My first three tries running this slick gamification of Pavlov’s House, one of Stalingrad’s most legendary tooth-and-nail standoffs.

I review Hadrian’s Wall, where Rome — in all its cupidity, muscle, and rot — comes alive under your Sharpie.

The acrid tang of sweat on a space station, a whiff of Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select, and why D&D and rap go together.

It was like being inside a warm cardboard computer, hands and mind humming in tune with the circuitry.

A chat with Brian Reynolds about learning and loving bridge, cocktails at my favorite Trinidad spot, and comparing two mixes of MC Lyte’s “Ruffneck.”

Cinnamon whiskey and hot chonklit vs. the cold. Introspection vs. depression. WWII vs. boredom. Sadat X vs. your boring playlist.

2024’s 10 most memorable board gaming scenes, a cocktail recoo from our Chief Mixologist, and a Craig Mack track.

Thanksgiving ‘24: An admonishment to the tenebrous heart that spends too much time counting its wounds. Also, board games.

We reconsider Thunderbolt Apache Leader, Final Girl: Madness in the Dark, Wingspan and StarWars: Outer Rim with four pints of the dark stuff.

Jeremy plunged off a rock face in 2004 and decided to climb green felt surfaces after that. All the way to the WSOP in 2014. (Photo: Jamie Thomson, Vegas Photo Studio)