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Waypoint

In Praise of the Impressive Impatience of ‘Nier: Automata’

Most role-playing games tease their stories over tens of hours, giving away nothing in the opening few. Not here.
Mike Diver
3.6.17
FIGHTLAND

Cage Captions: UFC 209

Based on hundreds of painstaking hours of research and data, Cage Captions combines statistics gathered from virtually every UFC fight along with as many walkout songs as humanly possible.
Jay Pettry
3.6.17
immigration

What You Need to Know About Trump's New Travel Ban

It's less harsh than the old ban on refugees and travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, but will it stand up in court?
Matt Taylor
3.6.17
Film

Brooding Short Film Documents the Beauty of Abandoned London

'Fading' unveils the overlooked and neglected corners of a thriving metropolis.
Anna Marks
3.6.17
Comics!

'Catboy Takes an Art Class,' Today's Comic by Benji Nate

Olive takes Henry, her talking, human-sized cat, to an art class. But how good of an artist can a cat be?
Benji Nate
3.6.17
Nier Automata

In Praise of the Impressive Impatience of ‘Nier: Automata’

Most role-playing games tease their stories over tens of hours, giving away nothing in the opening few. Not here.
Mike Diver
3.6.17
Pizza

Is a Lithuanian Immigrant Making the Best Pizza in Ohio?

Vytauras Sasnaukas grew up under Soviet occupation, eating ersatz pizzas topped with hard-boiled eggs. Now he's making real-deal Neapolitan pies in Cleveland.
Sarah Freeman
3.6.17
art fairs

[Photos] Inside Independent New York, the Art Fair That Shook Armory Week

Photographer Charlie Rubin takes us inside the eighth annual edition of Independent New York.
Kara Weisenstein
3.6.17
TV

'The Real L Word' Is the Queer Adolescence I Never Had

Showtime's canceled reality show gives me a sense of queer community that I don't think I'll ever experience in real life.
Katie Heaney
3.6.17
thump news

Los Angeles DIY Venue Non Plus Ultra Shut Down by City Officials

This is just the latest venue to be shut down following the Ghost Ship fire in December.
Alexander Iadarola
3.6.17
Munchies

Inside the Loneliest Five-Star Restaurant in the World

You can eat foie gras at Antarctica's Concordia Station, but your closest neighbor is the International Space Station and you might not see oranges for three months.
Daniel Oberhaus
3.6.17
leonys martin

For Some Reason Mariners Get Leonys Martin a Mariachi Band for Birthday

Leonys Martin is Cuban, FYI.
Dave Brown
3.6.17
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