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A fourth movie screen is coming to Hampden's Rotunda Cinemas. The additional screen, which will accommodate an audience of just over 100, should be ready by early May, said Ira Miller, a veteran exhibitor who has been operating the theater since May 2009. He signed the agreement with the mall's owners, New Jersey-based Hekemian & Co., earlier this week, he said. "We finally made the deal and signed it," said Miller, who has been talking about adding a fourth screen for over a year.

Max Payne is back. Trading his badge for what appears to be a cushy gig in Brazil guarding socialites, our titular character seems to spends much of the game working on a pretty steady cocktail of booze and pills. In between the drunken hazes and flashbacks rests a gritty third-person shooter that tells a story unlike almost any other game out there. “Max Payne 3” is cinematic in the best ways possible, never wasting the player's time with a cutscene that doesn't mean something or keep the action moving.

Ever since I saw this on Engadget before it came out I've wanted one. I don't even do first person shooter games. Maybe you can rig this thing so I can watch football while Lauren watches Glee or some documentary about whales. Anyways, regularly $399.99, temporarily slashed to $299.99 over at Best Buy .

When it comes to lacrosse, all roads lead to Baltimore: That's key to the history of "Crooked Arrows," the first mainstream feature about the sport. It involves a stream of small investors and one genuine big-screen superhero — Brandon Routh, star of "Superman Returns. " But at the start, there was just a boy bowled over by Baltimore lacrosse. Mitchell Peck, a native of Richmond, Va., had the athletic epiphany of his life when he went to Naples, Maine, to attend a summer sports camp called Skylemar.

Actress Lillian Gish, who died Saturday at age 99, enjoyed a movie career that spanned nearly the entire history of the motion picture industry. She first appeared before the camera in 1909, at the age of 16, in a short film by the pioneering American director D.W. Griffith. Her last movie performance, as an indomitable old woman in "The Whales of August," came in 1987, when she co-starred with another screen legend, Bette Davis.Ms. Gish, whose family lived briefly in Baltimore during the 1890s, was only 5 when she made her acting debut.

When I run game programs on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop, they fill just part of the screen display, about a 7-by-5-inch rectangle. How can I set things up so that the game programs will fill the whole 14.1-inch screen? I've tried changing the pixel dimensions in the Display/Settings/Screen area but that doesn't help. As you've found, the solution doesn't always lie with going to the screen resolution settings tab after right-clicking on the desktop and picking Properties. This is because most Windows computers don't permit settings as low as required for many games - resolutions of 640 by 480 pixels.

The number of movie screens within Baltimore is set to practically double, with the planned Nov. 2 opening of a seven-screen theater in Harbor East, the burgeoning neighborhood between the Inner Harbor and Fells Point. The 1,300-seat facility, to be operated by Los Angeles-based Landmark Theatres, will be part of a 35,000-square-foot commercial and residential complex at Aliceanna and President streets. Its opening will increase the number of theater screens within the city's borders to 15, including five at the Charles, two at the Rotunda Cinematheque and the single-screen Senator.

"Of Flesh and Blood," a dark comedy by UMBC filmmaker Jeff Mentges, will be screened tonight at 7:30 and 9:30 at the Charles Theatre.The film was inspired by the life of pornographic-film star John Holmes, who succumbed to drug addiction and died of AIDS in 1988. Mr. Mentges has described it as "an anti-drug, anti-porno film." It does not contain explicit nudity or sex scenes, but does include profanity and violence.The 25-year-old director made the movie for just $15,000, using non-professional actors and handling much of the production work himself.

While a 'screen saver' program such as After Dark is loads of fun, do you really need one? Several experts said such software was generally a good idea, though no one had any concrete evidence, such as a study showing how they actually prolonged screen life.To the extent that it's a problem, burn-in is more often seen on monochrome screens that run text-based operating systems, such as DOS, which always put characters in the same 80-by-24 grid.Graphic systems, such as the Macintosh and Windows, tend to have a more varied screen appearance, though menu bars and certain icons can be problems because they are often in the same part of the screen.

Keeping a home's window and door screens in good condition can help ensure effective insect control and ventilation in warm weather.Modern screening is generally flexible fiberglass or aluminum that is easily punctured or cut, and even small openings cause a screen to lose much of its effectiveness for insect control. Fortunately, most screens are fairly simple to repair or replace.Homeowners who replace a screen can use special screening to help control heat gain and sun glare through windows.

The historic Senator Theatre closed Thursday to begin renovations, said an operator of the movie house, which opened on York Road in 1939. The theater will be closed for six-to-nine months, said James "Buzz" Cusack, who runs the North Baltimore landmark with his daughter, Kathleen Lyon. When it reopens, the building will house a restaurant and three new theaters as well as the original auditorium, he said. The renovations will cost more than $3 million, Cusack said.

Actor Kevin Bacon brought his star power to a charity event Wednesday at the University of Maryland, College Park. But the cheers the actor received were not as loud as the hoots and hollers directed toward the six student groups competing for $5,000 toward their favorite causes. The competition — called the "Do Good" Challenge — is part of an effort by the school to make philanthropy more of a focus in academics and student life. The winner was The Food Recovery Network, which developed a system of collecting food from campus dining halls that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to homeless shelters.

Can I grow veggies in a fully screened-in garden? I want to eat tomatoes without stink bug spots. Growing vegetables in a screened garden may reduce light, but the biggest problem is the exclusion of pollinators and beneficial insects. Vegetable plants that require insects for cross-pollination, such as cucumber, muskmelon, squash, pumpkin and watermelon, will not produce crops without them. Of course, you could hand-pollinate the flowers if you have the time. An organic method of excluding insect pests in the veggie garden is the floating row cover, which you drape directly on the plants.

New Life Christian Center, 9800 Mallard Drive, in South Laurel, will hold a free Community Health Fair on Saturday, April 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fair will offer free screenings for hypertension, glucose and cholesterol; nutrition advice on subjects such as diabetes and heart health; and Zumba, yoga and weight training demonstrations. Refreshments will be served. The Community Health Fair is sponsored by Foreign Affairs Recreation Association, Suburban Hospital John Hopkins Medicine and Adventist Healthcare.

It's a new season and the University of Maryland Medical System officials say it's a good time to take stock of your health. They are offering free screenings for cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and more. The screenings will be offered at Mondawmin Mall , 2401 Liberty Heights Ave., from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. The event, called Spring Into Good Health, is in its fourth year. Hundreds of people are expected to get the tests, as well as get information on men's and women's health, child safety, nutrition and other topics.

"Titanic" is being re-released in 3-D this week. So we asked: Which older film would you love to see again on the big screen? "Raging Bull. "Scorsese and De Niro at their best. De Niro blood in 3-D? Luke Broadwater, reporter, The Baltimore Sun The obvious choice is "Ghostbusters," but for the hell of it, I'm also going to go with "Kentucky Fried Movie. " It's so absurd, so inappropriate and so funny. Stokely Baksh, community coordinator, The Baltimore Sun No brainer: "The Adventures of Milo and Otis.

Now that the screens are in the doors and windows, I lower my voice.Remarks that, until recently, were confined to the household by closed windows now go shooting out the screens and into the public domain. If the neighbors didn't know better, they might think I actually scream at my children.I do not scream, I holler. Hollering is a kinder, gentler method of communicating to inattentive offspring than screaming. A holler is instructive, as in "Stop swinging the baseball bat in the kitchen."

Watching movies or playing games on a 52-inch screen can be remarkable, but it is even more so when the screen appears inside a pair of eyeglasses. That's why Sony's PLM-A35 Personal LCD Monitor Glasstron is such a big deal in portable electronics. This third-generation Glasstron is a personal theater that you wear like a pair of sunglasses. It is small, comfortable, easy on the nose and -- at 3.5 ounces -- will even fit over your prescription glasses. The Glasstron doesn't do much by itself, except display a self-test screen.

When the lights dim for "Hunger Games" at midnight Thursday, Fatimah Nelson, who bought tickets weeks ago, will be there, a bit breathless, at the edge of a plush seat at Arundel Mills. "I've been waiting months and months and months," says the Baltimore 21-year-old. "I'm really excited. " Nelson and millions of others in Maryland and around the country are braced for the opening of "Hunger Games," the latest young adult book series to become a runaway hit and then a movie and, it's looking like, a cultural phenomenon on the likes of "Harry Potter" and "Twilight.

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar. " It either could be a charming children's movie, or the caterpillar could be made into a giant human-eating caterpillar and it could be a bloody, campy horror. Luke Broadwater, reporter, The Baltimore Sun I'm very interested in the cinematic possibilities for "Go the F--- to Sleep. " Especially as directed by Zach Snyder or Darren Aronofsky. Anne Tallent, editor, b "The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junkfood" is one of my favorite children's books.