Travel & Visitors Guide - March 28, 2013
A taxi app that is truly Uber
Experience tells me that you can't always trust a name. Just because a business calls itself "A1" or "Ultimate" doesn't make it true. There's an exception and it's called Uber.

Movies & TV - Feb. 16, 2013
Yippee-ki-lame: Fifth "Die Hard" a disappointing misfire
The only way you can walk out of "A Good Day to Die Hard" satisfied is if you go in wanting literally nothing but explosions, and even then, you'll have to try not to be disappointed.

Movies & TV - Jan. 17, 2013
Get to tha choppa!: Arnold's finest five films
It's hard to argue against the Governator's peculiar brand of on-screen charisma, especially back in his heyday. And when that uniquely compelling presence combined with a decent movie, the results were explosive. Case in point: the following five films, which are the best from the inimitable action artist known simply as Ahnold.

Movies & TV - Jan. 2, 2013
My five film resolutions for 2013
With nothing much coming out this weekend, I'll take my hypercritical eyes off of the screen and point them instead at a pinnacle of imperfection: myself. Some of these resolutions are exclusive to me; others wouldn't be bad for the whole cinematic community to take up. Either way, here are several methods in which I'm going to try to be better in 2013.

Movies & TV - Oct. 5, 2012
Enraging and engaging "Mea Maxima Culpa" a must-see
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney has become the film world's chief reporter on the abuse of power. Now, Gibney turns his camera toward the Vatican and the priest sex abuse scandal that sickened the public and tainted many's image of the powerful institution of the Catholic Church.