GAMER Rated R Time: 1:35 What is it? In the future people play video games in which real living humans – convicts who volunteer hoping for an early release – become pawns in life-and-death scenarios. Why didn’t Lionsgate show it to the press? The studio has a longstanding policy of not screening most of its […]

Mike Judge’s “Extract” is an amiable mess of a movie held together mostly by leading man Jason Bateman. Judge, of course, was the brain behind “Office Space,” considered by many to be a great movie comedy about workplace discontent. But while that 1999 film took the side of long-suffering employees, “Extract” sympathizes with a put-upon […]

Slathering vegetables and fruit in high-fat, high-sodium dips can ruin what would have been a healthy snack. Here are nutritionists’ tips on choosing better toppings: Check the ingredients. If a dip contains yogurt, sour cream, cheese or mayonnaise, those items should be nonfat or low-fat versions. Embrace salsa. Salsa is made mostly with tomatoes, which […]

Man slaps stranger’s baby at Wal-Mart It happened in the Atlanta area and the story became an instant Internet sensation. While I admit it’s a bizarre and disturbing story, if news agencies reported all the bizarre and disturbing things that happen at Wal-Mart, we’d have to create a whole new section, one with a yellow […]

… John Born in August of 1992, John is an outgoing teen who likes to be with people. He enjoys the outdoors and would like to live in the country. He says he would like to work in a grocery store, be a cook or work on cars. He enjoys listening to his IPod, reading […]

I’m so excited that it’s September, my favorite month next to October. If I were in charge, I’d make September the time to begin a new year. The air is softer, the sky is bluer; the water sparkles in the mellow sun, not making us squint as it does in July. (Well, maybe not THIS […]

Good morning! Can you believe we have reached the end of the growing season? But it is never too early to think about next year, so I decided to talk this week about collecting seeds. Not everyone collects seeds, but most of us benefit from them in our garden with a little help from Mother […]

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You know the old chestnut: your chances of winning the lottery are about as good as those of getting struck by lightning. Yet over the past week, I’ve talked with many people who have been jolted by electricity from the heavens and not one millionaire lottery winner. That they were alive and capable of telling […]

Rooms shrouded in black make me dizzy. My eyes search for a line to tell me where the ceiling meets the wall. My hands grasp for a rail to hold onto. Yet, I love movie theaters. As long as nearby moviegoers keep quiet, my focus stays on the bright screen. Maybe that’s why I liked […]