Nov 15, 2009
BROOKS BARNES, New York Times
We know, courtesy of Us Weekly, that Kristen Stewart spreads butter on her blueberry bagels. People magazine just chronicled her alleged romance with "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson in an entire issue devoted to the movie franchise. And everyone from "Access Hollywood" to the...
Oct 25, 2009
CHRIS LEE, Los Angeles Times
Short of someone inventing Smell-o-Vision before the global rollout of the feature documentary "Michael Jackson's This Is It" on Wednesday, Oct. 28, fans will never get to know one of the most visceral aspects of working with the King of Pop."He had this amazing fragrance," s...
Oct 18, 2009
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
"Where the Wild Things Are," director Spike Jonze's big-screen reimagining of Maurice Sendak's classic children's tale, doesn't fit neatly into a genre.It's certainly not a coming-of-age story, because the young protagonist, Max, grows in neither years nor stature, and ...
Oct 18, 2009
ROBERT LLOYD, Los Angeles Times
In 1969, five young British comedians and one young American animator came together to make a television show. Without much of an idea of what they were going to do, they were given a series by the BBC to do it in, and after hunting around for a name — "Owl-Stretching Time" and "...
Oct 18, 2009
JON RUTTER
During the iron-cold winter of 1944-45, Steve Kepchar camped under a grim exhortation."Dig deep," his sergeant said as Kepchar grubbed out a foxhole during the Battle of the Bulge. "That might be your grave."But it wasn't.The decorated World War II veteran survived his Army days. He sailed home to N...
Oct 04, 2009
JON RUTTER
"Don't get on the boat," warned the old man on the wharf. "There's sharks in the water."He was joking.But plenty of sinister agents do lurk in the cloudy depths of the Chesapeake Bay.Jenny Engle and her League of Women Voters friends traveled to Baltimore's Inner Harb...
Sep 13, 2009
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
In 1978, when husband-and-wife duo Judi and Ron Barrett published their now-classic children's book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," I had just mastered tying my shoes.Kindergarteners of my day were being fed a steady diet of endearing, yet predominately tame books that had persist...
Aug 23, 2009
MICHAEL SRAGOW, Baltimore Sun
Although word of mouth could always make or break a movie, it usually took days to affect the box office. But the rise of social-networking tools such as Twitter might be narrowing that time frame to hours. And that has Hollywood on edge.This summer, movies such as "Bruno" and "G.I. J...
Aug 16, 2009
STAFF
A man in his 30s is missing after jumping off a boat in the Susquehanna River around 1 a.m. Saturday, one mile south of Peach Bottom Marina.Another man in the 12-foot boat was starting the motor when he looked over his shoulder and saw the victim enter the water, Capt. Chris Hodgden of Robert Fulton...
Jul 12, 2009
JON RUTTER
People are loving Tucquan Glen Nature Preserve to death.Widening the trails and littering them with candy wrappers and drink cartons.Clogging up narrow rural roads with lines of precariously parked cars.Wandering onto bordering properties.That's the word from the neighbors of the Martic Township...
Jul 05, 2009
JON RUTTER
Eric Horst squinted up at shiny pinpoints beckoning from the cliff.Bolt hangers.Climbers clip into the fixed metal anchors as they edge up the rock.Starting about 20 years ago, hundreds of three-eights-inch steel bolts were drilled into the Enola Low-Grade crags along the Susquehanna River in Conest...
Jun 26, 2009
TAYLOR BUNDY, 18, Freestyle
REVIEW: MovieIf you're on the hunt for the latest raunchy, drunken-humored, wanna-be comedy, if you want to see a bunch of guys at a bar ambling around shamelessly, making speeches and waking up the next morning wondering, "Where do I live?" then "The Hangover" is not the fli...
Jun 26, 2009
MIKI SIMONDS, 18, Freestyle
REVIEW: MovieThe movie "Dance Flick" is a complete flop.Much like the other Wayans Brothers' productions, "Dance Flick" is a spoof that takes classic scenes from other movies. In this case, the boys borrow from dance movies "Step Up" and "Save the Last Dance.&q...
Jun 21, 2009
JEN CHANEY, Washington Post
Most conversations about memorable movie dads tend to be brief. Why? Because they usually begin and end with Gregory Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird."Finch may stand as the most noble onscreen father of all time, but that doesn't mean he's the only o...
Jun 21, 2009
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
When life's pressures begin to build, it helps to have a release valve. Some folks exercise. Some drive. Some clean. Some scream and break dishes. Me? I like to sit alone in a movie theater.Stick me in a soundproof cave, throw a few pictures up on the wall, let me laugh out loud, shout at the ac...
Jun 19, 2009
COLIN VANDEN BERG, 17, Freestyle
REVIEW: MovieOur generation has plenty of options when looking for some piece of history or pop culture to define it, just as generations before us have their own defining moments. Sept. 11 happened as most of us were on the edge of puberty. Barack Obama was elected just as many of us became old eno...
Jun 19, 2009
TAYLOR BUNDY, 18, Freestyle
REVIEW: DVDAt first it seemed that "Fired Up" would be nothing more than a "High School Musical" movie sans music, but this film — albeit complete with cheerleaders, football players and, well, not much else — is much, much more than just a high school drama.That'...
Jun 17, 2009
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
Restaurateur Sam Allen spends a lot of time indoors.But when he has a few hours off, he often winds up outside, along the Susquehanna River.Allen, who co-owns Bube's Brewery, Mount Joy, takes full advantage of the vast recreational playground that runs right through our backyard — hiking, ...
Jun 17, 2009
LARRY ALEXANDER
A group of Civil War re-enactors will take a march back in time to help preserve a local historical site.On June 27-28, James Meisenbach and Neil Hobbins, both of Columbia, and about a dozen of their friends will assume the personas of Company H of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia for a prese...
Jun 15, 2009
JASON GUARENTE
There was an unintended consequence to scheduling a game for a 5 p.m. start.The hitters couldn't see.The early evening creates shadows, which make it difficult for batters to pick up the spin of the ball. They can't tell fastballs from breaking balls and end up taking a bunch of ugly swings....