Rookie of the Year Easy-Bake Coven By Matt Marrone • December 5th, 2024 These stuffed-pancakes and stuffed-cakes are soft, pillowy demons designed to replace – with an ostensibly innocuous twinkle – not only all baked goods . . . but all of us.
Rookie of the Year Suburbia’s End By Matt Marrone • November 12th, 2024 We were in our own dimensional rift and saw it all at once – the flashing and clashing lightsabers, the pillars, the darkness, the red eyes, each other.
Rookie of the Year The Newport Folk Festival Has a New Friend By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2024 Conan O’Brien isn’t Pete Seeger or Joni Mitchell, but he did the Newport Folk Festival proud.
Rookie of the Year (Couch) Potato Farming By Matt Marrone • September 6th, 2024 I have no designs on being an actual farmer, but I like how productive I am as a fake one.
Rookie of the Year My Neighborhood is Literally Evil By Matt Marrone • August 9th, 2024 A lot of shows are filmed in my neighborhood, but in the past few years, nothing has made its presence felt as much as Evil.
Rookie of the Year If You Can’t Wed It, Reddit By Matt Marrone • June 5th, 2024 Reddit seems to actually care when no one else does.
Rookie of the Year Minecraft Menagerie By Matt Marrone • May 3rd, 2024 So . . . how many pandas does it take to crash Minecraft?
Rookie of the Year Beers of the Osa Peninsula By Matt Marrone • April 4th, 2024 Consumed at any temperature lower than brain-freeze cold, they are uninspiring at best. When found frigid on a deliriously humid day in the rain forest, however, they are a revelation.
Rookie of the Year Atomic City: U2 Go Nuclear at the Sphere By Matt Marrone • March 7th, 2024 If I lived in Las Vegas, I wouldn’t be writing this column at all, because I’d be at the show. Again. (And then again.)
Rookie of the Year Mysolda: Renewing My Wedding Vows … with an NPC By Matt Marrone • February 13th, 2024 In many ways, my exploits in Skyrim remain the greatest achievements of my pathetic little life.