Alan Avila, better known as “AlanAvi,” went from kicking a soccer ball with his soccer cleats, to virtually moving a soccer player with a video game remote. FC Dallas, a Major League Soccer Club, signed Avila as its first eMLS professional player and finished fourth in the first eMLS Cup…
Parading unicorns and bubble-blowing fairies are scattered among the family entertainment at Scarborough Renaissance Festival, but if you look along the fringes, you’ll discover a few saucier acts for mature audiences. We went through the Museum of Mythical Monsters, which houses replicas of things like shapeshifters and flesh-eating death worms…
This weekend, Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center was filled with 60,000 film, comic book and pop culture fans standing shoulder-to-shoulder at Dallas Fan Expo. A main attraction during the expo was Cosplay Alley, where some of the world’s biggest cosplayers, like Jessica Nigri, Leanna Vamp and Karli Woods, met with fans. Local…
Jonny Cruz, an El Paso native who moved to Dallas and studied acting at the University of Texas at Arlington, never really considered voice acting as a viable career until he saw what video games could do with a good actor behind the microphone. Years ago, Cruz was spending time…
When you sit down to watch Cirque Italia’s Water Circus, you can’t help but be filled with questions. What is a water circus? Do the performers act out impossible feats submerged in a tank of water? Can you tame a lion underwater? What would a lion look like with a…
The WE Day gathering in Garland may have looked like a raucous kids’ concert filled with famous faces and loud DJ music, but this gathering aspired to a higher purpose than selling tickets. In fact, kids didn’t have to pay to get into the festivities at the WE Day celebration,…
Last month, Free Play Arcade announced what pinball fans have been waiting to hear since the day the video game arcade almost died. The local arcade’s fourth franchise location, in Oak Cliff, will be a pinball bar that will cater to the whims of the most hardcore silver ball slingers…
Street Fighter II has been around for more than 40 years, but it hasn’t lost its competitive edge. Just about every title in Capcom’s video game fighter franchise is still studied by competitive players and used in some high-priced gaming tournaments. One of the most revered Street Fighter II games in…
7 a.m. Rise and shine for your morning workout! A jog around the neighborhood is exactly what you need to balance out a day of bangers, mash and green food coloring. 7:10 a.m. Be serious. Hit snooze and give up on New Year’s resolutions and Lent promises like the rest…
Dallas streetwear designer Derick King, known as DK Creates on Instagram, dabbled in architecture, communication design and screen-printing before he dropped out of school at the University of North Texas and began remaking logos with a unique — and sometimes local — spin. “I did not need a major to…
Dallas is the third-most generous city in the country, according to WhatsYourPrice.com, a first-date site where men (or women) pay to go on dates with someone they’re interested in. The man (or woman) simply makes an offer to someone else on the site, they go on a date, and then…
You can look, maybe even touch, but don’t ask Stormy Daniels about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump when she comes to Dallas. The adult-film actress and director, whose birth name is Stephanie Clifford, will visit April 27-28 at Bucks Wild in Dallas and Fort Worth. The two shows are…
If you thought apps such as Tinder, Bumble and Grindr killed the old-school dot-com way of finding true love, you’re wrong. So wrong. Online dating sites are alive and well — and more specific than ever. Looking for a partner based primarily on political views, diet or net worth? We…
Whether you “check in at the Red Roof Inn,” “receive a visit from Aunt Flo,” or “tune in to Shark Week,” chances are you dread the days of your menstrual cycle. But for homeless women, these days are even more of a drag. That’s why the group That Time of…
While it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, sites like Airbnb give people a homey alternative to the hotels and motels of yore. Instead of holing up in one of dozens of cookie-cutter rooms, a cavalcade of homeowners and enterprising entrepreneurs, have opened up their extra living space for…
People who hate together, stay together. Or something like that. At least that’s what Hater, the dating app that connects people based on things they hate, hopes. Hater, which launched in 2016, got a deal with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Shark Tank. Hater has about 10,000 users in…
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does buy you 50 Valentine’s dates, which might be the same thing. John Dixon III, self-professed millionaire and founder of Dallas-based Business Society, wanted to do something nice for women, so he posted a Facebook status inviting 20 women to a nice date for…
Two-and-a-half percent of American men ages 15-44 who identify as straight have had same-sex relations. That’s according to a December study published in the journal Sociological Perspectives by Tony Silva and Rachel Bridges Whaley, which examined “the relationship between straight identification and nonsexual social factors among men who are attracted to…
While Sam Moon Group is best known for its handbag and accessory empire, it has now taken on a new venture in the hotel and hospitality industry. The 15-story Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel, which opened in July, brings a mix of Asian art and culture to North…
In the ’80s, cartoonist and Far Side comic strip creator Gary Larson drew a comic with the caption “Hopeful parents” that somehow came to fruition. The comic featured a pair of proud parents looking at their buck-toothed kid playing a video game. The thought bubble above their heads showed the “help wanted”…
The games that professional eSports athletes compete on aren’t just netting them tired thumbs and a few pixelated coins. The collegiate and professional eSports industry that’s on the rise in Dallas is fueled by games from a multibillion-dollar media industry and it’s starting to rival the revenues of film and…
Battleborn creative director Randy Varnell announced that updates to the video game would soon be coming to an end, but he followed up with big plans for the future. A forum post on Frisco-based game developer Gearbox’s website outlined details for the game’s final creative stages: Once the previously announced fall…
