Review: Grab Your Friends: Tools Up! Is Fun Hectic Couch Co-Op Home Renovation
Couch co-op is the best. There was a time when you couldn’t play a game with a friend unless you were in the same room, sharing the same console. Now […]
Games and Tech Holiday Gift Guide 2019
2019 was a big year for video games. It saw the release of Death Stranding, Red Dead Remption 2 got a PC port, and sleepers like Outer Wilds and […]
Music of the Baroque Served Bach With Italian Seasoning, Peppered With Virtuoso Standouts
Music of the Baroque delivered an appropriately tasty concert to kick off Thanksgiving week. The November 25 performance at the Harris Theater had the self-explanatory title of Bach and the […]
Review: Though Not the Most Realistic, VR Ping Pong Pro Is a Fun Game of Ping Pong
Virtual reality remains a niche. Sure, the VR exclusive Half-Life: Alyx will probably help propel it into the mainstream, but despite PSVR selling over four million headsets, the whole […]
Review: The Late Night Synths of Neon Indian
Metro was in for a very special set Saturday night from Denton, Texas, synth-pop band, Neon Indian. It had been quite a while since any new material was released by […]
Review: Dark Waters Is an Eye-Opening Activist Drama with an Impressive Central Performance
Although the late fall is certainly known for being the place where hard-hitting dramas, ripe for awards consideration, often land, I don’t think I was quite prepared for just how […]
Preview: Don’t Die, Minerva! Is a Roguelike That Invokes Binding of Isaac and Luigi’s Mansion
11-year old Minerva is a precocious little explorer, who ends up getting in over her head when she finds an abandoned mansion in the middle of the woods. Donning her […]
Review: Smart, Fun and Expertly Crafted, Knives Out Invites Repeat Viewing
With all of his films, writer/director Rian Johnson does something rather remarkable: he takes a genre he loves and studies it until he understands all of its working parts. He […]
Review: The Pit: Infinity Is an Infinite Garbage Pit, and You Can’t Make Me Go Back
I have a serious craving for a great first-person roguelike or rogue-lite. Mothergunship and Tower of Guns managed to capture the bullet hell feel of some roguelikes, and while they […]
Review: In When It Breaks, a Public School Teacher Turns to Folk Music to Raise Awareness, Create Change
This is a guest post by Chloe Noelle Fourte. Named after a song by the documentary’s main subject, Konrad Wert, When It Breaks is a deceptively understated portrait of a […]
Review: Much the Same, Goodman’s A Christmas Carol Remains a Treat, If Ready for Change
Now in its 42nd year (a bit of a miracle, no?), Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol remains a steadfastly satisfying holiday tradition, even as this latest edition sees little change year […]
Review: 65,000 Years of Human Movement at the Harris with Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia
For those who fought through the crowds from the Millenium Park tree lighting, an invigorating evening awaited at the Harris Theater this weekend: Bangarra Dance Theater Australia made an all […]