STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS **½ While anything remotely "Star Wars" potentially is a welcome trek for hard-core fans, this will be a mixed thrill given that the saga returns to the big screen as a cartoon. ...more

August 14, 2008

"Stars Wars" is the franchise that won't die, even though it has been going decidedly downhill ever since the "The Phantom Menace" was released. ...more

August 12, 2008

Call him imaginative. Call him determined. Call him stubborn. Just don't call him blind. ...more

June 14, 2008

TAMPA PALMS - Call him imaginative. Call him determined. Call him stubborn. Just don't call him blind. Liberty Middle School eighth-grader Peyton Short can barely make out images because of a genetic condition that has left him visually impaired. But it hasn't kept Peyton from his first loves of reading and writing. His passion for the written word was evident with his recent score on the writing portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. He earned a perfect score, one of 22 students in his school to earn the top mark. ...more

June 10, 2008