Dwight Silverman – “Retired” Reporter and Pinball Enthusiast- Episode 28
Send us Fan Mail Episode 28 – Dwight Silverman – “Retired” Reporter and Pinball Enthusiast. He sits down live and is joined by Jamie and Christine Hood. They discuss Dwight’s reporting career and his recent article for Texas Monthly about the Wormhole, the Wormhole East Pinball Museum, and we even throw in a sappy moment.
Kineticist’s take
Former tech reporter rediscovers pinball, writes features on Texas community.
Synopsis
Dwight Silverman, retired Houston Chronicle technology reporter and pinball enthusiast, discusses his journalism career spanning tech coverage and Internet adoption, then pivots to his rediscovery of pinball and two articles he wrote for Houston Chronicle and Texas Monthly about the local pinball community. He traces how covering the Texas Pinball Festival led him to discover Wormhole Pinball and its owners Tim and Christine Hood, and describes the investigative rabbit holes he pursued while researching the broader pinball collector ecosystem in Texas.
Entities
- Beaumont Enterprise· company
- Houston Chronicle· company
- San Antonio Current· company
- San Antonio Light· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Monthly· company
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- John Wick· game
- University of Texas at Austin· organization
- Christine Hood· person
- Dan Ferguson· person
- Dwight Silverman· person
- Keith Pritchard· person
- Phil Grimaldi· person
- Tim Hood· person
- Lone Star Pinball Museum· venue
- Wormhole Pinball· venue