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.
Always Autumn There are Decapitations By Autumn Wright • November 10th, 2022 Too Many Cooks is at once an absurdist comedy sketch and a critical cautionary tale, full of pastiche referents like “relics of a time that we long for but shouldn’t return to.”
Try Reading... Magical Grieving By Harry Rabinowitz • July 1st, 2021 Harry digs into some heavier topics via middle-grade graphic novels!
Here's the Thing Futurama and Faith By Rob Rich • November 14th, 2019 Rob takes a look at how Futurama (of all things) has managed to approach religious concepts and faith with a surprising amount of profundity.
The Heavy Pour This Time It’s Personal By Sara Clemens • November 6th, 2019 Sara got to meet Pee-wee Herman at this year’s NYCC and only freaked out a little.
Diary of an Advanced Locksmith By Sam Desatoff • February 23rd, 2017 “I went to the Baker estate today to walk through the house and give them a quote. Jack Baker, the man of the house, seemed a bit…off.”
Cheating My Way to the Super Bowl: The Joy of Exploiting Sports Games By Matthew Byrd • February 2nd, 2017 Sports games may present themselves as simulators for super fans, but that’s why breaking them is so much fun.
Dating Pugs in Hot Date Reminds Me of my Social Anxiety By Khee Hoon Chan • January 10th, 2017 Out of all the dating sims I’ve tried, Hot Date is probably the only one that manages to capture how frightening and unpredictable dating can be.
Dating a Handsome Stallion as a Blushing Office Lady By Khee Hoon Chan • December 20th, 2016 “While she didn’t find a prince like she imagined, she inevitably found love in another being: an utterly irresistible horse, with moves as smooth as Jagger.”
The Games I’m Forcing My Captive Family to Play This Holiday Season By Sam Desatoff • December 15th, 2016 “Games are a great way to stem that holiday stress and bring joy back to the season.”