Nicolas Cage's Pyramid Tomb
In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.
Sherlocked
Step into the shoes of the world's favorite detectives and help Holmes and Watson solve a kidnapping case while systematically becoming trapped in a series of locked rooms themselves. This unique puzzle book emulates the experience of working your way out of an escape room. These have become a popular pastime with puzzlers of all ages, with an estimated 10,000 escape rooms worldwide. The mysteries of the case reveal themselves as you solve logic puzzles, unravel riddles, crack codes, unlock doors, and discover secrets. With decisions to make along the way and four possible endings, you are sure to get lost in this intricate and mysterious tale—but hopefully not forever. With puzzles created by the Escape Room Guys—expert escape room consultants based in the US—and an intriguing story written by professor Tom Ue, this official Sherlock Holmes book is the perfect gift for puzzlers, escape room enthusiasts, or Holmes fans.
The Big Easy
This is a film to listen to as well as watch. Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin enter so effortlessly into the cadences of Louisiana that the sound track provides an uncanny sense of place. Quaid plays a vice cop who is not above participating in the department's illegal "widows and orphans" fund. Barkin is a local prosecutor. They become friends, survive some scrapes together, fall in love--and then wind up on opposite sides of a case in court.
Cat People
"Cat People" is a good movie in an old tradition, a fantasy-horror film that takes itself just seriously enough to work, has just enough fun to be entertaining, contains elements of intrinsic fascination in its magnificent black leopards, and ends in one way just when we were afraid it was going to end in another.
The Movie Misquote Game
This is a party game that has players take quotes from different movies and mash them together. Think Cards Against Humanity, movie version.
Blue Monday
This book looks at Domino’s part in the birth of rock and roll while also looking at the music scene in New Orleans. Fats, along with Dave Bartholomew, were true rock pioneers.
A Man Called Destruction
Alex Chilton is often cited by musicians as an influence but he only grazed commercial success himself.
This book, which takes its name from a 1995 album by Chilton, serves not only as a biography but it also chronicles pop music’s evolution from the mid-60s through today.
Lestat Returns
Tonight on AMC, you know, the channel you haven’t watched since Breaking Bad, the new series Interview With the Vampire premieres.
Story Time Chess: The Game
There’s a more natural way to learn chess for kids. Instead of moving from checkers to chess, it’s easier to make chess fun. Story Time Chess explains the ‘why’ of each chess piece move with a story for each one.
On the Trail of the Assassins
This book was on my grandmother’s nightstand for years. It was my introduction to the JFK assassination. It’s been revered. It’s been lambasted. It is the cornerstone of Oliver Stone’s movie JFK and of his documentary, JFK REVISITED: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
Missed Fortune
When Forrest Fenn hid a chest full of gold, sapphires, and rubies somewhere in the Rocky Mountains in 2010, he tapped into something deep. It was like the American Dream reduced to its essence—an equal-opportunity quest for a small fortune. What seemed at first like a harmless poem containing nine treasure clues sent thousands on a journey of obsession and desperation. One searcher—Darrell Seyler—gave everything.
3D Escape Room: Frequency
This web page is an escape room. Our friends at The Owl Field have created a new genre of escape room. All you need is this web page, a timer and pen and paper. This works best with headphones.
The Completely Unauthorized NY Times Spelling Bee Toolbox
Do you play the New York Times Spelling Bee? We have a worksheet that helps.