• Career corner: Are you looking for a job where you can play video games all day? Do you have “experience with children” and “strong communications skills”? If so, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board is looking for you. The agency, which assigns ratings to games based on violence and sexual content, placed an ad on the GamerDad Web site seeking full-time game reviewers.

“Wild Hogs” — Biker buddies Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy are not all that wild, and more importantly, not all that funny.

The world premiere of “Red Books: Our Search for Ellen White,” an original production by Pacific Union College faculty and students, takes place on Saturday at the new Alice Holst Theater in Stauffer Hall on campus.

Back when games were regarded as kid stuff, there were plenty of furry mascots hopping around.

“The Double Bind” is simply one of the best written, most compelling, artfully woven novels to grace bookshelves in years. Immediately after the spellbinding surprise ending, readers will want to begin again at the first page. It’s THAT good.

Sweet is probably the last word you’d expect to use in describing a film about an aging black man who chains a young white woman to a radiator to cure her of her demons.

As the project coordinator of Arts Council Napa Valley’s initiative to create a cultural plan for Napa County, I’ve been asked to write ongoing updates regarding the process.

Best known to a certain generation as Inigo Montoya in “The Princess Bride” on the big screen, and to another as Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on the TV series “Chicago Hope,” for which he won an Emmy, it was Mandy Patinkin’s Broadway pedigree that rang out at the Napa Valley Opera House on Friday night.

Stone Bridge School, a Waldorf-methods public school, holds its annual benefit party and auction “Extravaganza 2007: Mardi Gras!” Saturday at the Meritage Resort at Napa. Proceeds benefit Waldorf-methods education in Napa and offset costs associated with the school’s move into its permanent home on the Salvador Elementary School campus in the fall of 2007.

This was not your routine wine and cheese reception for artists; the menu tended more towards juice boxes and animal crackers.

Because my daughter has a role in Napa High’s production of “The Music Man,” which opened last Friday at the District Auditorium, I had to recuse myself from writing a review, which is why Mike Waterson, editor of the American Canyon Eagle and longtime performer around the Bay Area, kindly agreed to take the job.

It is not often that lovers of opera and lovers of a good ghost story can come together and enjoy a single stage work.

It has never seemed so obvious that Napa County is overflowing with talented musical youth as on Saturday night, when 13 aspiring pop stars took their turns on the Napa Valley Opera House stage in the last preliminary round of the Idol NV teen singing contest.

Leave the “Halo 3” talk at the door.