Chad joined the DualShockers staff in mid 2009 and since then has put much of his time into covering RPGs, with a focus on the Japanese side of the genre, from the obscure to the mainstream. He's a ...

Excerpted from “It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Cliches.” A breath of fresh air. Few and far between. At the end of the day. Most of us immediately recognize these as clichés, ...

If some words are shovel-ready for a conversation, but using them could lead to accusations that you’re not giving 110%, then should you stick a pin in them? Or perhaps you could read the room better ...

Not long ago, my wife and I test-drove a Kia Soul (she bought a Toyota Rav4), but what struck us was the color of the Kia, a shade of green we had never seen on a car before. “It’s called Alien Green, ...

A cliché is a phrase or opinion that feels overused and lacking in original thought. We call something a cliché when we’ve heard it a million times, so often that any meaning it once had has been ...

I currently find myself surprisingly drawn to the comfort afforded by well-worn clichés: I must take things a day at a time. Tomorrow is another day. The grass is always greener. Time flies. There are ...

You’ve definitely heard these clichés. You might even resort to them yourself when you’re speaking to your coworkers, your boss, your friends, or even audiences for formals talks and presentations.

What does it mean for a choreographer to be cliche? Tanya Chianese, whose Ka-Nei-See collective performs its “Cookie Cutter” this weekend, said that it’s almost cliche to pay attention to lines and ...