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Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco on His Podcast, Addison and Home Remodeling

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Oct 14, 2015

Ask comedian Sebastian Maniscalco what he’s currently stressing over, and he doesn’t hesitate – home remodeling. Specifically his. “We have the contractors, and trying to figure out what tile to pick out," he says. "People out there they can’t get work and they’re hungry and in the grand scheme of...
The 6th Annual Dallas Comedy Festival is Next Week, and It Will Be Epic

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Mar 19, 2015

Next Tuesday kicks off the 6th annual Dallas Comedy Festival at the Dallas Comedy House. The giant celebration of improv, sketch, stand up and short film comedy has grown tremendously over the years, bringing in performers from all over the country. This year, the festival will host 27 stand up...
UNT's Improv Team Celebrates Regional Win with Awesome Comedy Bash Before Nationals

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Mar 2, 2015

This past January, UNT's improv group, Roll Out the Barrel, nabbed first place at the College Improv Tournament (CIT) Southwest Regional. This marks the second consecutive Southwest Regional win for UNT, with last year's group, Cell Block Tango, taking home the prize in 2014. Roll Out the Barrel members Cotton...
3D Printing Company to Open Retail Location in Frisco

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Jan 29, 2015

In 2013, we profiled 3D printing company Captured Dimensions, a Richardson-based company whose goal is to provide people with a futuristic way of making memories. And their technology has only gotten better. Now, the company uses more than 80 DSLR cameras arranged in a 360 degree array to take a...
Paula Poundstone on Crowd Work, Career Milestones and Riffing on Air

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Jan 27, 2015

Every Paula Poundstone show is different thanks to the comedian's ability to interact spontaneously with the crowd. Her shows take on the air of a dinner party -- a host chatting with her guests before launching into stories about traffic, kids, cats and all things "everyday" -- if dinner parties...
Is Dallas City Hall a Fugly Building?

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Dec 30, 2014

Since we started writing about some of Dallas' fugliest buildings (the AT&T building, Dallas WTC, Turley Law Center, and Irving Convention Center, so far), one building was mentioned in the Mixmaster and Facebook comments more than any other -- Dallas City Hall. Readers insisted that if any building needed our...
The Irving Convention Center -- Awesome Futuristic Concept or Super Fugly Building?

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Dec 15, 2014

This week, we continue our hunt for Dallas' fugliest building. So far we've attacked the AT&T corporate office, the Dallas World Trade Center and the Turley Law Center. But the next building on the list is so...out there, it proved polarizing even before this article was written -- the Irving...
The Turley Law Center -- Yet Another Fugly Building, or Is It?

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Dec 5, 2014

So far in our quest to find the fugliest building in Dallas, we've attacked the AT&T corporate office in East Dallas and the Dallas World Trade Center building. Two strong contenders for sure. But is the next one fugly enough to take top standing? I'm talking about the ever-popular Turley...
Wait, Is This the Fugliest Building in Dallas?

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Nov 11, 2014

We're on an architectural hunt to find the fugliest building in Dallas. The first contender was the AT&T building in East Dallas. I get stuck in Dallas traffic a lot. It could be typical 8 a.m. rush hour, the noon feeding frenzy or a random 2 p.m. hate spiral of...
Cyanide & Happiness Show Premieres Live This Wednesday at Alamo Drafthouse

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Nov 10, 2014

For fans of the overwhelmingly funny, sometimes depressing, always deranged stick figure world of Cyanide & Happiness, this is the moment we've all been waiting for -- the world premiere of its new show. This first season will feature 11 weekly episodes (with a depressing one mixed in -- an...
At Denton's Serendipity on the Square, It's All About the Imperfections

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Oct 2, 2014

America's "Horse With No Name" spins on an old fashioned record player and a scented candle burns at the checkout counter. I jab an old, wonky paintbrush into ivory chalk paint and start sweeping the color onto a small, totally white, wooden side table. It should take on a more...
DogFit Dallas' Art Ortiz Aims to Build a Better Dog-Human Relationship

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Jun 9, 2014

"Dogs should live in a world where we the human beings create balance and harmony," says Art Ortiz, owner of DogFit Dallas. "Humans complicate things because we're so emotional, because we're intellectual. We think about the past, we think about the future. But we don't spend much time living in...
Denton Fine Arts Theater Project -- Local Family to Revitalize Theater on Square

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Jun 4, 2014

"It's always been my dad's dream to do something with the theater," Katy McBride Reynolds says of her father, Glen McBride, part owner of Denton Fine Arts Theater. "I mean, obviously, he's held onto it for this long. We've had offers from companies, individuals over the years that want to...
A Completely Scientific Review of the Perot Museum's World's Largest Dinosaurs Exhibit

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Apr 9, 2014

The Perot Museum recently unveiled their World's Largest Dinosaurs exhibit, a traveling collection of fossils, skin impressions, animation and more. Sauropods, the super-sized group of dinosaurs shown at Perot (and pictured above), stomped their way around Earth for approximately 140 million years, eating every plant in sight while showing off...
Five Internet Dates from Hell

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Mar 25, 2014

There was a dark period in my life a few years ago when my days consisted of work, classes, writing and not much else, and my nights were packed full of the saddest event known to modern humans: the Internet date. If you've never been on a dating website, if...
Bananas Took Over Elm St. Last Friday. It Was Awesome.

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Mar 17, 2014

In what can only be described as organized pandaemonium, hundreds of bananas (including myself) took over Elm St. in Deep Ellum last Friday for the 4th annual Banana Bar Crawl. Web comic crazies from Cyanide & Happiness, Rob DenBleyker and Dave McElfatrick, led the yellow bunch as we made our...
Dallas Comedy Festival: Five Nights of Stand Up, Improv, and Sketch Comedy

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Mar 12, 2014

The people in charge of the fifth annual Dallas Comedy Festival are doing things a bit differently this year. "We really wanted to be diverse with our headliners this year," says festival Co-Executive Producer, Sarah Adams. "Booking Rory (Scovel) to open the festival is a new concept for us. We...
Cyanide & Happiness 4th Annual Banana Bar Crawl This Friday

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Mar 10, 2014

This weekend, live your dream of dressing up as a phallic fruit and consuming way too much vodka by joining the madness at the 4th annual Dallas Banana Bar Crawl. Brought you by the crazy misfits over at Cyanide & Happiness, the fun starts at The Green Room at 8...
In the Beginning, There Was the Word

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Mar 6, 2014

Want to have a few drinks and yell out random words to some strangers on a stage? Want to do it without a police escort to the lockup? Then Dallas Comedy House is the place for you. This Saturday, check out Age Appropriate, a two-person improv show that manages to...
Chelsea Handler on the Olympics, Jumping Back On Stage and Overseas Intercourse

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Feb 21, 2014

My phone rings. It supposed to be Chelsea Handler calling from her office in L.A. to talk about her upcoming show in Dallas (March 28 at the Verizon Theatre). It isn't. It's her handler, Elizabeth, yelling over ear-piercing beeps in the background. They're having "some sort of fire drill or...
The "Movie Trailer Guy" Is Long Gone, but Pablo Francisco and His Impression Lives On

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Feb 11, 2014

Comedian Pablo Francisco is somewhere in Virginia Beach, en route to another round of publicity interviews, and his cell phone is stuck under his seat. He and his driver can hear it ringing but decide to retrieve it after they arrive at their destination. Except that plan won't work. He's...
The Story Behind Pan Ector, Denton's Favorite (and Growing) Printing Company

By Jane R. LeBlanc
Feb 3, 2014

You may have seen them at local bands' concerts, or maybe a printing event at Rubber Gloves, or perhaps at the Denton Holiday Lighting Festival. Behind a multi-colored mountain of T-shirts, a six-armed printing press looms, spun 'round and 'round by a group of guys as the duds are pressed...