The Oracle

SAN JOSE – Napster, the pioneering online music service, is getting another lease on life with the launch by year’s end of a legal, subscription-based...

Since the earliest forms of folk tales and fables, through Cinderella all the way to Veggie Tales and Lilo and Stich, life lessons are an...

#8220;Don’t you get it? There’s a formula,” said Randy Meeks in Wes Cravens’ 1996 comic-horror gem Scream. And, indeed, there is. Though Randy was referring...

Nicola Conte If you’re searching for good music on television, the place to look is not MTV or other mass-market music venues. For some odd...

It is a kid’s dream to go on an adventure, solve mysteries and save the world. In Spy Kids, Carmen and Juni got to do...

In a pivotal scene toward the end of Quiz Show, Robert Redford’s masterpiece about television’s first blemish, one character relates a story to another. He...

Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid? makes a woman feel good about being single. Although that probably was not the sole intention...

50 CentGet Rich Or Die Tryin’Interscope 50 Cent came, gambled and walked away with fat pockets, but not the jackpot. The emcee who has been...

Reading isn’t something that is classified as exciting, funny, or a valid excuse worth staying home for on a Saturday night. But in the case...

Charlie Miranda does not mince words.He is a conservative person. He is, he said, the most prepared candidate to be Tampa’s next mayor. He said...