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Book Review — ‘Can’t Stand the Heat’
Reviews Comments Updated: May 06, 2013 8:05pmSometimes, your entire life feels like a recipe for drama.
Oh, you really hate it and you’d like to wipe your plate clean of it all, but that’s never gonna happen. No matter what’s cooking...
Aziz Ansari works to craft material that’s funny but resonates.
Reviews Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 2:39pmLAS VEGAS, Nev. — At age 30, Aziz Ansari can’t understand these kids today.
“I think that’s definitely a thing with a lot of younger people, they don’t really want to work very hard,” he...
Former Metallica bassist returns to stage
Reviews Comments Updated: May 03, 2013 2:33pmLAS VEGAS, Nev. — It’s the rock ‘n’ roll equivalent of a disgruntled Doberman after a really bad day at the office, a Hungry Man portion of meat and potatoes metal about the horrors of war, being...
Book Review — ‘Kid Pickers: How to Turn Junk into Treasure’ by Mike Wolfe with Lily Sprengelmeyer
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 29, 2013 5:44pmIt was just about the coolest thing you’d ever seen.
Most people might’ve described the old bottle as garbage. True, it was dirty and half-sticking out of the ground. Yes, it was junk. But...
Movie Review — ‘Pain & Gain’
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 26, 2013 2:57pmThe 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’
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 22, 2013 3:52pmThis 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...
Movie Review — ‘Oblivion’ a fun blast of sci-fi cinema, just as long as you don’t overanalyze its plot
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 19, 2013 3:47pmYou 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...
Book Review — ‘Orphan Train’ by Christina Baker Kline
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 16, 2013 9:08pmYour 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 — ‘42’ should have been a home run but comes up short
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 12, 2013 5:17pmGiven 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.
...Movie Review — ‘Jurassic Park 3D’
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 08, 2013 2:16pmTake 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...