Weekend

Workers dig up the sidewalk to repair a broken utility pole at Beach Avenue and Howard Street in Cape May. Thousands were still without power yesterday.

Cape May braces for Mother Nature's follow-up shot

By Chelsea Conaboy, Inquirer Staff Writer

Posted 02/09/2010

CAPE MAY - Still struggling to recover from the weekend nor'easter, weary Jersey Shore emergency officials yesterday were ramping up for a second severe storm that could bring sleet, high winds, and up to 18 more inches of snow to some coastal areas by tomorrow night.

A crew works near a downed wire near Absecon, N.J. As of yesterday afternoon, 1,500 Atlantic County customers were without electricity. Scattered outages were reported in Gloucester and Burlington Counties.

Shore wrestles with the aftermath of the blizzard

By Chelsea Conaboy, Inquirer Staff Writer

Posted 02/08/2010

After spending a sleepless Saturday night in an emergency shelter with 112 other people, 34-year-old Deryck Leotaud was ready for answers yesterday afternoon: When would the power be restored? When could he and his family return to their North Wildwood home?

Writers meet readers - 02/04/2010: Authors and illustrators are coming for the 18th annual African American Children's Book Fair.

By Monica Peters, For The Inquirer

NAACP Image Award nominee E.B. Lewis will be among the authors and illustrators featured Saturday at the 18th annual African American Children's Book Fair.
Travolta, Rhys Meyers pummel Paris - 02/04/2010: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

As evidenced by the locomotive 2008 action hits Taken and Tell No One, the city of Paris lends itself especially well to high-speed chases, ricocheting fire fights, and the elaborate destruction of buildings and street furniture.
Absence just makes this flick grow duller - 02/04/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

In the reliably moist novels of Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook and Message in a Bottle - life is a beach, love shifts like a sand castle in a storm, and lovers don't know what they've got till it's gone.
It's war, no peace, with Count and Countess Tolstoy - 02/04/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Set exactly a century ago, The Last Station is a droll tragicomedy starring those battling Tolstoys, whose family is unhappy in its own way.
162 F-words here - and we don't mean 'fine,' 'flair,' 'finesse' - 02/04/2010: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Like Reservoir Dogs with a Cockney bark - but without Quentin Tarantino's filmmaking chops - the British entry 44 Inch Chest offers a tough-talking meditation on jealousy and marital betrayal. Its cast is stellar - Stephen Dillane, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Tom Wilkinson, and, at the center of it all, a broke-down bad man, Ray Winstone.
Car chases, fighting, and lots of parkour - 02/04/2010: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

District 13: Ultimatum, a hopped-up, hammy sequel to the 2004 urban French action romp, is, like its predecessor, rife with parkour stunts - parkour being a daunting discipline that involves running, jumping, rolling, leaping, sliding, and sidling over, around, and along various large obstacles and altitudinous edifices. Roof-hopping, check. Banister-leaping, mais, oui.
Repertory Films showing this week - 02/05/2010: Repertory Films Ambler Theater 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler; 215-345-7855. www.amblertheater.com. Finding Neverland (2004) $4. 2/6. 11 am. Sustainability Movie Series: Tapped (2009) $10; $24 series. 2/9. 7:30 pm. Frankenstein (1931) $9; $6.75 seniors, students and children under 18. 2/10. 5:30 pm.
Stuck in the chairlift from hell - 02/04/2010: By David Hiltbrand, Inquirer Staff Writer

How do you make a decent thriller from this premise: three people stuck in a chairlift at a deserted ski resort?
Do This! - 02/05/2010: By Emily Tartanella

Tonight Hockey players fight diabetes The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will offer its seventh annual Skate for the Cure benefit tonight. The event begins at 8 p.m. at the Flyers Skate Zone in Voorhees. It will feature a hockey match between the JDRF All-Stars, a group of local ice hockey players, and the Philadelphia Flyers Alumni Team.
Concert and club listings - 02/05/2010: In Concert The Academy of Music Broad & Locust Sts.; 215-893-1999. www.academyofmusic.org. Rain: The Beatles Experience. $34.75-$85. 2/5.
New This Week - 02/05/2010: Zombieland *** (Sony Pictures, '09) $28.96. 88 mins. Uncontaminated by a plague that has transformed the population into zombies, four survivors battle the flesh eaters while traveling to a zombie-free amusement park. With Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin. R (horror violence/gore and profanity)
Concert Previews - 02/05/2010: Gil Scott-Heron Back in his 1970s heyday, R&B/jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron didn't fit neatly into any musical category, other than the one for visionaries ahead of their time. The 60-year-old rap godfather best known for such socially conscious streams of co