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A remade manThis story takes place a long time ago and most video games don't age like fine wine. The rare, great ones do but most don't. The ones that are merely good have a shelf life before they turn. Playing an open-world shooter from 2002 leaves about the same…

How to Save a Planet is a bit different to other climate-themed podcasts There is no shortage of climate-themed podcasts “howling about the terrible state of things”, said Fiona Sturges in the FT. How to Save a Planet – an impressive new series from Gimlet and Spotify – is a…

This week’s three must-read books include Caitlin Moran’s “older, wiser follow-up” to How to Be a Woman, Charlie Gilmour’s “clear-eyed” memoir of nurturing and self-discovery, and an “engaging” tale of social mores from Nick Hornby.The Week Bookshop To order these titles or any other book in print, see theweekbookshop.co.ukBook of the week…

Few people wield as much power in combat sports as Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza, especially now that Bellator MMA is now under his umbrella as well. With a robust lineup of boxing talent as part of Showtime Championship Boxing and Bellator MMA, Espinoza is ultimately looking to grow both…

WARRIORS.kiwiSunday's match against Manly will be Todd Payten's last game in charge of the Warriors.Freedom outside the NRL bubble is just days away but Kodi Nikorima says that and the emotion of some teammates and coaching staff moving on won't be a distraction leading into the Warriors last game of…

In our Sleeping With… series, we speak to people from different career paths, backgrounds, and stages of life to find out how they make sleep magic happen.Love Island was about to start production on season two of the show—usually shot on an actual island—when COVID-19 hit. At first, everything was…

Two closing parentheses, a “less than” sign, a “greater than” sign, then two opening parentheses: ))((. Anyone who has seen Miranda July’s 2005 feature debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know, will recognize this code at once. In the film, a soulful five-year-old boy, Robby (Brandon Ratcliff), improvises it…

Apple TV+ has ordered comedy “High Desert” that will star Patricia Arquette and be directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller. “High Desert” follows Peggy (Arquette), a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small…

Vivian Macleod, a Vancouver educational assistant (EA), was looking forward to returning to her high school life skills class this month. This year, however, she was excited to be seeing one face in particular: a student she had worked with at her last job in an elementary school who is…

Mike Ehrmann/Associated PressLos Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard spoke about the difficulties of being on the NBA's Walt Disney World campus, where the end of the regular season and entire postseason is being held because of the COVID-19 pandemic."There's really nothing to do," Howard told reporters Wednesday. "If I can…