It's extremely difficult to find a good two-player tabletop game to play while you wait for the rest of your playgroup. Often you end up just sitting around and building the tallest meeple tower you can. So I'm happy to find a great filler game to play with either my friends or my wife.
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Music Review: Sunny Day Real Estate’s Jeremy Enigk – ‘Ghosts’
Jeremy Enigk's newest offering has the same lush orchestration and anthemic songwriting that has marked all of his solo records, but there are more hints as to his hardcore punk roots than before.
Read More »Private Prisons Line Pockets, but at What Cost?
In America, you can make a lot of money. You can put a businessman in charge of the country to ensure that you keep making that money. You can go from penniless to a multi-millionaire. Turns out some just aren't too choosy about how they get there.
Read More »Music Review: Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa – ‘Black Coffee’
A collection of (mostly) obscure songs by familiar artists, Bonamassa and Hart's new album features earthy, electrified reinventions that breathe new life into old numbers while giving the guitarist and the singer plenty of room to show off within icy-tight arrangements.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Ramas Para Un Nido’ by Viggo Mortensen
'Ramas Para Un Nido' is Viggo Mortensen's latest collection of photographs. A beautiful examination of the details which make up home.
Read More »‘Star Wars’: Why Rian Johnson Isn’t Any Better Than George Lucas
For the past two years, Star Wars fans have been speculating on all of the questions J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens posed. Who are Rey's parents? Who is Snoke? Where the heck did the First Order come from?
Read More »We Aren’t Taking the Opioid Epidemic Seriously Enough
We need to invest more time and resources into painkiller alternatives, we need to demand more from our doctors and insurance companies, we need to provide more easily accessible treatment to those suffering from addictions, and above all, we need to recognize the scale and severity of this threat.
Read More »MIGS 2017: Exclusive Interview with Videogame Composer Inon Zur
As you see the images on the screen, says the composer, he really wants you to fall deeper into the world and emotions being conveyed through hearing the music.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Broadway): ‘Farinelli and the King’ with Mark Rylance
Well played all around, this Shakespeare's Globe production is blessed with the preternaturally naturalistic Rylance, whose severely manic-depressive and sometimes delusional King Philippe V of Spain is both brilliantly imagined and pulsatingly real.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ at the Irish Repertory Theatre
Watching and hearing this "live radio play" adaptation, we process a confluence of the past (1940s) and present (2017). The two run simultaneously, a visual and aural parallel which adds to the fun. I felt strangely part of an absurdist time warp as observer and participant.
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