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Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Retro: Free Video Game Day

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            It’s pretty safe to say that we get pretty spoiled here in Bowling Green with all of the fun activities, shops and restaurants that BG has. Now that’s a pretty weighty phrase, but here’s my justification: I’ve lived in BG area almost my entire life, I went away for college and actually took my internship in a different city, but every time I came back to Bowling Green there was almost always a new shop that had opened up and I just had to check it out. Each shop in Bowling Green is different then the last, from new places like Mode Elle Boutique, The Stacked Deck and Flatlands Coffee to staples like Grounds for Thought, Finders Records and Howard’s, there’s something that everyone can enjoy. One of the newer shops that have opened on Main Street in the past couple years was Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Retro.             Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Retro is a retro store that carries a variety of video games and toys. The owners, husband and wife Jon and Kayla Minniear, starte

Cameron's Comics: Free Comic Book Day

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            You’re going to see the latest superhero movie with some friends, you have your popcorn in hand and you’re ready to have a great time. The lights dim, the previews play through and the title sequence lets you know that you have indeed entered the right movie (raise your hand if you’ve ever entered the wrong one, I know I have and was forced to see the ending of Shrek 2 twice without knowing what happened during the first half hour of it). You’re enjoying the movie when suddenly a new character pops up, a character that wasn’t in ANY of the previous movies and come to think of it, you’ve never heard of them before. You shrug it off and sit through the rest of the really enjoyable movie. Once the final credits roll, you finally ask your friends the question that’s been burning in your brain. Where did that other character come from? Your friends all give you blank stares until one of them questions, “Didn’t you read the comic?”             The next question