Today is a special day. Sure, it's Christmas, and we're looking forward to seeing family and gaining 5 pounds as much as the next person. But Christmas happens every year. What's going on at area movie theaters happens far less often. ...more

December 25, 2008

The publishing trend toward graphic novels has resulted in a corresponding trend at Pasco County libraries. ...more

September 18, 2008

In keeping with today's theme (see the story at right), I thought I would open by mentioning "Godchildren," by Nicholas Coleridge (Thomas Dunne Books, $25.95). The British author offers a novel about the British upper class, specifically a business tycoon's six godchildren: the arrogant one, the "devastatingly beautiful" one, the awkward one, the dependable one, the troubled one and the cutup. ...more

September 7, 2008

The movie is called "Wanted" and the star is Angelina Jolie. No, it is not a documentary. ...more

June 26, 2008

Add "The Middleman" to my summer guilty pleasures. This cheerfully goofy and intentionally spoofy (if I can use that as a word) sci-fi action series debuted last week on ABC Family, a network I almost never watch. ...more

June 20, 2008

Children have welcomed the Harry Potter books in recent years like free ice cream in the cafeteria, but the largest survey ever of youthful reading in the United States will reveal today that none of J.K. Rowling's phenomenally popular books has been able to dislodge the works of longtime favorites Dr. Seuss, E.B. White, Judy Blume, S.E. Hinton and Harper Lee as the most read. ...more

May 5, 2008

"Persepolis" is a true original in the eclectic world of animation, one that's full of fascinating contradictions. ...more

February 24, 2008

'The Best American Comics 2007,' edited by Chris Ware (Houghton Mifflin, $22) ...more

October 28, 2007