John Manning, the president of the Sun City Center Astronomy Club, compares astronauts involved in space exploration to Christopher Columbus coming to the New World. ...more

October 21, 2009

An upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly's print edition will be embedded with a video player that will run ads for CBS shows and Pepsi. ...more

August 24, 2009

In hard economic times people are supposed to turn to comedy for escape. Right? ...more

March 18, 2009

The Office: Season Four The fourth season of this workplace sitcom starring Steve Carell became an early victim of the writers strike after airing four super-sized (but not entirely successful) hour-long specials. The post-strike episodes picked up the pace though, with a few classic additions to the show's overall stellar repertoire - and enough sweet Jam to satisfy the 'shippers. ...more

September 5, 2008

The networks have announced their fall 2008 lineups. We keep track of them for you on an easy-to-read grid. ...more

July 29, 2008

A national autism advocacy group is demanding an apology from CBS over a disparaging remark a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" made about people with the disorder. ...more

February 19, 2008

Fans of the Fox drama "24" will have to wait until January to see Jack Bauer again. The show is this season's most prominent casualty of the writers strike. ...more

February 18, 2008

The 3-month-old writers' strike is over, so what's the status of your favorite TV shows? ...more

February 13, 2008

SEBRING — Scientists, professors, parents and a student apparently convinced the members of the School Board of Highlands County that their individual beliefs should not collectively affect their decision as a board on the issue of teaching evolution. Board members had stated their opposition to a portion of the proposed new state science standards, which state that evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology. The board members said recently that evolution should be taught as a theory, not as fact. At Tuesday's school board meeting, the board was scheduled to consider a resolution calling for the presentation of other theories of life in the study of science. ...more

February 7, 2008

Whether to teach science of evolution or the conjecture of creationism in schools seems to be uppermost in the minds of our school administrators. Both theories have their good points and bad points. Both require some bit of imagination and faith. The findings of fact and development of theories have brought science and religion to very conflicting points of view. ...more

February 7, 2008