It’s the hottest show in town. Tickets are completely sold out. I’ll say this. The Toronto showing of The Book of Mormon has probably the strongest cast of any musical I’ve seen. I’ve got the original Broadway soundtrack and the Toronto staging blows it out of the water. Elder Price and Nabulungi are phenomenal. Elder [...]
The nice thing about Resistance is that no-one is eliminated from the game. Not so with Bang! Coming from the world of poker where, not only can you be ousted early in the game but there’s a financial loss as well, player elimination is old hat. For us Bang! set the hook for social, card-based [...]
A simple game of hidden identity. The resistance seeks to overthrow the empire but hidden in their midst are enemy spies looking to thwart their efforts. We brought this into the fold to accommodate a larger number of players (it plays up to 10) It’s a game of social deduction that favors manipulation and deception [...]
I listen to music in compressed mp3 format through crummy iPod ear buds or piped through an underpowered Bluetooth speaker. The best place I have for listening to music has to compete with the whine of my POS Mazda sub-compact engine. It wasn’t always that way. Music used to be a thing. Blowing out my [...]
Watched WrestleMania 29 last night. I know, hipster kryptonite – akin to admitting you listen to Nickelback on your Zune. It’s the Superbowl of wrestling (they’re already booking for WrestleMania XXX in New Orleans) and the 80,000 fans at the MetLife stadium in New York would agree. It also means that in the past month [...]
Not a game to be played when slightly inebriated. Especially when it falls to you to explain the game to others. We brought this one out for #TableTopDay and the learning curve can allow one’s dictatorial tendencies to reveal themselves as you “help” your teammates across the board. “We need to hook up in Essen [...]
K was lucky enough to experience the Blue Man Group as a total noob. A bunch of painted guys and a brief commercial was her only information going in. She loved it. It defies preconceived notions of entertainment, melding rock concert with magic, theatre and comedy. The Blue Men use up to 78 gallons of [...]
Macbeth is my favourite Shakespearian play. O’erleaping ambition and the consequences of an unfettered ego. Karma’s a bitch man. I’ve been hooked since the first time I saw it on the Stratford stage. I had done a perfunctory reading for my high school class and was fully prepared to bitch about the antiquated language live. [...]
TL:DR How do you get people downtown Kitchener for after work drinks? Our EngageKW project case study revolves around The Museum’s #NoNameWeds Never heard of it? Until last week – me neither. The Museum wants to shake the pernicious “Children’s” appellation. Wants to become a destination, drawing the ever desirable young professional crowd. Help legitimize [...]
In Canada it’s no secret we’re getting gouged as far as connectivity. You’d think that paying exorbitant rates would garner some red carpet service for internet users. (I’m sure my experience calling Rogers every month, for 6 months, with an average call time of 40 min each for an overbilling is unique to me alone.) [...]