Entertainment

Tom Morello Leads Occupy ‘Guitarmy’ Through New York for May Day

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The Occupy movement that mobilized thousands of protestors last fall...

Unfashionable life at a fashion magazine in ‘September Issue’

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Two years ago may as well be 200 in this economy, a fact that gives the easygoing, entertaining court documentary The September Issue a certain poignancy. It's about the run-up to a late-boom-era capitalistic war, a triumph of advertising and frippery over rational ...

Fear and Laughing

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Next up on my Halloween Haunted House Fest: Primitive Fear and 13th Street Manor (just north of the dog track at 5155 E. 64th Avenue, Commerce City, CO 80022).  Same building, different haunted houses.  Well, more like one absolutely horrifying house, and one ...

Jesse Cook talks labels and artistic heroes

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Somewhere just past the two minute mark of “Tommy and Me,” one of the middle-stretch cuts on world music guitarist Jesse Cook’s latest CD,...

Coughing up something nasty

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When singer-songwriter-guitarist Mike Doughty left Soul Coughing, the band he formed through sweat, drugs and willpower, the group was at the peak of its popularity...

Animal instinct

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David Sedaris has an odd relationship with animals. By his own admission he has no use for them in close quarters, but is infatuated with the raw and often ugly lives of creatures in their native habitats...

Henry ‘Fonzie’ Winkler returns to TV in USA’s ‘Royal Pains’

STUDIO CITY, Calif. — Fonzie's leather jacket may be in the Smithsonian, but the man who created him is still scaling the treadmill. In fact, Henry Winkler is beginning a new challenge to match the multitudes behind him...

Charles Bukowski uncovered

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Absence of the Hero, Vol. 2, the latest book of uncollected Charles Bukowski writings, begins with “The Reason Behind Reason,” a poignant tale of a professional baseball player who has somewhat of a psychotic break while playing the outfield. In the middle of a game...

War is Helen

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You’ve probably heard the old saw about sex being like pizza: “Even when it’s not that great it’s still pretty good.” The same may...

Musical Olympics

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If life’s a race, it’s certainly the hurdles...

One for the fan boys

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Primarily for dues-paying “X-Men” club members in good standing, rather than anyone wandering by a multiplex wondering if the prequel stands on its own, X-Men: First Class settles for moderately engrossing second-class mutant super-heroism. Plus it includes January...

A woman’s work and a son’s obsession

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There’s a bit of fairy tale when it comes to Benedetta Barzini. As the story goes, it was 1963 when Barzini was discovered on the streets...