The James Logan Courier

By Jeff Strickler
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

At the risk of damning with faint praise, one of the best things to say about "Charlotte's Web" is that they didn't screw it up.

Yes, it's cute, silly and oh-so-sweet, but that's part and parcel of any kid flick. As we take our seats for this live-action adaptation of E.B. White's classic tale, the big question is whether the filmmakers have allowed modern-day technological glitz to overpower the author's simple story and heartfelt message about the power of friendship.

By Louis R. Carlozo
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

Those who recall the 2000 presidential election might well remember Al Gore the caricature. You know: the guy who invented the Internet (though he never actually said that, folks); the debate robot in Day-Glo orange makeup; the policy wonk given to odd phrases such as "lock box" while George W. Bush cranked out zingers about "fuzzy math."

By Julian Kesner
New York Daily News (MCT)
NEW YORK — Drug abuse by American teenagers has fallen 23 percent over the past five years, according to a federally funded survey released Thursday.

The 32nd annual Monitoring The Future study shows continuing drops in the use of marijuana, alcohol and tobacco.


For more tables and information, visit monitoringthefuture.org

By Steven Rea and Carrie Rickey
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

ACCEPTED 2 stars. Justin Long (the Mac Guy in those Apple ads) stars in this low comedy about higher education as a college reject who invents a university to send him an acceptance letter. 1 hr. 30 PG-13 (language, bathroom humor, sexual candor) — Carrie Rickey

ALEX RIDER: OPERATION STORMBREAKER 2 .5 stars. Directed by TV veteran Geoffrey Sax, "Stormbreaker" is "Spy Kids" with an English accent — and a less hyper, over-the-top sensibility. It's niche market all the way — the acne niche. 1 hr. 33 PG (sequences of action violence and some peril) — Steven Rea

Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

Read Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson, one of three of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.


Edward Arlington Robinson