Entertainment
Rev(AMP)’ed
Sometimes it just doesn’t work out. Relationships are funny like that. Things can always go south, even when it’s been going well for years. In the case of Oakland-based hip-hop duo Zion I, emcee Zumbi and producer Amp Live have been through the gamut. There’s an ...
Featherweight flick
Southpaw is a boxing movie with, dare I say, far too much boxing in it. I realize that sounds strange, but director Antoine Fuqua’s new movie isn’t very interested in its extended training montages or improbable fight scenes — and that’s not entirely a dig. ...
Local Natives stay restless
Andy Hamm has no time to think. One thing he knows: This is a good thing. The whirlwind of tour dates and promotional appearances surrounding Hamm and his bandmates in Local Natives happens once or twice a year, when a buzz band rises above the here-today-gone-...
‘Nothing to do with death, everything to do with life’
How do you sum up a life in 500 words? That’s the problem Bruce Weber, veteran obituary writer for the New York Times, faces...
The journey is the destination
In a locally published review last winter of their LP Instinct, the generally sympathetic reviewer predicted that this year — 2019 — was going...
Baby names with some bite; ‘Twilight’-inspired baby names have supernatural appeal
You can watch the "Twilight" movies and read the books, but why stop there...
Homespun cinema
CU Boulder’s International Film Series (IFS) has unveiled the spring 2023 calendar, and it’s a doozy. From the Jan. 26 free 35-mm screening of...
Falling through plot holes
Limitless is about a drug that rewires your brain so that instead of having access to the usual 20 percent, you can utilize it all. Every memory is eidetic; everything you’ve ever seen, heard, learned, touched, tasted can instantly be integrated into your experiences...
After 25 years, Clutch continues to look forward
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Clutch. But you won’t find frontman Neil Fallon getting overly nostalgic about the band’s history or thinking...
Under the covers
Paul Simon, Velvet Underground and Blind Willie McTell covers on the same album … you don’t hear that every day...

















