The James Logan Courier

By Etan Horowitz
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)

As enjoyable as it is to add a video-game console, speaker system or other new entertainment device to your living room, there's always one unpleasant thing you have to deal with — a new remote control.

This week I review two new high-end universal remotes that aim to replace your existing remotes and save you button pushes by allowing you to set up "activities" to get you to the entertainment more quickly. For instance, pressing a button for the activity called "watch a movie," will turn your TV on, switch it to the correct input, turn the DVD player on and pop open the disc tray.

By Michael Martinez
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — I came in search of my inner geek.

But was it too late?

Gone were the booth babes, flame-eaters and pyrotechnics.

The $40 billion video game industry's annual convention used to be a house party gone wild — with mom and dad away.

From wikipedia:
Lonette McKee (born July 22, 1954) is an American film and television actress, music composer/producer/songwriter, screenwriter and director.

McKee was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Dorothy and Lonnie McKee. Lonnie, was a bricklayer and auto manufacturer employee. McKee's career began in the music business in Detroit, Michigan as a child prodigy, where she started writing music/lyrics, singing, playing keyboards and performing at the age of seven. At fourteen, she recorded her first record, which became an instant regional pop/R&B hit. McKee wrote the title song for the film Quadroon when she was fifteen. She had written and produced three solo LPs, the most recent, "Natural Love", for Spike Lee's Columbia 40 Acres and A Mule label.

Visit Lonette McKee's official website.