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February 25, 2010
When Jay-Z hit town for the NBA All-Star Game and stayed at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, he was flying solo without his superstar wife, Beyonce. But this week, his Houston-born spouse joined him when he came to Dallas for a Tuesday show at American Airlines Center. ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Jay-Z and Beyonce in Highland Park Village" is tagged: Beyonce , Cafe Pacific , Jay-Z February 22, 2010
If homegrown gymnast Nastia Liukin sees her reported beau, skater Evan Lyscek, Monday evening on Entertainment Tonight, she might experience a pain familiar to other 20-year-olds, and ask, "What did he just say?" ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Evan Lysacek Hedges on Nastia Liukin" is tagged: Evan Lysacek , Nastia Liukin February 15, 2010
Oprah Winfrey's friend-in-chief Gayle King (editor at large for O magazine) escaped the All-Star madness with a clothes shopping trip to Forty Five Ten on McKinney Avenue with her Stanford grad daughter, Kirby. ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Gayle King's Clothes Call" is tagged: Gayle King , Oprah Winfrey
Mary J. Blige was a quiet guest at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, staying in and ordering room service. When she did come down to dine in the Mansion bar, she brought her own food. ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Quiet Side of Mary J. Blige" is tagged: Mary J. Blige , Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek
![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Michael Jordan, the Morning After" is tagged: Charlie Palmer , Joule , Michael Jordan , Scott Romano , Spike Lee
Jay-Z can always depend on a warm welcome at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek. The hip-hop mogul (estimated net worth: more than $500 million) stayed at the Mansion for the All-Star festivities. His wife, Beyonce, was not with him. (She's probably too busy counting her net worth. Forbes just reported that she out-earned her husband last year, $87 million to his $35 million.) ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Generous gent Jay-Z" is tagged: Beyonce , Jay-Z February 14, 2010
We're less than an hour away from Monday morning and here is Alicia Keys winding down her NBA All-Star weekend with a late meal at Al Biernat's. ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Alicia Keys Winds Down Her Weekend" is tagged: Alicia Keys , Mario Lopez
Mark Cuban and Jerry Jone just announced the record-setting attendance for tonight's game: 108,713 ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star Game night: Record-setting attendance" has no entry tags.
Finally, the inevitable courtside celeb onscreen moment: Spike Lee and his NY Yankees ballcap. An appropriate swell of boo's filled the stadium. Then it was Ludacris' turn for an onscreen moment. he was Mr. Sunglasses. ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star Game night: at long last" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend
A flurry of onscreen celebs: a bejeweled Floyd Mayweather, Gov ar old Schwarzenegger sporting a pair of flashy cowboy boots and Shaquille O'Neal. ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star Game night: courtside celebs round 3" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend
P Diddy is the second celeb to get screen time. Not quite as robust a round o applause as for Magic. ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star Game night: another courtside celeb" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend
Earvin "Magic" Johnson is the first celebrity attendee of the night to fill the giant screen. ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star game night: courtside Magic" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend
Michael ("but call me Mike") Stevens, 42, stood at the railing of one the stadium's food court plazas, staring up at the giant high-def screen. "My wife and are in from Phoenix," he says. "She's the basketball fan. I don't really care. But I am a giant TV fan, so when we heard the game was going to be here, I told her 'you don't even have to ask, we're going. "I just had to see it." He doesn't have to e plain what "it" is; while he's been talking his eyes have never left the giant video screen that hangs over and dwarfs the basketball court that has been set up at what is usually mid-field. "I don't even know where our seats are. -- who cares? I told Given a quick rundown of the fantastic figures that make up the "video board" -- 300 million light bulbs, weighing 600 tons, measuring 160 x 72 feet -- he just shakes his head and sighs. "I guess it'll never fit in my living room." ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star Game Night: a TV as big as Texas" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend
Jay-Z had a secret plan to avoid a crush of fans in Dallas: Dine at off hours. On Saturday, midway between the lunch and dinner hours, the hip-hop mogul took over the clubby Café Pacific in Highland Park Village for an afternoon meal with 10 friends. ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Jay-Z in Highland Park Village" is tagged: Cafe Pacific , Jay-Z
Jamie Foxx can do pretty much anything: Comic, actor, singer (you're welcome, Kanye) and bartender. ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: Jamie Foxx, Shaken, not Stirred" is tagged: Jamie Foxx , Kanye West
The governor of Khal-if-for-ni-ya was in a gregarious mood when he shopped in the men's department at the Neiman Marcus Northpark at about 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. ![]() ![]() The entry "Alan Peppard: The Governator at Neiman's NorthPark" is tagged: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Absolute panic set in as my busload of media brethren got off and saw the endless line snaking down the walkway around the stadium. "We don't have to stand in line do we?" asked one guy. "There must be a special entrance for media," said another. It's funny, these two guys were the same ones talking loudly and knowingly about "the scam" Jerry jones put over on the hoodwinked Arlington mayor and how he made sure there were no restaurants anywhere near the stadium (I think we passed a McD as they said this). If hey knew so much about the innerworkings of Jerry jones' empire, you'd think they would know that there was a media entrance, just a little bit farther down the walkway. No wonder people hate the media. ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star Game: entry at last" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend
I30 is already backed as you approach Six Flags and the stadium exits. Leave early and often. ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star Game night: the traffic" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend
I'm on the media bus, which reeks of industrial cleaner and cheap cologne. Of the dozen or so media types on the bus, idling curbside behind the Renaissance Hotel, half of them are on their cell phones, yelling. I'm listening to three different guys debriefing someone on last night's party scene. Good times. ![]() ![]() The entry "NBA All-Star Game: The adventure begins" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend
At this point there are more people in the VIP section than the rest of the bar. ![]() ![]() The entry "Snoop Dogg Saturday Night: How VI are all these Ps?" is tagged: NBA All-Star Weekend , Snoop Dogg |
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