Stratford Festival review: Guys and Dolls is a masterpiece of a gangster musical

Director-choreographer Donna Feore pulls out all the stops in her new take on the 1950 musical about crapshooting wise guys ...
Opinion

'Tuchel's gambles and iron conviction position him as the anti-Southgate'

England head coach Thomas Tuchel has never hidden from taking tough decisions or throwing down wild cards, so his eyebrow-raising World Cup squad follows true to form. Whether it ...

All but safe? Leeds ease 'anxiety' - and increase pressure on others

No club has ever been relegated with 43 points at the end of a Premier League season - so have Leeds already done enough to ...
CNET

I Wish I Had This Official D&D Show When I Started Rolling Dice 25 Years Ago

The company behind Dungeons & Dragons has its official answer to Critical Role in its new show Dungeon Masters, which airs weekly on YouTube. David Lumb is a managing editor for the mobile team, ...
Los Angeles Times

Bob Spitz proves the Rolling Stones are rock’s greatest band in magnificent new biography

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. By early 1963, the Station Hotel in London had become an epicenter of the burgeoning British blues scene. On a ...
Phys.org

Archaeologists have discovered 12,000‑year‑old dice. Here's what they reveal about the history of play

Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left little trace. Unlike tools or bones, games rarely preserve and the fleeting pleasures they produce are even harder to ...
Yahoo

The Rolling Stones seemingly release new song under the name The Cockroaches

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Music fans show off their tickets as proof of authentication which contains the batch number after buying "The Cockroaches" ...
CNN

Prehistoric dice suggest that Native Americans may have been gaming since the last ice age

The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from approximately 3000 BC uncovered in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. Now, a new study has found ...
Ars Technica

Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...
NBC News

Native Americans had dice and games of probability long before other cultures, study finds

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...
Live Science

Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals

Indigenous people in the western United States invented dice more than 12,000 years ago, offering archaeologists the world's oldest evidence of gambling and possibly the oldest use of probability, a ...
Phys.org

Native Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their Old World counterparts

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 ...