Month: January 2023

No TV show has earned the phrase “expect the unexpected” quite like Yellowjackets.  The first season of the Showtime drama began to tell the wicked tale of the Wiskayok High Yellowjackets girls’ soccer team, who were stranded in the barren wilderness for 19 months after their plane crashed on the way to nationals.  What ensued was
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Keenan Barber Unsplash Most cigar smokers have their tried-and-true favorites – the cigars that they’re always in the mood for. However, it’s good to keep an eye out for new options as well. There are always new cigars being released, as well as older, undiscovered ones that would make a worthy addition to someone’s regular
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In the first few verses that we hear in her new single “Are You Clapping?,” Taydem Shoesmith sings to us against a passively alluring beat unfolding behind her words ever so slowly. There aren’t any bells and whistles in the mix to come between her voice and the audience – there is only artistic honesty
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Thanks to new releases from Colson Whitehead, Lauren Groff, Abraham Verghese, Mary Beth Keane, Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Acevedo and more, we can’t wait for 2023 reading to begin. The Faraway World by Patricia Engel Avid Reader | January 24 When it came out in 2021, Colombian American writer Patricia Engel’s fourth novel, Infinite Country, got
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Sporting Events Galore Coming Up In Ohio: NBA, NHL, & NFL Games If you’re planning a visit to Ohio, and if you happen to be a super passionate sports fan, there will not be a shortage of exciting events to check out during your time in the Buckeye State. Ohio has at least one team
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The roots music revival is about to come alive in a big way in 2023, and Ralph Nix & the Guilt Birds are front and center in the movement with their new album Good Ingredients. Without borrowing too much from the past, the band brings a little bit of music history into focus in “Cohay,” “Mercy
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The ship has sailed on 1899‘s time on Netflix.  The mystery thriller series—which starred Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann and Miguel Bernardeau—has been cancelled by the streaming service more than a month after releasing its first season on Nov. 17, its creators have announced. “With a heavy heart we have to tell you that 1899 will
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Because New Year’s was on a Sunday this year, we’re taking today off to recover. But don’t worry, we’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, we wish you luck in your 2023 reading goals, and we hope your year is filled with a fireworks display worth of five-star reads.
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As The Winter Bird opens, author Kate Banks cleverly invites young readers to put their inference skills to work as she describes the change in seasons. “It was the time of year when the sun went to bed early,” she writes. “The big brown bear lumbered off to its winter den. . . . And
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