Nestled in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood, this 92-acre zoo is best known for its conservation efforts, helping to save animals and their habitats all across the world. At the zoo in Washington, you can watch the endangered orangutans swing from the jungle canopy overhead, celebrate your favorite animal’s birthday (the zoo gives all of their residents, even the rhinos, their own special “cakes!”), or meet the brand new rare red panda cubs, Zeya and Ila.

The towers are dumb in this game. The Multiverse in Injustice 2 was handled fairly I think, but the first tower (The element one) after the tutorial tower was a massive pain. Just saying, you should never have screen blinding in a fighting game, even as an optional challenge. If they also tone down the difficulty of these, that’d be grand.

From that perspective, the new Silverado doesn’t have to be the best pickup. It just has to be good enough to get its share of newbies. This is why the rig comes in eight trims, with a Texas-sized price range. Starting around $29,000, it can run as high as a down payment on the house: Check all the boxes on the build sheet, and the price of a Silverado will stretch north of $70,000.

This is why I’m hiding under the trees, a tiny ball crouched in my yellow rain slicker beneath the rage of the storm. A few cars pull over on the dirt road behind me, trying to take shelter under the pines like I am. After a few minutes, one of them yells at me, “Hey, want to get in?” Stranger danger crosses my mind. I consider it for a second but don’t care—I’ll take my chances with them versus the lightning and ever-increasing hail.

“Prince has always embodied an otherness that set him apart from the world,” Gua says. He depicts that sense of aloneness in “Pretty Man.” (Photo by Troy Gua)

But for all the pleasures a home cellar can provide, it is not devoid of pitfalls. A temperature- and humidity-controlled space, often stocked with rare and expensive bottles in need of consistent care, the private cellar is an exercise in precision and discernment. Costs can be high, and losses—due to ill-considered construction or reckless purchasing—severe.

First some basics about how food works, though.   It matters because once you look hard at the skills, you’ll be making custom meals from now on instead of picking from the pre-determined choices you find in the menu.  Late game, the bonuses to health and stamina matter less, but even a small edge is an edge.

These consumables are designed to help you navigate the game’s Challenge Towers, gauntlets against overwhelming odds. Some fights are impossible without using a consumable to boost your damage, for example, but those without that item will be forced to grind away in another game mode to earn enough currency to open a crate that may have said consumable inside. Thankfully, consumables only apply to these Towers, but their inclusion feels disappointing to say the least.

Denver may be the Mile High City, but Colorado Springs has something equally impressive: The largest herd of giraffes in the United States! Watch the 16 long-necked gentle giants frolic in their savannah habitat, take home a piece of artwork created by the animals themselves (hint: it’s a painted hoofprint) or even hand-feed them romaine lettuce. Just don’t be freaked out by their purple-black tongues, which can be up to 20 inches long! Check out the U.S. state facts that everyone gets wrong.

“I decided to just go with it,” Sam Minervino said. “If it doesn’t work, we’ll change it, but we’ll go with what they’re saying.”

"Very charming little shop. Sort of like a very miniature Anthropologie home section—all rustic and cute and very pricey. Many local goods, though—handmade jewelry and the like. I bought two felted dryer balls, a felt mistletoe (can be used every year and much prettier than those plants with the white plastic berries!), and a layered, flexible silver bracelet." – I P

Cooper says, "In the GM world we’ve been fortunate to have sources for N.O.S. parts. Do they fit good? Absolutely not. Not every time. From storage to swap meet to this guy to that guy, they’re not 100 percent perfect. You always have to massage them."