Entertainment
Crooning for confidence
When a new minister makes a statement moralizing about the evils of homosexuality, what’s the first thing people say? If your friends are as cynical as mine: He’s gotta be gay...
Flying Fish
Vince Herman was in a van last week, somewhere in Northern California, on his way to a gig with Great American Taxi at John Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom Room in San Francisco. The gig was near the tail end of a stretch of late-year gigs Taxi had peeled off in support of ...
Next-best thing
Operatic characters are larger than life. Especially when projected on a 20-foot tall movie screen...
Singing on the ice
I admired much of the original Happy Feet (2006), but five years later, I’m still considering suing its makers for emotional distress...
Boring vampire sex
The fourth film in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 reveals a flash or two of real filmmaking (mostly in a suggestively grotesque birthing sequence), enough to save it from pure lousiness...
Natalie Wood death probed by ‘new generation’ of detectives
LOS ANGELES — The death of Natalie Wood, who drowned...
Regis Philbin says goodbye on ‘Live! With Regis&Kelly’
LOS ANGELES — Regis Philbin said goodbye to his “Live!” fans on Friday after co-hosting the program for more than 25 years...
A thriller in the second degree
Experiencing a theater company for the first time is very much like going on a blind date. High hopes compete with trepidation. The possibilities are limitless. You might discover your soul mate, or you could end up with a hefty tab and a nasty case of crabs. ...
Learning the trance
In November 2010, Otis Taylor, Boulder’s grizzled guitar-wielding and banjo-slinging statesman of the blues, found himself with some rare time off between bouts of playing his signature trance blues in Europe. The 11-time Blues Music Awards nominee decided to bring ...
Pretty Lights Music clowns around at the Fox
Pretty Lights Music is loaded with solo electronic acts, so it’s refreshing to see that as lead man Derek Smith (Pretty Lights) has shed drummers over the years, Pretty Lights Music as a label is increasingly inclusive...
Bit o’ honey
Things were coming to a close for nascent guitarist Joe Lewis. The nearly lifelong Austin resident had reached the end of his musical rope. He was without a band and about to hang up his short-lived guitar career, when he received a call from Zach Ernst. A member of ...
Bad title, good movie
Forty-five minutes or so into Tower Heist, the question arises: Is this movie with the title of purest generica — was “Stealing Money” taken? — truly good, or simply less bad than most of what director Brett Ratner has done previously...
