The Monkey’s Paw began as an experiment of sorts in a small space above Downtown Grill, born in December of 2020 even as restaurants and bars struggled with the pandemic. Over the next three years, ...

Whenever I walk into The Monkey’s Paw Tiki Bar, I’m never ready to be swallowed up by the darkness. But dark it is — there are no lights, except from the glare of the TV showing B movies and the ...

In W.W. Jacob’s 1902 horror story The Monkey’s Paw, a man’s friend gives him a mummified monkey’s paw that will grant three wishes with terrible consequences. The man wishes for £200, and the next day ...

Walking into The Monkey’s Paw in Springfield feels like stepping into another dimension. At first, it is pitch black inside, with gentle tiki exotica tunes playing over a hidden speaker, luring ...

American politics is so intensely stupid and nasty that it sometimes seems as if somebody made a series of wishes with a monkey’s paw. The dark moral of “The Monkey’s Paw,” a 1902 short story by the ...

The names of the devices are as colorful as the people who used them. Monkey paw. Kickstand. Yo-yo. These are some of the cheating devices criminals brought to Nevada casinos to trick slot machines ...