The 14 Best Cooperative Board Games

[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Amazon If you’ve played a board game at some point in your life, it was probably a competitive one — you played for yourself, against other people, and your goal was to win, possibly with a dash of humiliation involved depending on your opponents. That frame of reference often makes cooperative… Continue reading The 14 Best Cooperative Board Games

Esa-Pekka Salonen vs. the San Francisco Symphony board

[ad_1] When Esa-Pekka Salonen announced recently that he would step down as music director of the San Francisco Symphony next year, he did not say it was to spend more time with his family. He told the truth. In his statement, which Salonen circulated the same day that the San Francisco Symphony unveiled its 2024-25… Continue reading Esa-Pekka Salonen vs. the San Francisco Symphony board

L.A. designers want to upend the board game

[ad_1] Class warfare. The spread of disinformation through social media. A lifelong love affair, and the ways in which passion and grief shape and color our hobbies. These are grand themes, some of-the-moment and others timeless, but all told through the medium of play courtesy of two separate groups of local designers. Both have roots… Continue reading L.A. designers want to upend the board game