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January 3-8, 2011

Mike Vincent kicks of a series on his favorite albums of 2010 with Vampire Weekend’s Contra. Read “White sky”

Movie theaters? Video stores? Leaving the house is for chumps. The Cinephiles share their favorite films viewed on Netflix streaming video in 2010. Read “I got yer ‘best films of 2010’ list right here!” by Kevin Mattison and “The Netflix b-list” by Adam Simmons

It’s not just the rain (and the hopelessness, and the violence) that makes Heavy Rain such a great game. It’s the bit of sun at the beginning. Read “The sun and the (Heavy) Rain

The Gamers’ Club is playing Final Fantasy VII. Read “Navigating the third dimension” by Gavin Craig, “Let’s do this thing” by Daniel J. Hogan, and “Housed” by Andrew Simone

Ana Holguin says you can convince yourself that only a giant slab of double chocolate cake and vanilla bean ice cream could make you feel perfect, or you can change your life with Tony Horton and his P90X Extreme Workout. (Hell, even lifting the box is a start.) Read “Fitness to the X-treme!”

What does a baseball column do in the offseason? Angela Vasquez-Giroux answers this question (as well as why figuring out “outside baseball” is much more productive than “inside baseball”) in “On geeking out”

In “The F Word,” Jill Kolongowski discovers that cookies are really not meant to be flambéed, even at Christmastime. Read “Cookies roasting on an open fire”