Nagspeake Online

Author: Hallie

• A Special Welcome for Age of Steam Readers!

  It seems like only yesterday we were sending her out on yet another a coffee run, but today our very own Kate Milford is being interviewed on a lovely blog called Age of Steam! Frequent guests here at the NBTC website might remember Kate as our erstwhile intern before we hired Fennel; some of you [...]

• Killer Real Estate Opportunity in Historic Printer’s Quarter!

  Love the NBTC? Want to work here?? Well, you can’t. Or rather, you can’t work at the NBTC, because between Kate and Miranda we have plenty of people to get our coffee and make sure our paperclips are all perfectly flat with the loops all exactly in line. (Because nothing makes inter-office correspondence less professional [...]

• Christmas on the Magothy: We Have a Winner!

  Back in August, Gillymole Press announced its return to mainstream publishing with the Christmas on the Magothy Serial Fiction Contest, which we here at the NBTC were so excited about until some idiot who was still bent out of shape about a series Gillymole ran…what?…four years ago or something (get over it people, at some [...]

• Local Music

  Like any moderately-sized city, Nagspeake has a large and thriving music scene! For traditionalists, there’s the Magothy Symphonette and the Mid-Coastal Orchestra. For jazz lovers, there’s the annual Jazz, Blues, and Pig Out at Cape St. Charlestown Park. Then there are the many saloons, restaurants, and clubs that feature live music. These, on the other [...]

• Who Knew?

  Tales of the Horless and Deglov Players have been circulating, in some form or other, since the old pirate days. An antique shanty tells of a man who, even after being made brave by drink, still won’t go with his crewmates to the show where “the poppet-man’s packing ‘em in.” He waits in vain all [...]

• Local Theatre

  Theatre in Nagspeake is a city-wide affair; more than one innocent bystander has been unexpectedly drawn in by the sudden apparition of drama on what was, moments before, a perfectly quiet and unassuming street.  And when theatre springs up in Nagspeake, there’s no easy distinction between spectator and event. As far as the “legitimate” theatre [...]

• Local Cinema

  Nagspeake boasts several film houses, one of which is guaranteed to be showing exactly what you’re in the mood for. If you’re looking for first-run films, your best bet is the Tenefort 5-Plex in Bayside, but for more adventurous souls there are plenty more options to explore–you’ll find some of them below! For classics and [...]

• Who Knew?

  Damian Whilforber, one of Nagspeake’s foremost world travelers, wrote a pamphlet over a century ago entitled Packing with Aplomb, in which he makes recommendations on what to take and not take on your next perambulations around the planet. Notable on the not-to-be-forgotten list: “disabling drugs of some variety in the event that one finds one’s [...]

• Accommodations

  Do you like luxury? Is your vacation not complete without Egyptian cotton bedding (minimum 800 thread count) and a room service menu worthy of framing? Or do you prefer the home comforts and care of a bed-and-breakfast, where the smell of coffee and homemade pastries is the perfect wake-up call? Are you all business when [...]

• Who Knew?

  The last traveling performance of the Asylum Choir at St. Gammerbund’s was a state dinner in the mid-eighties.  The humorous results of this and many of the choir’s previous engagements were detailed by Otto Middleton, a member of the tenor section, in his book Medicate Me With Song.