Local Opinion Editorials

SOMETIMES GOOD IDEAS NEVER MATERIALIZE   There is much talk about building a baseball stadium downtown. Some think this is

Norbit Rice’s (Eddie Murphy) luck ran out the day he was born. Quite literally tossed onto the doorstep of the

Following Francisco Franco’s fascist takeover at the height of the Spanish Civil War, a teen girl named Ofelia (Ivana Baquero)

HOW DID THE EXPERTS DO?   The baseball season is over. A look at the expert’s predictions reveals there were

In the year 2027, the world is caving in. Rogue terrorists blow up buildings, anarchy runs rampant, and despondency and

Around March 9, 2006 Bud Selig wanted to read the book, Game of Shadows before making any decisions about Barry

Since the ’60s, when Sean Connery graced audiences and launched into stardom with a series of wildly successful Bond films,

In London in the early 1900s, many things were just coming into vogue. Chief among them was magic, as magicians

The events of Catch a Fire follow the real-life struggles of Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke) a conforming citizen turned freedom

The organized crime film genre has added a new member to its brimming arsenal with the release of The Departed,

The self-pronounced hick Willie Stark (Sean Penn) never imagined himself in politics. And he certainly never imagined himself the voice

It’s the summer of 1976, and the city of Philadelphia has little to be happy about. Corporate downsizing and citywide

Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) was born to go fast. He was born in the back of a 1968 GTO going

1948- RED MEN ON THE WARPATH   It was 1948, the season started on April 18 and 115 sports writers

I’m assuming, with reluctance but increasing certainty that the majority of us will never find ourselves as a quadruple amputee,

The Washington Post reports there is a new company called BusRadio, that plans to install radio equipment in school buses

It’s Halloween, and for DJ (Mitchel Musso) and his friend Chowder (Sam Lerner), that normally means trick-or-treating. But DJ has

HE WANTED TO WIN THEM ALL   The book titled, Red Smith on Baseball, brings out the attitude of the New

The Devil Wears Prada was first brought to life by author Lauren Weisberger, who once worked on the staff of

The other day I picked up a 1925 North American Almanac, “The Aristocrat of Almanacs.” It wasn’t in too good