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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...
FIVE GREAT GAMES — 2013 has gotten off to a stellar start
Features Comments Mar 30, 2013 6:00amGuess who’s annoyed. Yeah, that’s right, it’s me.
I was planning to review the new “BioShock: Infinite” today, but it looks as if 2K Games decided to let IGN.com review the game the week...
Movie Review — GI Joe: Retaliation
Features Comments Mar 29, 2013 6:00amAs franchises go, “G.I. Joe” was less a fixer-upper than the sort of thing you burn to the ground for the insurance money.
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” with its biomechanical super suits...
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD — The new ‘Gears’ is short on adventure, long on multiplayer
Features Comments Mar 23, 2013 6:00amI can’t believe how short the new “Gears of War: Judgment” is. Ifinished this humans-versus-aliens war in five hours — including coffee breaks.
But “Gears of War” games aren’t about their...
Movie Review — Olympus Has Fallen
Features Comments Mar 22, 2013 6:00amOf all of this year’s movies in which a lone hero is tasked with saving the president when a violent paramilitary group seizes the White House, “Olympus Has Fallen” is certainly one of them.
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