After four years of competing, Violet S’Arbleu, née Jacob Chaput, was crowned Miss Gay Texas America in 2017. This year, he’s traveled to every city preliminary in Texas to help 27 drag contestants prepare to take the stage in Dallas and compete for the crown. “It’s an educational experience that…
Pride month comes to a close this weekend, but that doesn’t mean that showing love and support to all people, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation, has to stop. If you’re part of the LGBT community or are supporting someone you care about and want to permanently show it,…
If you’re reading this, then we assume you’re having an extramarital affair. Not to be harsh, but it’s either you or your spouse. We assume this because Dallas was ranked the third-highest city in America for Ashley Madison users. You know, Ashley Madison — the website where men and women…
Fort Worth resident Micah Conn opened Neon Noir, the first local virtual-reality arcade of its kind, last May. It is just as cool — and slightly creepy — as it sounds. Sometimes life is uncomfortably close to an episode of Black Mirror. “When I embarked on opening up my own…
Playing board games may seem quaint in this modern age of high-definition first-person shooters and virtual-reality headsets that can make you feel like Spider-Man, but the industry is experiencing a lucrative renaissance and attracting a fearsome, fervent fanbase. “We look at hundreds of games, and it’s always more and more,”…
Can two PC gaming cafes function 400 feet away from each other? The city of Carrollton has hit the gaming market and recently approved the construction of AK PC Gaming Cafe, the city’s second gaming cafe. It will be open 24 hours per day and is set to open in…
“Why is theater so old?” Morgana Wilborn, the 33-year old woman who runs the education department at Dallas Theater Center, says with a laugh. According to numbers provided by DTC, of the 17,801 people who attended a performance at the theater last year, 74 percent were older than 35 and…
Mother’s Day is approaching faster than you’d like, and you still haven’t bought a present. Sure, you could go with the basics like a flower arrangement or the candle closest to the checkout counter at Bath & Body Works, but what if your mom isn’t the traditional kind of lady?…
Fireball Island was the board game that could beat up any other game in a fight in the ’80s if board games suddenly grew arms and feet and developed a taste for hand-to-hand combat. The 1986 board game published by Milton Bradley came in a box four times the size…
It’s official. We’re in one of the strangest and most contentious points in the history of our great democracy. A group of beered-up guys and a smattering of women who kept their clothes on shared the same room with a naked woman on Saturday whom we’ve been told has also…
The West End wants to remind you there’s still life left in the historic Dallas neighborhood. It will host Dallas Fest, a daylong arts festival, on May 5. Dallas Fest will celebrate all things Dallas with concerts from local musicians such as Jessie Frye and Ronnie Heart, artists creating new…
You know it’s not real. You know you’re not actually Spider-Man. You know you’re not really standing on top of a collapsing crane overlooking a crowded metropolitan area. You know you’ll still be alive if you don’t attach your web sling on the leg of the helicopter and swing down…
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…
