Live Music Review: Apollo Blue at Club Bohemia
APOLLO BLUE, the band - not the automobile - performed on October 23, 2014 at Club Bohemia and issued their underground blues to the appreciative crowd of local musicians and Central Square Cambridge regulars. They call their music "rock and blues, with a bit of psychedelic madness" and that formula is the product of the efforts of George...
Hands on Review: The Risen Series – Pirates, Knights, Magic and Monsters
Originally introduced as a PC game in 2009 Piranha Bytes and Deep Silver Studio's game 'Risen' was later adopted to the Xbox and subsequent releases were for console as well as computer. There are three games in the series Risen, Risen 2: Dark Waters and Risen 3: Titan Lords, each can be played as a stand alone game, but...
CD Review – Gallagher: I Am Who I Pretend To Be
Comedian Gallagher’s distinctive voice cuts through on this clear and precise May 2014 recording from Pasadena, California’s Ice House. On this CD the comic is smart, observant, absurd and absolutely funny. With a Parental Advisory/Explicit Content sticker on the right-hand bottom corner of the CD cover, one needs to study the compelling art work with a...
Rodney Dollah’s Little Book of Monsters – An Annual Collaboration of Work Just in Time for Halloween
Halloween and monsters, two things that go together like peanut butter and jelly. Every year during October we see images of werewolves, zombies, Frankenstein, mummies, and vampires as decorations in stores and on homes. Witches, black cats and bats also make up these images as Halloween staples. Door covers, inflatable balloons, cards, candy wrappers, streamers and a myriad of...
Review: Seymour Duncan Whole Lotta Humbucker – I’m Gonna Give You My Love
Anyone who reads this website with any regularity knows what a Jimmy Page fanboy I am. When it comes to Led Zeppelin and guitarists, the dictionary definition of fanatic comes into play. Guitarists have done everything from modifying their Les Pauls to casting black magic spells to capture the essence of the Jimmy Page tone. If the latter statement...
Review: J.A.S.O.N. – Myth, Murder, and Mayhem in a Punk Rock World
Director Hatem Adell has taken playwright Pete Riesenberg’s reinvention of Jason and the Argonauts into the 21st century in an intriguing drama perfectly set in the Cambridge dungeon that was the original Cantab Lounge (now Club Bohemia.) The atmosphere, much like the old coffee houses of the 60s, adds to the vibe as the seven actors – who...
Beers Announced For Big Blue Craft Beer Festival
n October 18th, many of the best craft beers in the country will be featured at the Big Blue Craft Beer Festival at Blue Harbor Resort on the shores of Lake Michigan in scenic Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
The Big Blue Craft Beer Festival will offer a wide variety of beer styles from top brewers in the Midwest, East, West and even...
The Sims 4 Adds Free Star Wars Costumes
Video Game Roundtable Episode 197: Ello, Facebook - This week's episode has a lot of tangential videogame news, but the discussions turn in interesting directions. No Gaming Flashback or Gaming History unfortunately.
The news includes:Microsoft announces Windows 10, Ms Pac-Man joins the fight against breast cancer, Facebook apologizes to LGBTQ users plans “substantive changes”, PS Vita firmware 3.30 launches soon...
Windows 9 Will Be Revealed Next Week
Video Game Roundtable Episode 196: Mammoths With Hats
The publication of this episode is a little late thanks to uncontrollable circumstances, but while Paul discusses the ending of Slicing Fractions, this week's episode includes both a Gaming Flashback, Scramble, and a Gaming History which focuses on the Zelda series.
This week's news includes: Apple fans report iPhone 6 bending in pockets,...
GadgetReview Goes Full Geek – Charges BMW i3 with Honda Generator
Who needs an expensive BMW range extender when the folks at Honda have a solution for much, much less money. The guys over at GadgetReview decided they would put this theory to the test. They took a BMW i3 electric vehicle and drove it for the day. Once they stopped for 30 minutes to grab a cup of coffee,...













