Lauren Belmore is a local poet and noise musician who identifies as non-binary. They studied playwriting at the University of North Texas and now live and work in Dallas. (They pronouns are used when referring to non binary-identifying persons.) Here, they write about coming out and the non-binary artist community…
The gap in knowledge between parents and their children may have never been trickier to navigate than it is today. While it’s now widely accepted that one’s gender is not necessarily determined by one’s sex, we’re still right smack dab in the middle of figuring out how this affects various…
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…
If you dedicated your free time to playing video games on a computer in the 1990s, then you remember the first time you played the groundbreaking first-person shooter Doom. It’s hard to forget a formative moment that involves using a chainsaw to cut open a horned Hell minion like a…
Comic conventions have become snarling, hungry beasts that can never be sated. Every year they get bigger, with more parties, famous faces and costumed fans ready to declare their love for their favorite movie, show or comic book franchise. If this metaphorical beast was itself a comic book character, it…
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…
U.S. Poet Laureate Felipe Herrera could be frustrated. As the first Latino appointed to America’s highest honor in poetry, and a writer who often delves into his experiences as a Mexican-American, he could use the platform to express his disillusionment with the hostility being directed toward immigrants in the United…
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…
Video games are more a part of our daily lives than ever. Those cranky parents who complained about their child’s sedentary gaming habits never saw this coming. We can not only frag strangers from the comfort of our couches through an Xbox One or PlayStation 4, we can also kill…
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…
The notion that wrestling is staged isn’t a new one. Even hardcore WWE fans who lived in denial for years that their heroes were just part of a pre-determined storyline designed to yank on their emotions like a Franciscan monk ringing a church bill on Christmas have accepted that fact. …
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…
Flanked by cops and men in cowboy hats, hometown idol Kerry Von Erich strides toward center stage at Texas Stadium as 30,000 friends, family and fans roar. Emotions generally run hot at high-profile wrestling matches, but this bout is something special. The fourth son in the Von Erich wrestling dynasty…
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…
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…
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…
Early Monday afternoon, the WWE finally put the questions and rumors to rest when they announced legendary group, The Fabulous Freebirds (consisting of Michael “P.S.” Hayes, Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy, Buddy “Jack” Roberts, and Jimmy Garvin), will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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…
Here comes the money! 24 hours removed from having a majority of wrestling fans fuming, the WWE pulled another rabbit out of their hat when Shane McMahon returned last night on Monday Night Raw after being away from the company since 2009. And oh yeah, he will be facing The…
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…
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 –…
Former G.I. Joe and WWF champion Sgt. Slaughter was in Dallas this weekend to promote Wrestlemania Fan Axxess (tickets on sale now) and was kind enough to answer a few questions about his career, Wrestlemania 32, and if he ever had a sip of snake liquor. Sgt. Slaughter is one…
