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Book Review — ‘NOS4A2: A Novel’ by Joe Hill

Updated: May 14, 2013 6:59pm

The Christmas tree is long gone.

It shed its last needle on the curb more than four months ago, looking sad without baubles on branches or gifts around its trunk. It’s probably mulch now,...

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<p>(Photo by James Braund)</p>

Book Review — ‘Cats & Daughters’ by Helen Brown

Updated: Apr 01, 2013 2:09pm

How 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...

<p>By Christopher Lawrence</p>

Movie Review — GI Joe: Retaliation

Updated: Mar 28, 2013 3:24pm

As 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

Updated: Mar 27, 2013 7:21pm

Guess 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...

<p>Christopher Lawrence</p>

Movie Review — Olympus Has Fallen

Updated: Mar 21, 2013 6:04pm

Of 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

Updated: Mar 21, 2013 9:04pm

I 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!

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

Updated: Mar 15, 2013 1:44pm

LAS 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

Updated: Mar 15, 2013 1:33pm

If 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...

<p>Christopher Lawrence</p>

Movie Review — Oz The Great and Powerful

Updated: Mar 07, 2013 9:09pm

The vibrant colors. The terrifyingly aggressive plant life. The talking winged monkey dressed like a tiny bellhop.

This must be what it’s like to get high with James Franco.

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Game Dork — Honey Ball — ‘MLB 13: The Show’ is as sweet as baseball gets

Updated: Mar 06, 2013 10:20pm

If I was the marketing person for “MLB 13: The Show,” this is how I would advertise it: “You can text-message your friends while you bat, because this game moves so slow, you will have all the...

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