This Means War is more marketing ploy than movie. Maybe the film’s eight producers took a meeting and decided to make the perfect date movie. Their … Continue reading →

NEW ORLEANS — Sara and Dejohn Benson made a lot of noise as they jumped up and down waiting for the next float to roll down St. Charles Avenue. The bead-laden brother and sister, ages 10 and 7, were making up for lost time after missing out on their usual quota of parades because of heavy rain the day before. Continue reading →

When the demonic first-person game “The Darkness” was released in 2007, it was a twisted breath of fresh air among all the war simulators and space-marine romps. Continue reading →

All they want is a space of their own. For artists in Baton Rouge, a place to work and show their work can be hard to find. … Continue reading →

There’s a wolf glaring out from the cover of this book (although you wonder why it doesn’t have blue eyes, but more about that later), so you know it’s a werewolf novel. You also know someone’s going to get bitten. Rice is hardly a coy writer. She presents her victim on the very first page. At 23, Reuben Golding has it all. He’s the son of prominent and well-to-do San Francisco family. Continue reading →