Some of the world’s rarest and most sought after video game artifacts are in Dallas, but they won’t be in town for long because they are going up for auction to the highest bidders. And by “highest,” we mean at least in the thousands. “The market before we stepped in…
There’s no secret formula to Paula Poundstone’s comedy. In fact, there’s not really any kind of formula to it at all. She just goes out on stage, talks to the audience and finds material in the moment. She trusts that every crowd will give her something funny to work with,…
Just a couple of weeks before Super Bowl LIV, actor and Dallas native Stephen Tobolowsky got the call from his agent that sounded a lot like the call he got when director Harold Ramis decided to cast him as the nosy Ned Ryerson in the classic comedy film Groundhog Day…
Are you sad that the football season is done? I mean, besides the fact that you’re a Cowboys fan. These days, the words “Cowboys fans” and “lingering sorrow” are virtually synonymous. Let’s talk about the XFL or the “Extreme Football League,” a football league so extreme that they ignore vowels…
The sound of music will not only get louder in the Dallas Design District, but also a lot clearer and crisper. All thanks to Live Nation Entertainment’s newest music venture: The HiFi will be a two-story, 25,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art concert venue that can seat up to 1,000 fans to showcase both…
Terry Jones, the founding member of the British comedy royalty known as Monty Python who passed away on Wednesday, said once in an interview about the team’s comic mindset, “We weren’t concerned with making anyone but ourselves laugh.” The comedy duo Tim and Eric, also known as Tim Heidecker and…
Have you ever watched a movie like The Maze Runner or Labyrinth and thought — or even said out loud — that you could beat those challenges if you were in the protagonist’s shoes? Now there’s a way to prove it, and you don’t have to risk getting compressed in…
The new KidZania complex is the kind of interactive entertainment that made me wish I wasn’t born in the 1980s. Sure, we had cool places like ShowBiz Pizza, Putt-Putt Golf and Photon, and we annoyed our parents until they lost their will to fight and agreed to take us there…
The Arlington City Council approved an $810 million expansion project on Dec. 17, 2019, for its entertainment district, which would give the city a new 888-room Loews hotel connected to a convention center, new residential and office space for small business co-working and incubator space and a 200,000 sq. foot…
If you were a season ticket holder for the Dallas Cowboys this year, you have my deepest sympathy. It may not have been the worst season in the franchise’s history, but the campaign to an 8-8 finish still felt abysmal and sad — like a wandering drunk who somehow finds…
Classic video game soundtracks for titles like the original Contra, Metroid and the Mega Man series may just sound like simple beeps and boops, but these songs are so complex and meticulous that they’ve been performed as rock ballads and classical scores all over the world by everyone from suburban…
Writing another review of how bad the Cats movie is at this point would be a waste of time. Everyone should see it to make up their own mind, but adding another review of it to Rotten Tomatoes would be like throwing a gasoline truck on a wildfire. If you’re…
Usually when the end of the year rolls around and we try to sum up its most significant moments, our minds usually go towards the negative. Can you blame us? For starters, we’re writers, so it’s our job and nature to be cynical and cautionary because we’ve made huge mistakes…
Arlington’s skyline view from the Tom Landry Freeway includes things like the roller coasters from Six Flags Over Texas, the AT&T Stadium and both the old and new Globe Life Park. A pyramid structure will be part of the view for the next couple of months. The PY1 Pyramid located…
One of the West End’s newest sights may not appear as it seems. The Museum of Illusions that opened earlier this month on Ross Avenue features a collection of puzzling art, props and sets designed to screw with your mind without the use of heavy-duty narcotics or a hard blow…
Comedian Tom Green has accomplished a lot of lofty goals with his showbiz career. He’s hosted and created his own shows, like the surreal reality comedy The Tom Green Show on MTV that turned him into a comedy phenomenon and led to roles in movies like Road Trip and Charlie’s Angels…
The flat Earth community loves to take shots at some of the scientific world’s biggest names, from Galileo Galilei to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, because … well, because the Earth isn’t flat and having people prove that it isn’t is really damaging to their case. So we decided to call one…
Just like many American high schoolers or professional comedians, Shane Mauss did quite a few hallucinogens. Now he has turned it into a thriving and unique career. “I got into psychedelics as a teenager, the same as any other rebellious teen trying to get into trouble not really knowing at…
“Be nice.” That’s the text message my mom always sends when I’m heading into a situation that’s controversial or ridiculous. A Twilight film marathon, a Logan Paul concert, even Fyre Festival II — it doesn’t matter. She’ll still send the text because she’s sweet and concerned for her first born…
The classic British Broadcasting Company (BBC) sketch comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the films built by Pythons including Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life may be required viewing for comedy nerds of all generations these days. However, there was a…
Despite his well known temper, comedian Lewis Black says he doesn’t hate President Donald Trump or any political leader on either side of the aisle. His comedy speaks to something much deeper. “I basically have yelled about both sides and I don’t hate him,” Black says. “I’ve never hated him…
Being in a conference dedicated to the belief that the Earth is flat is surreal enough. Then one of late-night TV’s most notorious trolls enters to stir up trouble for the sake of comedy, and it somehow feels more surreal but a hell of a lot funnier. Jake Byrd, the chipper,…
