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Ten great things

1. Risk — This is probably my favourite board game of all time. Truthfully, though, it is not a game for everyone. You must be…


Same players, new game

The NBA just recently cancelled all games scheduled for November, and with the idea of a league organized by the players being floated around, we…


Black cats and bless yous

Having owned a black cat for years, walked under my fair share of ladders and knocked on wood more times that I can count I…


Simpler times

It’s funny how the way you experience a holiday when you’re young is different than how you experience it later in life, like how Halloween…


Trick-or-donate

Halloween is the time of year to dress up, go out and have fun — and get scared senseless! As the years go by and…


Lagace’s Costume Corner

Halloween parties are fun. What isn’t fun is realizing hours before heading out to a party that you forgot to figure what costume you were…


Costumed couples

When a girl dresses as a Barbie for Halloween, males and females alike understand that, however fabulous Barbie may look in her tiny outfit, this…



Things I’ve loved

Things I’ve Loved is a celebration of things from the near or distant past, either overlooked or forgotten by the unforgiving eye of popular culture….


Speak for yourself

September of 2005, Neil Strauss’ The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists becomes a New York Times best seller. The book follows Strauss’s…