Less than two years ago, a company called DreamVision announced an ambitious plan to give Fort Worth residents its first major theme park. How ambitious was it? They didn’t just call it a theme park or even an amusement park. They announced the construction of a brand new city called…
Eric Idle and John Cleese, two of the founding members of the acclaimed British comedy troupe Monty Python, are in town this week to perform two sold-out shows at the Majestic Theatre. The shows are part of the tail end of a wildly successful American tour, and it doesn’t take a…
Just before the end of the year, Dallas will once again try to carve out a spot for itself in the Guinness Book of World Records. The organizers of the Marvelous Nerd Year’s Eve convention, a four-day comic book and pop culture con starting on Thursday, Dec. 29, announced they will…
Thanksgiving can be a stressful time for those whose relatives spend the entire year glomming onto every political talking point just so they can bring it up at the most awkward times during the holidays. Thanks to the presidential election, they’ve been given a conversation-stopping, fork-dropping gift to make things…
Not everyone is lucky enough to have a family to go home to and “put up with” on Thanksgiving. If you don’t have any Thanksgiving plans or just don’t feel like eating a whole turkey by yourself, you might consider giving some of your time to some people who could…
It’s hard to know what’s more concerning about what happened on Election Day: the fact that so many naive people believed that Donald Trump, a man who espoused racist, sexist and economically reckless policies and views, couldn’t win or the fact that so many people looked past all that and…
Last weekend, gamers from all around the country sat down in front of computers, game consoles and big stacks of board games and played for 24 hours straight — or until their thumbs went numb. They endured the marathon session for a special cause. The nonprofit gaming-based charity Extra Life held…
Maria Bamford, the stand-up comedian who stars in the critically acclaimed Netflix series Lady Dynamite, is very open about her struggles and triumphs with maintaining her mental health. According to a New York Times profile published in 2014, she’s wrestled with obsessive compulsive disorder, binge-eating, anxiety and type-II bipolar disorder…
Brothers are naturally competitive. Comics and brothers Jon and Michael McBrine seem to defy the natural competitive nature that defines so many sibling relationships. They’ve both been selected as solo acts to compete in this year’s Funniest Comic in Texas competition and neither of them care about which one wins or…
Games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, both of which were born in Dallas-Fort Worth’s growing game studio community, may have birthed the first-person shooter genre but Duke Nukem 3D gave it character. The game first released on PCs in 1996 from the Garland-based game studio 3D Realms had infinite playability…
Richard Rawlings, owner of the Gas Monkey Garage and bar and grill that’s become one of Dallas’ most popular live music venues, doesn’t like hearing the term “reality show” when it’s directed at his Discovery Channel show Fast ‘N Loud. Even though cameras are filming his business and his staff…
Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, the names that make up the legendary comedy music duo Flight of the Conchords, have reached an unbelievable level of fame and creative freedom as actors, writers and musicians. Following the two-season run of the hilarious HBO sitcom that bore their band’s name, both became…
Thanks to Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions, which have turned into a flaming nuclear-powered train heading toward a brick wall, Texas could turn blue. A poll conducted by the University of Houston found that Trump and his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton are in a virtual dead heat among Texas voters. National…
Political comedy is such a lazy and misleading way to describe a comedian’s work. The two-word term implies comedy that pushes an agenda and mines jokes from meaningless horse races or whatever stupid thing Donald Trump tweets at 3 a.m. because his staff is too scared to take away his…
Out of all the actors known for playing iconic roles in movies and plays, Texas native Ted Neeley easily wins the award for the most interesting public approach by fans who encounter him. Neeley played Jesus of Nazareth in the original Broadway production and feature film of Jesus Christ Superstar. “They come…
Tim Heidecker — the Tim in the comedy team of Tim & Eric, the Adult Swim series Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie — will make another appearance at the Texas Theatre in November and it’s hard to know exactly what he’s going do…
The holiday shopping season is coming up and if you’re planning on buying your friends and family shiny, expensive gadgets to prove you love them in a total materialistic way, you might need some extra cash. If you’re not one of those overpaid CEOs who gets a check to run…
Few people can command the attention of a room more easily than comedian and talk show icon Arsenio Hall. He can make a room of complete strangers crank the lower part of their arm in the air and “Woof” simply by walking out on a stage. He makes it look…
Celebrating Halloween has become an expensive venture. The price of candy jumps every Halloween and never seems to fall back to its pre-holiday levels. Throwing a party can cost not only a lot in booze, food and party favors, but one drunk dressed as Superman who thinks a cape means he…
The Midway isn’t just a place where people plunk down tickets for a few seconds of competitive fun. It’s the Thunderdome with a carnival theme. It’s a testing ground where nerves, patience and skill are the only ways to achieve supreme victory. It’s an outright war — where battles are…
When the Texas State Fair is preparing to open its gates to the public, it always seems nothing is being talked about but the food. We get it. Fletcher’s Corny Dogs are amazing. It’s a rare opportunity to stuff yourself with funnel cake. And who doesn’t love daring their friends…
It felt like we had entered a new era of technology when Dallas first got Pay-By-Phone, a mobile app that lets drivers use their phones to pay for parking meters instead of whatever change happens to be bouncing around in their pockets or hiding next to stale french fries under…
