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  For decades, I have wanted to visit Israel. But like many of us, there always seemed to be something standing in the way. Finances.

Those of a certain not-so-tender age (ahem!) might remember a certain Burger King campaign from 1976 that boldly proclaimed, “Have It Your Way!” That was

In the last two years, something called the Oculus Rift has taken the techy geeks by storm. What is that, you ask? Oh, only something

Unless you’ve been playing an elaborate, and early, April Fool’s joke on us, I gather a lot of you didn’t care much for Noah. Plugged

After weathering a deluge of controversy before it even launched, Noah and his ark sailed over a sea of competitors and came to rest at

I was kicked out of a theater the other day. I’d settled in to review Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel in a downtown Denver

I want to smell dead! Given the right set of circumstances, who wouldn’t? OK, let me back up a little. See, zombies are big these

I just finished reading the first novel in the Divergent trilogy—and not because I’m secretly 45 going on 15. My 8th-grade daughter had been asking

Sorry, Kermie, the Muppets weren’t the most wanted stars this weekend. Audiences took, shall we say, a more divergent path. Divergent, the newest aspiring movie

  A couple of Sundays ago my wife and I invited one of the “girls” from the youth group we led back in the ’80s