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I try Waiting for Godot once again but even with Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, it ain’t for me “Think!” I’ve never really gotten on with Samuel Beckett’s plays. I’ve seen a few over the years but none of those productions have managed to penetrate his gnomic style sufficiently for me to get ‘it’, whatever ‘it’ may be and there’s clearly something there. As Waiting …

Trump 'resorted to crimes' to overturn 2020 result It alleges that he always planned to declare victory no matter the result, and laid the groundwork for this long before election day. It also accuses him of knowingly spreading false claims about the vote that he himself deemed "crazy". Since the Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling threw a wrench into the case, we’re suddenly getting a clearer view of what Trump …

magCulture Live London is back! Join us on Thursday 7 November for our annual celebration of magazine culture. The day will focus on the creative power of the double-page spread, and feature a series of talks from designers and editors including:Richard TurleyInterview, Rolling Stone, Offal et alShira InbarMSCHF & A24 zines Lucy RoeberThe Erotic Review Davide CazzaroNotebookNina CarterIt’s Freezing in LA!Chris O’LearyFatboy ZineWith more to be confirmed… read on for …

Not a new theory, but the golden age of streaming really was a ZIRP thing. I mean, Patriot anyone? RIP Cool Rick.

A puzzle kata, and a possible solution. When I was a boy I had a nine-piece puzzle that I'd been gifted by the Swizz branch of my family. It's called Das verflixte Hunde-Spiel, which means something like the confounded dog game in English. And while a puzzle with nine pieces doesn't sound like much, it is, in fact, incredibly difficult. It's just a specific incarnation of a kind of game …

Consider this post a public service announcement. Not to mention a good way to kick off this month of October! Yes, you did read the title correctly. While many silent fans are unaware of it, the nearly 100-year-old script for … Continue reading →

PennLive reports “Central Pa. school district installs surveillance windows in gender-inclusive bathrooms”: as a parent of a non-binary kid I’m obviously concerned about the outcomes of policy like this but reading through the South Western School District’s justification for this policy also highlights just how much of the modern public school experience has “prison” like design qualities.

Bellringers may answer an eternal theatrical question: What if Beckett, but bearable? I have to say my heart sank early on in Daisy Hall's play, as its two male characters, lifelong, loving friends, ponder the big questions of life, death and the universe in a roundabout, chatty manner - the debt to Waiting for Godot is hard to miss. So it was especially heartening to go on to see Hall …

siryl: Cover art by Vic Prezio for Eerie Magazine #22 (July, 1969).

After spending countless hours trekking across Ryan Laukat’s more expansive landscapes via Sleeping Gods and its sequels, Primeval Peril and Distant Skies, Creature Caravan is a throwback to his earlier titles not only in terms of setting, but also time commitment. It doesn’t quite hit the twenty-minute duration of Eight-Minute Empires, clocking in at closer to an hour, but Creature Caravan shows Laukat in fine form, pressing his craft forward …

This is a piece of advice that I found myself giving to many early career researchers, students, and colleagues supervising and advising those as well. For years, actually. A mathematician, the joke says, is a blind man, in a dark room, searching for a black cat that isn't there. I don't know about that, but I think we can still agree that a researcher, in most fields, is sailing a …

This one hardly needs making. I found it by accident when we roasted a chicken this Sunday. As we were tearing the carcass apart like a pack of hyaenas, I noticed that one of the wings had a nice, distinct thumb claw. Here it is in a big plastic bowl in the kitchen — shown this way to emphasize its mundanity. And here is the wing closer up. This is …

Earlier in the summer, the Democratic party and its supporters faced a difficult decision: should they gently but firmly sideline President Joe Biden from the 2024 ticket? There were plenty of reasons to agonise over the decision: loyalty to Biden; the daunting practicalities of the switch; fear of the chaos that might ensue; nervousness that the likely replacement, Biden’s vice-president Kamala Harris, wasn’t up to the job. But such nerve-racking …

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Martial arts mayhem was still ruling unsurpassed in Britain, this week in 1974, with Carl Douglas' Kung Fu Fighting retaining the singles chart pinnacle it had claimed seven days earlier.However, there was change - of a sort - atop the corresponding LP listings, thanks to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells having now snatched …

If you’re coming from the JavaScript world or even if you’ve worked with modern JavaScript briefly, you might know the importance of npm and its package ecosystem. The context The npx of PHP In closing The context You can install packages from the npm registry and use them in your projects. But sometimes, there might be some packages that you might need to install globally to use them in your …