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September 12-16, 2011

Mike Vincent listens to people playing other people’s music, and he discovers, in the shadow of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey. Read “Uncover version”

There’s only one Pink Panther that matters, the lithe, suave, and occasionally reality-bending Friz Freleng-animated cat. Sarah Werner takes you on a tour of his greatest hits on Netflix in “Metaphysics in pink”

Do you have a friend who would help you hide a body? Ana Holquin does. Find out who and what he has to do with the F/X series Damages in “A little murder between friends”

The Gamers’ Club is getting ready to start a new game: the 1995 SNES game Earthbound. Read “All my friends are in there” by Daniel J. Hogan, “Starting Blind” by Gavin Craig, and “Pay phones and save states” by Andrew Simone

Francine McKenna hits a school reunion and discovers that Old Style is more than just a beer they serve at Wrigley Field. Find out what she drank when she wasn’t supposed to be drinking in “I’ll take a Michelob”

Jill Kolongowski is still settling into San Francisco, and she finds herself at the wrong end of a chocolate hangover. You didn’t even know that was possible, did you? Well, it is. Find out how in “The Ghiradelli Square Chocolate Festival”