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Movie Review — ‘Pain & Gain’
Features Comments Apr 26, 2013 3:02pmThe only muscles they never exercised were their brains.
OK, fine. The brain’s technically an organ. But it’s not like the members of the Sun Gym Gang would know the difference.
The...
Book Review — ‘I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids’
Features Comments Apr 22, 2013 3:57pmThis week, two of your friends broke the news: they’re pregnant.
One’s due in October, the other in November. Heavy sigh.
It’s not exactly that you’re anti-kid. No, you like kids … as...
Book Review — ‘Orphan Train’ by Christina Baker Kline
Features Comments Apr 20, 2013 6:00amYour memories could fill a thousand scrapbooks.
On this page here, you’d glue that first-day-of-school smell. If you could, you’d paste the sound of your father coming home from work. Your...
Movie Review — ‘Oblivion’ a fun blast of sci-fi cinema, just as long as you don’t overanalyze its plot
Features Comments Apr 19, 2013 3:54pmYou don’t go to Tom Cruise movies to think.
You go for the swagger and the fisticuffs. For the life-endangering stunts most viewers will just assume were computer-generated. And to bask in...
Movie Review — ‘42’ should have been a home run but comes up short
Features Comments Apr 12, 2013 5:26pmGiven the game’s inherent poetry, it’s nearly impossible to make a bad baseball movie.
How difficult is it? Think pitching a perfect game.
In the World Series.
For the Cubs.
...
Stratford Hall alive with history
Features Comments Apr 10, 2013 7:00amSTRATFORD, Va. — The stately Virginia plantation home Stratford Hall is silent on a Sunday morning. Unless you are listening to the spirits of history.
It’s the history of Robert E. Lee, who...
Movie Review — ‘Jurassic Park 3D’
Features Comments Apr 08, 2013 2:21pmTake away the woefully rudimentary computers, Laura Dern’s mom jeans and Samuel L. Jackson’s hair, and it has all the trappings of a modern blockbuster.
Including the extra $3 or so you’ll...
Book Review — ‘Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses’ by Bess Lovejoy
Features Comments Apr 08, 2013 1:42pmYou walked into a room the other day, and completely forgot why.
These lapses in memory just kill you. If you couldn’t remember what you needed, you were dead in the water. But ideas don’t...
Fore And After — I just can’t quit ‘Tiger Woods’
Features Comments Apr 06, 2013 6:00amI bet you didn’t even know there is a new “Tiger Woods” golf game on the market. “Tiger” used to arrive with a roar every year. Now its arrival seems as quiet as a golf gallery.
But “Tiger...
Book Review — ‘Cats & Daughters’ by Helen Brown
Features Comments Apr 01, 2013 2:12pmHow many kids do you have?
It’s a question that often comes up and when you answer it, you’re always careful to add in the furry ones. And why not? Your four-footed kids are a lot like the...