Why the Next Watch Dogs Game Should Be Set in Dallas

In the summer of 2012, the internet went out of its collective mind over a new game that became the undisputed sleeper hit of the E3 video game convention in Los Angeles. Game publisher Ubisoft released a trailer for Watch Dogs that easily overshadowed any other blood soaked, trigger-happy game…

Mark Cuban Announces His Minecraft-Mavs Mashup

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has built an empire on tech money and professional games. Now he’s eyeing another expansion — into the digital universe of the game Minecraft. In an unprecedented move, the Mavs have announced a partnership with Mineplex, one of the largest Minecraft servers in the world, to…

Forget Wrestlemania: Meet Dallas’ Hometown Wrestlers

A week removed from the onslaught of mayhem brought into North Texas by Vince McMahon, Stone Cold, Roman Reigns and the World Wrestling Entertainment’s Wrestlemania, it’s easy to forget that for some people, stage-dives, body slams and crowd-taunting turnbuckle gestures are a year-round life. While a hundred thousand fans gathered…

This Weekend Wrestlemania Dropkicked DFW

It was squared circle nirvana this past weekend for over 100,000 fans in North Texas as Wrestlemania swept through town. The marquee event of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has grown from a single-day card into a multi-day entertainment extravaganza.   The numbers show wrestling’s enduring power. The announced attendance…

Dallas Needs a Pinball Arcade

All types of people showed up for the three-day Texas Pinball Festival this month. The young and old, male and female, pierced and khaki-ed all came to Frisco to play more than 350 tables. The games spanned the history of pinball, starting with the first flipper games of the ’50s. Kids…

Your Comprehensive Guide to Kicking Garage Sale Ass in Dallas

These days, what with the trendiness of vintage stores and everything looking like it got fished out of a mid-century dumpster, garage sales have sort of gone by the wayside. Sure, it’s super cool to fish around a musty thrift store until you find an old plaid shirt that only…

10 Excellent Vintage Shops to Explore in Dallas

These days, buying new stuff just isn’t cool anymore. No one cares about your expensive Italian leather couch from a swanky furniture store, but a rare designer divan (that’s fancy talk for sofa) from the 1950s is a conversation piece. More importantly, that old-ass couch says that you’re a cool-ass…

Happy Stone Cold Steve Austin Day!

We hereby declare 3/16 Stone Cold Steve Austin Day.  The Texas Rattlesnake, Stone Cold Steve Austin is the most popular wrestler of all-time. Yes, I will happily put Austin ahead of Hulk Hogan and The Rock. So what does March 16th have to do with Steve Austin? Well, Stone Cold’s…

Welcome to DFW: Where to Get Your Arts and Culture Fix

Dallas has a solid foundation of fine arts to go along with its brash, honkey-tonk image. Here are some places to feed your head. — Lauren Smart, arts and culture editor Nasher Sculpture Center 2001 Flora St., nashersculpturecenter.org Part world-class sculpture garden, part museum, the Nasher Sculpture Center is one of…

Wrestlemania Main Event Confirmed. Get Ready to Boo!

The Wrestlemania 32 card began to take form last night at “WWE Fastlane” as Roman Reigns defeated both Brock Lesnar and Dean Ambrose in a #1 contender match to face Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Wrestlemania. With a little less than 6 weeks…

Meet DENTISSBB, the Twitch Hero in Our Backyard

Like many entertainers before him, Dustin Carlson shed his real name. The tall 25-year-old with long red hair and thick-rimmed, black glasses chose a different path, and with that path came a new name, a tag – DentiSSBB. Denti is a professional video game player. So when he plays –…