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Alex Orona
5 days ago2 min read
Review: Retirement Party and Maps & Atlases at the Metro
Chicago’s very own hometown math rock heroes Maps & Atlases played the Metro on Saturday the 18th. They played as part of the Tomorrow...
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Culture Combine Staff
Jan 117 min read
Our Favorite Games of 2024
Game releases come at us fast and furious as the new year begins, culminating in a slew of high profile games around the holiday season....
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Julian Ramirez
Jan 73 min read
Let's Get Physical: Upcoming Blu-ray/4K Releases for January 2025
New year, new releases! Welcome back to Let's Get Physical, where I urge you to own your movies instead of relying on streaming services!
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Culture Combine Staff
Jan 610 min read
Our Favorite Films of 2024
What were your favorite movies from 2024? Our staff of pop culture lovers shares the movies that they loved this past year.
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Alex Orona
Dec 18, 20242 min read
Andrew Bird's 14th Annual Gezelligheid Concert Series Wows At The Fourth Presbyterian Church
Every year around the holidays, local indie folk hero Andrew Bird hosts his Gezelligheid concert series out of the Fourth Presbyterian...
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Alex Orona
Dec 10, 20242 min read
Review: Marc Rebillet at Thalia Hall Improvs for Three Nights of EDM
This Saturday Marc Rebillet finished a three day series of shows for his We Outside World Tour over at Thalia Hall. Playing three nights...
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Julian Ramirez
Dec 5, 20243 min read
Let's Get Physical: Upcoming Blu-ray/4K Releases for December 2024
We're at the final month of 2024 and it's been a stellar year for physical media and there are still plenty of releases coming!
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Julian Ramirez
Nov 20, 20243 min read
Review: The Go! Team and La Sécurité Make for an Ideal Lineup at Lincoln Hall
A few days before Halloween, The Go! Team stopped by Lincoln Hall to celebrate 20 (!) years of their debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike
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Julian Ramirez
Nov 18, 20242 min read
Review: The Flints Were the Perfect Opener at Radius
I can safely say opening acts have a lot of pressure on them. Thankfully, The Flints completely nailed it as the openers for Justice
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aaroncynic
Nov 14, 20242 min read
The Onion Buys Infowars
Satirical news site The Onion won a bankruptcy auction for the media empire of Alex Jones, giving it control of the conspiracy factory...
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Antal Bokor
Nov 5, 20243 min read
Metal Slug Tactics Mixes Run and Gun with Turn Based Tactics and the Results are Fantastic
I’m a bit wary of tactics games, especially when they represent a franchise that decidedly does not have such mechanics.
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Antal Bokor
Oct 30, 20242 min read
31 Days of Retro Horror Games:Â Day 31: Clock Tower
Clock Tower is a visually stunning game. It relied on extremely detailed 2D Graphics. The results are still impressive to this day
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Antal Bokor
Oct 29, 20242 min read
31 Days of Retro Horror Games:Â Day 30 - Friday the 13th (NES)
At the time of Friday the 13th’s release, I can’t think of another game I played that had you fighting the end boss from the very beginning.
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Antal Bokor
Oct 28, 20242 min read
31 Days of Retro Horror Games Day 29: Koudelka
The biggest shame of Koudelka is that its relatively rare. If you want to play it you have to find an original copy, and they are expensive
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Antal Bokor
Oct 28, 20241 min read
Phasmophobia is on Consoles Right on Time for the Spookiest Time of the Year
Playing Phasmophobia can be legitimately intense, and that’s probably why so many players are drawn to it. It’s also wildly unpredictable.
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Antal Bokor
Oct 27, 20242 min read
31 Days of Retro Horror Games: Day 28: The Thing
While The Thing is hard to play these days, there will be a remake coming out in the next few weeks.
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Antal Bokor
Oct 26, 20242 min read
31 Days of Retro Horror Games Day 27: Uninvited
Uninvited is a game unlike a lot of the others I covered in this series recently: it can be genuinely scary.
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Antal Bokor
Oct 25, 20242 min read
31 Days of Retro Horror Games: Day 26: Nocturne
I’ve been covering some pretty well known games, so I wanted to change it up a bit with Nocturne. This game is a deep cut for many.
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Antal Bokor
Oct 24, 20242 min read
31 Days of Retro Horror Games: Day 25: The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest was one of the first games to utilize CD-ROM technology to the max. Its popularity helped cement CD-ROM as the future of games
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Antal Bokor
Oct 24, 20242 min read
Slay the Princess The Pristine Cut Adds More Content, Now on Consoles
In Slay The Princess the more you buck and fight and try to outsmart your fate, the worse it gets for you.
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