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Even for those who rarely leave their home anymore, the holiday break has been a welcome change of pace this week. Unlike previous years, it may be less about trying to spend every single moment together to make up for the time you lost—given that since March, we’ve been spending more time with the people in our…Read more...

There’s a lot of ugliness in the world right now, particularly for those of us in the United States who are approaching the most dreaded election in recent memory. (I already voted, though, so someone please wake me when it’s all over.) You don’t need me to remind you of the hatred and ignorance that abounds right…Read more...

Even if you’re a cinema junkie, going to a public movie theater may well be the last thing on your social to-do list during a pandemic—but you can now rent out theaters for private screenings for a reasonable cost. Read more...

For fans of The Last of Us 2, Naughty Dog’s follow-up to the 2013 Game of the Year winner The Last of Us, part of the fun is the depth of its world. Such a feeling is often limited to open world games, those allowing you to explore freely and interact with virtually anything; but where The Last of Us 2 is…Read more...

Weekends haven’t been the best since the pandemic hit. (And that’s an understatement.) But starting today, a fun new option will be popping up around the country: RuPaul’s Drag Race as a drive-in experience.  Specifically, it’s a live show called “Drive ‘n’ Drag,” featuring some of your favorite Drag Race all-stars…Read more...

Early in lockdown—when I was trying to tell myself things might all be back to near-normal by summer, even though I knew I was kidding myself—I didn’t want to watch any movie that wasn’t a 1980s comedy. But some five months later, I’ve become so numbed to the horrors of everyday existence that I can watch all kinds of…Read more...

If you haven’t spent your summer watching people bounce off volcanic rocks and disappear into boiling pits of lava, you have been missing out on one of life’s few pleasures these days. Floor Is Lava is the big budget version of the game every kid inexplicably makes up in their own living room, jumping from footstool…Read more...

Every day, we hear about a new educational livestream that our kids could or should be tuning in to. Virtual museum tours and visits to zoos and science demonstrations—even virtual gym classes. The resources are out there; the challenge is keeping them all straight.Read more...

The pandemic is a scary and confusing time for even the most grown, rational and aware among us. Imagine how jarring it must be for toddlers, who used to go to daycare and Grandma’s house and the library and now ... everybody lives in the computer. Luckily, they still have Elmo.Read more...

Excess screen time is pretty much a given right now. We’re all doing the best we can to work from home and help our kids wade through their online learning assignments and connect with their friends and family via all our devices. But even once we’ve done all that, there are all the hours left in the day that used to…Read more...

It’s been a very long three weeks since many cities in the U.S. issued shelter-in-place orders to combat the spread of COVID-19, and life isn’t going to get back to normal any time soon. Now is the time to escape into TV shows that make you feel good—or at least make you feel something other than overwhelming…Read more...

If, a few weeks ago, you’d told your kids that you were all going to TAKE A TRIP TO DISNEY WORLD and then added the caveat, “from the comfort of our own home,” chances are there would have been a mutiny. But, as we all know, things have changed. Standards have been lowered. Now, riding Splash Mountain from the living…Read more...

You know when Netflix refers to something as “a three-week event” it’s got to be big. How big? I’ll be tuning in to former Mr. Jessica Simpson Nick Lachey and his wife Vanessa’s “social experiment” Love Is Blind (Thursday, just in time for Valentine’s Day, lovers!!!) to find out. The premise of the show is engineered…Read more...

Captain Underpants—and, of course, fourth graders George and Harold—first wormed their way into the hearts of elementary-aged kids with author Dav Pilkey’s illustrated book series. Next came the movie and then the Netflix series. All of which my own nine-year-old son has read or watched multiple times. Read more...

New Year’s Eve, a 2011 rom-com that takes place in the hours leading up to the New York City ball drop, is a terrible movie. You probably know it because every actor—save for those in a similar holiday-movie with an ensemble cast, Valentine’s Day—was in it. Still, with massive star power and a hell of a budget, New…Read more...

As much as we love a night in on the couch watching whatever is next in our Netflix queue, there’s something great about putting on outside pants and being part of a live audience. Whether it’s a concert, movie or sporting event, sometimes it’s worth the hassle to experience something surrounded by other fans. But if…Read more...

You survived the holidays! You’re back at work! Nothing left to do now but lose yourself in a haze of spiked cider and cookies and wake you up when it’s 2020! Should you stir any time this week, you’ve got a lot of fun awaiting you on Netflix. Let’s dive in.Read more...

This year might be the year for the kids’ first Disney On Ice show, or the local production of “A Christmas Carol” or “The Nutcracker.” There are so many enticing ways to break up all our screen time with some classic live family entertainment during the holidays, but it also happens to be the most spendiest time of…Read more...