Early in the sleek sci-fi thriller "Oblivion," Tom Cruise, as a flyboy repairman living a removed, Jetsons-like existence above an invaded and deserted Earth, intones his home sickness.

As part of the Arizona SciTech Festival, Mesa’s Arizona Museum of Natural History (AzMNH), 53 N. Macdonald, will host a sleep over in the museum from 6 p.m. Friday, March 15, to 9 a.m. Saturday, March 16. The theme for the night will be, “Hitchhikers Guide to the AzMNH Galaxy,” with lot of space-related activities including a scavenger hunt, crafts, a space-themed movie and snacks. Participants can even make their own robot.

Naming herself after the provincial flower of Alberta, Canada, Loca Rosa is a performer with international flair.

I have been racking my brain on how protect our children in school from gun violence. I don’t believe guns in school is a good answer. No matter who uses a gun proficient or not, projectiles are un-predictable and cannot be controlled once they have left the instrument.

In "The Details," Dr. Jeff Lang (Tobey Maguire) lives in a charming suburban Seattle home with his beautiful wife, Nealy (Elizabeth Banks), and their adorable, 2-year-old son. When we first see him, he's driving home in his Toyota Prius — which has a campaign sticker for President Obama on it, naturally — with a large, lovely plant from Trader Joe's in the backseat.

NEW YORK — Social media will be a big component of a new program announced by Disney Wednesday in which the company's parks in California and Florida will feature weekly surprise themes and events.

When Dave Grossklaus discovered the body of a rat floating inside his swimming pool in northeast Mesa’s Orange Groves neighborhood in June, he fished it out and didn’t think anything of it.

HONOLULU — Walk along the shops in Waikiki and it isn't hard to come across vendors selling knickknacks of a fake Hawaii — no, the Aloha State doesn't have wild monkeys or parrots. Lei aren't plastic and don't cost 99 cents — they're supposed to be made of real flowers.

Shark Week isn’t just on TV. The popular Discovery Channel celebration of the ocean’s most notorious predator is also happening at Sea Life Arizona in Tempe.

Every cell of the body continuously carries out biochemical processes that require oxygen. The overall term for this on-going process is metabolism. By-products of this cellular metabolic process are unstable electrons called oxidants or “free radicals.” Unfortunately, these free radicals are not harmless. Their chief danger comes from the damage they incur upon internal cellular structures such as DNA.

On Sundays in July, you can enjoy the award-winning Heard Museum for free. There are hands-on kids activities, free ice cream (first-come, first-served), a museum scavenger hunt, and a story time with an American Indian storyteller, not to mention access to exhibits like “Beyond Geronimo: The Apache Experience.”

On Sundays in July, you can enjoy the award-winning Heard Museum for free. There are hands-on kids activities, free ice cream (first-come, first-served), a museum scavenger hunt, and a story time with an American Indian storyteller, not to mention access to exhibits like “Beyond Geronimo: The Apache Experience.”

From an extravaganza of hands-on activities and story reading to cool treats, Summer Sundays at the Heard Museum gives kids and families a cool and creative way to spend July Sundays.

Local designers strut their stuff Thursday at Girls’ Night Out in Tempe for the MAD Couture Challenge — a competition requiring designers to incorporate material from an assigned Mill Avenue merchant into a work of fashion.

Imagining the future has always been a creative enterprise, spawning favorites like “Out of the Silent Planet,” “1984,” “Star Wars” and most recently “The Hunger Games.” These books and films draw inspiration from the future’s blank slate, much like families and children are encouraged to do Saturday at the ASU Art Museum in correlation with “Emerge: Redesigning the Future.”

Here’s something to kick off an Easter weekend full of church services, egg hunts, Sunday dinner and baskets full of chocolate bunnies: Mesa’s annual Easter pageant, a major production put on each year on the lawn at downtown’s Mormon temple.

Considering the eccentric, almost psychedelic fantasy worlds created in Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's tales, a story of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a house seems almost normal.

Animal conservationists say this is early spring mating season and some wildlife that live around the Phoenix area may appear to be more aggressive and less afraid.

Another baseball season - and another spring training campaign - is just around the corner. And now, with dates, times and new venues in place throughout the Valley, so is an updated look at an ongoing Mesa Historical Museum exhibit dedicated to the history of Arizona's springtime obsession.

I find the story of the Mexican wolf to be so disheartening. It’s so sad to think that state politics in New Mexico is what’s causing the demise of this species. 

There's been so much behind-the-scenes drama at AMC's "The Walking Dead" that it threatens to overshadow the intense, gripping horror series that's entering its second season. The good news is that the unceremonious firing of executive producer/show runner Frank Darabont is not evident in the first two episodes made available for review. After that? We'll see.