QA-Nope! How to Host Your Own QAnon Conference When No One Else Will
No matter where you come from or what you believe, there is one thing we can all relate to over this past year and a few months: cancellations.
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Bad Mothers in TV and Film That Will Make You Appreciate Your Own
Parenting is for the crazy. You’d simply have to be crazy to undertake such a role requires you to be responsible for a tiny life, on a 24-hour cycle. You have to give up sleep for the first half of the kid’s childhood.
This June, Massive Dinosaurs Will Shake the Ground of Grandscape
Without the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films, humanity would have never learned the perils and pitfalls of playing God for the betterment of the theme park industry. Of course, the lessons from the movies may not stop the next batch of stubborn scientists with a tablespoon of dino DNA…
Bucks Burnett Recalls Parts of Tiny Tim’s Life That Didn’t Make the Documentary
Dallas music maven and 14 Records store owner Bucks Burnett dedicated a large part of his life to the career of the eccentric and incomparable Tiny Tim, the mischaracterized “novelty” musician who became one of music’s most uniquely eclectic pop stars. A new documentary called Tiny Tim: King for a…
What the Hell Are on These Free Floppy Disks for Free Play Arcade’s Hackers Party?
There was a time long, long ago when the world didn’t have a magical cloud that stores every file they own. Data had to be stored on hard drives or something called a floppy disk, a form of hard copy storage in which small plastic discs, covered in magnetic material…
Street Artist Eric Mancini Takes His Mavericks Art from the Block to the Blockchain
During the pandemic, street artists like Eric Mancini lost more than the ability to go out and turn neighborhoods into a canvas. The Denton graffiti and portrait artist, who now lives in Denver, has put his trademark squiggle figure portraits and satirical art pieces all over North Texas. His work…
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DJ GSpook Remembered for His Legacy in Latino Hip-Hop
Pedro González Radio DJs have to craft a personality for their on-air audience. Hip-hop DJ and musician Pedro González, known as GSpook, didn’t need to make up a personality to reach his audience. “He was the same person,” says Dallas DJ J-Kruz, who met GSpook when they worked at K104 FM…
Visitors Can Set a Guinness World Record in the Perot Museum’s Newest Exhibition
Getting your name into the Guinness Book of World Records takes patience, dedication and practice. It also doesn’t hurt if you know some of the science behind what it takes to get there. The Science of Guinness World Records, an exhibition that opened in early March at the Perot Museum of…
The 10 Ted Cruz-iest Things Sen. Ted Cruz Has Ever Done
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a pioneer of modern politics. The junior senator of the Lone Star State defied the odds to become the most unpopular member of the U.S. Senate, a body of people whose collective approval rating falls below approval ratings for hemorrhoids, traffic jams, root canals and…
Alamo Drafthouse Files for Bankruptcy. How Will Local Theaters Be Affected?
The corporate owners of the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater chain may be in a bit of financial trouble, but the Dallas-Fort Worth chain won’t be affected because they are two separate business entities, according to its owners. “Alamo is just like a Chili’s or a Jason’s Deli, and the reason…
Comedian Erik Myers Killed in Amarillo Just Days Before His Scheduled Show at Hyena’s
Comedian Erik Myers, a Florida native, died on Tuesday in a car accident in Amarillo while he was traveling to Dallas to perform at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub. Myers could do something very few comics are capable of doing: He could make audiences and comedians laugh. “You kind of get jaded…
Deep Ellum Art Co.’s Closure Is Inevitable, Says Venue’s Owner
John LaRue, the co-owner of the Deep Ellum Art Co., says his two biggest enemies right now are “mathematics and bureaucracy.” He and his wife and co-owner, Kari LaRue, have spent the better part of the last year fighting to keep their music venue and local art space “dedicated to…
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Frisco’s Gearbox Software’s Got a New Owner From Sweden
Gearbox Software may still be located in Texas, but thanks to a recent merger with a large game conglomerate, it’s officially Swedish. The Embracer Group, a Sweden-based parent company of 57 game studios such as THQ Nordic, Deep Silver and Saber Interactive, announced a merger deal with Gearbox Software that puts…
The 10 Funniest Local Commercials to Ever Grace Our TV Screens
We get it. Making a list about the weirdest and funniest local commercials is doing exactly what advertisers want us to do, sharing their pieces of digital celluloid so more people will see them. In this day and age, when videos of cats juggling, skateboard accidents and unhinged rants from…
10 Shows That Should Have Their Own 24-Hour Pluto TV Channel
We’re all stuck at home now with more limited entertainment options than a resident of Branson, Missouri. One of the things that can help us get through this small-town feel is the free show and movie app Pluto TV. It’s like someone mutated a UHF TV station and unleashed it…
Every Day Is Halloween for the Owner of Horror Freak Horror Stuff Store
Eric Dallof has been selling the stuff he collects since he was a kid. “I was 8 years old and I had a baseball card business,” Dallof says. “My stepdad got business cards made and I went around my neighborhood and didn’t know this but I put them in my…
Did Bonfire Legend Go Too Far by Shooting a Live Deer for Run Hide Fight?
The opening scene of the new action-drama Run Hide Fight produced by Dallas-based Bonfire Legend, formerly Cinestate, features a pivotal moment establishing the film’s two leading heroes hunting a deer at dusk. The film’s principal stars Thomas Jane and Isabel May are walking into a forest clearing where they spot…
Yo, Bitch! Take a Look in The Whippersnapper’s New Breaking Bad Bar
The Whippersnapper’s newest pop-culture pop-up bar based on the AMC TV series Breaking Bad is one of the few positive things to come out of the coronavirus pandemic. “Under COVID conditions, what a better way to remind people about masks than to start a fake meth lab?” says Philip Schanbaum,…
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What Are Dallas Comedians Doing Without a Stage? Exploring Other Artistic Outlets
The silence of comedy stages has been deafening. The coronavirus outbreak has made it hard for comedy venues (and all others) to pack the house for headlining comedians and for local comics to open for traveling acts while working on new material. “Until we get a vaccine in the majority…
The Whippersnapper Shoots for the Blue Sky with New Breaking Bad Themed Pop-Up Bar
If it wasn’t for the critically acclaimed and fan-beloved AMC show Breaking Bad, methamphetamines would not be an acceptable theme for any gathering place — except, of course, at actual meth dens. The Whippersnapper on McMillian Avenue in the Henderson Avenue development is getting the Heinsenberg treatment with a new…
Josh Smith’s Facebook Group Is Connecting Dallasites During These Strange, Divisive Times
Facebook and Twitter are riddled with opinions and posts that sit on a shaky foundation of conspiracy and hearsay. It’s only after almost four years of baseless claims, outright lies and a violent insurrection at the center of our democracy that these platforms are starting to take serious action against…
The Biggest Local Music Stars Reality TV Ever Produced
Reality television may seem a particularly contradicting term when it comes to certain shows — some are certainly more scripted than spontaneous — but, there’s a component of “reality” in singing competition shows that even the most cunning producer couldn’t fabricate through a script. For starters, shows like American Idol…