Game: Song of Bloom

Our smartphones are, by design, meant to distract us. But sometimes, you come across a game so completely engrossing, this little device you hold in the palm of your hand can feel like pure magic. Song of Bloom, designed by German indie developer Philipp Stollenmayer and winner of last year’s Apple Design Award, is a narrative puzzle so beautifully designed and executed that you’ll feel bereft when you reach the end. Apple App Store. –Genevie Durano

Show: Skye Dee Miles at Vegas Room

The soulful and sultry and sometimes blush-inducing voice of Skye Dee Miles can’t be enjoyed at her normal spot, the Cosmopolitan’s temporarily shuttered Rose.Rabbit.Lie. But you can do Sunday brunch at the Vegas Room at Commercial Center January 24 and 31 at 1 p.m. and catch her tribute to Black female musical heroes like Nina Simone, Etta James and Dinah Washington. It’ll only take a song or two to understand why Miles is a true Vegas treasure. –Brock Radke

TV: WandaVision

The Marvel Cinematic Universe reawakens with this nine-episode Disney+ series featuring big-screen Avengers Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany). It’s not what anyone expected—a hybrid of cinematic Marvel action storytelling and classic sitcom nostalgia—and some may be put off by the deliberate pacing of its early episodes. (Think Bewitched with flashes of David Lynch.) But it scratches a long-neglected itch for Marvel fans, and tweaks a genre that badly needed reinvention. Teyonah Parris, Kathryn Hahn, Kat Dennings and Randall Park co-star. New episodes premiere Fridays on Disney+. –Geoff Carter

Music: Viagra Boys' Welfare Jazz

On their new album, the Swedish post-punks double down on their degenerate image—by way of Sebastian Murphy’s snide, bottom-feeding lyrics—while juxtaposing organic American art forms like jazz, folk and country with ’80s-steeped electronics. They might not be onto anything particularly new, but Welfare Jazz’s satirical scuzz feels especially welcome in this era of societal dysfunction. –Leslie Ventura

Book: Outlawed by Anna North

Sure, your typical Western adventure doesn’t include a pandemic that’s wiped out the majority of the U.S. population. Too close to home, you might say. But this lethal flu merely serves as the prelude to an exciting alternate history of the Wild West, which The Washington Post describes as “a thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly transformed.” January’s pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club is a daring feminist tale by Vox gender journalist Anna North. –C. Moon Reed