Viewers will need to be quick with the pause button to catch a mention of late Dallas businessman Robert K. Hoffman in A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the new Netflix film about the founding of the National Lampoon humor empire. The film’s name comes from a line from Animal House…
Competing to be a host city for a global sporting event like the World Cup might seem like a feat akin to winning the lottery, but the city of Dallas, the FC Dallas soccer club and some soccer experts believe the city has a solid shot. “We’re very positive about the…
Writing a memoir about your family that holds nothing back sounds like a perfect way to make every Thanksgiving awkward for the rest of your life. But Dianna de la Garza, the mother Demi Lovato, says the pop singer, as well as her other daughters, Dallas Lovato and Madison de…
The WE Day gathering in Garland may have looked like a raucous kids’ concert filled with famous faces and loud DJ music, but this gathering aspired to a higher purpose than selling tickets. In fact, kids didn’t have to pay to get into the festivities at the WE Day celebration,…
Last month, Free Play Arcade announced what pinball fans have been waiting to hear since the day the video game arcade almost died. The local arcade’s fourth franchise location, in Oak Cliff, will be a pinball bar that will cater to the whims of the most hardcore silver ball slingers…
Street Fighter II has been around for more than 40 years, but it hasn’t lost its competitive edge. Just about every title in Capcom’s video game fighter franchise is still studied by competitive players and used in some high-priced gaming tournaments. One of the most revered Street Fighter II games in…
Hollywood is smack dab in the middle of another busy pilot season, and one production vying for a full season on a major network is being filmed here in Dallas. ABC Studios officials confirmed that film crews are scheduled to shoot a pilot for a new dramatic television show titled…
The fan convention known as All-Con, which will host its 14th annual gathering this weekend at the Renaissance Dallas Addison (formerly the Hotel InterContinental), is a rarity in the modern age of massive, corporately controlled conventions like Comic-Con and Fan Expo. All-Con remains nonprofit and local and attracts bigger crowds each…
Arlington already has the largest local monopoly on professional sports with Globe Life Park, AT&T Stadium and the University of Texas at Arlington’s Maverick Stadium. Now it wants to gain an even greater foothold by making one of the biggest public investments in competitive gaming. Arlington officials this week announced they…
Car collector and builder Dave Scott McDonough always gets noticed when he goes for a drive. The car he uses to drive to work and take his kids to school is a model of the Ecto-1 used in the movie Ghostbusters. His backup ride is a Jeep fashioned to look like…
The Dallas Fuel’s first season in the new Overwatch League, the competitive gaming league centered around Blizzard Entertainment’s frantic first-person shooter game Overwatch, is off to a shaky start on and off the virtual field. The Fuel ranks 10th out of 12 teams this season, and some players have caught…
Performance night for the Mavericks ManiAACs, the all-male dance team that has spent the last 16 years shaking their exposed guts for adoring crowds at American Airlines Center, starts long before the ref throws the opening jumpball. At last Wednesday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the ManiAACS’ duties began as…
Acting in a film is hard work, but when it’s your first film, it can also be quite fun and eye-opening. Actor Jake Ryan Scott, who has a big role in the new horror film Children of the Corn: Runaway, recalled one of the long nights when he and his…
It’s difficult to describe a comedy act like Tape Face, but comedian Sam Wills, the real name of the man behind the strip of electrical tape, says that going into one of his shows cold enhances the bewilderment and surprise he wants his audience to feel. “The less you know,…
For the last year, local emcee and broadcaster Devin Pike has been battling throat cancer. This is Pike’s second time fighting a cancer diagnosis. Scratch that. This is Pike’s second time beating a cancer diagnosis. Two weeks ago, Pike received the good news from his doctors that the tumor in his…
Being the Democratic primary leader for Texas’ U.S. Senate seat sounds like an uphill race before the starter pistol fires. President Donald Trump won 227 of the state’s 254 counties. The New York Times called Democratic primary front-runner Beto O’Rourke “The Lone Star Long Shot” in its recent profile of…
The name Bruce Campbell never fails to elicit screams and squeals from the horror geek sect, especially the dudes. He’s the star of a bunch of cult films, including the Evil Dead trilogy and its Starz TV spinoff, Ash vs. Evil, Dead as well as the long-running USA Network series Burn…
The advertising campaigns for the National Rifle Association’s streaming channel NRA TV have become something of a red-meat factory for its most ardent supporters and a target for criticism as the group turns its aim toward the media. The latest commercial featuring NRA TV host and former KXAS-TV (NBC 5) reporter…
Horror fans will finally have an excuse to read something besides the latest Stephen King novel they are legally required to read whether or not it’s actually a horror story. The Dallas-based movie and publishing studio Cinestate announced that it’s reviving the horror movie magazine Fangoria for print and setting…
If you found yourself alone on Valentine’s Day, you’re not alone. The whole city is full of people who think there’s no one out there in this big, ugly world who’s just for them. They are out there waiting for you to walk up and say, “Hiya.” Maybe you’re a…
Can’t decide between going to the concert or seeing a movie? The Texas Theatre has a solution. Why not both? An upcoming screening of director Gordon Parks Jr.’s blaxploitation classic Super Fly on Saturday, part of the Oak Cliff movie theater’s Black Cinematheque Filmmaker series, will feature DJ Spinderella from Salt-N-Pepa and…
If comedian Joshua Fischer saw you perform a set, he’d be your biggest supporter no matter how well you did. “You could bomb, and he would tell you that you did great,” said comedian and friend Lawrence Rosales. “When you needed it, he was there.” Fischer didn’t just aspire to…
