Thursday, April 2

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VIDEO GAMES

Rewrite history in ‘Imperator: Rome’

They’re complicated, difficult and take forever — 20, 30, 100 hours into one play-through if you’re up for it. “Imperator: Rome” $39.99 for PC All-ages (but very complicated) The grand strategy games from Paradox Interactive are some of my greatest gaming guilty pleasures. These are games where you control a country on the world stage over the course of centuries, and so unlike other guilty pleasures (cookies, cheesy horror movies, sleeping in) there’s nothing sweet and easy about a Paradox game. They’re complicated, difficult and take forever — 20, 30, 100 hours into one play-through if you’re up for it. And I’m up for it. Whole weekends have disappeared down the grand strategy rabbit hole. “Imperator: Rome” is the latest game from Paradox. In it you take control of ancient Rome and gu...
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BOOKS

More ideas for that ‘to-read’ list

The flurry of summer book releases has begun. The flurry of summer book releases has begun. Goodhousekeeping.com’s “The 25 Best New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List” includes: - “The Bride Test” by Helen Hoang - “Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors” by Sonali Dev - “City of Girls” by Elizabeth Gilbert - “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong - “Mrs. Everything” by Jennifer Weiner - “The Friend Zone” by Abby Jimenez - “Three Women” by Lisa Taddeo “The Most Fun We Ever Had” by Claire Lombardo has already received 4.5 stars by goodreads.com and it does not release until June 25. The preview/review book site conveyed recently a short synopsis: “A dazzling, multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple — still madly in love after 40 years — r...
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GAMES

Simple and brilliant – a perfect puzzle game

Yes, it’s a strange name but it’s a strange and amazing puzzle game that’s worth your time. “Baba Is You”Developed by Hempuli OyFor Mac, PC and Nintendo Switch, $15, rated E for Everyone You should play “Baba Is You.” Yes, it’s a strange name but it’s a strange and amazing puzzle game that’s worth your time. The “Baba” in the title refers to a cute little sheep that you move around a very simple, pixel-art world. “You” refers to the fact that you as the player control Baba, who can’t jump, fight, run or any of the other classic video game verbs. Baba can only push (some) things around the screen; most importantly Baba pushes words together to form sentences. Those sentences change everything. Each level of “Baba Is You” starts with a number of complete sentences that define the level. Usua...
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VIDEO GAMES

Play in Tom Clancy’s world in video game sequel

We hope you love these items as much as we did! GateHouse Media may collect a share of sales from links on this page. Author Tom Clancy passed away more than five years ago, but long before that Ubisoft bought the rights to his name and techno-thriller brand of experience. The latest foray into the Clancyverse is also one of the best. “Tom Clancy’s The Division 2” is the ideal video game sequel: It takes a solid first game (“The Division” from 2016) and improves on it in multiple ways while making few if any new mistakes. It’s not perfect, I still think the bosses soak up too much damage when you fight them, but it’s a lot better than the original, and the original was pretty good. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic United States in the wake of a bioweapon plague released on t...
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Becoming Your Own Celebrity
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TECH

Becoming Your Own Celebrity

Since we have become such a celebrity driven culture, I thought it might be amusing to imagine what it might be like to be a celebrity. Consider this like taking a vacation from your everyday life. This is not to advocate that you become a celebrity or pursue a lifestyle of glamour and fame, when simplifying your life may lead to more satisfying long term benefits in difficult economic times. Rather it is to enjoy thinking about being a celebrity, much as you might add an occasional celebration or fantasy experience into your life. It is like putting on a costume or mask so you become someone else on Halloween. Well, this is an experience of imagining yourself as any celebrity you want to be. To do so, you create or imagine events and activities to experience the celebrity lifestyle by yo...
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Every Southern cooking enthusiast worth their salt needs these 8 books by African-American chefs and authors

To get a taste of the true history of Southern cuisine, one must look to the work of African-American chefs, home cooks and writers. The eight cookbooks below are a crucial collection for any serious Southern cook. If you don't have these in your kitchen already, get them in your shopping cart now. There simply is no denying the impact that countless African-Americans have had in shaping food culture in our country. In the South specifically, the influence of black Americans is easily felt — and consumed — in everyday staples such as braised collard greens, candied yams and fried catfish. While other Southern chefs have received a lot of acclaim for bringing their interpretation of Southern food to the masses, this beloved cuisine was built in the kitchens of black folks below the Mason...
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Ann Petry: First African American Woman to Sell Over One Million Books
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Ann Petry: First African American Woman to Sell Over One Million Books

Ann Petry, the first African American female author to sell over one million copies of her book. Petry was born in 1911 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where her father and grandfather ran a drugstore. Petry loved to read and from the age of fourteen she knew she wanted to be a writer. She wrote poetry and short plays in high school, but after graduation she chose the safe route and enrolled in the pharmacy program at the University of Connecticut where she earned her PhG degree. Ann worked in the family business until she married in 1938 and moved to New York. The direction of Ann's life changed when she took her first job in the advertising department of an African American newspaper, The Amsterdam News. She later became a reporter and editor for the People's Voice, a weekly newspaper, w...
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FASHION STYLE & BEAUTY

Online Entertainment and Bikini Babes

The human fascination with entertainment and its various forms have come up with many forms. There are many websites that offer fun stuff like photo galleries and pictures of bikini babes. In this age of the Internet, people have many options to entertain themselves. It includes games, jokes, cartoons, etc. There are many websites that offer online games for people to have fun. People do not need to download any software to play games on their system now. Earlier they needed to play their games only on their computer sets after downloading them. As the Internet connections are getting faster and the Internet industry is growing fast online games have become a craze among young users. There are many websites that offer photo galleries for users to enjoy. They have mostly celebrity related...
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