Month: April 2020

For fans of Overwatch or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Riot Games’ Valorant represents the game to beat in 2020. A tactical shooter with incredible 5v5 team-based dynamics, the title also has exactly the sort of sharp learning curve we’ve come to expect from the genre. So, read on and dig into OGN’s definitive…

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For architect Grace Kim, the antidote to isolation is co-housing. She describes how she built a home—and a community—by designing an apartment building for her family and eight other families.

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As a cancer patient, Suleika Jaouad spent years in and out of hospital rooms, isolated from the outside world. She shares her insights on finding creative solitude during periods of forced isolation.

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The multidisciplinary artist has brought new visibility to Canada’s trans community. Her new book, The Subtweet, chronicles a friendship between two musicians that implodes under online pressures.

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Emily Flake writes a humorous description of an elementary school’s Spirit Week during the period of quarantine because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Broadway has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. Theaters are shuttered indefinitely, millions of dollars have been lost, and some members of the community have been infected by the coronavirus.

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Rachel Mason and her siblings grew up unaware that their parents ran a gay bookstore. Her “affectionate but thinly realized” documentary skims the surface of stories that deserve deeper dives.

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This slyly subversive revisionist take on an infamous Australian outlaw presents the burnished popular myth and a darker, brutal and tragicomic take alongside one another.

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