Last week, Oculus VR announced that John Carmack, The co-founder and lead programmer of classic Richardson-based game developer id Software, has joined the gaming hardware startup as chief technical officer. Oculus VR’s pilot project is a head-mounted display called The Rift. This direction-tracking headset hopes to deliver interactive, 360-degree, high…
Last Saturday the DFW Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hosted their fourth annual Sister Pool Party benefiting LifeWalk and Lone Star Ride Fighting AIDS. Here are some of our favorite shots from the event, and you can check out the full slideshow here…
The Plano-based game developer behind Borderlands 2 and Aliens: Colonial Marines announced that they will release a high-definition refit of the classic space strategy games Homeworld 1 and 2. Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford and CCO Brian Martel announced their plans at Penny Arcade Expo Australia last weekend. The company…
Video games are meant to make you feel like you’re somewhere else, so while playing them you might not consider their development process. However, if you’re even a casual gamer you’ve likely played a game made right here in Dallas, whose thriving game development industry has flown somewhat under the…
In April of 2012, vintage enthusiast Melissa Mackaly set out to create a mobile vintage shop that specialized in housewares. “It’s my passion,” she said this week, while tending the cash table at her “estate sale” in an unmarked building at 2650 Main in Deep Ellum on Thursday. The mint…
Update, July 18: After this post went up a couple weeks back, several people pointed that it was a little — OK, a lot — one-dimensional, omitting various demographics of Dallas’ vast LGBT rainbow of a community. So we’ve added to it. Not every mover or shaker or mover-shaker is…
How respectable is it to get overexcited about a trailer for a new video game? I suspect the answer is “grow up, you mess,” but that has not stopped me from getting extraordinarily worked up about the gameplay trailer that was released this morning featuring footage from the latest installation…
“I don’t want my clothes to be noticed,” Tracy Popken says, standing in the cluttered but orderly studio inside her Bishop Arts District home. It’s a surprising credo for a designer and tailor, but Popken sells the idea hard, convincing you that she just wants her work to show off…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Angela Scott has always drawn inspiration from men’s fashion, so when she moved to Dallas from her…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Stephen Lapthisophon’s studio is a mess. It’s not disordered, really; the rooms of the converted apartment and…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. It’s no secret that one of the best character actors in film is Texas. Its performance is…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here Born into the lushly creative coupling of an Academy Award-winning filmmaker father and a theater critic/author mother,…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here . Miriam Ortega is posted at the bar of Oak Cliff barbecue staple Lockhart Smokehouse, staring down…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here . Two nights after Jerry Seinfeld, the biggest stand-up comic in the world, came to Dallas, Paul…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here . Tina Parker always knows when she’s stayed away from acting on her own stage a mite…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here Akwete and Bandele Tyehimba dove into their love affair and opened Pan-African Connection — a shop known…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here . Here’s where you might have seen Dallas actress Liz Mikel: singing the roof off the Wyly…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. You know you’ve arrived at Edward Ruiz’s Exposition Park studio when you are greeted by a model…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Sally Glass loves meeting new people, being exposed to new things. So it isn’t surprising that she…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here. Matthew Posey lives for live theater. He also lives in his theater, the 40-seat Ochre House in…
In this week’s Dallas Observer we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Stanton Stephens. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here . Johny Hendricks picked an odd time to decide he would make a career out of fighting:…
After a week of preliminary events, the Miss Gay USofA pageant descended on the Palladium on Friday, bringing hundreds of drag queens and fans thereof to Dallas. Thirty-six contestants from across the country all vied to be the next Miss Gay USofA (not to be confused with Miss Gay America…
