UltraStar Cinemas to show BCS on big screen in Surprise
Your weekly guide to shopping, dining and small business news: Surprise's UltraStar Cinemas will show the FedEx BCS National Championship Game between the University of Oklahoma and University of Florida football teams live in its theater.

Music comes to Clearview Cinemas in Mansfield Township
MANSFIELD TWP. -- Clearview Cinemas is presenting the folk music show "WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour" every Wednesday at select theaters, including at the Mansfield Township location on Route 57. "Clearview Cinemas is pleased to partner with WoodSongs so music...

Fathom to reveal ?The Secret? in cinemas
Fathom and Anthem Pictures announce ?Beyond The Secret??a follow-up discussion to the DVD and book The Secret that sold over seven million copies nationwide.

Mount Olive College to move down Trent Road, more than double its space by April
By April 1, Mount Olive College in New Bern will move about a mile down Trent Road to an old grocery store building next to Southgate Cinemas, the campus director said Wednesday.

Theater nixes anti-Moore film's run
The Traverse City screening of a movie critical of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has been shelved. "Shooting Michael Moore" was scheduled to start a one-week run Friday at Carmike's Horizon Cinemas. But the company halted plans to show the movie late Tuesday.

CHE: PART ONE (15)All major cinemas
THIS epic biopic takes a romantic but technically detailed look at the role played by the legendary Che Guavara in the success of the Cuban revolution before he disastrously tried to repeat the victory in Bolivia.

3D Viewing for Handhelds debuts at CES 2009
Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (TMD) will be previewing technology that enables mass adoption of 3D viewing in handheld devices. 3D is going mainstream in cinemas and is very slowly making its way into the living room with new TVs like the Mitsubish...

NBA team owner Cuban buys into Carmike Cinemas
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and co-owner of the Landmark Theaters cinema chain, has acquired a 9.4 percent stake in Carmike Cinemas, according to a regulatory filing.

Bidens thwarted by sold-out movie
Employees at a Delaware cinema said Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill couldn't see a Brad Pitt movie because it was sold out.Workers at the Regal Brandywine Cinemas in Wilmington said Jill Biden approached associate manager Inshirah Muhamut's box office window while the former Democratic senator looked on, The (New Castle, Del.) News Journal reported Tuesday.Muhamut, 21, said the ...

BMA to inspect buildings after club fire
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has set up a committee to inspect and improve safety of buildings in Bangkok following fire at the capital night club, which left 64 people killed.According to BMA permanent secretary Pongsak Saemsan, the committee will inspect security at cinemas, hotels, apartments, department stores and others.These public venues need to be equipped with ...

BCS title game at Carmike
Carmike Cinemas will broadcast the Bowl Championship Series National Championship game live in 3D Thursday at the Wynnsong 10 Theater in Billings.

Gap store at River Ridge mall set to close
The Gap store at River Ridge mall will close by the end of the month but will be replaced later this year by another retailer, the shopping center?s manager said Wednesday.

Jockstrip: The world as we know it.
Bidens thwarted by sold-out movie ... Webcam shows 24 hours of lava lamps ... Stolen candy-cane man returned ... Police: Kids tried to elope to Africa ... The world as we know it from UPI.

Panasonic and AEG Partner to Provide Fully Integrated Technology Solutions for Sports and Entertainment.
World Renowned Venues To Be 'Powered By Panasonic'. Most Significant Partnership To Date From Industry Leading Technology And Entertainment Providers.

Year Twenty-Five
This week, Fence Sitter celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary as a column in this paper and its predecessor. By December of 1983, I had been submitting sporadic pieces that got published in Business Day with my by-line.

Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Garner, Daniel Barenboim
A roundup of the day's celebrity news.

David Denby: "Good," at Village East Cinemas.
C. P. Taylor?s celebrated 1981 play, ?Good,? about a literature professor in thirties Germany who drifts into complicity with the Nazis, is meant to be an indictment of moral cowardice and compromise, but the movie adaptation, written by John Wrathall and directed by Vicente Amorim (now playing at Village East . . .

CES 2009: 3D television 'by next year'
Threedimensional TVs in living rooms by next year says manufacturer.

Showtimes -- Jan. 6
Here's what's playing at South Sound cinemas. Because times are subject to change without notice, readers are encouraged to contact the theater to be certain of showtimes. Times preceded by * are open captioned.

Batman blockbuster won?t be released in China
Batman blockbuster ?The Dark Knight? won?t be screened in Chinese cinemas, Warner Bros. said in a statement Wednesday.