“What’s your favorite movie?” When you write about movies, you’re asked this a lot, and for most true lovers of film, the question borders on the absurd. Out of this inexhaustible, endlessly varied art form, who could be expected to choose a single favorite, for all time?

No one could have predicted this year’s most romantic irony: Heath Ledger will be nominated for an Oscar for his role as a heartbroken gay Montana sheepherder in Brokeback Mountain while his portrayal of Casanova, history’s most famous ladies man, has failed to raise the mercury a single degree on the sexual-romance thermostat.

Although winter break has started for most students at Corona del Sol High School, varsity athletes continue their work.

We’ve all done it: gotten on the New Year’s resolution bandwagon. You know what they are: I’m going to stop smoking, save more money, be more considerate of others, lose that extra pound (or two) -- the list goes on.

A former reporter who attended plenty of press conferences during her stint at a local newspaper is now finding herself on the other side of the podium.

Salt River Project shocked the community with plans to string a new high-voltage power line through the Kyrene Corridor. As 2005 ended, the utility said it would build the new lines in the Loop 101 freeway corridor as far as possible and bury a mile-long stretch nearest to homes.