Game, Games & Tech, Review

Review: Encodya Squanders its Gorgeous Setting

I’ve played a lot of point and click adventure games in my day. In fact, there was a time when my favorite game was a point and click adventure. I […]

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Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/4 – 1/7

Well, would you look at that. It’s no longer 2017! Hopefully your New Year celebrations didn’t take you out of commission for too long since it’s now the first weekend […]

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Your Chicago Curated NYE Weekend: 12/28 – 12/31

This is it folks, all your hard work has hopefully paid off and the year is finally done. So let’s celebrate with the final curated weekend of the year! Spend […]

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Beyond, Suburbs and exurbs, Uncategorized

Preview: Wizard World Chicago 2017 Lands Thursday

It’s that time again! Wizard World Chicago is just around the corner, with its first of four days of comics, games, cosplay and celebrities beginning Thursday in Rosemont. You may […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Film Review: The Red Turtle, Magnificently Realized

The natural inclination after watching the Oscar-nominated, timeless, and slightly surrealistic The Red Turtle is to wonder what centuries-old mythology serves as its source material. In truth, this wordless story […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Film Review: Ocean Waves, A Rediscovered Studio Ghibli Gem

Following last year’s first official U.S. release of 1991’s Only Yesterday, the famed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli is rounding out its unreleased (stateside, at least) titles with the 1993 […]

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