By Eddie Smith, MSU Extension Service A good landscape is an artful combination of colors, textures and emphasis areas, but there are times when a transition is needed or you want less attention drawn to an area. Ground covers are useful in places like...
By Bob Garver “Verity” wishes it was a twisty thriller. It is indeed twisty, but it doesn’t have the heart to be a thriller. The film’s advertising is clearly positioning it as a successor to last year’s hit front-of-the-bookstore novel adaptation “The...
By Eddie Smith, MSU Extension Service There’s something magical about a shaded garden that is still filled with color this time of year. When I recently visited my friend, Maurice Hennis, at Twin Oaks Cottage in Laurel, one of the first things I noticed...
By Bob Garver In “Primetime,” Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, host of “To Catch a Predator,” an offshoot of NBC’s “Dateline” news program in the mid-2000’s. Hansen and the show’s production team would coordinate with police to lure child predators...
By Eddie Smith, MSU Extension Service Although temperatures still feel like midsummer, the calendar says it is fall. Some of my favorite pollinator plants choose this time of year to put on a spectacular show in the garden. Gaura, Blue Plumbago and...
By Bob Garver The streak is over. The last time I started a review with that phrase, it was to mean something bad – 2022’s “Lightyear” was the first Pixar movie that I didn’t recommend. This time, it’s something good – Zach Cregger’s new take on...
