The panel show is a staple of British television. The BBC and other private networks are full of shows in which comedians compete in a parlor game for nothing but points, laughs and the opportunity to hold a meaningless win over their opponents’ heads. Could there be anything more American…
Like many great joke ideas, Okilly Dokilly is one that just got way out of hand, and now the punchline is coming soon. The Phoenix group’s inspiration is Ned Flanders, the cheerful, hokey and fervently devout Christian resident of Evergreen Terrace who lives next door to Springfield’s most famous family…
Here we are again. It’s May 4, also known as May the Fourth, also also known as May the Fourth Be With You. It’s Star Wars Day. It’s the only movie franchise with its own holiday, one that will someday become a federal holiday when Jedi-ism becomes a recognized religion…
We meet in front of the Mosaic Building on North Akard Street on the side facing the DART train tracks. High Vis, the high-rise climbing, literally on the edge photographer, is wearing a black hoodie, a snapback ball cap with the Triple D logo and a black mask. He never…
The man who coined the phrase “The drive-in will never die” with his own television resurrection is returning to town to a place that runs deep in his bloody veins. Drive-in movie critic and Shudder horror host Joe Bob Briggs will make his third appearance at the Texas Theatre on…
Last year, the esports franchise the Dallas Fuel finished at the top of the Overwatch League (OWL) season standings in the west region, second overall and third in the league playoffs behind the Atlanta Reign and the first-time championship winning Shanghai Dragons. This year, the team returns for its fifth…
WARNING: There is an inordinate amount of swimming puns in the following article. Every year when the summer comes around for the last 19 years, Lee Harvey’s owner Seth Smith says, he’d always see a dip in attendance for his South Dallas patio bar. “Our numbers at Lee Harvey’s would…
Dallas filmmaker Bradley Steele Harding has a unique hobby even for most album crate raiders. He collects vintage horror story albums. “Over a decade ago, I discovered a music blog back when people were uploading music, and it was some guy who collected scary story records from the ’60s or…
First, the big live game experience trend was escape rooms, in which a group of people solve a series of hidden puzzles to get out of a locked room.
A fight at The Parks Mall at Arlington went viral after a video was posted of the brawl and online rumors made it out to be something much worse.
Filling any concert hall or arena is a challenge for any musician whether they’re a Grammy Award-winning big shot or just some guy with a barstool, a keyboard and a dream.
Basic logic tells us that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott isn’t the only person in control of his Twitter page. Social media is so vital to the political meat grinder that he’s likely got a whole team of people scrutinizing every character before posting from his various online accounts.
The Breaking Bad universe is an anomaly in pop culture: It’s so good that even its spinoffs and sequels stand up to the original.
Just like a lot of live events that had to postpone dates during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Texas Frightmare Weekend horror convention is finally get back its regular timeslot.
It’s starting to look and feel a lot like summer down here. That means it won’t be long before the temperature starts shooting into the 100s and Sen. Ted Cruz to flees to Antarctica. We can dream anyway.
Few people are better at squirming their wormy way out of questions they don’t want to answer than Sen. Ted Cruz. Of course, it helps that he’s a worm.
Even if some of us long for the past, it’s probably a good thing that time travel doesn’t exist in this dimension – countless movies have taught us the perils of trying to relive our past by messing with the space time continuum. There is a safer way for millenials…
The Arkansas indie rock band Brother Moses originally planned to perform at the Deep Ellum Art Co. back in October, but they never even got to step onto the stage.
It looks like Texas has its very own “Banksy.” There’s got to be a better name for him than “Texsy.”
Remember when you were a kid and there would be a special assembly for a visitor to do public science demonstrations or some kind of esoteric dance routine? This was nothing like any of those.
Street art isn’t a rare occurrence in a place like Deep Ellum, whether it’s a legitimate artwork commissioned by a business or an unsolicited art project from someone with a contraband spray can.
Usually, when we hear the words like “lip-sync” and “video,” you’ve already lost our attention. Thanks to the magical effects of alcohol, it seems like anyone with a working lower jaw thinks that the ability to mouth a mild semblance of a song’s lyrics will turn them into a Spice Girl.
