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Now Billingsley directs 'Retreat'

Monday, Oct. 12, 2009

Peter Billingsley didn't feel pressure directing his first feature film, the new comedy "Couples Retreat." After all, he spent the last 30-odd years either in front of the camera as a child actor or, later, ensconced in the producer's chair.

BOOKS: 'Homer & Langley: A Novel'

Brothers and hermits until the end

Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009

Real-life brothers Homer and Langley Collyer died decades ago, but E.L. Doctorow's imaginative take on their hermit like story invites comparisons to modern-day mores.

College students get tech Guardian

Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009

Students attending Howard University have gained an extra sense of security on campus.

Indies thrive in 'Summer'

Small studios use marketing moxie well

Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009

Now that major film studios have fired their heaviest artillery of the summer, smaller studios are battling back with their cinematic pop guns - independent features.

BOOKS: 'Inherent Vice'

Crime at time of Summer of Love

Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009

Few private investigators in any brand of fiction faced the kinds of roadblocks Larry "Doc" Sportello encounters in Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice." (Did Columbo ever wade through an armada of acid flashbacks to solve a crime or save the innocent?)

Technology timesavers help busy mothers

Spending more of the day with kids

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Technology is giving parents new tools they may have never realized they needed — but now can't live without.

Gifts to college archives preserve history

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

It's one thing for college students to glean information online or from a textbook. It's quite another to read or even hold actual material that played a part in history.

On PG-13, parents are in land of lost

Ratings riddles arise

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Describing some of the gags in the new PG-13 movies "Land of the Lost" and "Year One" in a family newspaper requires a delicate touch - and a strong stomach.

For political comedians, the joke's not on Obama

Conservatives see switch to 'hero worship'

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

What's so unfunny?