Entertainment

Blasters from the past

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I saw Man or Astro-man? perform in 2001, and am still recovering from the experience. There were strobe lights, video projections, costumes and blisteringly loud surf-punk riffs by the score...

Tell me again

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I am the tinker-toy derelict in the corn;you are the plucky jalopy in the public pool.I mean to say, meet me in the delicatessen;leave...

Chloe falls flat

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Chloe is a conundrum. Envisioned as a psychosexual thriller about a woman scorned, director Atom Egoyan’s latest puzzle is instead little more than a messy affair with mood lighting, sexy lingerie, heavy breathing and swelling, um, music. Everyone here is dripping ...

Amp Inventor Jim Marshall Dead

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Jim Marshall, inventor of one of rock & roll's most important innovations – the Marshall amplifier – has died at age 88...

‘The Hunger Games’ Breaks Box Office Records for Opening Weekend

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The Hunger Games was a massive hit at the box office on its opening weekend, grossing an estimated $155 million domestically, The Wall Street Journal reports...

Shear zone

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Wandering aimlessly about the internet in the early, lockdown days of the pandemic, Marina Kassianidou stumbled onto some research out of Harvard that proves...

Brandi Carlile bares her soul on latest album

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One of the major ways Brandi Carlile feels she improved as a singer on her latest CD, Give Up The Ghost, was in being able to tap into the emotions that fueled her songs as they were first being written when it came time — sometimes many months later — to record her ...

Boulder Phil ventures into classical repertoire

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The Boulder Philharmonic is set to enter less familiar territory: Mozart and Beethoven. Is that surprising? “Classical pieces are a little bit of a departure...

If you knew my story

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There’s something about folk music — the twang of a banjo, the lonesome drawl of a singer’s voice — that captures a certain melodrama...

Droning on

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For one brief, shining moment, the completely unnecessary remake of Robocop suggested the possibility of non-suckage. Pat Novak (Samuel L. Jackson), a host of cable news propaganda, frothily and non-ironically...

Weaving stories

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Not many textile artists have to go through security checkpoints every morning. Anna Olsson did. For five years, the psychologist-by-day and artist-by-night worked in...

Comedians review reels of forgotten treasure

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Nick Prueher would never wish his career on anyone...