Love it or hate it — there is no gray area — holiday Buc-ee’s is like if regular Buc-ee’s was injected with large doses of animal steroids: It’s louder, more pulsating and a little confused. It sees exponentially more out-of-staters than usual, who, after driving all day, are neither sure…
A purple hue hovered above a stage as hundreds of North Texas youth gathered to have their say. Some danced, some sang, some cried and some scrawled their names across a wall. Others recited original poems before a standing-room-only crowd at DaVerse Lounge. Spilling from a dance floor, a young…
People say money can’t buy love or happiness, but it can. We have proof, and it’s in the Neiman Marcus Fantasy Gift Guide. Hillary Stonger, who handles corporate public relations for Neiman Marcus, tells us about half of the Neiman Marcus fantasy gifts are sold each year. In fact, two…
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…
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…
While some sights and sounds of the State Fair of Texas stay the same year after year, Jack Libby is on the verge of saying goodbye to the annual attraction after nearly 17 years of traveling from one fair to the next with his wife, Regina, and his father’s Jeltron…
Jenny Block is a Dallas writer who has published three books on the topic of sex, The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex, O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm and Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage. Gary Morris Jr. is from Quinlan, he’s been married for 26 years…
Dr. Jessica Tartaro wants you to get to know the most private parts of yourself. That could mean your secret desires, or it could literally mean your genitals. Tartaro is a clinical psychologist who has studied breast cancer survivors in London and worked extensively with veterans in San Francisco and…
Before breaking into the vintage wholesale market and becoming one of Texas’ biggest ugly Christmas sweater suppliers, Keith Marrs worked for his father, exporting cars to Central America. His wife, Amy, a Dallas native, gave us the lowdown on Vagabond Vintage — their small but mighty Design District showroom which…
Jenny Block is Dallas writer who has published three books on the topic, The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex, O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm and Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage. This week I rode down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on a bed that had been…
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…
You’ll go. You’ll eat corn dogs and fried unicorn tears and ride the big Ferris wheel despite your fear of heights. Later on, you might hurl yourself down a three-story slide for grownups and think about how nice it is to be a kid trapped in an adult’s body. That’s…
Academy award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon staked a claim on Dallas last week when she opened the second location of her luxury fashion and lifestyle brand, Draper James, in Highland Park Village. The store is all about celebrating Southern living: The word “ya’ll” appears on numerous articles of clothing and accessories,…
DFW locals Billy Hudson and Jay Hunter were in the middle of an episode of American Pickers when their lives changed forever. “During the commercial break [Billy] said, ‘Hey, let’s do this with video games,’” says Hunter, who goes by the name Shady Jay on the duo’s YouTube show, The Game…
Attention, men of the Dallas area: If you are 30 to 50 years old and into women who are 10 years older than you, man, are you in luck. Dallas just happens to rank seventh in “cougar” activity in America. According to the online dating site PlentyOfFish, a cougar is a…
Mark Kaplan didn’t name his photography business Naked Lens Photography for nothing. Under that brand he’s photographed Dallas’ sexiest events, including Texas Queerlesque Festival, Exxxotica Expo Dallas and Dallas Suscon. He’s even played key roles in producing some, such as the No Pants Subway Ride, Disturbathon and the “Day of Debauchery and…
The annual Dallas pride parade, which took place last Sunday, holds special significance for Lula Villa-Brown, a queer and non-binary identifying advocate for people who exist outside the mainstream, including queer and trans people, people of color and immigrants. When Villa-Brown went to the parade with her mother as a child, it…
Contemporary poets will breathe life into the work of writers we may have forgotten at Deep Vellum Books this Sunday. Other People’s Poetry (OPP) is a new reading series created by author and teacher Joe Milazzo, who is on a mission to bring poets who’ve fallen out of the oral…
Until 2008, it was illegal to sell sex toys in Texas, although this problem was commonly skirted by labeling devices “massagers” or for “novelty purposes only.” But even now that it’s perfectly legal, you may not be familiar with the best places in Dallas to buy them. Sure, you could…
If you’re a child of the 1980s or ’90s and haven’t made a voyage to the Free Play Arcade in Richardson, you are passing up a chance to experience time travel. The game room that’s tucked away in a strip mall on East Belt Line Road takes you back to…
Jenny Block is the writer of the Observer’s sex column, Pillow Talk. She has published three books on the topic, The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex, O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm and Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage. This July was Lillith Grey’s 10th anniversary of teasing…
Toys are a $20 billion industry in the U.S., and not just because kids love them. Adults are as much of a target market as the kids who fall within the age range listed on a toy’s packaging. Take a look at the highly coveted Star Wars merchandise. According to…
