Since it opened fifty years ago this month, the Magic Time Machine has beckoned from its modest spot off Loop 410 in San Antonio, a windowless, dark-green building topped by giant domes. The eatery ...

I aced grade-school English, man. We were reading Lord Byron, the poem that goes, “She walks in beauty like the night.” The teacher asked me what I thought it meant, and I said maybe Byron meant this ...

Erica Cruz knew she and her 8-year-old son, Kayden, were in for a dining adventure at the Magic Time Machine. They just had no idea how much the theme restaurant would thrill their eyes and ears as ...

Arguably, one of the best byproducts of America is the surplus of off-the-highway kitsch. It’s an enduring yet increasingly endangered phenomenon. Novelty road signs and aging businesses, the type ...