Archive for May, 2009

Pixar Studios, the last film house in Hollywood that draws an audience on its name alone, scored its 10th straight No. 1 film as “Up” soared above the weekend competition. The animated comedy about a widower and young boy who travel in a flying...

George Tiller knew the dangers of being one of few physicians in the USA who provided late-term abortions. His Wichita clinic was bombed in 1985 and has been repeatedly vandalized. He survived a shooting by an activist more than a decade ago. Opponents...

It’s odd, and probably wrong, to call this the end of the Jay Leno era. For one thing, Leno, ever the affable company man, seems too bland, too vanilla to sit atop something so grand as an era, even if he’s been at the helm of “The Tonight...

It’s a lovely thing when the conventional wisdom proves to be so spectacularly wrong. The entire Democratic Party, not to mention the media establishment, simply took as a given that suave, charming, effulgent, numinous President Barack Obama would...

Chevy has the Camaro; Ford, the Mustang; Dodge, the Challenger. Muscle cars that bring to mind memories of a world in which m.p.h. ruled. Now it’s time to pay homage to the original Japanese sports car, a remade version of the Nissan Z, which bowed...

If you look up the history of Father’s Day, you’ll learn that it is observed on the third Sunday of June — this year, June 21 — because the beloved father of Sonora Smart Dodd, the woman who first proposed the holiday in 1910,...

DEAR ABBY: Lately when I’m upset about something, I have been snapping my wrists with rubber bands. It seemed harmless at first, better than cutting, right? But I have noticed that now I have red lines that never go away and the welts take longer...

I was sad to read about the end of “Waters’ Edge”, the upscale magazine published by The Florida Times-Union describing life near the water. Not so much because I was a subscriber, because I’m not, though my wife had picked up the magazine somewhat...

“Up,” the animated adventure of a lonely old man and a fatherless little boy on a treacherous, airborne trip, yanks at the heartstrings a bit too much. At times, it’s treacly when it should be touching. Instead of allowing the audience...

Get ready, folks: America is about to buy a car company. As of Monday, we the taxpayers will own more than 70 percent of GM. Whether the company will be formally renamed Government Motors remains to be seen. But that’s what it will be. Instead of...