Music

Samantha Fish

The Redstone Room

Friday, January 13, 8 p.m.

For one of my New Year's resolutions, I vowed to stop moaning in print about those who've earned nationwide acclaim and achieved considerable professional success despite being many, many years younger than me. Then, as one of my first What's Happenin' assignments for 2012, I was asked to write about 22-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist Samantha Fish.

Well, I suppose three days was a pretty good run.

Reviewing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the latest open-world role-playing game from Bethesda Game Studios, seems like a foolish project. It gives players the freedom to roam across almost 15 square miles of a densely populated fantasy world of elves, orcs, giants, and dragons. It allows players to create characters à la carte from a broad pool of abilities, rather than using restrictive "classes" like most role-playing games. And it offers six major narratives, each the equivalent of a smaller game. On the surface, Skyrim appears to be too vast for a short evaluation; but this is a lake a mile wide and a foot deep.