2005 Calvins: Best Picture (Box Office Prophets)
An eclectic blend of films makes up our list of favorites from 2004. From the smaller, more introspective indie flicks to some of the year's biggest blockbusters, our staffers were most impacted by movies about superheroes, zombies, romance and George W. Bush reading a book about a Pet Goat.
Long Beach area theater listings (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
"Bye, Bye Birdie." Journey back to a time when hoop skirts, Ed Sullivan and Elvis Presley were all the rage in this musical throwback to the 1950s.
[ Arts Index | Silicon Valley | Metroactive Home | Archives ] (Metro Santa Cruz)
From the February 16-22, 2005 issue of Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper. For more information about the San Jose/Silicon Valley area, visit sanjose.com.
Saints, Romans and Valentines (Coshocton Tribune)
"Valentine's Day is now almost everywhere a much degenerated festival, the only observance of any note consisting merely of the sending of jocular anonymous letters ... and this confined very much to the humbler classes."
'I Fear For The Truly Mediocre Englishman' (Football365)
It's a given belief amongst some of the liberal middle classes of Britain that the French are more cultured and sophisticated than the British. And nothing crystallises this more than the drinking culture they so snootily refer to as binge drinking. It's the British disease, you know.
Letourneau, ex-pupil to wed less than a year after her release from prison for raping him North County Times - North (The Californian)
SEATTLE (AP) -- Mary Kay Letourneau plans to marry the former sixth-grade pupil with whom she had two children, months after her release from prison for raping him, according to an online bridal registry.
Tuesday's best bets on TV (Detroit Free Press)
"NCIS" (8 p.m., WWJ-TV, Channel 62, CBS). Hey, didn't you used to be Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years"? Yep, it's a grown-up Danica McKellar guest-starring as a computer expert who claims to have witnessed the murder of a sailor in the apartment across from hers.
New Beachside Massages Go Straight to Valentines' Hearts at Grand Lido Negril Resort & Spa (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
If Cupid's arrow is missing its mark lately, a beachside massage with your honey might do the trick -- especially if it's at Grand Lido Negril Resort & Spa on Jamaica's best stretch of beach.
@ The Movies: 10 Romantic Film Favorites (NBC 11 Bay Area)
Talk about a "hearty" task -- picking my favorite romantic movies. It's like picking my favorite child. The truth is, I love so many that it's impossible to squeeze them all into a list of 10, so please don't be offended if your favorite didn't make the cut.
The Globe and Mail: Playing Matches (The Globe and Mail)
Amy Cameron is an award-winning journalist. Her work has appeared in Maclean's magazine and the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal. She currently lives, and dates, in Toronto. Playing with Matches:Misadventures in Dating is her first book.
