Entertainment

BIFF: Drop acid, play baseball, make history

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In 1970, Dock Ellis, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a no-hitter. Years later, he would claim that during the game, he was tripping on LSD...

BIFF: Heads and horsetails

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Penny Chenery, the owner of Secretariat, the Triple Crown-winning racehorse, reveals the truth behind her life in a new documentary, Penny & Red: The Life of Secretariat’s Owner...

BIFF: The Human Experiment

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Every single one of us is being transformed daily into a walking cocktail of chemicals...

BIFF: The Rocket

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Superstitions of rural Laos lay the groundwork for this award-winning film from Australian director Kim Mordaunt...

BIFF: Alive Inside

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Alive Inside confirms what many of us already knew: The healing, soothing power of music has been underestimated by the medical community for decades. This moving documentary focuses on individuals in nursing homes who have Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, and who ...

Review: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks at the Gothic Theatre, 2-12-14

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Stephen Malkmus, with his three-piece band the Jicks, was pretty masterful last night at the Gothic Theatre in Denver, playfully soloing over '60s-influenced indie-rock with a much more psychedelic, and musically challenging, vibe than Pavement, the band he founded ...

BIFF: God Loves Uganda

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The documentary God Loves Uganda begins innocently enough, outlining evangelical outreach efforts by the Kansas City-based International House of Prayer (yes, they refer to it as IHOP) to Uganda...

Man Man ditches the forks to find pop success

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One of Philadelphia’s finest touring acts, Man Man, will play the Fox Theatre on Monday, Feb. 17. But be warned: Trying to describe it to anyone you’d like to convince to accompany you to the show is nearly impossible...

theater

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Friday, February 14, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 15, 7:30 p.m., February 16, 2 p.m.: Catapult. Irey Theatre, University Theatre Building, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303- 492-8181...

BIFF: Just give him a camera

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The National is a band of brothers. Aaron Dessner, on guitar and keyboard, and his twin brother Bryce, on guitar, are joined by Scott and Bryan Devendorf on bass and drums. Then there’s the odd-man-out: Matt Berninger, lead singer of the indie rock band...

Beyond Bach

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The Boulder Bach Festival is branching out...

BIFF: Smaller than life

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“Tiny houses have gotten a lot of media coverage and a lot...