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battyaboutbooksreviews · 5 months

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🌈 Queer Books Out December 2023 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose 🧡 Heartstopper #5 by Alice Oseman 💛 This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede 💚 All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows 💙 Vampires of Eden: Book One by Karla Nikole 💜 Not My Type by Joe Satoria ❤️ Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck 🧡 Eternal Embrace by Luna Lawson 💛 A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford 💙 Tomb of Heart and Shadow by Cara N. Delaney 💜 Through the Embers Volume 2 by Adriana Sargent 🌈 Lucero by Maya Motayne

❤️ The Poison Paradox by Hadley Field & Felix Green 🧡 Second Chances in New Port Stephen: A Novel by TJ Alexander 💛 Matrimonial Merriment by Nicky James 💚 Under the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Ramsden 💙 Every Beat of Her Heart by KC Richardson 💜 The Memories of Marlie Rose by Morgan Lee Miller ❤️ Playing with Matches by Georgia Beers 🧡 Always Only You by Chloe Liese 💛 Fire in the Sky by Radclyffe and Julie Cannon 💙 Nuclear Sunrise by Jo Carthage 💜 The Naked Dancer by Emme C. Taylor 🌈 Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann

❤️ Destiny’s Women by Morgan Elliott 🧡 Framed by Kate Merrill 💛 The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe 💚 Catered All the Way by Annabeth Albert 💙 A Cynic’s Christmas Conundrum by L.M. Bennett 💜 Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn ❤️ One Swipe Away by Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue 🧡 The Gentlemen’s Club by A.V. Shener 💛 A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold 💙 Secrets of the Soul by Holly Oliver 💜 Like They Do in the Movies by Nan Campbell 🌈 Limelight by Gun Brooke

❤️ Heart First by S.B. Barnes 🧡 Grave Consequences by Sandra Barret 💛 Haunted by Myth by Barbara Ann Wright 💚 Invisible by Anna Larner 💙 The Murders at Sugar Mill Farm by Ronica Black 💜 Coasting and Crashing by Ana Hartnett ❤️ Fairest by K.S. Trenten 🧡 A City of Abundant Opportunity by Howard Leonard 💛 The Dark Side of MIdnight by Erin Wade 💙 Mending Bones by Merlina Garance 💜 Transform by Connal Braginsky & Sean Ian O’Meidhir 🌈 The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

❤️ TruLove by Nicole Pyland 🧡 Structural Support by Sloan Spencer 💛 Whiskey War by Stacy Lynn Miller 💚 Overkill by Lou Wilham 💙 Heart of Outcasts by Nicole Silver 💜 In the Shadow of Victory by J. E. Leak ❤️ Just Like Her by Fiona Zedde 🧡 Gingerbread: Claus For Christmas by Miski Harris 💛 Lies are Forever by C. Jean Downer 💙 The Boys in the Club by M.T. Pope 💜 Lasting Light (Metal & Magic) by Michelle Frost 🌈 Tell No Tales by Edie Montreux

❤️ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman 🧡 Even Though We're Adults Vol. 7 by Takako Shimura 💛 The Accidental Bite by Michelle St. Wolf 💚 Mated to the Demons by Taylor Schafer 💙 Someday Away by Sara Elisabeth 💜 Gatherdawn Luminia Duet Volume 1 by Lee Colgin ❤️ Curse of Dawn by Richard Amos 🧡 Healing the Twin by Nora Phoenix 💛 Ride Me by KD Ellis 💙 How to Bang a Vampire by Joe Satoria 💜 Cthulhu for Christmas by Meghan Maslow 🌈 Prestige by Toni Reeb

❤️ Don't Look Down by Jessica Ann 🧡 Winter and the Wolves by Chris Storm and Kinkaid Knight 💛 Hat Trick by Ajay Daniel 💚 Starborn Husbands: Return to the Pleiades by S. Legend 💙 Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy 💜 Practice for Toby by Amy Bellows ❤️ The Siren's Song by Crista Crown 🧡 Hers to Hunt K.J. Devoir

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wolverineholic · 7 months

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#wolverine #art #comics #illustration #lobezno

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jontycrane · 3 years

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Best of 2020 - Books

Best of 2020 – Books

In part thanks to Covid-19 I read more this year than any other, over 300 books, nearly double my previous annual best. A third were fiction, a quarter history, and a fifth travel books. By genre but in no particular order here are the best books I read in 2020… TravelFull Tilt : From Dublin to Delhi With a Bicycle by Dervla MurphyAn engrossing and almost unbelievable account of the 32 year old…

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confusedgenzstudent · 4 years

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MP's who voted against free school meals: Part 1

Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty),

Bim Afolami (Hitchin and Harpenden),

Adam Afriyie (Windsor),

Imran Ahmad Khan (Wakefield),

Nickie Aiken (Cities of London and Westminster),

Peter Aldous (Waveney), Lucy Allan (Telford),

David Amess (Southend West), Lee Anderson (Ashfield),

Stuart Anderson (Wolverhampton South West),

Stuart Andrew (Pudsey),

Edward Argar (Charnwood),

Sarah Atherton (Wrexham),

Victoria Atkins (Louth and Horncastle),

Gareth Bacon (Orpington),

Richard Bacon (South Norfolk),

Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden),

Shaun Bailey (West Bromwich West),

Duncan Baker (North Norfolk),

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#never trust a tory #tory incompetence #tory mp #united kingdom #pandemic #kids #marcus rashford

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uroft-blog · 7 years

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Why College Students And Old People Are Basically The Same Thing

At face value, it seems like college kids and senior citizens couldn’t have less to do with each other. If you look close enough, however, you’ll see some pretty undeniable proof that they’re basically living the exact same lives.

LA-based illustrator Ian Higginbotham has put together a few comics that show the similarities between young students and their (much) older counterparts, and it…

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#college kids vs old people #college students vs old people #Comics #funny webcomics #ian higginbotham #ianlaser #webcomics

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wolfliving · 2 years

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Arduino Pro Potenta X8

Stacey Higginbotham:

Aurduino goes pro with Linux and a big chip on its latest board This week, Arduino launched the Pro Portenta X8, the most massively powered Arduino board yet, with a quad-core Arm Cortex A53 processor along with a variety of MCUs and the ability to run Linux. This is a big step for Arduino, which bills itself as an open source hardware and software company that makes systems on modules and has traditionally been popular in the maker and hobbyist space, as a way to bring small bits of computing power together to power lights, servos, and sensors. In 2020, the group launched its Portenta H7 board with an eye toward enticing hardware developers to build production-ready devices using the Arduino hardware and software. With the launch, it was following a similar map laid out by the folks behind Raspberry Pi, which has gone from being a cheap computer for makers to a fully powered computer that can fit in many jobs, including medical devices and production hardware. Notably, the Pi moved downmarket last year with the Pi Pico, which put it in direct competition with Arduino's systems that rely on MCUs. — The new Arduino Pro Portenta X8 will be available in mid-April of this year. With the Pro Portenta X8, Arduino is entering a crowded market with plenty of modules aimed at providing computing power, wireless connectivity, and a standardized layout for sensors and other attachments that make it easy to cobble together a working computer board for specialized hardware. But it has also signed a deal with Foundries.io to provide a comprehensive level of security, which is a fairly unusual move. Foundries.io provides an OS that can sit on a device and run in the cloud and that ensures basic security features for embedded hardware. Because traditional embedded devices are super fragmented, with different architectures and operating systems, and are designed into machines that should last for decades instead of a few years, securing them is tough. With the partnership between Arduino and Foundries.io the new Portenta board has the ability to support secured over-the-air updates, continuous integration testing in the cloud, and the ability to roll out and roll back software deployed to containers running on the device. This level of security service will be provided to anyone using the Arduino Portenta X8. If they want to change or customize it, they can work out a deal with Foundries.io. There's a lot to like with this announcement, because by creating this partnership Arduino is putting a security model at the forefront of its industrial platform that will adapt to the needs of the device, which itself is connected from the get-go and designed for the long haul. Today, most connected devices rely on a secure element and whatever strategies the product team has put in place for maintaining its security over time. That requires a dedicated security team for the device and assurances from the chip and module providers. Foundries.io not only takes on the role of securing the device for its lifetime, it goes beyond using a secure element, assuming the responsibility for dynamic security over the life of the device. Arduino is paying for this level of security for users of its Portenta X8 board, but Foundries.io has found several customers eager to adapt to this type of dynamic security model. Foundries.io CEO Ian Drew said the company has grown its sales by 30% quarter over quarter. So with this announcement, Arduino is ready to go pro and Foundries.io gets another customer to bet on its new type of IoT security model.

#Arduino #IoT #Linux

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tomorrowedblog · 6 years

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Distress is out today

Distress, the new game from Javy Gwaltney, Ian Higginbotham, and Erandi Huipe, is out today.

A fading distress signal from a space station that’s gone silent. A metropolis filled with dark secrets, death lurking in every alleyway. Welcome to Nova-8. Step into the boots of Demetria Barton, one of the galaxy’s greatest bounty hunters, and lead her team to a mysterious city in search of answers and riches.

Distress is a branching visual novel for PC/Mac/Linux inspired by the likes of Silent Hill, Snatcher, and Mass Effect. Trapped in a city filled with deadly creatures and a ruthless militarized task force controlled by a shadowy administrator, you’ll have to use your wits and make tough decisions in order to survive. You’re responsible not just for your own life, but the lives of your crew as well. Make your choices. Live with the consequences.

#Games #Distress #News

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uncrcow · 6 years

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How was American slavery used as a system of social control?

This is an excellent question and a Tumblr post won’t be sufficient for fully answering it. However, here’s an explanation and some resources to get started. Before we begin, let’s explain some terms and give a brief timeline. Slavery was an incredibly complex racial and economic institution embedded into our country’s history.

First off, when did slavery begin? It started before the concept of a white race was created in the colonial legal system. Wealthy Virginian colonists began to draw dividing lines between poor European indentured slaves and enslaved Africans. This distinction was most clear in the case of John Punch, who was an enslaved African living in Virginia. In 1640, Punch ran away with two European indentured slaves to Maryland and was sentenced to remain in slavery for the remainder of his life. This was the first instance of the legal system favoring poor people of European descent over a person of African descent. Interestingly enough, a study done by Ancestry.com used DNA analysis to suggest that Punch may be a 12th generation grandfather of former President Barack Obama.

The story of slavery is also the story of labor. More enslaved Africans were needed for tobacco and cotton farming as more land was being taken over by European landowners. Michelle Alexander notes in The New Jim Crow, “the systematic enslavement of Africans, and the rearing of their children under bondage, emerged with all deliberate speed—quickened by events such as Bacon’s Rebellion.” The facts of Bacon’s Rebellion are hazy at best. According to several accounts, Nathaniel Bacon organized indentured European servants, enslaved Africans and poor whites to overthrow the planter elite.

However, Bacon, a landowner himself, did this under the premise of taking land from Native Americans. His militia attacked neighboring tribes and the homes of the planter elite. After months of conflict, Bacon’s militia took control of Jamestown and burned it to the ground in September 1676. While the rebellion fell apart a month later, the events terrified the planter elite, especially the union of indentured servants and enslaved Africans. Consequently, they took on a strategy of social control by relying less on indentured servants and more on the importation of enslaved Africans.

This previous cases developed a legal precedent that led the House of Burgesses, the governing body of colonial Virginia, to decide in 1691 who qualified as a white man and by extension, who could have access to citizenship and property. It was essentially a bribe for poor free citizens and indentured servants of European descent. The court decided anyone without African or Indian blood could qualify as white. However, Pocahontas and John Rolfe, her husband, were exempt from this law. It’s important to note that the concept of race is specious and relatively new in the history of mankind. However, it has had lasting impacts on lived experiences for the last 400 years. These three cases set the stage for the social control of American slavery.

In terms of social control, legal scholar Bryan Stevenson describes the myriad methods of manipulation:

“American slavery was often brutal, barbaric, and violent. In addition to the hardship of forced labor, enslaved people were maimed or killed by slave owners as punishment for working too slowly, visiting a spouse living on another plantation, or even learning to read. Enslaved people were also sexually exploited.”

If you’d like to learn more about the history of slavery and its systemic impact on American society, feel free to check out these resources from the library!

Anti-Racism in US History: The First Two Hundred Years. Herbert Aptheker, CA: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, 1619-1962. LeRone Bennett, Penguin Press, 1962.

Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Sven Beckert, NY: Random House, 2014 - EBOOK!

In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. Joe R. Feagin, NY: Routledge, 2000 - EBOOK!

The Half has never been told: Slavery and the making of American capitalism, Basic Books, 2012 - EBOOK!

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander, The New Press, 2010.

When Affirmative Action Was White. Ira Katznelson. NY: WW Norton, 2005.

White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race, Ian Haney Lopez, NYU Press, 1999.

References

Alexander, M. (2013), The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York, NY: The New Press, 24.

Equal Justice Initiative (2015, July 7), Slavery to Mass Incarceration, [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4e_djVSag4

Gay Stolberg, S. (2012, July 30). Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/obamas-mother-had-african-forebear-study-suggests.html

(1894, December 31). Governor Berkeley baring his breast for Bacon to shoot after refusing him a commission. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion#/media/File:A_Fair_Mark_-_Shoot.jpg

John Punch (n.d. In Wikipedia, Retrieved November 15, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Punch_(slave)

Moore, H.P. (31 December 1862), James Hopkinson's Plantation. Planting sweet potatoes. Retrieved from, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Hopkinsons_Plantation_Slaves_Planting_Sweet_Potatoes.jpg

(n.d.). Inventing Black and White. Retrieved November 15, 2017, from https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-2/inventing-black-and-white

Simon van de Passe (1615, December 31). Portrait of Pocahontas, wearing a tall hat, and seen at half-length. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas#/media/File:Pocahontas_by_Simon_van_de_Passe_1616.jpg

(n.d.). Slavery and Indentured Servants. Retrieved November 15, 2017, from https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/slavery.html

#unc chapel hill #UNC libraries #uncRCOW #ask a librarian #slavery #american #history #plantations #bacon's rebellion #indentured servitude #university of north carolina #chapel hill #carolina

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One vote is all it takes

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One vote is all it takes

Does your vote matter?

“Funny you should ask,” said Cousin Dave. Years ago, Dave’s brother served their New Jersey town as a municipal judge, a position appointed by the town council. At the time, the council held a Republican majority by one seat—until Dave voted for the Democrat, who won by one vote. When the majority on the council switched, Dave’s brother lost his judgeship. And he still blames Dave.

Julie Rodewald, former San Luis Obispo County clerk recorder for nearly two decades, cites a plethora of local races that have been won or lost by literally a handful of votes.

“In 2012, two votes out of 600 determined the election for the San Miguel Community Services District,” Rodewald told me. “In 2014, Shelly Higginbotham won the race for mayor of Pismo Beach by two votes over challenger Kevin Kreowski. And in the 2016 elections, Heidi Harmon won the San Luis Obispo mayoral race by 47 votes over incumbent Jan Marx.”

This past June, the conservative majority on our county Board of Supervisors was retained because challenger Jimmy Paulding lost to Lynn Compton by 60 votes out of 18,861 votes cast. This outcome has far-reaching consequences for issues ranging from local affordable housing to climate change measures.

With all these razor-thin elections, you might ask what happens when the vote comes down to a tie. “It becomes a game of chance,” Rodewald said.

“In 2017, after multiple recounts, the election for a seat on the Virginia House of Delegates was declared dead even out of 20,000 votes cast. The winner was decided by a blind drawing from a film canister,” she said.

So, yeah, your vote matters.

Rodewald now devotes her fervor for voting as a volunteer for the League of Women Voters, the nation’s largest grassroots voter registration organization. The League was founded in 1920 during the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Six months later, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote after a 72-year struggle.

Along that 72-year journey, suffragettes were jailed, clubbed, beaten, and tortured. Always remember, too, that although the 15th Amendment gave black men the right to vote in 1870, it wasn’t until 1965—after a century of marches, lynchings, and murders of civil rights activists—that Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act to prohibit racial discrimination and disenfranchisement in voting.

Sorry about the history lesson, but Americans have died for the right to vote. I’m especially talking to you, 18- to 20-year-olds, whose turnout was less than 50 percent for the 2016 general election, and less than 20 percent for the midterms in 2014. Wow. That means you hold this election in your hands.

I remember my first vote. I was away at college and my Republican father called to extort me to vote for Richard Nixon, saying, “He has a secret plan to end the Vietnam War.” (In truth, he had no plan.) At that moment, I took a fundamental step toward maturity. I critically assessed my own values apart from those of my parents. I am proud to say I voted for George McGovern.

Ian Levy, the 19-year-old president of the Cal Poly Democrats, voted for the first time in the June primaries. Since becoming energized by the Trump election, Levy practically carries voter registration forms around in his hip pocket.

“Along with ASI [Associate Students Inc.] and other student groups, our club is constantly registering voters,” Levy told me. “It’s so important to get my age demographic to vote because doing so establishes a lifelong voting habit.

“I encourage students to vote here, where they live,” explained Levy, “because even though we’re here a short time before we graduate and move away, our vote affects policy that impacts us now.

“Our vote is our voice. I am so happy when students come up to me and say, ‘Ian, I just registered to vote and it was so easy!'”

Unforgivably, however, voter suppression is alive and well. Tactics include cuts to early voting, voter ID laws, changing laws to make voting less convenient, and purging voter rolls.

Rationale given for voter suppression? Voter fraud. At an event last spring, Trump said, “In many places, like California, the same person votes many times—you’ve probably heard about that.”

No, in fact.

“I’ve never seen anything like that in my career,” SLO County Clerk-Recorder Tommy Gong told me. “Instead, I’m proud that California has pushed to make voting as convenient as possible.”

Cousin Dave pointed out that while he has a “stellar” record of voting, he benefits from the time and transportation that makes voting easy. Imagine you’re a single mom balancing a couple of jobs. You get no time off to vote or to apply for a voter ID, and you rely on public transportation.

California’s automatic DMV voter registration and online registration system are steps forward, but why not make Election Day a national holiday?

“We should wave the flag and celebrate,” Rodewald said. “Even more, by voting we both do our duty as citizens, and we honor those who fought and died for this right.”

(Note: The Cal Poly College Republicans and the Republican Party of San Luis Obispo County did not respond to phone calls and emails seeking comments on this subject.) Δ

Amy Hewes is actively involved in grassroots political action. Send comments through the editor at [email protected].

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Why College Students And Old People Are Basically The Same Thing

LA-based illustrator Ian Higginbotham has put together a few comics that show the similarities between young students and their (much) older counterparts, and it turns…

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12 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater.

Previews & Openings

‘ALL THE NATALIE PORTMANS’ at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space (in previews; opens on Feb. 24). May the Padmé Amidala be with you. In C. A. Johnson’s magical realist play, a young queer woman, Keyonna, leads an active fantasy life with her muse, Natalie Portman. Then reality impinges. Kate Whoriskey directs; Kara Young stars as Keyonna, with Joshua Boone as her brother Samuel and Elise Kibler as Natalie. 212-727-7722, mcctheater.org

‘CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center (in previews; opens on Feb. 24). A rock show, a family tragedy and a historical mystery, Lauren Yee’s prizewinning play finds a California father and daughter meeting again in Cambodia, reinvestigating the crimes of the Khmer Rouge. Chay Yew directs a cast that includes Francis Jue, Joe Ngo and Courtney Reed. With music by the real-life Cambodian-American rock band Dengue Fever. 212-244-7529, signaturetheatre.org

‘DANA H.’ at the Vineyard Theater (in previews; opens on Feb. 25). Lucas Hnath often writes about famous figures — Isaac Newton, Walt Disney, Hillary Clinton. His subject this time: his own mother, Dana Higginbotham. Hnath adapted the play from interviews that were conducted with her about the time she was held captive by a psychiatric patient she ministered to as a chaplain at a mental institution. The Obie winner Diedre O’Connell brings the harrowing true story to life. 212-353-0303, vineyardtheatre.org

‘THE HEADLANDS’ at the Claire Tow Theater (in previews; opens on Feb. 24). A writer of puzzle-box plays, Christopher Chen (“Caught,” “Passage”) unspools a new mystery for LCT3. In this detective drama, directed by Knud Adams, a grown son, Henry (Aaron Yoo), pieces together memories to try to solve the murder of his father (Johnny Wu). Laura Kai Chen portrays Henry’s mother in the past; Mia Katigbak, his present one. 212-239-6200, lct3.org

‘THE MINUTES’ at the Cort Theater (previews start on Feb. 25; opens on March 15). Steppenwolf’s artistic director, Anna D. Shapiro, calls a new Tracy Letts play to order. Taking place in brisk real time — just 90 minutes — it sits in on a small-town council meeting. Armie Hammer and Jessie Mueller join Letts regulars Blair Brown, Ian Barford, K. Todd Freeman and Sally Murphy. 800-447-7400, theminutesbroadway.com

‘SIDEWAYS THE EXPERIENCE’ at the Theater at St. Clement’s (in previews; opens on Feb. 23). Napa comes to New York with a bibulously interactive theatrical version of Rex Pickett’s novel, which also inspired the 2004 movie. Before this tale of a wine-soaked bachelor weekend unfolds, patrons are invited to eat and drink. Glasses of wine are available throughout the show, too. Will it intoxicate? Dan Wackerman directs. sidewaystheexperience.com

[Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead.]

‘TUMACHO’ at the Connelly Theater (in previews; opens on Feb. 22). Ethan Lipton’s mostly western musical, which Ben Brantley called an “impeccably inane horse opera,” rides back in town. Can the townspeople — and a three-legged coyote — survive a villainous man in black? Leigh Silverman directs a cast that features Phillipa Soo and John Ellison Conlee, who periodically dress as cactuses. clubbedthumb.org

‘THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN’ at Abrons Arts Center (in previews; opens on Feb. 26). Can the 1960 Meredith Willson musical about a Titanic survivor float? The book writer Dick Scanlan’s update for the Transport Group pushes the show toward the actual history of the lifeboat queen Margaret Tobin Brown, played here by Beth Malone. Kathleen Marshall directs and choreographs the show’s Off Broadway premiere. 866-811-4111, transportgroup.org

‘WE’RE GONNA DIE’ at the Tony Kiser Theater at Second Stage Theater (in previews; opens on Feb. 25). Young Jean Lee’s autobiographical rock almost-musical, written as part of her work with the playwrights’ collective 13P, has a new lease on life. Backed by a five-piece band, Janelle McDermoth discourses on life, death and the arguable usefulness of art. Raja Feather Kelly directs. 212-541-4516, 2st.com

Last Chance

‘GRAND HORIZONS’ at Hayes Theater (closes on March 1). Bess Wohl’s comedy of divorce, directed by Leigh Silverman, calls it quits. Jesse Green questioned the wisdom of writing “a boulevard comedy for a cul-de-sac age.” However, he had particular praise for Jane Alexander, writing that “you haven’t lived until you’ve heard a woman who once played Eleanor Roosevelt sing the praises of cunnilingus.” 2st.com

‘MAC BETH’ at the Frederick Loewe Theater (closes on Feb. 22). A gaggle of teen girls leave Dunsinane as Erica Schmidt’s reimagining of the Scottish tragedy closes. Laura Collins-Hughes wrote that the play’s power lies not in its true-crime-inspired violence, but in “watching a group of girls meet Shakespeare on their own electric terms — with ferocity, abandon and the occasional wild dance break.” 212-772-4448, huntertheaterproject.org

‘MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON’ at Samuel J. Friedman Theater (closes on Feb. 29). Rona Munro’s adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s glimmering 2016 novel, directed by Richard Eyre and starring a scarf-wrapped Laura Linney, reaches its final paragraphs. Ben Brantley wrote that “as embodied with middle-American forthrightness” by Linney, the play’s title character “may be the most translucent figure now on a New York stage.” 212-239-6200, manhattantheatreclub.com

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Meteos joins OpTic

William "Meteos" Hartman has joined the ranks of OpTic Gaming's League of Legends roster, the organization announced on Wednesday.

Jungle game on 🔒. Please welcome William "@MeteosLoL” Hartman to our 2019 starting roster! #GREENWALL pic.twitter.com/TK2EiTVxli

— OpTicLoL (@OpTicLoL) November 28, 2018

The former FlyQuest jungler will be replacing Matthew “Akaadian” Higginbotham. Meteos kicked off his own journey through 2018 as the starting jungler of 100 Thieves, having brought the team to its first ever NA LCS final.

Meteos is OpTic’s second acquisition during this off-season. The organization announced on Sunday that it had signed former Gen.G midlaner and 2017 World Champion, Lee “Crown” Min-ho. They have yet to announce if they intend to re-sign toplaner Niship “Dhokla” Doshi, AD carry Noh “Arrow” Dong-hyeon and support Terry “BIG” Chuong.

U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate loot boxes in video games

The United States Federal Trade Commission will lead an open investigation into video game loot boxes after Democratic senator Maggie Hassan issued an official request during a U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation subcommittee on Wednesday

FTC chairman Joe Simmons granted Hassan’s request, which cited other loot box regulations from elsewhere in the world, including Japan, Belgium and the Netherlands. “Loot boxes are now endemic in the video game industry and are present in everything from casual smart phone games to the newest, highest budget releases,” Hassan said.

“Given the seriousness of this issue," Hassan went on to say, "I think it is time for the FTC to investigate these mechanisms to ensure that children are being adequately protected and to educate parents about potential addiction and other negative impacts of these games.”

PraY announces on stream that he's turned down all offers, hints at retirement

Kim "PraY" Jong-in reportedly announced on his stream earlier today that he has turned down all offers to once again rejoin a professional League of Legends organization, according to a translation by Korizon’s Ashley Kang.

According to Kang, the former Kingzone DragonZ botlaner intimated that he might be taking an extended hiatus from professional play, having mentioned the word 'retirement' several times over the course of his stream.

Kikis announced as first player of Rogue's LEC team

Mateusz "Kikis" Szkudlarek is the first member of Rogue's newly-minted League of Legends European Championship roster, the organization announced on Wednesday.

It's time for our first player announcement for our #LEC squad! We are happy to announce that @Kikis1205 from @TeamVitality is our new Jungler pending Riot approval. #GoRogue Read more » https://t.co/3EzEZ1ly1W pic.twitter.com/ihizDP9LD7

— Rogue (@GoingRogueGG) November 28, 2018

Pending the approval of Riot Games, Kikis will play the role of Rogue's starting jungler. Kikis' most recent stint was on Team Vitality, where, after swapping back to jungle from top lane, he helped the team to a second-place finish in the regular season.

Olleh parts ways with Team Liquid

Kim "Olleh" Joo-sung has left Team Liquid, the organization announced on Wednesday.

The South Korean support player joined Liquid in November 2017 after Immortals failed to make it into the then newly-franchised North American League of Legends Championship Series. He has yet to announce what his future for the upcoming season might hold.

Kramer and Ian join LGD

Ha "Kramer" Jong-hun and An "Ian" Jun-hyeong have left the LCK to join LGD Gaming, the organization announced on Wednesday.

Source: LGD Gaming Weibo

The former AD carry of Afreeca Freecs and former midlaner of MVP, respectively, are the latest of several players who've left the LCK, causing many to fear that another 'Korean Exodus' could be on the horizon.

Vulcan joins Clutch

Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme has signed on as the starting support of Clutch Gaming's North American League of Legends Championship Series roster, the organization announced on Wednesday.

We're excited to have @Vulcanlol as our starting Support! He has some big predictions! ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/w6l0KQqJk4

— Clutch Gaming (@ClutchGaming) November 28, 2018

Vulcan spent last season on Clutch Gaming Academy and, according to his statement regarding his recent graduation, is determined to "win Rookie of the Split."

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