Rookie of the Year The Newport Pork Festival By Matt Marrone • September 12th, 2023 Matt joins the 10-Timers Club at the Newport Folk Festival and is rewarded with a tasty treat.
Rookie of the Year Off Switch By Matt Marrone • August 8th, 2023 We were all going on a fast. A screen fast. No iPads, no Nintendo, very limited television, for the next three weeks.
Rookie of the Year Breaking Up With a Videogame By Matt Marrone • July 7th, 2023 I won’t name the game or the platform. It knows what it is and I’m not here to rub any salt.
Rookie of the Year The Legend of T2419 By Matt Marrone • June 7th, 2023 We tried every dumb thing you might think of, and more. But none stood the test of time like T2419.
Rookie of the Year It Takes a Villager By Matt Marrone • May 9th, 2023 Are the villagers idiots? Or am I the village idiot?
Rookie of the Year Breath of the Elevator By Matt Marrone • April 7th, 2023 My son went right back down the elevator again. Then he went up again. Then down. Then up. Then, at last, he opened the map, traveled to another shrine, and went down that elevator.
Rookie of the Year ChatBOTW By Matt Marrone • March 9th, 2023 With a deadline fast approaching and no good idea about how to ridicule himself this month, Matt asks ChatGPT to take a crack at his column.
Rookie of the Year No Rules Newport By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2023 Something happened at the most recent Newport Folk Festival – Sylvan Esso debuted their as-yet-to-be-released and previously-unheard album, No Rules Sandy – for the first time.
Rookie of the Year Ranking the Gremlins Gizmos By Matt Marrone • January 6th, 2023 In honor of Rand Peltzer, we have decided to rank the unappreciated genius’ six greatest gizmos, from worst to first.
Rookie of the Year Your Post-Halloween Horror Movie Questions Answered! By Matt Marrone • December 9th, 2022 Streaming random horror movies, especially without checking Rotten Tomatoes before you start them, can lead to a lot of unanswered questions concerning plot holes or peculiar character motivations.
Rookie of the Year Introducing “Pocket Monsters” By Matt Marrone • November 4th, 2022 Pokémon is a portmanteau. It means pocket monsters.
Rookie of the Year Living the American Stream By Matt Marrone • October 6th, 2022 America is beautiful – at least at night, without checking social media, as it streams on Netflix.
Rookie of the Year I’m a Record Producer Now By Matt Marrone • September 9th, 2022 Until now, Matt’s musical credits have amounted to little more than a one-night-only metal taco performance at Mercury Lounge.
Rookie of the Year Wolfenstein 3X By Matt Marrone • August 4th, 2022 It’s amazing Matt grew up as well-adjusted as he did.
Meet the Met! By Matt Marrone • April 29th, 2022 While no one would mistake the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a restaurant or trading post, its moniker lacks a certain. . . flair.
Rookie of the Year How to Play ‘Crunch of the Day’ By Matt Marrone • April 1st, 2022 Matt dishes the deets on the newest breakfast game sweeping the nation.
Rookie of the Year Why They Say My Last Name on the Sopranos By Matt Marrone • March 3rd, 2022 The reason they say “Marone” instead of “Madone” on The Sopranos is actually an untold story – one that dates back to when Matt was an intern on the show.
Rookie of the Year I Bought a House By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2022 Matt offers his tips on buying your first home.
Rookie of the Year It’s a Beautiful Year to Stay Inside By Matt Marrone • January 6th, 2022 Look, Matt made you some content!
Rookie of the Year Deep Space Infinity By Matt Marrone • December 6th, 2021 In the time of television binge-watching, what we really need is a show that goes on forever.
Rookie of the Year The Summers Wind By Matt Marrone • November 8th, 2021 Sometimes nostalgia is a gut-punch from the past. Sometimes it’s a nice breeze. More often than not? It’s both.
Rookie of the Year Broke My Golden Rule of Gaming. Here’s What Happened Next. By Matt Marrone • September 29th, 2021 Matt makes the most of a bachelor’s weekend.
Rookie of the Year Folk On By Matt Marrone • August 24th, 2021 Matt goes outside, to a concert of all things!
Rookie of the Year Things I’ve Learned About Being on the Board of a Cemetery Because I’m Getting Someone Else’s Email By Matt Marrone • August 11th, 2021 Somewhere, “Natt Narrone” is on the board of a cemetery and has been missing important emails.
Rookie of the Year To Serve Mom By Matt Marrone • June 1st, 2021 Finally, a decent use for those stickers that isn’t enticing minors!
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Decade By Matt Marrone • May 5th, 2021 Happy Birthday to Matt Marrone’s column!
Rookie of the Year Wookie of the Year By Matt Marrone • March 31st, 2021 It’s part of growing up in America, that moment when a child discovers Star Wars.
Rookie of the Year Silence is Golden By Matt Marrone • March 9th, 2021 Ten bucks if you can solve the mystery. Or don’t.
Rookie of the Year More Songs About Bob and Judy By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2021 Did David Byrne invent Twin Peaks? Matt thinks so.
Rookie of the Year 365 Days of Halloween By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2020 Practically every time we saw Phoebe Bridgers in 2020, she was wearing a full-body skeleton costume.
Rookie of the Year I’m Slowly Cracking Under the Weight of Tap Sports Baseball By Matt Marrone • December 9th, 2020 Now I live in fear that my favorite player of all time will show up in a mystery box.
Rookie of the Year It’s Complicated By Matt Marrone • October 29th, 2020 After five years, my original Series 0 Apple Watch broke.
Rookie of the Year Neighborhood Must-Watch By Matt Marrone • October 2nd, 2020 “I was both there and not there during a gunfight that both did and did not tear through my quiet slice of Astoria.”
Rookie of the Year Parallel AIs By Matt Marrone • September 10th, 2020 Person of Interest > Westworld
Rookie of the Year Dark’s Last Supper By Matt Marrone • August 11th, 2020 The show’s final scene is a world unto itself, which is why Matt’s assembled a timestamped breakdown of whatever the hell that was.
Rookie of the Year America is Under the Dome By Matt Marrone • July 8th, 2020 Watching what feels like an endless newsfeed of new acts of police brutality every day, Matt can feel the Dome closing in.
Rookie of the Year The Sleepover By Matt Marrone • June 11th, 2020 A 4-year-old’s request makes the insanity of the world fade for a bit.
Rookie of the Year The New York Times Bestseller List, July 25, 2021 By Matt Marrone • May 9th, 2020 If we make it through all this craziness, Matt predicts that next summer’s must-reads will definitely have a running theme.
