Tag: column
Swift Musings: Unfinished Games, Finished Business
2014 was called many different things, but for entertainment, it may as well be called the year of the unfinished game.
“Minecraft” popularized the idea...
Winter Quarter Lookbook
While the calendar clearly marks us as in the dead of winter, something about the weather just doesn’t add up. Where are the biting...
Swift Musings: ‘Let’s Plays’ are the new arcades, and that’s a...
We’ve come a long way from playing “Pong” in the family room to keep busy until “Planet of the Apes” showed on channel four....
Away From the Sprawl: Best of 2014
This is the year things got personal.
Maybe it’s my perception, (that’s what a column is supposed to be anyway, right? Right.) but more than...
United Community of Riverside: First Amendment Remedies
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of...
Away from the Sprawl: Make me cry in 3 minutes: The...
There are just a handful of songs that really get to me, almost every time I hear them. “You Can’t Hurry Love,” by the...
United Community of Riverside: 4 Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad...
Pop quiz: What’s an event with national importance happening in November? If you’re like most people, you’re probably thinking of turkey and mashed potatoes....
Away from the Sprawl: Sweet melodies and time machines
“All the very best of us / String ourselves up for love.”
— The National, "Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks"
It was some day in mid-March of...
Away from the Swamp: Why the soundtracks of Shrek 1 and...
As I walked around Far Far Away Record Store, wallowing in the thought of never seeing our beloved Green One again, I suddenly heard...
Away from the Sprawl: Great concerts bring out the best in...
I sat waiting at my computer for 40 minutes. Forty freaking minutes, desperately hoping that I wouldn’t click the “purchase” button 30 seconds too...