If you scroll through Facebook’s Marketplace, you’re bound to find a bunch of used video game arcade machines and cabinets on sale, but a recent offering by a seller in Lewisville caught our eye. It’s larger and wider than your average gaming cabinet, and it’s definitely unique. It has two…
This year has undoubtedly been one of the worst summers for the usually busy movie theater industry. It’s the time of the year when all the big — and even some smaller — studios release their most anticipated films to the public to take advantage of the summer season. Thanks to…
Improvised comedy scenes have what is called a “cut.” A performer runs across the stage in front of whatever is happening on stage to signal to players and audience members that the scene has reached its logical, or sometimes illogical, conclusion. As with all things in improvised theater, predicting what…
The first iterations of the classic anime series DragonBall Z came to America’s screens in the late 1990s, courtesy of Cartoon Network. It took a few seasons for the fantasy adventure cartoon to find an audience, but when it did, the show dropped a spirit bomb on its competition by…
For the last 77 years, it’s been illegal for a movie studio to own a movie theater. That law is no longer on the books. The Paramount Consent Decrees were established by a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1948 called U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures preventing film studios from owning licenses…
A Dallas comedy institution just announced it will be closing its red doors for the last time. Amanda Austin, the owner and founder of The Dallas Comedy House (DCH) in Deep Ellum, announced on her Facebook page that she’s made the difficult decision to the close the comedy theater. “I…
It’s easy to believe that a comedy scene wouldn’t exist without comics like Clint Werth. The deeper truth is that there wouldn’t be a great comedy scene without comics like Werth. “Clint was a guy who played it so cool all the time,” says comedian and Dallas Comedy House (DCH)…
A small group of “peaceful” face-mask dissidents organized a public display of defiance of mask mandates Saturday. Only four showed their unmasked faces to the public. It started with a public Facebook event dubbed the “DFW No-Mask Peaceful Walk-In” that later met in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery…
Two years ago, a group of comedians pulled an epic prank on one of their friends at the Arlington Improv. Comedian George “Redd Speaks” Rojas got arrested on stage. Rojas says he was in the middle of a set before a packed room and just as he was about to…
Silicon Valley may be the world’s most famous hub for technology and digital entertainment development, but it wouldn’t be where it is without the groundbreaking games that came out of North Texas. Dallas-Fort Worth fueled the video game industry’s rise to rival the film, TV and music industries’ combined revenue…
Everyone has probably had a frustrating conversation with someone through steaming face masks or online. Some of us seem so steadfast in our beliefs and opinions that getting someone to even acknowledge and process them feels like it should be some kind of competitive Olympic event. Now imagine having to…
The rockets’ red glare caused quite a scare during Plano’s Fourth of July fireworks show. Some of the rockets in the city’s annual fireworks display launched in private fields veered off course and landed very close to some of the spectators. Other fireworks exploded on the field, starting three large…
On April 27, Dallas police arrested and charged independent film producer Adam Donaghey with sexual assault of a minor stemming from an incident with a 16-year-old during the production of director David Lowery’s critically lauded A Ghost Story. The criminal charges brought forth a wave of allegations and stories from…
Movie theaters have taken a huge hit from the coronavirus outbreak and now it could soon put the largest movie theater chain in the world out of business. AMC Theatres, a movie theater chain that operates 21 movie theaters across Dallas-Fort Worth, has been unable to generate revenue since audiences…
Mortal Kombat, the ultra violent fighter video game series, is now in its 11th incarnation. The blood-splattering game is so popular that its creator, Netherealm Studios, has gifted fans with the answers to every wish they ever had for a fighting game … except one fans didn’t know they wanted…
Deep Ellum magician Confetti Eddie is preparing to do a disappearing act, but it’s not the kind that his audiences would find entertaining. Eddie, who’s real name is Edward Ruiz, announced last Tuesday on his Facebook page that he’s moving out of his magic parlor on Exposition Avenue, a building…
The shelter-in-place order that started in March pretty much brought Dallas’ comedy community to a standstill. If there’s no audience, there’s no show, right? Comics and comedy groups have really had to step up their MacGyver-like resourcefulness to set up virtual shows during the pandemic. The results are some truly…
The word “hero” has been thrown around a lot since the COVID-19 outbreak started creating worries about the operation of our most basic services. It’s a word that’s been used by political leaders, commentators and people on social media to describe workers such as paramedics, police, firefighters and grocery store…
The state may be allowing some businesses to reopen at the end of the week, but some local movie theater chains are choosing to play it safe and remain closed. The Alamo Drafhouse Cinema, which operates six theaters across Dallas-Fort Worth, and The Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff both announced…
Just before the coronavirus outbreak shut down almost every social and economic aspect of our lives, I was constantly reminded of what was coming by a special group of people who would constantly recommend watching or playing things in which the main theme is the outbreak of a deadly global virus…
Video game arcades used to be filled with beeps and boops and faces glazed with the neon glow of pixelated images. These days, they’re practically empty and the machines aren’t operating. They’ve been unplugged, and the only faces inside are the few remaining staff members looking after the place while…
Fun has been put on hold for the next few weeks. Just about everything you were looking forward to doing that requires a ticket or involves gatherings of people in enclosed spaces has been postponed or canceled since Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins’s public health emergency order on Thursday regarding…
