This is a great spot for lunch. A two item bento box costs a mere $7.95 and comes with quality ingredients. No cheap sashimi here. Good beer specials and a wide array of nigiri and specialty rolls makes this my favorite sushi spot in San Mateo. Perfect for the crowds of professionals that descend upon the downtown area during lunch.

He makes me swoon. Space is a great and exciting place and the work this man has done to further manned space exploration in unequaled. His place in history is secured for a very long time and for good reason.

Christian Bale is a good Batman. We all knew that. He did a good job in Batman Begins. It was a solid movie with a fresh mature vision of Gotham and a more complicated superhero was born.

But what is Batman without the Joker? Very little apparently. The first big Batman movie realized this and Tim Burton tapped Jack Nicholson to play the maniacal painted face that tests Batman's morality. For a new vision of Gotham we needed a new vision for the Joker, and Heath Ledger delivered with a powerful and disturbing performance in The Dark Knight, Batman's latest foray onto the big screen.

But Heath Ledger's performance, as great as it may be, isn't the only reason why this movie is so good. For the first time we are treated to a comic book adaptation that treats the audience as mature human beings. This is a movie about the duality of nature, of being torn apart by conflicting desires, and about clinging on to ones humanity amidst a world thrown into chaos.

Anyway, this movie is amazing and you should see it. Be warned though, just because it is pg-13 does in no way make it a good movie for youngsters. Acts of terrible violence occur just barely off camera and the twisted cruelty of Heath Ledger's performance was far more disturbing to me then any amount of graphic violence in the R rated movies I've seen in the past few years.