Category: Examiner Opinion

SCOTT FRIEDMAN Fall foliage takes on many hues.

By Jeff Pfeiffer, www.channelguidemag.com It was just past the first day of winter in New Zealand when I arrived at a location called Riverhead, just outside of Auckland, to begin watching the filming of the new Starz series Ash vs Evil Dead, which airs Saturdays beginning Oct. 31. Coming from the northern U.S., I didn’t…

The Charles Lafitte Foundation Kid’s Corner is hosting a National Bullying Prevention Month essay contest. Pupils in grades three through 12 are invited to participate in the contest. To enter, students must read a book listed under their corresponding grade level and write an essay sharing their own experiences that answers the following question: How…

I wish to endorse the three independent candidates running for office in Allentown. Greg Westfall for mayor and Johnna Stinemire and Robert E. Strovinsky for Borough Council are all long-time residents of Allentown who have been involved in multiple activities as volunteers. They are well respected as professionals and would serve Allentown well. Please vote…

By Kellie Freeze, www.channelguidemag.com Jesse Stone is back. After an almost three-and-a-half-year hiatus, the rough and tough lawman returns, and for cowriter and series star Tom Selleck, “It’s been way too long!” In “Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise,” the ninth film in the franchise based on the books by the late author Robert B. Parker,…

In theaters now By Paul Hall www.channelguidemag.com In the new Steven Spielberg drama Bridge of Spies, James Donovan (Tom Hanks) is a simple insurance lawyer in Brooklyn during the Cold War. When the law firm at which he is a partner decides to represent a man accused of spying in America for the Soviet Union,…

By Lucie M. Winborne, ReMIND Magazine Kids and lunchboxes … they go together like, well, peanut butter and jelly, don’t they? Most folks of a certain age probably remember how important the search for just the right box was back in their school days. But they’re not just for kids anymore — lunchbox collecting is…

Ed Westwick in “Wicked City” ABC/KEVIN FOLEY ABC will premiere its new drama “Wicked City” on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 10 p.m. Welcome to Los Angeles circa 1982, as two detectives (played by Jeremy Sisto and Gabriel Luna) find themselves on one of the toughest cases of their career. Assigned to a murder case, they…

ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch Although I adore the advancements technology has brought to communication, I truly miss being able to physically lay my hands on a phone number. Back in my day (am I too young to say that?) a person could simply dial 411, tell the operator a name and town and…