How to Play Android Games (and Run Android Apps) on Windows 8

The Windows Store may be fairly light on great apps, but BlueStacks gives you access to over 750,000 apps on your Windows 8 PC ? including lots of touch-enabled games.

Various Android app emulators have been available for Windows for a while, but they haven?t really had a purpose. With touch-screen Windows 8 PCs and tablets, there?s now finally a reason why you might want to run Android apps on Windows.

BlueStacks isn?t perfect and is still in beta, but Lenovo will be shipping it on PCs soon, so they seem to think it?s good enough. However, anyone can currently download and use BlueStacks for free.

Limitations

BlueStacks is still based on Android 2.3, so some parts of the interface will be a bit dated and a few newer apps may not work. It?s only available for Windows 8 systems, not Windows RT computers like the Microsoft Surface RT. However, BlueStacks is considering porting their solution to Windows RT in the future.

Running apps via BlueStacks won?t be as fast as running Android directly on a dedicated tablet, as BlueStacks has to provide an emulation layer. On PCs with weaker hardware, some games and apps may be unusable. BlueStacks touts their current solution as optimized for Microsoft?s Surface Pro.

While BlueStacks can run on older Windows systems and Macs, it makes the most sense on a Windows 8 system with a touch screen. Mouse clicks can be used in-place of touch events, but it?s just not the same. Some games and apps may even be unusable with a mouse if they require multi-touch.

Installation

You can get BlueStacks from BlueStacks.com, which offers a version for Windows 8 as well as older versions of Windows and Mac. BlueStacks also runs GetYourAppsBack.com, a riff off Google?s ?Get Your Google Back? website, which offers instructions for installing the Google search app on Windows 8.

The BlueStacks App Player isn?t a Modern app, as it runs on the desktop. However, it does offer a full-screen environment that mimics Microsoft?s Modern environment on Windows 8.

Using Android Apps on Windows 8

Once it?s installed, you can launch it and search for apps to install by tapping the magnifying glass icon.

BlueStacks needs to connect to a Google account so it can download apps from Google Play, but you can create a unique Google account just for BlueStacks from within the BlueStacks App Player, if you prefer. BlueStacks can also install apps from the Amazon Store ? it will present you with a list of options when you try to install an app.

You can also turn Android apps into windows on your desktop, something not possible with Windows 8?s Modern apps without third-party software.

Clicks can be used to mimic touch events. For example, to swipe up in Temple Run, you could click the screen, hold the mouse down, move the cursor up, and then release the mouse button. However, touch events will feel much more natural.

You can tap or click the home button (the BlueStacks icon) to go back to the home screen. Tap or click My Apps to view apps you have installed and launch them.

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BlueStacks definitely isn?t perfect, and proper Windows 8 apps would be preferable. However, while you probably don?t want to use Android apps in full-screen for things like Twitter on Windows 8, BlueStacks opens a whole world of touch-based Android games to Windows 8.

Android apps could also be used to add touch-based functionality to the desktop ? perhaps you could run Twitter?s Android app in a window on your desktop to keep an eye on Twitter and control the small app window with touch.

Chris Hoffman is a technology writer and all-around computer geek. He's as at home using the Linux terminal as he is digging into the Windows registry. Connect with him on Google+.

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Good Reads: Amazon mysteries, Africans step up, state of the states, knowing voters

This week's round-up of Good Reads includes a look at elusive and isolated Amazon tribes, signs of progress across Africa, the well-being of Americans, and the savvy of US voters.

By Marshall Ingwerson,?Managing editor / March 15, 2013

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The Amazon Basin is often cited as a global repository of biodiversity. But it?s also the last bastion, perhaps, of human cultural diversity. In Smithsonian magazine, Joshua Hammer recounts the recent spotting of what may be the last two isolated tribes in the Colombian Amazon: the Yuri and the Pass?. They were spotted from airplanes by experts seeking to confirm their existence and to strengthen protections against outside intrusion.

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Mr. Hammer points out that the common term ?uncontacted tribes? is not strictly accurate. These tribes first encountered Spanish explorers seeking gold some 500 years ago. They fled deeper into the jungle to avoid slave traders. Around 1900, the rubber boom brought new slave traders into the rain forest and the tribes fled farther.

They were thought to be extinct, but when a jaguar hunter and his guide disappeared in 1969, the search party ran into a village of people painted with zebralike stripes. None of the native guides could recognize their language, but an expert in the United States identified them as Yuri. Then they disappeared again.

Ironically, for governments to protect the privacy of these native peoples, they must know where they are. Roberto Franco, the Colombian historian who was in the airplane that spotted the Yuri and Pass? settlements, says: ?We must respect their decision not to be our friends ? even to hate us.?

Where Africans make strides

Meanwhile, one continent over, Africa has been shedding its isolation posthaste. The Economist takes a survey of the growing dynamism in the region that still populates the bottom of development rankings.

Life expectancies have increased by 10 percent. Foreign investment has tripled in the past decade. In the next 10 years, consumer spending is expected to triple. Average growth of gross domestic product is running about 6 percent, more African children than ever are in school, cellphones are everywhere, and the countries hit worst with the AIDS crisis have seen infections fall by three-quarters.

The Economist gives the main credit to African people themselves. ?They are embracing modern technology, voting in ever more elections and pressing their leaders to do better. A sense of hope abounds.?

One sign that governance is improving, too: The correspondent visited 23 African countries to research the survey and wasn?t once asked for a bribe ? ?inconceivable only ten years ago.?

?Hey America, how ya doin???

Back in these United States, every year Gallup asks hundreds of thousands of Americans to rate their own well-being from emotional and physical health to their work environment and overall life evaluation. The top-ranked state? Hawaii, for the fourth year in a row. (And Gallup didn?t even ask about the weather. The next two states, after all, are Colorado and Minnesota.) Hawaii residents were most likely to ?experience daily enjoyment and least likely to have daily worry or stress,? says Alyssa Brown in Gallup?s new report. They also most often rated their lives as ?thriving.?

West Virginians were the least ?thriving? in the nation, and ranked lowest in overall well-being. Hawaiians also rated their work environments more highly than did residents of any other state. The lowest? Rhode Island. When it comes to healthy eating, getting exercise, and not smoking, Vermont rules and Kentucky takes the hindmost position. For access to basic services, from affordable food to a safe place to exercise, Massachusetts leads and Mississippi lags.

What the pundits don?t know

If you are tempted to argue with TV political pundits, you?re in good company. Morris Fiorina, a prominent political scientist at Stanford University, says his wife hates political season because of his running argument against what he sees as misinformed cable commentators. In The Forum, a political science quarterly, Professor Fiorina outlines what he, as a political scientist, wishes media talking heads could learn:

?US voters are not becoming more polarized. Congress is. Cable TV and talk radio are. But the moderate middle among voters is not shrinking. ?Most Americans are not ideologues and do not hold extreme views.? Voters have re-sorted themselves: Conservatives have left the Democratic Party for the GOP and liberals have fled the other way. But that?s a shift of parties, not a shift of views.

?The US electorate is closely divided, but there is little evidence that the divide has grown deeper. Fiorina suspects that when the data is available, the 2012 election will prove to have been less intensely divided than the elections in 2008 or 2004.

?The hundreds of millions of dollars spent on political advertising ?probably does not make much difference.? You would never know it from watching TV, but scholars find little evidence of any impact.

?Finally, voters are not stupid. They may be often uninformed and distracted. ?Yet the collective electorate manifests a degree of knowledge and wisdom that gives those of us who have studied that electorate for decades some cause for optimism.?

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Gay rights timeline: Key dates in the fight for equality

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One month after the demonstrations at the Stonewall Inn, activist Marty Robinson speaks to a crowd before the first mass march in support of gay rights in New York on July 27, 1969.

By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News

From its beginning with riots against police oppression of gays in New York City more than 40 years ago, the fight for gay rights continues today on new fronts: over marriage, therapies to ?cure? homosexuals and one of the country's most popular institutions, the Boy Scouts of America.

Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two landmark, same-sex-marriage cases.

?The swift road to marriage equality has produced millions of conversations around the dinner table and water cooler on the freedom of every American to marry the person they love. It is these conversations that have changed minds. But while we've reached the tipping point on marriage, there's still a ways to go for full LGBT equality, like ending bullying in schools and workplace discrimination,? Kevin Nix, a spokesman for the LGBT advocacy group, Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement.

Here is a look at some of the key moments in American LGBT history:

June 28, 1969: Start of the gay rights movement
The Stonewall Riots begin after police raid a popular unlicensed gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, in New York City's Greenwich?Village. The riots, which lasted for days, were triggered by police harassment of gays, according to media reports. This is considered by many to herald the start of the gay rights movement in the U.S.

June 27-28, 1970: First gay pride parades
On the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the nation's first gay pride parades are held in four cities ? New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Fred Sergeant, who attended the NYC parade, reflected in the Village Voice: ?Back then, it took a new sense of audacity and courage to take that giant step into the streets of Midtown Manhattan. ... I stayed at the head of the march the entire way, and at one point, I climbed onto the base of a light pole and looked back. I was astonished; we stretched out as far as I could see, thousands of us.? Pride events now are held worldwide every year.

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San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, left, and Mayor George Moscone in April 1977.

Nov. 27, 1978: Assassination of Harvey Milk
Milk became the first openly gay man elected to office in a major U.S. city when he won a seat on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in early 1978. An outspoken advocate for gay rights, he urged gays to come out and fight for their rights. Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. But Milk's legacy has lived on and California has designated May 22 as a day of ?special significance? in his honor.

1981: The AIDS crisis
Gay advocacy groups form to deal with the crisis gripping the community amid a slow government response to AIDS and the linking of the disease with gay men. Over the years, the AIDS Quilt will form, and some well-known figures will succumb to AIDS, including actor Rock Hudson, or be diagnosed with it, like basketball star Magic Johnson.

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President Bill Clinton answers questions during a news conference in Taylor, Mich., in 1996.

1993: 'Don't ask, don't tell'
President Bill Clinton enacts "don't ask, don't tell," a policy preventing gays from openly serving in the military. Under it, an estimated 13,000 people were expelled from the U.S. Armed Forces. President Barack Obama repealed the policy in 2011.?

1996: Congress bars federal recognition of same-sex marriage (DOMA)
Congress passes the Defense of Marriage Act. Section 3 of the statute bars recognition of same-sex marriage, affecting more than 1,100 provisions of federal laws. It denies gay couples the right to file joint taxes and the protections of the Family Medical and Leave Act, and it blocks surviving spouses from accessing veterans? benefits, among other things. The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to DOMA on March 27, 2013. Bill Clinton, who signed the legislation, recently came out against the law and asked the Supreme Court to repeal it.

April 30, 1997: 'Yep, I'm gay' -- Degeneres comes out?
Ellen Degeneres comes out on her television show, "Ellen," in an episode that drew in 42 million viewers. Her ratings plunged, which she said was due to a lack of promotion, and the show was pulled the next season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But she bounced back and she now hosts a popular afternoon talk show, "The Ellen Degeneres Show." Her ?coming out? heralded an era of other gay celebrities following suit, and LGBT leading ladies and men have in the last year said they felt it was unnecessary to reveal their sexual preference.

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Candlelight vigil for slain gay Wyoming student Matthew Shepard.

Oct. 12, 1998: Matthew Shepard's beating death
Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson rob and beat Shepherd, a 21-year-old college student, and tie him to a split-rail fence outside of Laramie, Wyo. He dies on Oct. 12, less than a week after the attack. The murder, for which the pair are each serving two consecutive life sentences, inspired "The Laramie Project," a play and later film about Laramie in the year after the murder, and federal hate crimes legislation approved in 2009, that bears Shepard's name.

2000: Boy Scouts can ban gays
The Supreme Court rules that the Boy Scouts of America can bar gay Scouts and leaders from membership, saying that as a private youth organization it has the right to do so. Under increasing pressure in recent years to change the policy, the BSA has said it will hold a vote on the controversial membership guidelines in May.

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Lawyers Susan Murray, left, and Beth Robinson brought a lawsuit before the Vermont Supreme Court that led to the court's decision on same-sex marriage in 2000.

2000: First state to allow same-sex civil unions
Vermont becomes the first state to allow same-sex couples to join their lives?via civil unions. The state approved same-sex marriage in 2009.

2003: Anti-sodomy law struck down
The Supreme Court strikes down a Texas anti-sodomy law, reversing an earlier decision made in another case 17 years earlier that Justice Anthony Kennedy said ?demeans the lives of homosexual persons.? Gays are ''entitled to respect for their private lives," Kennedy said for the court,?according to The New York Times. ''The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.''?

2004: State same-sex marriage bans
A dozen states pass constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage. The amendments become a popular method to attempt to block legislative acts and judicial decisions on the issue.

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Jeff Barr, left, places a wedding ring on Wes Wilkinson at the Yolo County clerk's office in Woodland, Calif. on June 16, 2008. They were among the first gay couples to wed in Yolo County after the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriages.

2008 California's Prop. 8 nixes gay marriage
California?s Supreme Court rules that gays and lesbians should be allowed to wed. For a short time that year, some 18,000 same-sex couples tie the knot in the Golden State. But in November, voters approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (Proposition 8) after a hard-fought, multimillion-dollar campaign ? one of the most expensive on this issue. The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Prop. 8 on March 26, 2013.

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In an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC's "Good Morning America," on May 9, 2012, President Barack Obama spoke in support of gay marriage for the first time as president.

May 9, 2012: First sitting president to support same-sex marriage
Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to back marriage for gay and lesbian couples. It marked a reversal from his 2008 campaign, when he said he opposed same-sex marriage but favored civil unions as an alternative. His announcement came one day after voters in North Carolina passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as well as civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.

Nov. 4, 2012: In a first, gay marriage wins at the ballot box
Voters in Maine approve same-sex marriage in the first vote brought by supporters, while voters in Maryland and Washington uphold state legislation allowing gays and lesbians to wed. And in Minnesota, voters reject ? for the second time nationwide ? a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

Related:

Same-sex marriage's big day in court: What's at stake?

Once 'inconceivable,' Republican leaders sign pro-gay marriage brief

Even before Supreme Court rules, gay marriage battles rage in the states

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Incidental Findings from Genome Sequencing ? Nuances and Caveats

You have your genome or exome (the protein-encoding part) sequenced to help diagnose a puzzling set of symptoms, and something totally unrelated, and unexpected, turns up ? a so-called ?incidental finding.?

Surprises, of course, aren?t new in medicine. The term ?incidental finding? comes from ?incidentaloma,? coined in 1995 to describe an adrenal tumor found on a scan looking for something else. I had one ? a CT scan of my appendix revealed a polycystic liver. A friend had it much worse. She volunteered to be a control in an Alzheimer?s imaging trial, and her scan revealed two brain aneurysms!

Geneticists have long expected an avalanche of incidental findings from clinical (exome or genome) sequencing. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and NHGRI and elsewhere described several cases at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting last fall. My favorites:

- A boy had his genome sequenced as part of a project to better diagnose syndromes of developmental delay, intellectual disability, and seizures. Researchers found the aorta weakening of Marfan syndrome, gave the boy a repurposed drug in clinical trials, and he?s ok.
- A family with several members having their genomes sequenced to evaluate heart disease discovered that their ?writer?s cramp? is myoclonus dystonia, a neuromuscular disease.
- A man had his genome sequenced in a study to investigate atherosclerosis and learned he had a deafness mutation. Although he claimed he had normal hearing, further testing showed he didn?t ? he?d adapted so well for so long that he hadn?t known he was missing a sense.

To provide guidelines for clinicians having to disclose a medical surprise, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics released much-anticipated recommendations on March 21, to kick off the annual meeting.

The most important points come near the end of the 27-page document, especially the table of conditions to be tested for. And while the report is very clear, the accompanying news release uses some fuzzy definitions that often crop up when genetics is simplified. I know from genetic counseling and writing textbooks that misuse of certain terms can confuse. (?Genetic code? for ?DNA sequence,? and ?carrier? in for ?pre-symptomatic,? when it more traditionally refers to someone who has one recessive allele, and no corresponding illness or trait.) News aggregators that boil down news releases may miss such nuances.

So here are 12 major points I?ve distilled from the report.

1. Labs doing clinical sequencing should test for well-studied mutations in 57 genes that cause or can theoretically cause disease. The mutations are fairly common, albeit among the rare ? I?ve seen 3 in patients just this week. Most are ?actionable,? some even life-saving. Certain heart conditions and malignant hyperthermia, for example, can cause a first (and last) symptom of sudden death when a person takes a certain drug. A good thing to know.

2. The list of 57 doesn?t really mean 57 illnesses, from a patient?s point of view. Tumor/cancer syndromes account for 25 of the 57, cardiovascular problems 23, and mutations in seven genes cause Marfan and related syndromes. Add the two lone conditions (a type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and malignant hyperthermia) and the list collapses to 5 to a patient.

3. Of people having clinical sequencing, 1-2% are expected to have one of the 57 mutations. Technically, these aren?t incidental findings, because they aren?t found by accident, like my cystic liver ? labs are looking for them. But that?s ok. Just semantics.

4. We don?t know if the 57 variants that may cause disease in families who are having clinical sequencing to evaluate symptoms may do so in others. Due to effects of other genes and the environment, a mutation that causes a disease in one person may not in another.

5. Clinical sequencing is not the sort of testing that some direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies offer. At the present time, for example, 23andMe?s $99 test for 247 illnesses and traits include carrier tests that would already be part of a diagnostic work-up based on symptoms, family history, or newborn screening; and risks based on genetic marker (SNP) patterns that may or may not predict anything about the person sending in spit, due to population differences between the spitter and the study on which the test is based. DTC tests in their current incarnation are informational, not diagnostic.

6. Patients and their families won?t be able to ?opt-out? of knowing about the big 57, unless they refuse clinical sequencing. ?Duty to warn? trumps patient autonomy.

7. Kids count, contrary to precedent. Huntington disease set the pattern here ? people under age 18 with an affected parent are generally not tested to see if they will develop HD 20 years later, because there?s no treatment. But for the clinical sequencing guidelines, informing parents and even children is okay, because so many of the conditions can be prevented, treated, or risk reduced with lifestyle choices, even if an illness such as cancer won?t start for many years.

8. A negative result doesn?t assure health. I?m thinking of Bruce Springsteen?s ?57 Channels (And Nothin? On).? Finding nothing on the 57 tests doesn?t mean you?re healthy or will stay that way. A person who has normal BRCA genes, for example, can still develop breast cancer from other genes going haywire. And sequencing won?t spot missing, extra, or moved DNA; unusual mutations; or those lurking in genome regions with light sequencing coverage. (See ?The Battle of the Prenatal Tests?)

9. Genetic counseling. Clinicians should provide it or refer for it ? before and after testing. To help, ACMG will soon release informed consent guidelines for clinical sequencing. But physicians-in-training still get woefully little training in genetics and genomics.

10. Genetic testing and sequencing are on a collision course, with mutation databases from patients edging toward the rapidly-growing databases from healthy people sending samples to DTC companies. (23andMe expects a million submissions by year?s end.) But this convergence will be to everyone?s benefit, I think. With all of these data, in a few years we?ll know what the variations in the human genome, point by point, actually mean.

11. Price is driving clinical sequencing. It?s already cheaper to do a whole exome than to sequence a ?big chunky? gene and all of its known mutations.

If Amazon offered you a dozen books for the price of one, wouldn?t you take it?

12. Finally, at the end of the recommendations come some interesting terms that capture the disconnect I?ve long noticed between those of us who are more hesitant about sequencing and its enthusiasts: the ?genetic empiricist? versus the ?genetic libertarian?.

I?ve been an empiricist, against genetic testing when the info may be ambiguous because we don?t yet know enough. A report in this week?s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from Yuval Itan and colleagues at Rockefeller University takes a major step in providing this needed context. They introduce the human gene connectome, a computational way to sort out gene-gene interactions that will be vital for making sense of genome information. Does a mutation in one gene protect against another? Imagine finding out you have a 3-fold increased risk of Alzheimer?s, before researchers discover a protective variant that you also have?

I still fear that too casual an approach to testing ? like urging people to give spit kits for Christmas ? could create a population of Woody Allen-like hypochondriacs who overtax the health care system and take too many not-without-risk tests. Others will be falsely reassured.

We genetic empiricists want evidence that a testing outcome is beneficial, that it ?does no harm.? That?s still not known for all genetic tests.

In contrast, ?genetic libertarians? believe that everyone has the right to know everything. From responses to my blog posts, testimonials at the 23andMe website, and the streams of popular articles and books by people having their exomes/genomes ?done,? the genetic libertarians seem to far outnumber the genetic empiricists. Or at least they?re more vocal.

The new guidelines on clinical DNA sequencing present a starting point for handling what our genomes are telling us, focusing first on revelations that we can do something with, under the care of trained medical professionals. So by the time that devices the size of a dorm fridge are sequencing patients? DNA and spitting out risks, diagnoses, and suggested courses of action in the average internist?s office, we?ll be able to make the most of the information in our genomes.

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VISUAL COMBAT FINE ART PRINTS: NEW EDITIONS

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I was able to obtain large format files of each of these two images. Both of them look absolutely stunning in print. The first began as a vintage illustration by Thomas Nast and the second began as a vintage illustration of a Victorian dandy. The character Mad Ben is destined to become another Banzai7 classic.?

I have had a tremendous response to my first offering of the PhD Quack and FIAT Fornicatio, both of which are still available. I welcome input from those of you who purchased either or both of those. I know some of you are still waiting for delivery and I will initiate a postal tracking search if requested.

This has been a learning process for me and you can expect the quality of the works to continue to trend upwards, both in terms of technique as well as collectibility and relevance of content. I am also investigating the feasibility of gallery events and other potential outlets consistent with my desire to maximize the participatory nature of what I am doing.?

I have decided to organize my offerings around a main series of prints which I will announce regularly. These two may be considered the third and fourth in the main series. I will continue to accept special requests as well. As I mentioned with my kick off, I have structured the pricing in a way that allows me to give something of quality back to those of you who are able to support me in continuing what I have been doing.

It makes a big difference being able to remain fully focused on my work and I thank everyone for your interest and support!

The price of these two prints is the same as the first two $150 USD each including shipping cost and payment clearing charges. The prints are top quality and are each numbered and signed by me.

I am mindful that there are many who are not in a position to participate at this price point and I am planning to address that shortly.

I want to aim for maximum inclusion. Once I get this distribution method ironed out I will turn my attention to other projects such as the book.

I can't begin to describe the rush I get knowing that you are hanging my art in your offices and homes and sharing it with your friends and family.

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Movie chain to open in old Metro Theater announces food and drink ...

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Columbia?s soon-to-be closest movie theater, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, has just released the menu for its unconventional restaurant-cinema.

But more than buttery popcorn and blue-flavored ICEEs ? customers will be able to select highlights including $4 bottomless sodas, alcoholic or virgin milkshakes, fried pickles, cocktails, and baked-to-order hot cookies.?The chain also likes to customize their meals based on the movie showing, meaning they probably didn?t have to make too many accommodations for ?Super Size Me.?

Last year, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a Texas-based movie theater chain, announced its plans to take over the old Metro Theater on Broadway between 99th and 100th Streets. A Community Board 7 committee approved the owners? request for a liquor license in October 2012.?The Cinema is expected to open sometime in 2014.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema?s other locations are known for the unique movie-goer experience. Customers can get food delivered to their seats ? before and during the movie ? but talking and texting are strictly forbidden. (Ideal date or what?)

More importantly, go ahead and take a look at their culinary and drink-linary offerings, or see the menu below the jump:

Menu Slaughter 2013 by Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

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