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KAMAKURA, Oct 30 (News On Japan) – A beloved café in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, is at risk of closure after the city ordered it to vacate its location. Calls for its preservation have intensified as the court battle begins. Since opening in 1955, the “Venus Café” has been a fixture along Kamakura’s coastline, offering views […]
Faltas by Cecilia Gentili CW: rape, child abuse The subtitle of this memoir-in-letters is “Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist” and it perfectly captures Gentili’s unique tone. This is absolutely a heavy book. It’s about rape and sexual abuse and ongoing trauma. It’s also hilarious and juicy, full of campy humor, […]
It’s all about the fingerprints. Stop-motion animation intrinsically calls attention to its creation — the time-intensive nature of the process, the sheer amount of labor built into the design, the communal strength necessary for any project to come to fruition. The fingerprints left by filmmaker Nick Park and his comrades at Aardman Animation on the […]
Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how popular some Steam games are. Concurrent players don’t paint the whole picture, and user reviews are often a small portion of the full playerbase. Brotato is one of these games. With almost 80,000 Steam reviews sitting at 97% positive, it’s a blend of Vampire Survivors’ chaos and The Binding […]
The Last Ronin has proven to be one of the most popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stories of all time, and in case you’re looking for some extra material to go along with it, a new hardcover related to the dark TMNT story is now up for preorder. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin […]
Killer7 is a game that’s pretty hard to sum up and defies categorization. It’s everything all at once – it’s a bubbling pot of ideas thrown at the player which somehow manages to work. It’s a frothing, fizzing thing that shouldn’t hold together but absolutely does, and nearly 20 years later it’s still held up […]
Oct 23, 2024, 10:07 PM ET MIAMI — Pat Riley stood in front of 20,000 people Wednesday night. And they all seemed to be cheering as the Miami Heat officially dedicated their home court in his honor. But when it was time to end his remarks and close the halftime celebration of “Pat Riley Court,” […]
Lolloping through the countryside, having a picnic amid autumn leaves or snuggled up in his mistress’s bed, Georgia Toffolo‘s pet dog, Monty, is the undisputed star of her social media pages. The TV personality, 30, regularly treats her 1.8 million Instagram fans to updates about the four-year-old spaniel, whom she got from a breeder in […]
Born In Lebanon, Aline Asmar d’Amman was surrounded by the restoration and reconstruction in her homeland. The dialogue between heritage and modernity struck a chord with this creative, who had already decided to become an architect when she was a teen. “I learned to find beauty in ruins and cherish the sense of perfect imperfections,” […]
The recent launch of Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream proved that the long-standing anime franchise continues to hold sway. The new SAO RPG arrived just two weeks ago, pulling in thousands of players and a positive reception on Steam. Now, the latest release from Elden Ring and Tekken publisher Bandai Namco follows up on its […]