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My Chemical Romance emerges from a dark time with the danceable...
LOS ANGELES — High in his ridgeline home, sitting on a porch that feels like a ledge, Gerard Way peered through cigarette smoke and the late-afternoon Pasadena...
Flogging Molly’s new live CD/DVD delivers
Homecoming. If you’re an American, the term immediately conjures images of football games on crisp autumn nights and awkward high school dances. Strip away the cultural connotations, however, and you’re left with the simple idea of returning home. For fans of Celtic-...
Hollywood’s golden year
It’s hard to overstate the significance of 1939 in American cinema.
Even though the movies were nearly four decades old, a series of events and...
Super Bowl 2012 ads: Watch em’ again
From ''Ferris Bueller'' and ''The Voice'' to ''The Hunger Games''
and ''Transformers,'' the ads everyone will be talking about. Look below
the player for a link to PopWatch where you can make your picks for
tonight's best and worst spots.
Read more...
The birth of the last lion
May 1940: Hitler is riding roughshod across Europe, gobbling up territory like an insatiable monster. Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Denmark have all fallen. Belgium,...
Before ‘A long time ago…’
If I have seen further,” Sir Isaac Newton wrote to his peer, Robert Hooke, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
The line...
An insider’s perspective: the making of a Fringe Festival act
I never thought that I would write a play about healing from sexual abuse, but as I was driving to Winnipeg to perform another play, scenes for just such a play kept popping in my head. I pushed them away and told myself that if I get into the Victoria Fringe ...
‘Poor’ Tommy
Usually, The Who’s Tommy is thought of as a large-scale musical filled with special effects and flashy design. Interestingly, Obscene Courageous Theatre Company, a relatively young company in Denver, chose a low-tech angle for its current production of the play, ...
The rebel we need
About a year ago, Tash Sultana had to press pause — the world was eating them alive, consuming the young Australian multi-instrumentalist’s talent as...
Shonda Rhimes, ABC take medical series formula ‘Off the Map’
If you've seen "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private...
101-word fiction contest
Boulder Weekly is launching its first annual fiction contest this spring...
Meta-references are not always good
In the first few minutes of Scream 4, the teenage girls home by themselves on a dark night are watching a DVD and discussing the merits and demerits of the Saw franchise, which one of the girls refers to as “torture porn,” and then brrrrrrrrrrrrp brrrrrrrrrrrrp goes ...














