Entertainment

Looking up

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After four-and-a-half years, Springdale Quartet is ready to move on to bigger and better things. As bassist Jordan Roos explains, that means everything from the venues they play to the music they make...

Many days in the life

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Like Same Time, Next Year with less guilt or When Harry Met Sally ... with a somewhat different ending, One Day pops in and out of the lives of characters played by Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess across two decades, spanning university graduation to older, wiser 40...

Cinemax launches first-ever prime-time series, more are on the way

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NEW YORK — For a long time, the approximately 12...

Photo Essay: Yonder Mountain String Band at Red Rocks

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Yonder Mountain String Band played an energetic, lively set at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Saturday, Aug. 20. Check out photos from the concert.

Pickin’ over yonder

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Yonder Mountain String Band is one of the Boulder area’s most recent, and resounding, success stories. During the band’s 13-or-so-year history, YMSB — guitarist Adam Aijala, bassist Ben Kauffman, mando player Jeff Austin and banjo player Dave Johnston, who all came ...

A glimpse at a Cuban musical legacy

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A regal-looking woman wearing a flowing, multicolored dress strolls down a narrow street in Havana, Cuba, casually gesturing with her hands as a tune escapes her lips. She’s singing to nobody and everybody at the same time. As if on cue, a passerby recognizes the ...

Keen sensibilities

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Robert Earl Keen has long made his own rules. He’s also willing to break them...

L.A. gains appeal

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Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard is all about change. The singer/guitarist, currently on tour with his bandmates in support of their seventh album, Codes and Keys, once wrote a driving, gritty, guitar-fueled pop tune about the ills of Los Angeles called “Why You’d...

Photo essay: Incubus at Red Rocks Aug. 17

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Incubus played Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Wednesday, Aug. 17, and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello opened. Boulder Weekly's Dane Cronin was there, and he snapped these pictures.

Don’t escape – innovate

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After a long, hard day at work, many people find themselves in front of a brightly lit screen, immersed in what they consider pure entertainment. To them, it’s a chance to let go, to forget about their troubles, to distract themselves from their boring existence on...

When death misses

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There was a scene, lo those many (OK, 11) years ago, in the original Final Destination. One of the characters who inadvertently “cheated death” and ruined “death’s grand design” had holed up in a cabin, which then had to be made accident-proof...

Fast and cheap

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Fast, cheap and out of control, and set in glamorous Grand Rapids, Mich., director Ruben Fleischer’s 30 Minutes or Less doesn’t even crack the 80-minute mark if you exclude the end credits. The same was true of Fleischer’s feature film debut, the very funny ...