This week, The Secret of Monkey Island turned 30 years old. Monkey Island is one of my favorite video game series, and Secret is the one that started the beautiful franchise. The Monkey Island games are point-and-click adventures. They focus on exploration and puzzle-solving, and you navigate your character, the […]
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By Timothy Aeppel, Arin Yoon ABILENE, Kan. (Reuters) – Mark Martin’s family restaurant weathered two world wars, the Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression, serving up heaping plates of hand-battered fried chicken, mashed potatoes and creamed corn to a devoted clientele. But it could not survive the pandemic. Mark Martin […]
John M. Millar’s first novel, “The Wars Among the Paines,” took him 50 years to write. When he started the project, he planned to write about a young man and his family’s experiences during the Vietnam War era. Over five decades, the concept expanded a bit. “The Wars Among the […]
PIGEON, Mich. (AP) — After operating for 40 years, the Pigeon Family Market announced it will be closing at the end of the month. The market announced its closure in a Facebook post on Oct. 1, which extended thanks to all the customers, vendors, employees and other people that have […]
John M. Millar’s first novel, “The Wars Among the Paines,” took him 50 years to write. When he started the project, he planned to write about a young man and his family’s experiences during the Vietnam War era. Over five decades, the concept expanded a bit. “The Wars Among the […]
I’ve been attending the New York Film Festival since I was a teenager. The event, held each year at Lincoln Center, is where I had my first encounters with such classics as “Breaking the Waves,” “Gods and Monsters,” “Volver” and — just last year — Martin Scorsese’s magnificent gangster epic […]
In a relatively rare sight these days a business woman checks an airport flight information board. … [+] Business travel demand in the U.S. and around the world is down more than 70% from 2019, and increasingly there’s data, signs and commentary suggesting that it may be years before it […]
In a relatively rare sight these days a business woman checks an airport flight information board. … [+] Business travel demand in the U.S. and around the world is down more than 70% from 2019, and increasingly there’s data, signs and commentary suggesting that it may be years before it […]
Last year, one guy made waves by smashing his PlayStation 4 in protest of a Chinese-made game that looked strikingly similar to 2017’s hit Nintendo Switch release The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Fast forward to 2020, and it turns out that “clone” is actually pretty darn good […]
Gary Thompson was fifteen when he found the fossils near Cedaredge in Delta County. It was 1975, and he’d just gotten interested in paleontology after a school field trip to scenic Escalante Canyon, a red-rock canyon where he and his classmates learned about the dinosaur bones and petrified dung specimens regularly found in […]
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus quietly surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, less than eight months after the first American fatality. The U.S. reached 100,000 deaths in May. Now, some experts estimate the death toll could almost double by year’s end. Fatigue for social distancing and the push to get […]
Executive producers Ian Stewart and Reginald Hudlin are overseeing the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards. (Photo: ABC/Todd Wawrychuk) Between coronavirus-caused production delays and a glut of new streaming platforms, the future of television is rife with uncertainty right now. But here’s one thing we do know for sure: The (awards) show […]
It’s official. Joe Biden is no longer the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential candidate. And this week, Donald J. Trump became the Republicans’ official nominee, too. We’ve been enduring these campaigns for nearly two years now. Most democracies seem capable of selecting leaders in about six weeks. These next and blessedly […]
There’s the adventure of going off to college for the first time, that big, nerve-wracking step toward adulthood that some students have been preparing for their entire high school careers. And then there’s going off to college for the first time in 2020. That is, if this year’s freshman class […]
Photo credit: Clive Mason – Getty Images From Cosmopolitan Before she married Prince Harry, Suits actress Meghan Markle was famous not only for her role in, well… Suits, but also for the lifestyle blog she ran, called The Tig. Described initially as a “passion project”, the blog later evolved for […]
Outbreaks grow as California struggles to control the coronavirus. The state’s high court strikes down some types of pension spiking. And I talk to a longtime disability advocate about 30 years of ADA, inclusion in Hollywood and how COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting the community. It’s Arlene and it’s Thursday. Let’s do this. […]
“Wizards of Waverly Place” lasted for four seasons. Disney Channel “Wizards of Waverly Place” premiered on Disney Channel in October 2007. The show starred Selena Gomez, David Henrie, and Jake T. Austin as siblings with magical powers. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. On October 12, 2007, “Wizards of Waverly […]
After originally hanging up the cape on this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, organizers decided to instead go virtual with Comic-Con@Home, an online convention running July 22 – 26 that anybody with a WiFi connection can partake in from the comfort of their own homes. (And, better still, for free!) This […]
We do however are inclined to go straightforward on make-up, and will solely put on lots for special occasions corresponding to an evening dressy celebration. They also use face and body paint, beads, horns, and scarification. The more ‘decoration’ ladies use, the more attractive they feel, and the more attractive […]
Revolutionary dog-petting.Gif: Human Entertainment / Kotaku What if I told you there’s an ancient PlayStation game that mixes the persistent open world of Shenmue with the surrealism of Deadly Premonition? There is, and it’s called Mizzurna Falls. Before yesterday you would have been shit out of luck when it came […]
Courtesy Animal Adventure Park Courtesy Animal Adventure Park April the giraffe, the viral star whose live births were viewed by millions around the world, died on Friday at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York. She was 20 years old. April was euthanized due to her worsening arthritis at the […]
It’s the last roundup for two La Jolla eighth-grade robotics teams that have students who have been together since elementary school and are trying to make the most of their last year before moving on to what in some cases will be different high schools. The Muirlands Constructors and Team […]