This week’s suggestions: Catch the new “Twilight” movie; check out Sarah Palin’s and/or Stephen King’s new book; take part in Family Volunteer Day; catch the MLS Cup and other sports on TV; and prepare for your Thanksgiving celebration.

The team at Sherwood Pictures doesn't work like other filmmakers. They never have. After the surprising success of "Fireproof" -- the third film for the group comprised of pastors and staff at the Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. -- most film companies would have rushed back into production to maximize their profits. At Sherwood they stopped and prayed.

Deadline for making reservations for the 2009 Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Volunteers’ Holiday Gala is 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20.
Gala tickets may be reserved by calling the museum at 878-5300. The annual event will be at 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4 at the museum on the St. Gregory’s University campus. It will include dinner, entertainment, live and silent auctions.

As any experienced parent will tell you, the longer you can keep your kids watching PBS, the better. Once you move on to commercial television, it’s all over.

This guy knows from experience that the customer is not always right. A.J. Adams’ book contains the 100 best anecdotes from the author’s Web site, and also 100 new stories. Much of it will seem strange to customers not actually portrayed in the volume. But retail employees might find the world the book describes rather recognizable.

Talk to Mark O’Connor, fiddler extraordinaire and sometime collaborator with Yo Yo Ma, and you glimpse not only where music has been but where it’s going. And where it’s going seems to be a much more flexible, improvisatory, creative place thanks to exploding technology and the mingling of world cultures. O’Connor, his music and his philosophy will return to Peoria at 8 p.m. on Saturday.

"Sesame Street" has been on the air for 40 years. That’s a long time without a commercial break. The groundbreaking educational children’s show was unique for its time. That’s part of what made it groundbreaking. And unique.

Wearing all black from tip to toe, “Twilight” actor Kellan Lutz sat in a meeting room at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston dressed more like Johnny Cash than the vampire Emmett Cullen, whom he plays in the beyond-popular movie series. Just as Lutz’s character helps Bella in the movies, the 24-year-old actor was quick to lend a hand when a technically inept reporter couldn’t work her tape recorder. A push of a button, a flip of a switch and – voila – it works.

It’s worth getting your hands on “The Light in Darkness” for the amazing photos alone. But it’s the stories from fans of Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and its groundbreaking concert tour that make up the heart of the book.

Actress Sandra Bullock portrays Leigh Anne Tuohy, one of the two main characters in the new film “The Blind Side,” the true story of Michael Oher, a poor, homeless, underachieving high school kid she pulls off the street and invites to become part of her family.

“(Untitled)” is a subtle comedy about the state of contemporary art.

Disaster flick “2012” entertains in a so-bad-it’s-good way, with laughably bad dialogue, preposterous characters and situations, and special effects guaranteed to blow your mind.

The screams were loud enough to wake the undead. Several hundred "Twilight" fans poured into the Natick Collection last night to meet Kellan Lutz, who plays vampire Emmett Cullen in the popular book and film series. The second movie installment, "New Moon," opens Nov. 20.

The story of DJs broadcasting rock 'n roll during the 60s from a boat off the coast of England, because the BBC refused to, amounts to not much more than a boatload of characters who  you just can't manage to care about.

Don’t let the fact that “Z” is a subtitled film based on an event you’ve never heard of keep you from watching. Instead, consider it a conspiracy thriller with all the elements that make conspiracies thrilling: political intrigue, high-level corruption and a massive cover-up.

An engaging film, but as character studies go, little or nothing is revealed.

Carol Leifer, a well-known comedienne and a veteran writer for “Seinfeld” who’s made countless appearances on “Letterman,” “The Tonight Show,” “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher” and “Conan O’Brien,” comes to the Boston Jewish Book Fair next week to read from her book and tell some jokes. Maybe she can also try to explain how a middle-aged woman can suddenly realize that she’s a lesbian, needs to be bat miztvahed, and that she and her partner should adopt a son. Oh, and also decide it’s time to become a vegan.

One can assume that certain moviegoers have been violently opposed to movie violence since the first fist was thrown on the silver screen. Degrading, desensitizing, disgusting. Pick a negative adjective, it was uttered with vehemence. On the other hand, one can assume that certain moviegoers have been receiving a visceral thrill from movie violence ever since that first fist connected with that first jaw.

Even with their excellent harmonies intact - and despite the loss of arguably their coolest member, bass singer Michael McCary - I really see no reason for Boyz II Men to be covering songs by The Manhattans, Cyndi Lauper (really?), Bonnie Raitt, the Beatles and (say it isn't so) Journey.

From "Full House" to "The Surreal Life," Dave Coulier has been present at the start of more than one phenomenon.