Land O' Lakes (6-0, 4-0 3A-7) at Pasco (5-1, 4-0) ...more

October 23, 2009

It's tempting to praise this Swedish sextet for its ambition alone, releasing a 90-plus minute concept album at a time when sequencing and the notion of the album in general seem to be in danger of dying from disuse. ...more

March 27, 2009

After T.J. Roehn scored two goals and added two assists in Berkeley Prep's 5-1 win over St. Andrew's in the Class 3A-Region 3 boys soccer final on Friday, the one-game-at-a-time cliches were flying all over the field. ...more

February 14, 2009

A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to economic recovery. Over the last two weeks, what should have been a deadly serious debate about how to save an economy in desperate straits turned, instead, into hackneyed political theater, with Republicans spouting all the old cliches about wasteful government spending and the wonders of tax cuts. ...more

February 7, 2009

I was driving my 3-year-old daughter to preschool the other day when "She's About a Mover" by the Sir Douglas Quintet came on the radio. ...more

January 22, 2009

A Russian partisan commander looks dismissively at the Bielski brothers, eyeing tough Zus (Liev Schreiber) and tougher Tuvia (Daniel Craig) and proclaiming, "Jews don't fight." ...more

January 16, 2009

The title "Universal Mind Control" conjures up images of Common wearing an aluminum foil helmet. Alas, it isn't a concept album about conspiracy theories. ...more

December 26, 2008

New Pretenders' albums are few and mostly far between; this is the ninth one in almost 30 years. Sadly, that scarcity of product hasn't translated to quality. ...more

November 20, 2008

John Mayer probably could slide by on his good looks. They surely would keep him in the tabloids and on the arm of what seems like a different Hollywood star every week. ...more

August 31, 2008

Carlos Pena was an engineering major in college and has said he probably would have pursued a career in computer engineering if baseball hadn't come calling. His conversational patterns tend toward run-on sentences that weave this way and that before reaching a well-thought-out conclusion. On the field and off, his brain inevitably churns through this possibility and that, particularly when he's struggling at the plate. ...more

August 10, 2008