For longer than a year, as you made your way from the Green Room in Deep Ellum to grab a slice at Serious Pizza, you could see a building with the words Deep Ellum Hostel at the top. Peering into the window would result in seeing different stages of construction,…
Every Friday the 13th, the staff and artists at Elm Street Tattoo, a Deep Ellum tattoo parlor, spend 24 straight hours tattooing people who line up to a “13” themed tattoo for a rock-bottom price. The place opens at midnight every Friday with a number 13 on its date and…
Ruben Buell speaks quietly. Maybe he isn’t used to media attention, but that’s unlikely. Maybe this president of a major company is just soft-spoken. Perhaps Buell doesn’t want to alert everyone in this Starbucks in Grapevine that he’s the president of Ashley Madison. Yeah, that could be it. Although he…
Toys ‘R’ Us announced in March that it was closing all of its stores, ending the saga of its massive bankruptcy and struggling sales. On Friday, the company finally closed all of its locations. Toys ‘R’ Us faced competition from online companies such as Amazon. It seemed to be making…
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport just added another way to pass that slow time before your flight. Gameway has opened two gaming lounge terminals — the first of their kind. “Airports are a very boring place,” says Jordan Walbridge, president and founder of Gameway. “You’re trapped there and you have nowhere…
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…
