If you’re a book lover, you’ve probably heard this before: one of the best ways of understanding the struggles of people who don’t share your lived experiences is by reading fiction, especially fiction written by someone who has lived that different experience. A novel puts you right in someone else’s shoes, in their heads, in […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes She Remembered Caterpillars, an abstract puzzle game from Ysbryd Games and Jumpsuit Entertainment that explores love, grief and brain surgery through extremely cute fungi, is coming to the Nintendo Switch on March 28. You read that right: love, grief, brain surgery, puzzles, and adorable little spores, all in one game. Or, as […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash It all started with one very ugly boot. I opened Facebook on a work break, and there it was, just hanging out in an ad on my feed. What is that, I thought. Is that a Mary Engelbreit fabric AND spikes? Is there glitter? What am […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Julie, Jacob, and Keir Hansen of Gallifrey Public Radio. Photo by A.J. O’Connell Last season, overcome by a fit of excitement about the Doctor being back, I tried to introduce my then-three-old to Doctor Who. I knew, deep in my soul, that it wasn’t going to work, but I really, really […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Image courtesy of A.J. O’Connell Last month, Audible released an audioplay of Angel Catbird, the 2016-17 Dark Horse comic series written by Margaret Atwood, illustrated by Johnnie Christmas, and colored by Tamra Bonvillian, and it’s the cat’s pajamas. But wait, you may say, don’t you mean an audiobook? No, kittens. I mean […]
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Image courtesy of A.J. O’Connell Our family reads The Hobbit aloud every winter. It’s awesome—we love telling the story, we love spending time together just reading, and we love doing the voices. We have a family headcanon about some of the characters and we even do activities, like drawing the scenes for our preschooler […]
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The LEGO Ninjago Kids Galaxy tablet is a solid tablet for small children who need limits placed on screen time, and for families who want to make sure their little kids are consuming decent edutainment.
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While most of humanity is reasonably irked about having to listen to “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” when they’re still eating their way through leftover Halloween candy, I am here to tell you why this is a good thing: Halloween stuff is on clearance this week.
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Are you a LEGO fan? If so, you’re probably all suited up for ‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie,’ which opens in theaters on September 22.
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What you need to know about ‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie’ if you’re going to see it with kids.
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Screening passes available but act quickly before they’re gone!
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‘The Tick’ is now available on Amazon’s streaming service and is included with Amazon Prime.
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How should parents talk to their kids about the dwarf actors they see in the movies? Martin Klebba, who plays Marty, a member of the Black Pearl crew, in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ has a simple answer: don’t be a jerk.
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The Doctor is an old superhero who solves problems with his brain. McCoy, a guest at Connecticon 2017, says that’s valuable.
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Some of the lessons we took away from Making It Fit: Techniques for Body-Positive Cosplay, a panel at ConnectiCon 2017.
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Playing the ‘YIIK: A Postmodern RPG’ demo at PAX East in March was a little weird for me. After all, I graduated from college in 2000, just a year after the game’s protagonist comes home from college to find himself facing both adulthood and a terrible mystery.
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If you’ve ever been a Kingdom of Loathing fan, there’s a new stick figure sheriff in town: West of Loathing.
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We played demos, interacted with robots, checked out cool vendors, interviewed celebrities, spied on the people trying out the Oculus Rift demo (people in VR headsets are just fun to watch), and went to panels.
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My husband and I strain our voices. My three-year-old son starts banging on a tambourine. The dog leaves the room. We’re playing Blackbox, a game released a year ago by developer Ryan McLeod, and we are trying to do something, anything, to solve the next puzzle.
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There is no try.
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We’re not in Kansas anymore. Or the Oz books. Or the Judy Garland movie.
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Pokémon Go is ideal for someone who used to game but who now has a small child. Seriously. It’s like Niantic Labs designed it with middle-aged, work-at-home mothers of two-year-olds in mind.
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Fairies often come to mind around Halloween. After all, it seems like half the costumes in the stores come with wands and wings. But there’s another reason fairies might be on your mind this time of year. Fairies are terrifying. Or at least, they’ve been terrifying lately. And let’s face it: fairies, at their mythological […]
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We’ve slowly been introducing our two-year-old to ‘Star Wars,’ but a slight problem has arisen. Enter one of the oldest spoilers in pop culture: The Family Skywalker.
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