Most video game arcade champions spend their entire lives trying to master one machine. Lauren Featherstone isn’t even old enough to remember arcades’ heyday, yet she just smashed the world record for Tapper, one of the most beloved games of all. Featherstone, 24, first played the beer-slinging arcade classic only…
Comedian Jerry Rocha was working at the Barnes & Noble bookstore across from NorthPark Center in the mid-2000s when he first thought about making that big, scary move to a bigger city to pursue his comedy career. Rocha had started performing comedy in Dallas just out of high school and…
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim will perform at the Majestic Theatre on Monday, July 31. Legendary comedy partnerships like Tim and Eric’s don’t always have a steady trajectory. They often end just as they start to pick up steam because of creative differences, promises of solo stardom, or abuse of…
The first time Dutch director Paul Verhoeven read the script for RoboCop, he was enjoying a day at the beach. Verhoeven says he got about 20 pages through it before dismissing it as just another piece of “American nonsense.” Then he went for a swim, and when he returned to…
Thirty years ago, Daniel Robert Durrett, a Dallas native and movie fan who hosts and produces the Drive-By Movies podcast, was a teenager working a summer job at the General Cinema 6 in Mesquite. The theater was promoting one of the season’s biggest movies, and it had somehow snagged an…
Last month, when a fire consumed the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, it meant more than the closure of a beloved dance hotspot. It also marked the final chapter in a story that rocked the city’s LGBT community and catalyzed change within the Fort Worth Police Department. “It was the…
When Kevin Lewis was a kid, he had a deep love for Universal’s classic movie monsters like Frankenstein, the Mummy and Dracula. So, naturally, at Halloween, he wanted to dress up as one of them. None of the store-bought costumes would do, so he picked Lon Chaney Jr.’s Wolf Man and…
Kid Koala performs at the Alamo Drafthouse Cedars on Thursday, June 29 . Even if you’re not a house music enthusiast or connoisseur of clubs, chances are you’ve still heard some of Kid Koala’s sick tracks. The Canadian DJ, also known as Eric San, has built an impressive musical resume…
Fort Worth police Officer Damon Cole spends a lot of his time in uniforms. When he’s not patrolling neighborhoods in the city’s south division, he’s crisscrossing the country wearing superhero outfits. He doesn’t have superpowers like flight or super speed — although they would make both of his jobs much…
Dancer Jesse Morales is like a real-life Channing Tatum from Magic Mike — except his story of finding stardom involved the real Channing Tatum. Morales, a Dallas native who was born in Cleveland, Texas, had dreams of becoming a dancer from a young age. So when he made that big,…
Father’s Day is coming up fast, and chances are you’ve completely forgotten to schedule something fun to do with the old man. You just got done making sure that your mother was properly honored, and your plans for her completely overshadowed Father’s Day. He also hasn’t said anything because not…
The late Adam West wasn’t just a pioneering actor in the world of comic book adaptations and camp cult TV shows. West, who died Saturday at the age of 88, was also one of the first and longest-serving celebrities on the now-billion-dollar convention circuit. His legendary stint as the star of…
Sometime after you moved out of your childhood home, your parents probably gave away all of your toys. A few of your dolls or action figures may have ended up broken at the bottom of a donation bin. But that’s where artist and comedian David Jessup comes in. He’s given…
Demetri Martin performs at the Majestic Theatre on Thursday, June 15. Between national tour dates and pesky deadlines for his third book, If It’s Not Funny, It’s Art — due out later this year — comedian Demetri Martin has a pretty hectic schedule. Last year, he decided to complicate his life…
If you’re planning on spending time in Deep Ellum this week, keep an eye out for the return of one of the neighborhood’s most familiar and beloved musical residents. Bob Crawford – better known by residents as “Keyboard Bob” or “Deep Ellum Bob” – is out of the hospital following…
When Dallas film commissioner Janis Burklund left her office Tuesday, she was “90 percent sure” that 20th Century Fox would stay in Dallas to shoot its new Marvel Comics series The Gifted later this summer, she says. By Wednesday morning, that percentage dropped to zero. The team behind the dramatic…
At the end of many movies, there’s a blooper reel of goofy mistakes by the actors, played up for the rest of the cast and crew. Patrick Read Johnson, the director of films such as Spaced Invaders and Baby’s Day Out, says that if his autographical biopic, 5-25-77, had a blooper…
When news first surfaced in March that X-Men 2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer was in town directing a pilot for Fox connected to Marvel Comics, the network couldn’t deny that it’s an X-Men show quick enough. So when the news broke that the pilot was…
Sugarland native Allison Tolman didn’t plan on turning Dallas into her first professional home as an actress. “It kind of became the plan,” Tolman says with a laugh. The 2004 Baylor University graduate had just gone on a national tour with a children’s theater company as her first job out…
The celebrity appearance roster for this year’s Texas Frightmare Weekend reads like a list of patron saints for the Church of Horror Fan Worship. However, three notable names have excommunicated themselves from the list. Three of the child actors from Netflix’s runaway horror series hit Stranger Things, including Gaten Matarazzo,…
The internet doesn’t just love failure. It craves it. It needs it. Failure is the internet’s opioid. Melinda and Larry Gardner found themselves pinned to the internet’s dartboard following their recent appearance on the long-running, wheel-spinning, phrase-guessing game show Wheel of Fortune. Overall, the couple’s game show performance was good,…
This May 4th, known affectionately to Star Wars fans as May the Fourth Be With You, may be a conflicting one for sci-fi aficionados. On that day, a new Guardians of the Galaxy film will be released to theaters. But people in Dallas-Fort Worth haven’t forgotten about the sci-fi franchise…
