We hardly knew you, Flappy Bird. It’s been just over a week since you first began to pump your little wings on my iPhone, and just like that your creator has returned you to a cage, calling you “addictive” and “a problem.” I know why the caged bird sings, Maya…
The world hasn’t been the same since the video game arcade started to die a slow death. The rise and power of the home console almost made coin-ops obsolete. Now, you can play whatever game you want without having to wait for some joystick jockey to get off the damn…
Rangers fans piled into the ballpark Saturday to get a little facetime with their favorite players. Autograph sessions, Q&As, tours of the dugout and a chance to run the bases rounded out the afternoon’s events. We sent photographer Rachel Parker to weave through the masses and find our favorites. While…
On South Locust Street in Denton, between the Davis Purity Bakery and El Guapo’s, sits a small brick building. Inside, children’s stuffed animals, kitchen tea towels, handbags and a menagerie of other items are lined along the walls and arranged on tabletops, in baskets and even on an old stove…
Your toddler just dropped a Cheerio on the floor and said, “Aww, motherfucking dickjob!” We’ve all been there. But what do you do about it? (After you take a video of it happening one more time, because these days your happiness is based on Facebook “likes” and this moment will…
The perennial gaming powerhouse ScrewAttack announced that they will hold another massive gaming-gasm in Dallas this summer, and you have your first chance to pick up your tickets. The annual ScrewAttack Gaming Convention (SGC) will return to DFW on July 11-13 to the downtown Sheraton Hotel and the tickets for…
There’s a peculiar magic that surrounds creation. A collision of matter, sparked by energy, goes on to be viewed as destiny. In recent years our city has experienced a push of new life, a rupturing of culture. An Arts District was built. A museum became communal space. Public art was…
It’s been cold in Dallas lately. Because: winter. And based on the screenshots of the 10-day forecast clogging up the Facebook Newsfeed, you’re all starting to have a collective pants-crap about the fact that it’s not 110°F with a heat index of Shit Steam anymore. I get it. Icemageddon drive-by-boned…
Despite the fact that etsy has officially been infiltrated by crap, there are still a few gems out there. Some even call Dallas their home. Here’s a list of the top etsy Dallas vendors that’ll make you proud to share your tap water with them. They’re listed in no particular…
Last week was a strange one for Tattooed Hippie Pirate Mommas founder Stacy Willingham. She was already getting a ton of publicity for the mom group she founded and the calendar she helped create to raise money for charity. It reached an interesting new level when we reported that the…
The Thursday night Friends of the Dallas Public Library event is sold out, but we’ve compiled a list of a few reasons you should care about his visit to Dallas.
UPDATE, 2:40 p.m.: Dan Leal, the center’s executive director, emailed us this statement this afternoon: “The Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County appreciated the generous offer made by the Tattooed Hippie Pirate Mommas organization; however, the money was raised with a pin up calendar that could be perceived by some…
Absolute Battle, the biggest competitive video fighting game tournament in Texas since 2009, returns this Saturday at the Crown Plaza Dallas Downtown. For the fourth show in five years, its organizers are expecting players from across the world in an event featuring nine games, including classics like Street Fighter III:…
Game demos, whether they are smaller affairs like Sunday’s Xbox One reveal at a Commerce Street warehouse or massive gang bangs of game industry PR, like the annual E3 conventions in Los Angeles, never seem satisfied to be able to assault the human senses with just video games. They are…
Dallas/Fort Worth has served as the home base for a number of major sports championships over the years. Since it doesn’t look like we’re going to get another Super Bowl for awhile because Lord Jerry Jones tried to cram more people into the stadium the way Cinderella’s step sisters tried…
Try to imagine all the time you’ve spent playing video games. Sure they are good for hand-eye coordination and can help numb the pain of living in a violent world by desensitizing you to it, but the number of hours must reach into at least the thousands, even if you’re…
Demigods and politicians have often used games like the Grand Theft Auto titles as surefire signs of the nation’s moral decay and scapegoats for much bigger problems that require actual work on their part, a theory that’s proving more true today as certain members of the U.S. House and Senate…
A great gift shop is a place where art and consumerism meet. Until you enter its doors, you never really appreciated the beauty of taxidermy, or you never you desired — or in fact needed — a mannequin dressed as an Aztec warrior. Well, maybe you don’t need one, but…
Cedar Springs shut down on Sunday for the 30th anniversary of the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade. Recently some noise rustled throughout the LGBT community; a response to the announcement banning public nudity from the Pride Parade. It caused some to say that things were getting too commercial. Others used…
We are officially in Dallas Pride mode now, and there’s a lot to celebrate after this past year: the Supreme Court rulings in favor of marriage equality (and Edith Windsor being adorable), the Boy Scouts of America’s (admittedly half-assed) step toward inclusivity, George Takei being pretty much everywhere. We want…
The thing that really stood out at the Ticket’s Fight Night yesterday was that these were definitely amateurs in the ring. Bout after bout would start in a flurry of punches and a burst of energy, only to quickly turn into a lethargic affair of tired legs and weak punches…
On Thursday, August 29, Sportsradio 1310 The Ticket takes over the Village Country Club with a ring, a copy of the Marquess of Queensbury Rules, and a slew of ever loyal P1s. That’s right folks, it’s time for Fight Night ’13, an event members of the Hardline call “The best…
