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August 15-19, 2011

Mike Vincent may be getting old, but the dance music he listened to (more than) 10 years ago still sounds fresh. Check out some tracks in “Euphoria”

“Indie Gamer” Andrew Simone gives you a list of “Things you should be paying attention to” in the video game world. Whether people who play single-player games are better people than people who play multi-player games is on that list. Battlefield 3, for example, is not.

As the triumphant return of “In the Queue” continues, Sarah Werner watches the films of Paul Newman and comes to an inescapable conclusion. Read “Paul Newman is hot”

Ana Holguin looks back on the past year of writing, not writing, and the meaning of the word “idle.” (Steve Carell, Weezer, and Sandra Oh have cameos.) Read “Prime suffering years”

Rosemary Van Deuren launches “Peeps to Watch Out For,” a series of interviews with up-and-coming creative people in the arts with “Apathy Angel, Judson Harmon, Nadia Aboulhosn, Seth Nayes”

Jill Kolongowski finishes the story of cooking for her awesome (and only slightly scary) grandparents. (Spoiler alert: There’s a flashback to a road trip that ends in a fistfight.) Read “Cigarettes and coffee: cooking for my grandparents, part 2”