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• University of Alabama's Sonic Frontiers hosts Dawn of Midi

  

  Tuscaloosa's experimental music series Sonic Frontiers will close out its third season at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Bryant-Jordan Hall with a performance from New York-based acoustic jazz trio Dawn of Midi.

• DIRTY CASUAL: Time-wasting games become readily available with smartphones

  

  Puzzle games are, by their very nature, perfect for quick time-wasters. Even before I had a smartphone I was a huge fan of number puzzles like Sudoku and matching games like Mahjong solitaire. With a smartphone? Lines and waiting on habitually late...

• GAMEBYTES: Non-gamers don't care about pixels

  

  I have often noted that a big reason why I am good at what I do is because I was a "movie guy" for longer than I've been a "video games guy." It's not so simple as just that, of course, but when I flipped to games I applied the method of critique...

• LOCAL Q&A: Sherry Nichols

  

  This week we chatted with Sherry Nichols, an associate professor at the University of Alabama who loves all things outdoors and is trying to bring a Makerspace to an area near you.

• GAMEBYTES: No empathy, no imagination

  

  Last week, Facebook bought the company that is developing the hot and buzztastic virtual-reality gaming headset Oculus Rift, and when the news broke, it set off a true Internet firestorm.

• TUSK CALENDAR: 4/2

  

  LOCAL MUSIC
  TODAY
  Undercover: 8 p.m., Billy's Sports Grill, Northport. www.billyssportsgrill.com/northport.
  Backroad Anthem: 8 p.m., $8, Jupiter. www.jupiterbar.com. 205-454-8997.
  DJ Spinz, The Devines: Rounders. 205-345-4848.

• Theatre Tuscaloosa presents 'You Can't Take it with You"

  

  Sparks will fly when Tuscaloosa is welcomed into the a not-so-average 1930s New York home for Theatre Tuscaloosa's production of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's Pulitzer-Prize winning comedy, "You Can't Take It with You."

• MEET THE BAND: Knympho Knife

  

  This week we heard a little from Brandon Varner about how his Tuscaloosa funk-grunge band Knympho Knife got its start playing DIY shows all around town.

• LOCAL Q&A: Ebony L. Johnson

  

  When she's not working as the executive director at the Tuscaloosa Children's Center, Ebony L. Johnson is busy teaching criminal justice courses at the University of Alabama.

• DIRTY CASUAL: This game made me puke, but that's OK

  

  When I first saw the trailer for "Goat Simulator," I thought it was a joke. And it is. But it's also a real PC game you can buy on Steam for about $10.

• 2 legendary stars play 'Game of Thrones' in-laws

  

  NEW YORK | Like every "Game of Thrones" fan, Charles Dance was gobsmacked by last season's next-to-last installment.

• DIRTY CASUAL: If you build it, they will wreck it

  

  Losing is Fun.” Capital-F fun. Well, not always. Sometimes it can be quite frustrating. Painful. Sad. Demotivating. But if the eventuality is losing, why can’t the process be Fun?