loading and displaying a bunch of entities - see http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/103608/what-does-the-entity-view-function-do

entities.php

<?php

$query = new EntityFieldQuery();
$query->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node');
$query->entityCondition('bundle', 'article');
$result = $query->execute();
if (!empty($result)) {
  $entities = entity_load('node', array_keys($result['node']));
  return entity_view('node', $entities, 'full');
} else {
  return array('#markup' => t('No article nodes found.'));
}

// wish I could remember this off by heart!!