With the New Orleans Saints finally getting a turn at the Super Bowl, an underdog is getting a chance to become top dog. Sports isn’t the only arena for the downtrodden or underappreciated, as we found out when we considered our favorite underdogs.

The 2010 Philadelphia International Auto Show highlights innovations and new technology that help stretch fuel mileage and shoppers' dollars.

To overanalyze the Grammys is to legitimize them, and we wouldn’t want to do a crazy thing like that, now would we? OK, fine – maybe that’s being a little too churlish. If the Grammys are about as relevant a musical barometer as, well, any other play-it-safe awards pageant out there, they may yet make some good choices with this year’s slate of nominees.

In 2007, Dr. David Dosa wrote an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine about a cat at the Steere House nursing home in Providence, R.I., who apparently had the ability to sense when a patient was going to die. The media picked up the story and almost overnight, Oscar the cat became an international phenomenon.

It feels like a bit of undead overload to be reviewing “Zombieland” so soon after writing about the zombie flick “Pontypool” in this space, but while “Pontypool” is a nasty little thriller, “Zombieland” — despite the occasional burst of violence — is definitely a comedy.

Thought, scribbles and stolen text-message jokes regarding Super Bowl XXVLXVIXCSI, which ended in a satisfying win for an iconic American city that has endured unfathomable hardships.

A class act from beginning to end, “The Last Station” chronicles a late-in-life period of Leo Tolstoy, most of it taking place in and around the vast country estate of the then “most celebrated writer in the world.”

There have been a couple of cameos in recent years, but Gibson hasn’t starred in a film since “Signs” in 2002. “It was just time to act again,” he said. “If the tarnish is on it and the glow goes off it, you walk away for a while, and when it’s time to come back, you come back.”

Can you imagine being stuck 50 feet up on a chairlift? Now imagine that everyone but you and your two friends have gone home and won’t return for four days at the earliest. Oh, and there’s a blizzard bearing down and hungry wolves licking their chops in hopes that you’re foolish enough to jump.

It was easy to get swept away in the pure romance of “Dear John” until the wheels fell off in the last act.

When a guy in the audience threw up, Adam Green knew his movie was a success.

The Schwartz Center for the Arts has postponed the performance of "Man in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash." The Schwartz will reschedule the performance and will notify patrons once a date has been determined.  

To soothe what ails his aching psyche, Barry Kerch needs no antidepressant pill or psychiatrist's couch - just a drum kit and concert stage. The prescription of live rock also aids other members of Shinedown. Their emotion-roiling songs not only please fans but serve as a catharsis for the quartet, whose personal foibles often serve as inspiration for lyrics. For them, a live concert functions as a massive support group that helps Shinedown shed angst.

Maybe it’s because I’m a dad myself, but flicks with vengeful fathers have been added to my list of not-so-guilty popcorn-movie pleasures.

Taylor Swift is talented (more so for her songwriting), but c’mon people. She is not very good live. In fact, her Grammy performance Sunday was anything but swift. I was embarrassed for Stevie Nicks. Swift ruined “Rhiannon” by singing off-key.