Monsters

‘Monsters’’ is a genuine curio: a moody, low-budget road-movie romance that takes place against a background of alien invasion. Creature-feature fanatics expecting a full dose of extraterrestrial mayhem are going to be more than disappointed; they’ll be enraged, as the highly entertaining user comments at the movie’s IMDb.com page indicate. Calibrate your expectations accordingly, and understand that that title just ain’t fair. What you get for your $10 and what writer-director Gareth Edwards got for his half-million is a little labor of literal love.

Monster Worldwide Inc. of Maynard and New York soared after Reuters reported that LinkedIn Corp. and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners are among a number of parties that have expressed interest in a potential deal for the Internet jobs search company. Monster said in March it was reviewing strategic alternatives, including selling all or part of the company. Monster's 2012 share of online recruitment is estimated at 23 percent, below CareerBuilder.com's 32 percent but ahead of LinkedIn's 16 percent.

If you have to see "Monsters vs. Aliens" - and if you're a parent, you will have to - make sure it's the 3-D version. The film's opening scenes deposit the audience somewhere in the middle of the rings of Saturn with a parsecs-wide vastness that is out of this world. Every kid in the screening I attended blurted out a stunned "Whoa," and so did most of the grown-ups: We were witnessing not just the beginning of a film but the start of the next phase of blockbuster-movie technology, like it or not. The rest of "Monsters vs. Aliens," unfortunately, brings us slowly back to Earth.

Monster Worldwide Inc.'s shares soared in trading Friday on a report that LinkedIn Corp. and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners are among several parties considering making a bid for the online-job-search company. THE SPARK: Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter who were not identified, reported Friday that LinkedIn, Silver Lake and others have expressed interest in Monster. Monster, LinkedIn and Silver Lake representatives were not immediately available to comment on the report.

HUNGRY FOR DEATH: Destroy All Monsters At: Boston University Art Gallery. Through Dec. 22. 617-353-3329, www.bu.edu/art Destroy All Monsters, the Michigan-based band, played their first gig at a comic book party in Ann Arbor, on New Year's Eve of 1973. They played a version ("cover" might not be quite the right word) of a Black Sabbath song using a saxophone, a violin, a vacuum cleaner, and a coffee can, and they were asked to leave after about 10 minutes. Reversing this tragic instance of inhospitality, Boston University Art Gallery is celebrating the post-hippie, punky, and...

Witch's Dungeon Movie Museum BRISTOL, Conn. Through Oct. 31 Forget those life-size wax replicas of Rocky Balboa and Wayne Newton. It's the time for all things spooky, and nothing says spooky better than life like replicas of the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon . Cortlandt Hull's museum pays tribute to the classic movie monsters with more than 12 dioramas that include costumes and...

"Finding Nemo," "The Little Mermaid" and two other animated Walt Disney tales are following "The Lion King" into 3-D mode on the big-screen. Disney announced Tuesday that the 3-D reissues will begin Jan. 13 with 1991's "Beauty and the Beast," the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards. The studio will follow with 3-D re-releases of 2003's "Finding Nemo" on Sept. 14 of next year, 2001's "Monsters, Inc. " on Jan. 18, 2013, and 1989's "The Little Mermaid" on Sept.

Flesh-eating zombies aren't the only worry in the second season of "The Walking Dead. " Sarah Wayne Callies, who plays one of the survivors in the hit AMC zombie apocalypse saga, teased during a Friday panel at Comic-Con that "the most dangerous things out there are the monsters inside. " The cast and crew of "The Walking Dead" have been filming the sophomore follow-up to the six-episode first season this summer. A trailer featuring the survivors trying to evade a horde of oncoming zombies amid a traffic jam and contemplating breaking up the group...

They call themselves Monsters of Folk, but that’s a tongue-in-cheek handle for a group of guys who couldn’t be more serious about their cosmic approximations of rock, country-blues, and folk so heartfelt it made the Orpheum Theatre feel like a shoebox Tuesday night. Together, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, solo artist M. Ward, and My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James make a formidable quartet that works so well because of their singular strengths as writers, singers, and musicians.

A simple story about confronting one's fears has been transformed into a charming, high-energy musical by Boston Children's Theatre, which is giving the show its world premiere. "Calvin's Monster," adapted by BCT executive artistic director Burgess Clark, suggests that knowledge and the support of friends help, no matter what scares us. Based on Marcia Trimble's engaging book "Fairy Tale Moments (Who Is Your Giant?)" and featuring a collection of hummable tunes by Jesse Soursourian and Austin Davy, "Calvin's Monster" opens with an up-tempo rock...

(Globe Staff file photo / By David L. Ryan) Could there be a monster living beneath the serene waters of Jamaica Pond? By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent State officials released some 1,150 fish into Jamaica Pond last month, saying the bounty would feed the imaginations of local anglers as winter gives way to spring. However, some speculate that the annual hefty stock of trout and salmon could feed a different hunger: a mysterious monster that lurks beneath Boston's largest body of freshwater.

The Loch Ness monster is on vacation in Wisconsin — and state officials want the legendary lady to leave. Department of Natural Resources spokesman Dan Baumann says a sculpture of Nessie is illegally obstructing the Chippewa River in Eau Claire and must be removed by the person who placed it there. The sculpture's creator remains a mystery, although a person who anonymously emailed the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram on Thursday ( http://bit.ly/ILl70C) said it would be removed within 10 days.

Monster Beverage Corp.'s shares soared following a report that Coca-Cola Co. may buy the energy drink maker, but Coca-Cola, the world's biggest soft drink maker, later denied any discussions are under way - despite a Wall Street Journal report. Monster declined to discuss the matter. The companies already have a distribution relationship in many markets. A deal did not seem farfetched to investors because Coca-Cola is constantly looking beyond soda for growth and has seen some success in energy drinks.

As the grandmother of two beautiful little girls, ages 3 and almost 5, there's nothing I love more than spending time with my cuties. However, I realized one morning that being around little kids sometimes takes its toll. I walked into Dunkin' Donuts and placed my order for "Two bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches on Sesame Street bagels. " Oops! Andrea Brown Berman / Revere

NEW BEDFORD - M-C Lamarre makes her living making monsters. Green ones. And she wants to put one in your home. The New Bedford artist and devout Red Sox fan - there still are some of those - paints murals of the Green Monster, Fenway Park's iconic left-field wall. From New Jersey to Washington state, from Nova Scotia to Florida, she has created replica Monsters in basements and bedrooms, in back yards and ballparks, at a dog hotel and on the broad side of a barn. And as the park opens Friday for its 100th season, Lamarre is trying to complete a centennial quest of her...

The following was submitted by the Tower School: Tower School students were excited to welcome a special visitor on Thursday:  Wally the Green Monster! The Red Sox mascot visited with students, sat in on a meeting with the Head of School, played a few notes on the xylophone, and generally got the kids psyched for Opening Day! Before heading to his next location, Wally was presented with a collection of artwork that the pre-kindergarten class made in his honor.  Pictured: Wally took a seat on Tower School's front steps surrounded by first...

(Maybe Mike, from "Monsters, Inc.," looks so sad because he realizes 3-D doesn't do you any good if you don't have binocular vision.) Having very successfully retrofitted "The Lion King" with 3-D (how successfully? successful to the tune of $80,408,137, and counting), Disney has announced it will add 3-D to a pair of its Silver Age animated features and a pair of Pixar ones, too. "Beauty and the Beast" will come out this January, "Finding Nemo" next September, "Monsters, Inc. " in January 2013, and "The Little Mermaid" in September 2013.

SHOULD THE United States be the world’s policeman? According to a new Rasmussen poll, only a sliver of US voters — 11 percent — want America to be the nation chiefly responsible for policing the planet and trying to maintain international order. An overwhelming 74 percent reject the idea. These aren’t anomalous results. When Rasmussen polled the same question in 2009, the results were virtually identical. Gallup regularly asks how large a role — leading, major, minor, or none — the United States should take in solving international problems; only a small minority of...

Monster Worldwide Inc., which operates from main offices in Maynard and New York, jumped after an analyst at Robert Baird & Co. upgraded the stock to outperform from neutral on speculation that the firm's SeeMore semantic search tool and international expansion could "pay off longer term. " The company said on March 1 that it was exploring strategic options. Friday chief executive Sal Iannuzzi said he would weigh selling the company as a whole or in parts. The upgrade "somewhat depends" on a positive development on that front, wrote Mark Marcon, a Baird analyst.

Jordan's Furniture announced Wednesday that it will once again team up with the Boston Red Sox on its Monster Hit promotion this season. If a Red Sox player hits the Jordan's sign in Fenway Park during a game between July 16 and Sept. 26, customers could win free furniture. Customers who buy anything at a Jordan's store starting Wednesday can qualify for the promotion. The chain, an official sponsor of the Red Sox, added that Sox manager Bobby Valentine will appear with Jordan's president and chief executive Eliot Tatelman in TV ads that talk up the Monster...