Most of us have a love or obsession with something that we’d rather not tell other people about because we fear being judged or called names. Some people cultivate those loves or obsessions for that very reason — because it makes them unique and they love telling you about it…
There are very few things in life that may help ease the pain of realizing you’re more than halfway through your life expectancy: some kind of trophy spouse or companion, plastic surgery, some kind of gypsy or voodoo potion that can reverse the aging process. Of course, those treatments come…
The movie that made college look like it was worth racking up a mountain of debt that even a Republican fundraiser couldn’t pay off is getting the special screening it deserves tonight … again. (More on that in a bit.) The Alamo Drafthouse in Richardson will screen National Lampoon’s Animal…
The word “hippie” has been used to describe the sound and style of the indie music phenomenon Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros so often in reviews and profiles that it’s now a suggested search term on Google. Of course, it’s too narrow a description for the freewheeling folk rock…
By the time I muscled through the traditional Fair Park gridlock traffic and made it inside Gexa Energy Pavilion for last night’s Oddball Comedy Festival, the place was flooded, with thousands splayed on the lawn waiting for the main stage and hundreds more in the concession area. The “Curiosity” part of the…
Comedian Hannibal Buress has a lot of items on his to-do list these days. He’s not only shooting a new pilot for Comedy Central but he’s also part of their episodic remake of the Broad City web series and the sidekick for the insane Adult Swim talk show The Eric…
Almost two years ago, Donna Alexander came up with one of the weirdest business proposals to ever land on the Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s desk. She wanted to charge people to stand in a room with a blunt object filled with appliances, furniture and other breakable objects and let them…
WARNING: The following post contains an excess of the Food and Drug Administration’s daily recommended allowance of vegetable puns. Since this story is about a vegetable rally and I’m still buzzing about Jason Jones’ hilarious story about a California raisin farm “raisin” some hell with the government on the Daily…
If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a star in the circus, you were probably raised in a time before iPhones, animal rights groups or the inherent creepiness of a Cirque du Soleil show. Such a strange life goal comes with a number of unique challenges. First, you have to have…
Of course, rapper Machine Gun Kelly always talks a big, lewd game, but he backed up his boasts during last Friday’s show at the newly opened Monroe Lounge. Porn star Rachel Starr gave the fans in attendance a chance to make a sex tape of their own after she dropped…
The members of Samurai Drunk, the comedy improv group from the Dallas Comedy House, have been hanging out at a nearby Cafe Brazil after almost every rehearsal since their first days together in the club’s “Level 1” improv training sessions. Founding member Brian Moody said they would spend two or…
It only takes about five minutes for someone in the noisy crowd of social drinkers at the Old Monk pub on North Henderson Avenue to recognize comedian Paul Varghese. An attractive blond woman recognizes him just as we sit down on the patio to talk about his new album Paul…
As far as titles go, Craig Cackowski and Lucas Neff could certainly do worse than The Better Half, the name of the show they’re performing at Dallas Comedy House this weekend. “I think we’re a good contrast in styles,” Cackowski said by email. “Lucas is boundlessly energetic and physical. He’s…
It’s easy to sit at home and play along with a trivia game show like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and believe you could breeze through the questions to the $1 million bounty. Actually trying out for a shot to be considered for a seat in that cushy, purple…
