For those of us who were sitting around the television in 1988, Christmas at Pee Wee’s Playhouse was certainly unlike anything that we had ever seen. That year, holiday specials ran rampant over ...

This story is part of our Best Things in Texas package, which appeared in the December 2025 issue. For the last year or so I was busy with an unusual project: writing the interpretive panels for the ...

The Criterion Collection is gearing up to release both 4K and Blu-ray versions of the Tim Burton-directed Pee-wee's Big Adventure this year on December 16. If that's caught your attention and you're ...

In this Oct. 29, 2010, photo, Paul Reubens, in character as Pee-wee Herman, poses on stage after a performance of "The Pee-wee Herman Show" on Broadway in New York. AP Americans today seem to almost ...

After bringing out droves of doppelgangers for Adam Sandler, Jeremy Allen White and Timothée Chalamet, New York City has proven to be the right destination for celebrity look-alike contests. Next up, ...

Throughout his career, documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf has excelled at portraits of complicated artists and individuals whose work is both highly idiosyncratic as well as, at least seen in retrospect, ...

Inside the year Paul Reubens effectively shelved the Emmy-nominated documentary, and how it changed Wolf as a filmmaker and person. Wolf’s introduction to Reubens came through Josh and Benny Safdie, ...

The stunt bicycle from the 1985 movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," a Hollywood prop that plays an outsize role in Alamo pop culture, will be on public display at the historic site beginning Saturday.

Forty years ago, Paul Reubens recruited Tim Burton to direct the first feature film for both of them, inspired by a 1940s Schwinn Reubens was given on the Warner Bros. lot. By Ryan Gajewski Senior ...

SAN ANTONIO — Do you remember the iconic red bike from the 1985 movie, "Pee-wee's Big Adventure?" It's the bike that was stolen from Pee Wee after he refused to sell it to his rival, Francis. The ...

‘Mercy’ unseats ‘Avatar: Fire & Ash’ atop the box office on snow-blanketed weekend in theaters Inside Super Bowl week’s concerts, parties and celebrity scene heading into big game These are the ...

In this undated photo provided by The Alamo Trust, Inc. on Monday, July 21, 2025, shows Pee-wee Herman's original stunt bike from the 1985 film, "Pee-wees Big Adventure," in San Antonio, Texas. (The ...