In today’s newsletter: The House Rules Committee will meet about a spending package to end the partial government shutdown.

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – In our high-tech world, it’s easy to forget the joy of things that aren’t on the internet. One of those is pinball. A Huntsville business is keeping the machines alive and ...

Do you love Dungeons & Dragons? Of course you do. Do you have an extra $7,000 to spare? Maybe not. But if you do for some reason, you can own a really rad D&D pinball machine featuring some famous ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Long before Pinball Pete’s was a cultural landmark next to the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, the arcade had humble beginnings in a rival college town. “I started when I ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...

Ryan Coleman is a news writer for Entertainment Weekly with previous work in MUBI Notebook, Slant, and the LA Review of Books.

Back in their heyday, pinball tables were a reliable mark of what was dominating the pop culture scene. Pretty much every famous character or franchise made it, but Elriva may be one of the lesser ...

ROUND ROCK — It’s mostly quiet on the warehouse assembly floor off Interstate 35 just north of Austin. A half-dozen or so assemblers, each working at their own station, are silently piecing together ...

Alien: Earth promised something new when it first aired: a throwback to the original horror-sci-fi experience of the Alien movies, but remade for modern television. And overall, it did deliver, with ...