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Book Review — ‘Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses’ by Bess Lovejoy
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 08, 2013 1:35pmYou 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’
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 04, 2013 8:19pmI 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
Reviews Comments Updated: Apr 01, 2013 2:09pmHow 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...
Movie Review — GI Joe: Retaliation
Reviews Comments Updated: Mar 28, 2013 3:24pmAs 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...
FIVE GREAT GAMES — 2013 has gotten off to a stellar start
Reviews Comments Updated: Mar 27, 2013 7:21pmGuess 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 — Olympus Has Fallen
Reviews Comments Updated: Mar 21, 2013 6:04pmOf 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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THE QUICK AND THE DEAD — The new ‘Gears’ is short on adventure, long on multiplayer
Reviews Comments Updated: Mar 21, 2013 9:04pmI 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...
Game Dork — I get it, ‘God of War,’ you’re harrrd and I’m stuuupid!
Reviews Comments Updated: Mar 15, 2013 2:04pm“God of War: Ascension” is a pretentious title for a video game, so I’m going to call it “God of War: Movin’ On Up!”
“God of War: Movin’ On Up!” is a confusing epic of seemingly impossible...
Jay Mohr splitting time among podcasts, radio, standup
Reviews Comments Updated: Mar 15, 2013 1:44pmLAS VEGAS, Nev. — Jay Mohr often sounds like comedy’s biggest fan, or at least its best student.
“It’s math, it’s music, it’s literature. George Carlin showed it’s lyrical when you can use...
“Wonderstone” can’t overcome all its problems, but has fun trying
Reviews Comments Updated: Mar 15, 2013 1:33pmIf Las Vegas can take a wide-eyed innocent whose only crime was rocking a mullet well past its expiration date and turn him into a raging narcissistic jerk, what hope is there for the rest of us...