The city’s Judicial Nominations Commission just announced that Lee Satterfield will be the next chief judge of the D.C. Superior Court.
Satterfield, a longtime associate judge on the court, beat out colleague Anita Josey-Herring to replace the well-liked and well-regarded Rufus G. King III for the top slot, which entails a lot of administrative duties and [...]

In an era rammed to the rafters with caped crusaders and men of steel, it has been touted as the superhero movie to end all other superhero movies: the comic book gem that inspired the TV series Heroes about ordinary people developing special powers. But now, The Watchmen, which is being directed by 300 film-maker [...]

The ship of the desert beckons one and all. Life in Rajasthan is simply unbelievable without this faithful creature and it seems to completely mingle with its surroundings. As hues and hues of village folk descend on the small hamlet of Pushkar, the air is permeated with the colors of life. In the Hindu month [...]

The thoughts and motives of the Sept. 11 hijackers seem to be irresistible fodder to a certain type of novelist, including Andre Dubus III, who’s best known for House of Sand and Fog. That novel was a National Book Award finalist and was later adapted into a 2003 Oscar-nominated film.
In the manner of his earlier [...]

Universal has picked up the rights to the Oni Press graphic novel series “The Last Call” and has chosen Evan Spiliotopoulos to write the screen adaptation.
Written and illustrated by Vasilis Lolos and first published in 2007, the horror-adventure series is about two teens on a joyride who get hit by a “ghost train,” which is [...]

For a book that Midwest Book Review has highly recommended as “an involving novel about an awakening sense of social responsibility,” Joe Redden Tigan has received both the Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice designations from publisher iUniverse for his first novel, “Waggle”.
Waggle by Joe Redden TiganiUniverse chooses only those titles that have the essential qualities [...]

Immediately following Saturday morning’s Graphic Novels breakfast that kicked off Graphic Novels Day at Book Expo America 2008 in Los Angeles, the panelists for the Graphic Novels and Manga Distribution panel got down to business to talk about changes and challenges of the marketplace. As graphic novels and manga continue to make inroads into new [...]

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans–a banker originally from the Netherlands–finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London.
Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the [...]

It begins with literal brilliance as a handsome Western traveller, calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore” (the Mughal of Love), arrives at Emperor Akbar’s newly built court in Fatehpur Sikri, where the lake looks like “a sea of molten gold.” The stranger, whose long yellow hair flows down his face like the golden lake, rides a bullock-cart [...]

A group of soldiers is being tracked and hunted by a large party of “orcs.”
They’re outnumbered and they’re running out of time.
They decide they’ll find a place where they’ll make a stand against their enemy.
A mountain pass is chosen, and when the bad guys arrive on the scene, a massive battle ensues.
Fighting together, the group’s [...]