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Drink Beer & Test Locally Created Board Games at Designer’s Night!
The walls of the Victory Point Café, Berkeley’s “first and best” board game café, are lined with hundreds of board games—everything from Monopoly to Life to Settlers of Catan. Each month, board game designers, developers, publishers and players from around the Bay Area join together for a night of beer
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The New Generation of Board Games Makes it Cool to be a Dork
Board games have undergone a renaissance in the last decade or so. These aren’t the haphazard games of chance you grew up with or that boring time warp you always got sucked into at Grandma’s house. The new generation of board games focuses on light strategy and a social experience.
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This Literary Magazine Release Party Will Be Epic!
The Huge Release Party for the Literary Magazine In case you haven’t heard, we just put out an incredible literary magazine called The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco thanks to a grant from the Civic Joy Fund. It’s a gift to San Francisco, where 19 of The City’s
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The Zombie Hut and Why Everything’s More Fun with Fire
Desperate times call for desperate measures. We are solidly into April, ie spring, but my winter coat is still on and my skin is still an “indoor kid” shade of pale. So off I go to where a lei and drink shots that have been lit on fire even though
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Try Your Hand at Being a Board Game Tester Tonight
Right out of a Norman Rockwell… One thing I miss about living in a house with roommates is the board game nights we used to have. It was pure bliss, infused with ungodly amounts of wine, beer, Four Loko (RIP), pizza, and Sour Patch Kids. Oh, and laughing, because board