Speak Easy: The Alexandria Times Podcast
Listen to Speak Easy on Spotify. Each month, Alexandria Times Editor Cody Mello-Klein sits down with interesting Alexandrians to chat about politics, the arts, business and all things Alexandria.
Cody Mello-Klein is a reporter at the Alexandria Times and a freelance games journalist.
Whether he's writing about politics, business or video games, Cody emphasizes the people at the heart of a story, localizing large-scale issues. Other than the Alexandria Times, his work has been featured in Wireframe Magazine and online at Kotaku, IGN, Heroes Never Die, VG247, Game Informer and Rock, Paper, Shotgun. He's interviewed industry veterans, like Ken Levine, and indie upstarts, like Steve Gaynor, always with a focus on the ways games intersect with culture at large.
Cody is currently one of three hosts on the weekly gaming news podcast PVA Radio.
Cody has worked in publishing and game design, reported on culture abroad in Greece, and done investigative work in partnership with WCVB in Boston. He's a creative, friendly, and curious writer with a great work ethic and a constant drive to improve his skills.
Listen to Speak Easy on Spotify. Each month, Alexandria Times Editor Cody Mello-Klein sits down with interesting Alexandrians to chat about politics, the arts, business and all things Alexandria.
Profiles
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] When he was 15 years old, Grammy-nominated folk singer-songwriter Tom Paxton pulled a guitar out of his aunt's closet in her Chicago home. It was dusty and beat-up, with signs of a life that began before Paxton, but it still had stories to tell.
Features/News
From "Obi-Wan Kenobi" to the latest season of "Stranger Things," our entertainment is more nostalgia driven than ever before. But what makes nostalgia such a powerful force in our lives? Two Northeastern professors break down what is going on in our brains and on our screens.
The long-in-the-works sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise blockbuster has been shattering expectations since it launched into the theaters on May 27, soaring to a $160 million domestic opening. The high-flying, practically shot jet plane action sequences and Cruise's inimitable star power have brought crowds to their feet.
Survival games demonstrate how to adapt and thrive in the age of Twitch and Let's Plays. Online content creators are now, more than ever, the avenue through which many games are able to rise to success - or plummet to failure.
The iconic lighthouse that players encounter in BioShock's opening moments stands like a beacon, ushering lost souls to Rapture's doors. Symbolically, It's like an art-deco Statue of Liberty. Except instead of inviting the huddled masses with words of welcome, Rapture's opening sonnet poses a question:
It's an unseasonably cold night in March and the weather has chilled the energy that usually radiates from the many sports bars that line Boston's Canal Street. Normally the go-to spot for pre and post-game revelries, Canal Street is dead. However, towards the end of the street, nestled in the shadow of "The Garden," there's one bar that's still alive.
Story by Cody Mello-Klein · THESSALONIKI, Greece - On what should be a calm, warm night in Thessaloniki's city center, the streets are blocked off and the police are out in force. The anarchists are out tonight. Dressed in dark colors and carrying massive banners with arched red lettering, close to 100 Thessaloniki anarchists march down...
From ride-sharing services to social networking sites, apps have become a part of everyday life. They can make life easy, but at what point do privacy and protection concerns overwhelm the convenience of using an app? Last November, Dave Lishansky learned that when it comes to apps, convenience doesn't always pay off.
Reviews
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] President James Buchanan, our country's 14th commander-in-chief, is commonly ranked as one of the worst presidents in American history. His decisions in office read like a laundry list of the skeletons barely hiding in America's closet.