Two issues are preventing me from watching more online coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics: time and technology. Time is easy to understand: while we are awake, the Games mainly are dormant. There’s not much to watch during the day other than...

With Sean Penn starring as Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francisco supervisor who was gunned down along with Mayor George Moscone in 1978, the movie (which opens Wednesday) makes its message clear: Gay people must be "out" to be counted.

Astrology, once regarded as a science, is nearly impossible to test in controlled laboratory conditions.

Fairly inventive and exceedingly manic, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" comes from the 1978 picture book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett. To say the title helped sell the kids story is an understatement, certainly the only understatement involved...