If you haven’t heard the news by now because you’ve been out of town, in a coma or some kind of bizarre parallel dimension that doesn’t have a good Wifi connection, Conan O’Brien is bringing his Conan show to town to tape a week’s worth of episodes at The Majestic…
The Dallas comedy scene has grown up so much so fast that among our evolving flock of chuckle monkeys, we now have “young comedians,” which in show business terms is somewhere in between the “neurula” and “tadpole” stages of comedy stardom…
Few moments in life feel more fulfilling than telling some horrid, debilitating disease to go do something to its mother that is anatomically impossible, even for a microscopic organism. You’ll be able to do just that at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Grotto in Fort Worth. The appropriately named nonprofit…
Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien is already in town running around and doing God-knows-what to our beloved city probably while wearing a ridiculous, oversized cowboy hat. That’s not a crack about his giant head. That’s just what we assume they hand out to out-of-towners as soon as they…
We’re trying not to go all TMZ here with updates about celebrities doing things that us normals do everyday like stopping for a burger, buying toilet paper in bulk and berating an intern for bringing us the wrong kind of coffee by giving them third-degree burns with it so they’ll…
The Rockwall man who gave the world the Vanilla Ice and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reunion it didn’t know it wanted just finished throwing one of the biggest pop culture-themed parties that Dallas/Fort Worth has ever seen. Such an endeavor must have taken an insane amount of planning and preparation,…
If you’re a fan of anything in this world, there is a convention dedicated to it somewhere in the world. Of course, it’s not economically feasible to fly halfway around the world just to publicly declare your love in creative cosplay to the Saturday morning cartoon series Rubix, the Amazing…
The tiny town of Night Vale has been getting a great deal of exposure. It’s not the homemade pie in the local diner or the quaint bed and breakfast run by a lovely elderly couple that attracts such loyal followers. It’s the strange lights in the sky, the high school…
The last thing a writer feels like doing on a day when it seems that everything is just out of his reach is bask in the glory of another writer who actually made it. Sometimes the days can consist of getting your ego beaten as if it owed someone money…
Somewhere in the ether of geographic nothingness exists a small desert town that’s more cut off from society than even the most heavily fortified separatist compound. It’s got all the things that every small town has: a high school, a City Hall and an all-night diner. However, it also has…
You can’t have a true St. Patrick’s Day concert without a few staples: a mega-ton of beer, a sea of green-covered people who may or may not look that way because they’ve had more than their fair share of said beer, and a long list of bands and performers. We’ve…
Video games have become such a huge entertainment force to be reckoned with that almost every aspect of their development can be classified as its own art form.
If you don’t know about Cards Against Humanity or even what it is and why it’s still the top selling toy and game on Amazon.com, I weep for you.
Comedians like Jim Jefferies always seem to be living a life that’s slowly spiraling toward some dark abyss, much like how he recently described the cast of characters on his FXX show Legit. And yet, they have fame, fortune and a massive audience that hang on their every dark, brooding…
Alien ass-kicker and record-breaking misogynist Duke Nukem has gotten into a lot of scrapes over the years, whether it was preventing a race of aliens from using their spawn to take over the planet or getting back at them for daring to take the Earth’s babe resources. He’s been relatively…
Stand-up and improvisational comedians seem like they should be mortal enemies — two opposing camps with incompatible views on how to make audiences laugh. They’re the Hatfields and McCoys of funny, with punch-line flingers on one side and scene-building tacticians on the other battling for your admiration and attention, both…
WES from Alejandro Prullansky on Vimeo. If you’re into movies with smart characters who secretly feel shunned by society and scenes with supremely low frame rates, you’re in luck. The Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson is having a mini-film fest of director Wes Anderson’s films all next week. The Drafthouse’s “Week…
Three musicians who stuff all the bleeps and bloops from your favorite new and classic video games into new compositions and songs are bringing their 8-bit instruments to Dallas next week as part of a national Total Destruction Tour. Lyricist Brent “brentalfloss” Black, rapper Raheem “Mega Ran” Jarbo and Dan…
Morning news shows have to fill a lot of time for audiences who are barely awake or so hungover that they don’t realize the TV is actually on, so they have a little more leeway with their content. That’s why you’ve never seen folks like Brian Williams doing cooking segments…
The 32nd annual North Texas Irish Festival has always tried to be inclusive and inviting to everyone in North Texas, but this year they are opening their festival to a massive but untapped demographic: dogs. This year’s festival theme is “Erin Go Bark!” in which visitors’ dogs can join in…
If any athlete deserves a $1 million-plus prize, it’s rodeo cowboys and cowgirls. They voluntarily get on the backs of animals that can break bones in their bodies they didn’t know they had. The worst obstacle that even the biggest and toughest defensive football players have to go up against…
We’re coming out of the winter months, a time of year when it’s ridiculously easy to get off your diet and lie around the house because it’s too cold or slippery to go out for a run. The Trinity Commons Foundation and the city of Dallas’ Trinity Corridor Project can…
