Out on DVD this week is Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, a sequel to 2006’s Night at the Museum. In the earlier film, which I missed, Ben Stiller played a new night watchman in the American Museum of Natural History in New York who learns that every night, after closing time, a [...]
There are countless well-loved Christmas movies, but Thanksgiving movies are a rarity. I’m not a much of a fan of 1995’s Home for the Holidays, but I often steer people toward What’s Cooking?, Gurinder Chadha’s delightful, too-little-known 2000 multi-cultural Turkey Day comedy. In case you’ve already seen it, though, here are a few more Thanksgiving [...]
Betty Crocker was fictitious, but Chef Boyardee, Marie Callendar and Dr. Pepper were real people. The esteemed microbrew Dave’s Electric Beer, however, has something that these other namesake products don’t: It has two real Daves behind its name.
There’s the Dave who created it, and now there’s the Dave who’s keeping the line going.
Dave One is [...]
In order to discuss the new comedy The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard, I find I have to first spend a little time discussing the HBO comedy series Entourage.
Ever seen it? If anyone had told me the premise of the show before I saw it, I would have held my nose. A rich, young pretty-boy [...]
A startling outbreak has been observed recently at Chandler Regional Medical Center. More than 20 members of the staff in one department have developed into full-blown cases, and at least nine more staffers are showing early symptoms.
Fortunately, the department in question-Maternal Child Health-is especially well-equipped to deal with this particular epidemic: it’s a hot zone [...]
Going to the movies with the family is a part of childhood, and of parenting, that many people take for granted.
But for families with autistic children, it isn’t easy. Kids with the disability may behave in ways that disturb other audience members, and they may also suffer from sensitivities to light or noise that can [...]
According to The Thing About Men, the upcoming offering from Tempe Little Theatre, one thing about men is that they love to fool around. Another thing about men is that they resent it when the women in their lives do the same.
The musical comedy, which has its Valley premiere May 8 at Tempe Center for [...]
When you think of an occupation that might involve wandering into a crime scene or being threatened with violence, you think of a police officer, a detective, maybe a journalist. You probably don’t think of a Realtor.
Yet Realtor and property manager Tammy Billington has just such war stories, and she wants to do something about [...]