When Bowlero Corporation purchased the Lucky Strike portfolio of bowling “eatertainment” centers last year, there was conjecture whether the Lucky Strike name would survive. The company provided a clue in early December when it opened a new 40-lane center in Moorpark, California — bearing the Lucky Strike name. The project had been announced a year […]

The last remaining Cinemark Theatres complex in the Kansas City area is being transformed into Gamescape by Cinemark. The revamped facility will include half as many movie screens (10), along with laser tag, 18 bowling lanes, an arcade, ropes course, event space, restaurant and bar.

Area 254 — a family entertainment center that includes a roller-skating rink, bowling lanes and a karaoke room, with many more attractions planned — has opened in Killeen, Texas. Killeen is a military town that’s largely dependent on the Army’s Fort Cavazos base for its economic success. 254 is Killeen’s area code.

The Professional Bowlers Association has renewed its partnership with LeaguePals, provider of cloud-based bowling league management software, to continue powering the PBA League Bowler Certification program. The PBA LBC program launched in 2022 with more than 200,000 league bowlers in Bowlero Corporation-owned centers automatically enrolled. As part of the program, league bowlers receive a host […]

Maple Lanes RVC in Rockville Centre, New York, recently became the first bowling center in the nation to install Bowling Center TV — marking the beginning of a nationwide rollout that will continue through the year. BCTV features exclusive short-form content that is curated for bowling center guests, along with national and local advertising. Programming […]

The week leading up to an NFL Super Bowl Game is busy for any host city, the calendar jammed with an array of special events. For Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, for instance, NFL Green is teaming up with the Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee, the Las Vegas Raiders, Clark County Parks, Verizon and […]

Tornadoes can be terrifying because they can strike with little notice, are unpredictable in their path and can cause devastating damage. Gabrielle Vannoy was working at the Big Play bowling entertainment center — a brand new venue in Hendersonville, Tennessee, that had been open only a few months — on Dec. 10 when a tornado […]

The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that hit Japan’s west coast on Jan. 1 climbed above the 100 mark 10 days into the new year, with approximately 200 still unaccounted for. The earthquake — the country’s deadliest in eight years — left 23,000 homes without power as it destroyed or badly damaged key […]