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Perhaps you're tops at your tavern. Maybe you're lord of the dorm or boss of the break room. If that's the case, are you – apologies to Hank Williams Jr. – ready for some foosball?

Jared Wagner is looking for life beyond American Idol. No, he hasn't made it to the show yet – he's not old enough to audition – but he hopes his career makes it past the talent competition phase. At 15, he's already a three-time veteran of "America's Most Talented Kids," a nationally televised talent competition that switched from NBC to PAX.

Sandra Bullock returns as FBI agent Gracie Hart, who seems to have forgotten everything she learned about beauty in 2000's "Miss Congeniality." Now, in "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous," which opens Thursday, Gracie has to team with rival agent Sam Fuller (Regina King) to help foil a kidnapping. And in doing so, she becomes … well, fabulous. – Dan Webster, staff writer

Microsoft and Nintendo both rocked the Game Developers Conference last week in San Francisco by disclosing a few details about their next-generation game consoles. Microsoft demonstrated how the Xbox sequel will feature Xbox Live screens that are consistent across all games, so that all online matchmaking will be handled in one place by one company. No more creating a custom playlist of songs for each game, either; the next Xbox will carry your favorites from one game to the next.

Jack's back at the Gorge Hawaiian ex-pro surfer Jack Johnson turned his chilled-out hobby into a platinum- selling career as a folk-pop balladeer.

Navigating the menu at the local coffee shop is perplexing enough. But now most of us face no less than five sweeteners at the condiment counter. Which are we supposed to choose? Don't some of these have scary side effects? And – most important – what will people think of us for our choice? We convened a panel of coffee- drinking journalists to taste, analyze and judge the flummoxing five. White table sugar

However you define the word, spirituality isn't something that people take lightly, these days especially. Even in the movies.

"The Ring Two" has a B-movie premise with grade-A production values, making it tenser, moodier, scarier and all-around better than you'd expect from a sequel – especially the sequel to a horror movie that didn't get universally ringing endorsements the first time around (especially not from this typist). Yes, the original "Ring" from 2002 made scads of money – $129 million, to be exact. By now haven't you learned that big box office isn't necessarily an indicator of quality?

b reakfast is the best meal of the day, easily. Or should we say, over-easily. It's inexpensive. You can pound a plate of pancakes for less than $5. Even an "upscale" breakfast – say, an Eggs Benedict splurge – rarely will set you back more than a sawbuck. It's reliable. Finding a corner diner that can perfectly brown your hash is far easier than finding one that can perfectly sear your squid. It's friendly. Walking into your favorite diner, newspaper in hand, can make you feel like Norm in "Cheers." We asked the 7 and Spokesman-Review staff to encapsulate what they love about their favorite diners across the region. Here are the results:

Q: My 15-year-old son spends hours a day on the phone with his girlfriend. He has gone to her house a few times and to parties with her. We've lectured him on the facts of life but want to be sure that nothing's going on. Do you think they're making out?

March is National Peanut Month. How much do you know about these tasty legumes? 1. About how many pounds of peanuts does the average American eat in a year?

To watch "Bride & Prejudice" is to enjoy the rave new world of east and west, the multiculti polyrhythms that redound inside the soul of Gurinder Chadha. She's the British-Punjabi filmmaker who mixed Indian family politics with the pop vibe of soccer star David Beckham for "Bend It Like Beckham." Now she's Bollywooding Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice" with incense and postmodern sensibility, as Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson dance romantic rings around each other.

It's hard to think of the blues without B.B. King coming to mind. Ever since he introduced audiences to his signature sound on 1951's "Three O'Clock Blues," his first Billboard hit, King has been one of the most recognizable names in music.

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony rose from the unforgiving testing ground of Cleveland's hardened streets to become one of the most popularly revered hip-hop groups of all time. The multi-platinum "Creepin' On Ah Come Up" dropped on late rap legend Eazy-E's Ruthless Records in 1994, lifting the group above the asphalt on the avenues of rap and pop music.

Age: 22 Born in Saporo, Japan; now living in Cheney

Nuts and bolts form the most entertaining aspect of "Robots," the new animated feature from the "Ice Age" folks. The story is set in an imagined world that's nothing more than a wildly inventive device, with slides, wheels, bells, drops, elevators, and a zillion other bells and whistles. Or, if you're old enough to remember a time before video games, you might think you're inside the world's greatest pinball machine, as characters zip from flippers to cushions, bouncing hither and yon, and zooming all over the table. Follow the bouncing ball, indeed.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the body that administers the rating system for video and PC games, announced last week it's adding a new rating category: E10+, for ages 10 and older. According to the ESRB, games that will carry the E10+ rating might contain moderate amounts of cartoon, fantasy or mild violence and minimal suggestive themes. "The new E10+ rating category will provide consumers, particularly parents, with more precise guidance on the age appropriateness of certain titles, fulfilling our goal of helping ensure that the right games are selected for their children and families," said Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB.