Entertainment
Gasoline Lollipops: Through a filter of romance
Gasoline Lollipops’ founder Clay Rose is tired of people saying that songwriters should just be themselves. Though this may manifest itself more overtly in his side project where band members dress and act like 1920s zombies, Gasoline Lollipops certainly creates its ...
A grand Bill: CU professor looks to make the biggest student...
While discussing his ambitious new project — “the biggest student film of all time” — director, screenwriter and University of Colorado assistant professor Alex Cox brings up an interesting point about anti-war movies. More specifically, about the lack thereof...
The Wildflower in spring
"What did the drummer say right before he got kicked out of the band?” asks Patrick Sites, sharing a joke that he and his Whitewater Ramble band mates like to tell. He laughs as he delivers the punch line. “Hey guys, can we do one of my songs...
Power from within: Ghanaian CU dance teacher uses art as a...
A few days before her African dance class presentation, University of Colorado Boulder student Jessie DePasquale’s dance partner said she wouldn’t be there. Her teacher, Nii Armah Sowah, had put DePasquale in a group with only one other person, while other groups had...
You should mount ‘Olympus’
The only explanation that makes sense for the existence of Olympus Has Fallen is that someone found a 1990s action movie on VHS underneath Joel Silver’s bed and paid to have Gerard Butler digitally transposed over Steven Seagal. The Die Hard franchise may be hiking ...
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, 82, dies in Boston
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author often called the father of modern African literature, has passed away in Boston. He was 82...
South by Southwest: Pandemonium in Austin
Put tech nerds, gear expos, independent film buffs and musicians of every conceivable genre into a blender and press mix, pour the resulting slurry into the one city just tolerant enough to put up with it, and you get an approximation of what it’s like to be at South...
A live experiment
Plenty of musicians say the live show is where their music really comes alive and songs can take on a new life, evolving into something different — and often better — than the versions fans are accustomed to hearing on a record...
Leadership via committee
To an outsider, rehearsals of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra may seem like chaos — but members insist it’s focused chaos...
Hocus poke-my-eyes-out
Like a scathing satire of the Soviet Union or a mockumentary musical on grunge, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone sets its eyes on an expired target of cultural derision nobody gives a fuzzy rabbit about anymore. Dressing Steve Carrell in a Siegfried and Roy bedazzled ...
