As a video game reviewer, sometimes I have luxury of looking at a game from beyond considerations of price or value. More often than not, the games I play are […]

Douglas Park made some noise on Sunday as Riot Fest pulled off a successful festival weekend in the COVID-era. By Sunday morning everything hurt. My body felt, well, like someone […]

It would be impossible in mere words to explain the majesty and the mystery of one of France’s greatest acting talents, Juliette Binoche. One only has to look at her […]

I think ever since Limbo’s silhouetted art style I’ve been a sucker for visually striking games. Vesper stood out to me from moment one as a game that can be […]

If anyone has read any of my previous reviews, you’ll know that I love space games.  I’ve spent a ton of hours in games like Elite Dangerous, Kerbal Space Program, […]

Okay, so there are a lot of colony sims, base management and ‘tycoon’ games out there covering every theme from prisons to drug cartels.  I think this is the first […]

[soliloquy id=”97856″] I had originally planned to see Torres, the incredible project of Mackenzie Scott, last year, right around my birthday. Then the pandemic hit and pushed everything away.  At […]

After how ever many months of being inside, the festivities at Riot Fest on Saturday showed that people are ready to have fun again. NYC art punks Les Savy Fav […]

In the Aftermath By Jane Ward She Writes Press Jane Ward’s In the Aftermath is an earnest, even affecting examination of the strong waves of guilt, sadness, and anger among […]

Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 2021-22 comeback season September 17 with Giuseppe Verdi’s 1847 interpretation of William Shakespeare’s 1606 play Macbeth. There have been few works of literature more […]

New developer The Mighty Yell is breaking out the 90’s nostalgia with The Big Con, a stylistic feel good game drenched in neon. In it, you play as Ali, a […]

Who doesn’t love a good co-op game? Well, working with your friends isn’t always smooth going, especially when you’re playing a co-op game that requires you to work together—while sometimes […]