Yes, "Super Mario Galaxy 2" is a very cute Mario game that I would strongly suggest for my nephew, Kyle. It's quite good. On the other hand, I'm going to devote a lot of this review to criticizing the one super dumb thing in it that's annoying me to no end.

Stephen Crowley and Dan Biferie were students at Daytona State College 35 years ago. Their photos are on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography.

The exhibit "Stories of Community: Self-Taught Art from the Hill Collection" features 34 paintings, collages, drawings and mixed media assemblages by painters and sculptors who never studied art in any traditional fashion.

To explore our society's ever-increasing and increasingly perverse desire to see and be seen, writer Hal Niedzviecki decided to do some investigative reporting on blogging, YouTubing, nanny-camming and other cyber-connecting.

There's an intriguing political nuance to "Red Dead Redemption." It lets us see what America may have looked like when our nation was a libertarian fantasyland.

Tom Reis is an illustrator whose work has appeared with stories in Time magazine, Rolling Stone and other publications, also is an artist who creates works in the style of classically trained painters.

"Skate 3" is clearly a good game. I'm not exactly sure how good it is, since I can't accomplish much in it.

Back in ye merry olde England in the later Middle Ages, it helped to know a few of the knightly skills -- and who's to say those skills won't come in handy again some day?

If the plot of "Alan Wake" sounds like something from Stephen King's paranoia, you're not far off. Writer Sam Lake has testified to his King adulation; and the first sentence spoken in the video game begins, "Stephen King ... "

The lives of four mentally challenged men living in a group home are depicted in the new production by Shoestring Theatre.

It's funny. Sometimes, I love realism in video games -- and sometimes I hate it.

If you read the newspaper, you know domestic terrorism is "in" again. And since video games mirror our scared lives, "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction" feeds into the whole domestic terrorism fear factory.

Just like the undead themselves, you can't keep a good zombie book entombed in the dusty, musty back shelves of pop culture.

A performance by the Orlando Ballet has been postponed until October.

Life is tough if you're a Beast. Your tail gets stuck in odd places. The hump on your back makes it difficult to get around. Whenever you want to burst into song, you have to deal with those pesky tusks curving up out of your mouth.

It's a very good year for video games. One spectacular game after another has come out. Let's take a look at the best five games of 2010, so far.

It's an old Jewish urban legend that American League pitchers wouldn't pitch to the Detroit Tigers' Hank Greenberg in the final days of the 1938 season -- they didn't want a Jew to break Babe Ruth's home run record.

The actor known for roles in such films as "Capote," "Synecdoche, New York," "Doubt" and "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" will appear at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater.

Latin music, dance and cuisine will be on the bill at Fiesta Latina, a weekend benefit for the Children's Home Society.

It's no mystery how Ormond Beach resident Kathy Thompson came to adapt a British comedy-mystery novel for the stage. She asked Robert Barnard, author of "Corpse in a Gilded Cage," face-to-face.