The new comedy film The Oath would sound like a totally unthinkable dystopian world at any other time in history. Except now. The Oath, written, directed and starring Ike Barinholtz, who came to town for an advance screening and Q&A last month at The Angelika before its limited release Friday,…
Seeing a professional singer in the wild does something to your brain that neither medical science nor Miss Manners could properly explain. You can’t just take their word for it. They need to prove their musical chops before your very ears. Sometimes it’s something as innocuous as asking if they can…
It’s hard to know where to start a discussion about Neal Brennan’s career with the man himself. In fact, the idea makes him laugh. “I didn’t really have an end goal,” Brennan says. “I guess I always wanted to be a popular comedian. I’ve always thought that’s the coolest thing,…
When the Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall formed back in the 1980s in a weekday slot at a Toronto rock club, comedy troupes were a rare commodity. Now thanks in part to The Kids in the Hall’s massive rise as a comedic touchstone, more of them…
Justina Walford says one big reason she is running for the Dallas City Council Dwaine Caraway left in August for a stay in the federal penitentiary was the fact that she wasn’t thrilled with his potential replacements. “I was not noticing people I admire to step up to run,” Walford…
Virtual reality technology may be the most immersive form of digital entertainment in the history of gaming, but it still has its limitations. The most noticeable one is stagnation. VR headsets like the HTC Vive, the Oculus Rift and Sony’s PlayStation VR offer fluid reactions to a player’s movements, but those…
You know that you’re wearing a headset that’s projecting a movement-sensing image of a heavily fortified Imperial facility on a lava-coated planet. You know that when you move your arm or hold an imaginary rifle in front of your face that the sight of Imperial armor or E-11 blaster rifle…
CW33 no longer has a news division after a recent round of layoffs and cutbacks. The station’s parent company, Tribune Media, laid off 68 employees from its Dallas TV station, according to filings made by Tribune with the Texas Workforce Commission. The layoffs led to the cancellation of CW33’s morning news…
Dallas is one of the busiest culinary hubs in all of America. This place is crawling with amateur chefs who dream of having one of their creations sampled and potentially spat out by some of TV’s meanest food judges. If you’re one of those aspiring blue plate special slingers who’s looking…
It turns out it actually doesn’t take long bouts of cocaine-fueled creativity or brainstorms produced by heavy-duty hallucinogens to come up with some great sketch comedy material — unless of course you count the first writing staff of Saturday Night Live. What it does take is creativity, numerous revisions and hard…
Stomping Ground Comedy Theatre’s newest sketch show, Consumed as Directed, will travel down some dark paths to find its laughs when it opens Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts a new state-run children’s showy. An ardent Second Amendment supporter debates an elementary school-aged kid about gun violence in America. A…
Paul Allen has a unique side hustle in this day and age of Uber drivers and Instagram influencers. When he’s not at home, out with friends or doing software engineering for Verizon, he steps out in public in a ten-gallon hat, Texas flag cowboy boots, a pair of Speedos and nothing…
This Labor Day weekend marks the second running of a marathon broadcast that’s destined to raise thousands for a worthy cause. The second annual Who Needs Sleep streaming charity telethon starts at 8 a.m. Saturday and will run 36 consecutive hours of live programming from Vokal Studios, the broadcasting hub…
A Dallas esports player was among those injured when a gunman opened fire at a Jacksonville, Florida, video game tournament, killing two players before taking his own life Sunday afternoon. Player Drini Gjoka of the CompLexity Gaming team based in Dallas was one of the competitors at the Madden NFL…
Actor Barry Corbin’s Internet Movie Database (IMDB) page doesn’t do him justice. He’s starred and performed in more than 200 TV shows and films, including beloved classics like WarGames, Northern Exposure and No Country for Old Men. He’s acted in roles for best-selling video game franchises like the Tex Murphy adventures, the…
Jessica Sotero, a single mother of two from Irving who works as an administrative assistant in Dallas, signed up for WhatsYourPrice.com and found much more than a future boyfriend or husband.
Just before the end of the school year in June, the students who run Prosper High School’s award-winning student newspaper Eagle News Online found themselves wondering if they could still run a newspaper worthy of the national awards they’ve racked up over the last few years. Prosper High School principal…
The infamous photo Kathy Griffin released May 30, 2017, in which she held an effigy of President Donald Trump’s severed and bloodied head by its fluffy, blond mop of hair earned her the kind of fame that no former D-list celebrity would ever want. “This was another level,” Griffin says.
If Nintendo is the family-friendly wing of the video game industry, then id Software and Bethesda Softworks are the cool, older sibling who rides a motorcycle, wears a leather jacket regardless of the weather and blasts speed metal at high volume in his poster-covered bedroom. The hardcore, PC-playing fans of…
Few humans aren’t amused, awed and amazed by the antics of kittens and puppies in viral videos. It’s Zoloft in video form. Will Braden spends his days collecting and organizing the cutest of the cuddliest as the curator of CatVideoFest.com and tours in movie theaters across America, including the Dallas…
Writer and director Augustine Frizzell is riding high on the critical success of her first feature film Never Goin’ Back that got its Texas opening Friday at The Magnolia theater. And it’s nothing like she imagined. “It’s so funny because before you’re at this point, you envision what this feels…
If someone tells you that Bob Dylan is coming to town and you’re one of those young whippersnappers who responds with “Who?” then the person who informed you can’t be held responsible for their actions. It’s the law. Look it up. So if you’re not familiar, don’t worry. We won’t…
