Entertainment
From Germany with ennui
As the world contains innumerably more shades of grey (way more than 50) than blacks and whites, there are virtually never just “two types of people.” Be that as it may, a foolish consistency is indeed the hobgoblin of little minds. So for the sake of this exercise ...
Comedians sleep standing up
A note for the admittedly small subset of folks who swoon at the storytelling magic of This American Life and tingle at the mere mention of Ira Glass’s name: Sleepwalk with Me is charming public radio entertainment channeled into cinemas. Watch out Hollywood ...
Object of my Affleck-tion
It’s easy to thrill people when they don’t know what’s coming. OK, maybe not easy — paging Mr. Shyamalan — but certainly less difficult than whipping up tension in a film based on a decades-old actual incident, the resolution of which is but a Google search away. ...
Comedy queens Fey, Poehler to host Golden Globes
Two of the most successful women in comedy will pair up on hosting duties for the 2013 Golden Globes, NBC has announced. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, each of whom leads a successful NBC comedy, will take over for Ricky Gervais when the awards show airs Jan. 13...
For Brother Ali, it’s time to occupy
Brother Ali really didn’t need any more political cred, but...
Tommy Castro faces a midlife crisis
Guitarist/songwriter Tommy Castro, one of the West Coast blues scene’s hardest-working and most ferociously engaging figures, swings back into Boulder tonight for a midweek gig at the Outlook. For a guy who plays the Blues Cruise once or twice a year and ...
Beth Orton is back at it
Beth Orton’s voice is the milky cloud of cream in your coffee gently dispersing like last light before the twilight. Her trilling coo is sweet and tender but also urgent and foreboding. Almost two decades ago, the U.K. songstress was the girl-of the-moment first ...
Margarine-al humor
In the wake a presidential debate that was almost fact-free on one side and nearly lifeless on the other, smearing Butter on one´s eyes seemed like a good option for poll junkies. This allegedly politically charged ensemble comedy promised a send-up of campaign ...
Through science, nature’s wonders
It is not the preferred style of Professor Richard Dawkins, the famed evolutionary biologist and militant atheist crusader, to preach to the choir...
Beach boys feud: Mike Love says he never fired Brian Wilson
"I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys," wrote Mike Love in the Los Angeles Times...
