Liverpool – ANDREA PISTOLESI There were celebrations across Liverpool last Friday as the city marked what would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday with guided walks, live music and the unveiling of a new exhibition of unseen photographs at the Beatles Story Museum. But there’s little reason for celebration for […]
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Escape the Dark Castle throws you and your friends into a half hour journey through a randomized … [+] haunted castle. Themeborne Halloween is all about atmosphere. Whether turning the lights off before watching a scary movie, preparing to head into a haunted house or prepping a playlist of spooky […]
Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images MIAMI—Less than three weeks after schools reopened in central Florida’s Polk County, Mark couldn’t help but notice some students riding his bus slack off when it came to coronavirus safety precautions. “The first week was fine,” said Mark, who like other bus drivers […]
Poveglia is the most famous of the city’s quarantine islands – getty Returning holidaymakers currently under quarantine for being careless enough to go to Portugal or French Polynesia (and live in Wales or Scotland rather than England, or is it the other way round?) should spare a thought for the […]
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty If the streaming wars reinvented network television, the digital streaming device Roku amounts to something like basic cable. Through purple software packaged in a set-top box or smart TV, Roku peddles a discount option for the average viewer, bundling a limited range of shows […]
Cecilia Blomdahl and her dog Grim enjoying the view from their cabin. Cecilia Blomdahl Cecilia Blomdahl, originally from Sweden, has lived on Svalbard for five years. The small Norwegian archipelago sits about halfway between Norway and the North Pole. Anyone can move there visa-free, but it can be a tough […]
We might be a couple of weeks past Halloween, but that doesn’t mean the spooky season has to end. For those looking to get their scares a little more interactively than watching a horror movie (and with something that doesn’t require getting COVID or needing to leave the house), the […]
FAR away from Britain’s bloody street gang wars, an army of faceless drug dealers are selling deadly pills for as little as £2 from the comfort of their own sofas. Lured in by the promise of stress-free cash, these ruthless dealers are raking in a fortune pushing their products on […]
Like the company’s previous titles, the gameplay requires little to no gaming experience. It’s a volatile ‘choose your own adventure’ experience; you make choices for your characters, and those choices will help you, hurt you, or kill you. In the aftermath of the crash, the five survivors are enveloped in […]
Dim the lights, assign your characters, and get ready to miss a shit ton of QTEs. A fresh nightmare from The Dark Pictures is here just in time for Halloween. It’s part Blair Witch, part Jordan Peele’s Us, and a really great use of first-time video game actor Will Poulter. […]
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money‘s newsletter. You can sign up here. On the afternoon of April 3, John Friedman went down to his basement and hopped on a call with his colleagues Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren. The three are the directors of Opportunity Insights, a […]