Imagine walking in a dark forest. The dense trees make it almost impossible to see a hint of moonlight. A cool, eerie wind blows from behind you causing the trees’ branches to sway as if they are just trying to remind you they are there in the darkness. It’s so…
Critics of a new bill filed in the Texas House that seeks to establish a Texas music history museum say that even though their hearts are in the right place, their brains are somewhere else entirely. HCR 75, a bill introduced in the Texas House last month by Rep. Senfronia…
The Open Carry movement of 2014 didn’t contribute much to society. Its overall aim (no pun intended) may have been to bring a greater awareness to gun rights and fears over firearm control, but the images of grown men in camo hats walking into Chipotle with AR-15s really only did…
If you love things that scare you and have a great deal of bladder control, where do you go to get the biggest dose of adrenaline you can short of running across a busy highway or hiring a friend to kidnap you? You could eliminate the risk of committing a…
The first ever WhoFest kicked off last year at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Addison on the same weekend as the BBC’s official American premiere of the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor. The episode brought back every single incarnation of the Doctor and turned a flooded conference…
If you’re a huge movie fan, you’ve got at least one filmmaker in mind that you would just love to sit down with just for a few minutes and root around their brain like someone looking for a contact lens in a Hardee’s dumpster. Well, the odds are pretty good…
Stand-up comedians are usually caricatured as grumpy, clinically depressed people with social phobias and a textbook example for doctors to prescribe antidepressants to, and Marc Maron is a prime example of this archetype. Even now that he’s a successful, iconic name who packs theaters around the country whether it’s to…
Few things can make someone feel more alive than watching two grown men or women beat the snot out of each other in a controlled environment. It’s not only exhilarating to watch two people go to the mat for the thrill of a majestic sport and your personal entertainment but…
One of the great tragedies of the Dallas music scene from the past decade was the death of Carter Albrecht, one of the scene’s most promising artists from the early 2000’s. This month, however, there’s a chance to make a positive contribution in Albrecht’s name, thanks to the organizers of…
Spider-Man is the super hero that all other superheroes envy. He can’t fly like Superman but come on, flying is such a boring and obvious superpower. It’s the Olive Garden of superpowers. Yeah, he’s got dead parents who drove him to his life of crimefighting like Batman but he doesn’t…
TV’s Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are one of Hollywood’s most powerful comedy couples and not just because they are one of the few to actually stay married long enough to merit a ridiculously overpriced wedding. That’s because they do more than just live together. They also perform together on…
Whenever a group of comedic movie mockers stage a live commentary for a bad movie screening, the movies are secondary. David Schmader, a writer who has performed live movie commentaries in 2002, wants you to see the movies. Wait, scratch that, just this one movie. He’s done over 50 commentaries…
Comedian Aaron Aryanpur is one of the reasons why Dallas has a comedy scene. He started performing when there was just one comedy club in town, which usually catered to out-of-towner headliners. The rest were coffee shops and bars that had an unoccupied corner and an owner who didn’t mind…
Inevitably when something in pop culture becomes officially popular, there is a rush from production studios and fans to spin it off into as many different forms of media as possible from a series of TV show spinoffs to a Saturday morning cartoon to a supremely sugary breakfast cereal. Welcome…
What did you do over your Easter weekend? Most of you without children probably didn’t even realize it was Easter until you noticed an upsurge in Cadbury Creme Eggs at drug stores and creepy, humanoid rabbits taking over the city (outside of the usual furry convention season, too). Comedian roommates…
Former Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer may be known as a musician, a writer and a public speaker but they all have a common thread that a crowd of beered-up concert goers may not be able to realize. They are all about asking something from someone. As an entertainer and…
Somewhere out there in that unreachable plain of existence that Carl Sagan used to talk about on Cosmos when you were too baked to understand what he meant, lies a place where the abnormal is the norm. Three suns rise and fall over the desert landscape. The sheriff has a…
Remember when MTV had shows that were watchable? Believe it or not, there was a time when the so-called “Music Television” channel had original programming that didn’t exploit knocked-up teens and undiagnosed alcoholics who bathed themselves in ethnic stereotypes. One of the cable channel’s greatest original shows was the game…
Road comics have the best stories. When they start out, they have to play pretty much anywhere with a microphone and a stage that’s willing to barter jokes for actual money, food or a night of sleep in the barn. Austin’s Matt Sadler has a ton of those stories. He…
“Drone” is a new, hot-button word in the vein of “selfie,” “poke” and “truthiness.” Thanks to their military use, drones have a negative connotation, but hobbyists are starting to reclaim the term and use it to evoke fun and skill rather than a talking point for TV pundits. It requires…
Here’s a little thought experiment that will blow your punk-infected brain: Let’s say you decide to go do some karaoke. Totally lame, right, because you get nauseous at the thought of celebrity or idol worship, so why pretend to be a rock star? You’re the edgiest punk fan of them…
For the last 15 years, T.J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi of the comedy duo of T.J. & Dave have started their shows with the same, simple method. They walk out on stage, introduce each other and assure the crowd, “Trust us, this is all made up.” Some music plays, the…
