The night was a warm glow. The mood was soft, the venue low-lit like a candle-filled bedroom. Local blues man Lucky Peterson provided the soundtrack on the piano; he played soft jazz with a creative infusion of something nearing the blues. Free chocolate-covered strawberries and wine heightened the intimate mood,…
More than 1,400 gamers competed in Major League Gaming’s Fall Championship at the Dallas Convention Center over the weekend, with thousands of international viewers tuning in via livestream. Hell, even ESPN covered it. ESports and videogame fandom at large can no longer be pigeon-holed as truly esoteric. Now, that’s fine…
Parent Crap’s Alice Laussade is off this week, tending to her beloved Meat Fight. Joe Tone, who became a parent earlier this year, fills in. The house was dark. Most of the street was by then. Porch lights, living-room lights, kitchen lights — every watt visible from the sidewalk was…
If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a profanity-spewing 14-year-old’s headset-enabled tirade, you probably know that some people take video games quite seriously. Seriously enough to start calling video game competitions eSports, and to jump from one continent to the next to face off in person and compete…
In The Parent Crap, Alice Laussade chronicles life as a mom in Dallas. Worried you’re screwing up your kid? Tweet questions to @thecheapbastard and she’ll confirm that, yes, you’re screwing up your kid. Choosing the perfect Halloween candy to pass out to trick-or-treaters is extremely important, if you ever want…
In The Parent Crap, Alice Laussade chronicles life as a mom in Dallas. Worried you’re screwing up your kid? Tweet questions to @thecheapbastard and she’ll confirm that, yes, you’re screwing up your kid. Being a mom is amazing. It’s a gift. But parenting blows. You’re being a mom when you’re…
In The Parent Crap, Alice Laussade chronicles life as a mom in Dallas. Worried you’re screwing up your kid? Tweet questions to @thecheapbastard and she’ll confirm that, yes, you’re screwing up your kid. It’s a known parent fact that if you want to be the best parent ever, you’ve gotta…
Brace yo’ selves. It’s time for that wonderful convergence on our Fair City– the one we used to call the Red River Shootout, but now in gentler times we hail as the impending Red River Rivalry. It will clog our highways with Oklahomans, Austinites and respective alums from far and…
Yesterday we said farewell to the Texas Chute Out, a mild mannered attraction that’s been at Six Flags since 1976. It went out with a glorious bang: the implosion’s force was so strong it rattled our cameraman in his chest. Here’s the video by Mike Mezeul. And yes, I would…
TOMS, the California canvas-shoe company that donates a pair of shoes to people in need for every pair sold, recently launched its “campus program,” offering shoes in select campus colors. Texas students can now purchase a pair of shoes in their school colors; participating schools include University of Texas, Texas…
It was a wholesome ride, but the Texas Chute Out just didn’t have the bells and whistles of those newfangled, fancier attractions. And so, the 225 foot tall mainstay closed on September 3, after 34 years of loyal service. But what do you do with non-traveling structure of such a…
Our local institution of fashion innovation and gifting technology, Neiman Marcus, has released the 86th edition of its legendary Christmas Book. The shopping season kick-off catalog has morphed over time, growing larger and more extravagant each year. And now, it’s offering a jetpack called the JETLEV R200. The JETLEV R200…
There is no sight more troubling than that of one’s wife making the turn into NorthPark’s Archipelago of Shit You Can’t Afford. There you are, enjoying your third Mrs. Field’s cookie and ogling $75 basketball shoes as if you played basketball, doing all the things the rest of the mall-walking…
There are types of people in this world: those who game, those who don’t, and those who used to game, until they got jobs and wives and kids and life started crushing down on them, although sometimes they think they should just say screw it and leave it all behind…
In The Parent Crap, Alice Laussade chronicles life as a mom in Dallas. Worried you’re screwing up your kid? Tweet questions to @thecheapbastard and she’ll confirm that, yes, you’re screwing up your kid. Babies are great. They’re cute, they’re made of you, they say funny stuff — aside from the…
In 1997, Dave & Buster’s seemed like a good idea. It did to 12-year-olds, anyway, and adults played along for a while, enough for the chain of arcade/crappy restaurants first went public. Things soon soured, however, and the Dallas-based company was taken off the stock exchange after being was purchased…
In The Parent Crap, Alice Laussade chronicles life as a mom in Dallas. Worried you’re screwing up your kid? Tweet questions to @thecheapbastard and she’ll confirm that, yes, you’re screwing up your kid. See previous entries here. Other parents had told me the horror stories: “You just have to avoid…
Just because you call a loft or apartment home doesn’t mean you’ve stopped obsessing over your dog. We live vertical here in Dallas, stacked on top of one another like human Jenga. This is all fine until you fall in love. It starts so innocent: a picture on the internet…
We look forward to Pride Weekend all year long. It’s a chance to celebrate our sense of community; support our brothers, sisters and neighbors; and dress in whatever way makes us feel our absolute best. So really, let’s just make every day Pride Day. We partied in Cedar Springs on…
In The Parent Crap, Alice Laussade chronicles life as a mom in Dallas. Worried you’re screwing up your kid? Tweet questions to @thecheapbastard and she’ll confirm that, yes, you’re screwing up your kid. See previous entries here. “Scrapbooking” is what happens when you take a normal person and you give…
See also: Dear God My Kid Wants Me to Take Her to Chuck E. Cheese In The Parent Crap, Alice Laussade chronicles life as a mom in Dallas. Worried you’re screwing up your kid? Tweet questions to @thecheapbastard and she’ll confirm that, yes, you’re screwing up your kid. Earlier this…
Think of how much you love the Bishop Arts District. Now add wine. It’s a can’t-fail sitution. Tonight, the B.A.D. comes alive again with another Wine Walk from 6 to 9 p.m., where you can check out some of Dallas’ best independently owned businesses. We caught up with Chaska Norwood,…
