting the kids. Another gal turned aorund and said she had paid $20 for her and her husband to enjoy the movie and “you can quiet down or I can get a manager.” She shut them up. “She was awesome,” Kevin said. “I said rock on!” “I could never do that,” Taylor said.
At 9:55 a.m., the pair noted that the Fish can stop by your vacation bible school. “Safe, clean and helping to protect your family every day,” is the slogan.
During the 8 a.m. hour, they played six songs, eight at the 9 a.m. hour. Among the ads were Bullard Roofing, Lennox A/C, Rite Aid’s Health Expo, Six Flags, Longhorn, ajcclassifieds, Carmax, Shane Co. and Wellstar.
-Steve Barnes & Holly Firfer, formerly of Dave FM from 2004 to 2006, appeared to be promoting a new online show via a two-minute video on YouTube.
“We’re tired of being paid to do terrestrial corporate radio,” Barnes said on the video. “We have resigned our positions in big corporate American radio. We’re going old school. We’re doing it right because it’s from the heart!”
“Unless someone from big terrestrial radio hires us for big money,” Firfer said.
UPDATED at 1:30 p.m.: The video was taken off YouTube soon after I posted it. Firfer called back and said that was done in March for a project and they had no intention of doing anything with it. So it was what she called a “dummy show,” nothing for real. She said that’s probably why Barnes took it down.
Barnes was better known as one-third of the highly successful Morning X on 99X from circa 1993 to 2003. Firfer, a former CNN Headline News anchor, can be seen daily on WXIA-TV’s “Atlanta & Company.
-Oh, and thank you Andisheh Nouraee for referencing my story on Dagmar Midcap in your Fresh Loaf blog and linking to some lovely extra photos of her floating around the Web.
And as we’ve all learned here in the blogosphere, mentioning Dagmar drives traffic. (I’m shamelessly mentioning her for the umpteenth time, aren’t I?)
