Curious George (fictional animal)

My girlfriend is a rabid Goodwill bargain hunter, and a fabulous one at that. I often marvel at the stuff she finds. Prada sunglasses. Louis Vuitton wallets. Couture shoes. It's incredible the things she comes home with. I put her batting average...

Looks like the slow season has quickly faded at our theme parks and attractions. Two major multi-week festivals open this weekend, plus some new arrivals and activities are available. Here's a brief look. + Bands, Brew & BBQ begins Saturday at SeaWorld...

There are loads of entertaining options this weekends at our theme parks and attractions. + There are Mardi Gras concerts on both Saturday and Sunday at Universal Studios. The B-52s are set to perform Saturday, followed by the omnipresent KC & the...

When H.A. and Margret Rey created Curious George during the early days of World War II, their mischievous character was unquestionably curious. But his name wasn't George. He also was just one monkey in the primate clan that played second banana to a...

What can I say--I'm a star. That's why this guy's staring at me, right? I seem familiar, and not just because I did 50 movies, including those classic "Tarzan" flicks of the 1930s. Maybe he saw me on one of the morning shows. Maybe he read about me in...

Roller coasters, simulated or real, aren't the only new rides being rolled out at SoCal theme parks. Here are a few recently opened options, all of them kid-friendly, for summer. Adventures of Curious George, Universal Studios Hollywood What this water-...

JACK JOHNSON is far from home again, away from Oahu's North Shore, where he grew up. He still leads a quiet, idyllic life there with his family, writing songs of hope and introspection, a low-maintenance platinum-selling rock star who lives where the...

There's really no point in reviewing "Spymate," at least in terms of filmmaking or creativity or any of that stuff. You want to see a chimpanzee running around in a "Spy Kids" ripoff, this is the movie to see. The cleverest thing about it is the pun in...

I'll show you the monkey. By the time the marketing and branding campaign for the new "Curious George" movie has fully metastasized, you'll be begging for a few monkey-free moments, an occasional monkey-less vista, a day without a monkey. I say this, mind...

The reports of Will Ferrell's death are greatly exaggerated, misspelled and in serious need of fact checking. On Tuesday, March 14th, a poorly written press release reported that the actor/comedian died the previous day in a freak paragliding accident --...