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Bennett's Best for the week of December 28
Legendary comic book store owner Greg Bennett provides a pair of recommendations for comic book lovers every week. This week its 30 Days of Night: 30 Days Til Death, No. 1 from IDW Publishing and Wonderful Wizard of Oz, No. 1 from Marvel Entertainment.
Hollywood: Remake fever
As I look at my DVD collection, I wonder if I need to see a movie like Robocop, They Live, or Conan remade for today’s generation, or even the movie Arthur (Dudley Moore at his best). Hollywood seems to be struggling with original ideas.
Bennett's Best for the week of December 21
Legendary comic book store owner Greg Bennett provides a pair of recommendations for comic book lovers every week. This week its Mister X: Condemned, No. 1 from Dark Horse Comics and American Flagg! Definitive Collection: Volume 1, trade paperback from Image Comics.
No time for bracketology
Maryland's resident expert in guessing the 65-team field has no early insight
New Year's shots
Gary Williams getting an early start on tweaking sports that aren't basketball
GOP abandoning D.C. on Inauguration Day
Is that a herd of elephants leaving Washington? Nope, just the GOP.
Lutheran bishops head for Middle East
More than 40 bishops from the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America and Canada head for Israel Jan. 6 to do what they can for peace in the region.
My New Year's Day
I watched two very interesting things, neither of them college football games
Sources: Paterson likely to appoint Kennedy to Senate
Caroline Kennedy is likely to become the junior U.S. senator from New York. And it's a sure thing the Senate won't close its doors to her, unlike some other appointment, who shall remain nameless ... (Burris).
Communities replace rock salt with molasses, ash
Communities are looking for cheaper ways to melt ice. Of course, nothing is cheaper than spring.
Lawmaker seeks bailout for local newspaper
Well why not? Everybody else is getting one.