On the morning of September 26th, 2013 the city of Orlando was rocked by an explosion. Buildings shook, windows rattled, and Amtrak service on a nearby track was halted. TV stations broke in with ...

Chris Thrash was just seven when his parents took him to Showbiz Pizza Place in Columbus, Georgia, in 1982. Amid the blaring video games, ball pits, and steaming-hot pepperoni pies, he found himself ...

What follows is the funniest thing you will see all week — perhaps all year. It will make you laugh out loud, guaranteed, so long as your sense of humor is as warped as mine. If you are reading this ...

For those who’d like to relive the excitement of a Showbiz Pizza party in their own living room and now at age 25+, the Rock-Afire Explosion Band is for sale on eBay. The animatronic band is “mostly ...

Jul. 22—AUTHOR'S NOTE — I recently wrote about the Rock-afire Explosion and long-defunct '80s eatery Showbiz Pizza for the food issue of Mud and Magnolias magazine, which inspired me to revisit this ...

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Showbiz Pizzas used to dot the landscape, offering a noisy dinner, games and a show to kids in a pre-Chuck E. Cheese American South. And the highlight of any evening at a Showbiz was a little piece of ...

Alabama DJ Chris Thrash so loved Billy Bob Brockali and the animatronic Showbiz Pizza house band the Rock-afire Explosion of his 80s childhood that he sought out the Explosion’s creator Aaron Fetcher ...

One of the most iconic music acts from the ’80s is still cranking at the tunes in two cities, but without all the pizza, Skee ...

Showbiz Pizzas used to dot the landscape, offering a noisy dinner, games and a show to kids in a pre-Chuck E. Cheese American South. And the highlight of any evening at a Showbiz was a little piece of ...

On the morning of September 26th, 2013 the city of Orlando was rocked by an explosion. Buildings shook, windows rattled, and Amtrak service on a nearby track was halted. TV stations broke in with ...