Entertainment

Front Range funnies

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Boulder has plenty of places to drink, dance and jam — but people looking for laughs have been out of luck...

Luck happens

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Sometimes all you can do is marvel at someone’s dumb luck, blessed fortune, or whatever you want to call it. Like the guy who wins the lottery because he picked one or two of the right numbers by mistake, the woman who hits the jackpot on her first pull on a slot ...

The poetry of cinema

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Though an obscure class or two on film studies or screenwriting sometimes appears on the course list at Naropa University, the Buddhist-inspired Boulder school has no film studies major. However, since 1999, Naropa has enjoyed the presence of the novelist, singer-...

Worlds of music

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Michael Christie knows what he wants at Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF). “Variety is most important,” says the festival’s music director. “What we do is look off the beaten track and then throw in some element that’s surprising...

‘Lantern’ not illuminating

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Just when I thought that the summer was going to be defined by great films, I watched Green Lantern. Based on a storyline that’s more suited for Saturday morning cartoons than a cinematic production, the film had the awkward feel of a children’s made-for-TV ...

Getting lazy about slackers

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The Art of Getting By is a screen romance that echoes its title: It gets by. Barely. It’s another wan tale of an anti-social teen who finds himself irresistible to the sweetest, prettiest girl in school. But the film has flashes of wit and some interesting teen ...

reel to reel | Week of June 23, 2011

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Bad Teacher...

Michael Jackson’s former manager admits tax evasion

WASHINGTON — The former general manager and...

‘Jackass’ star legally drunk at time of crash

PHILADELPHIA — "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn's blood...

REVIEW: Bassnectar at Red Rocks

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Bassnectar is exactly that — a sweet distillation of low-frequency pollens, collected from the flowers of many sizes and colors. And just like the name implies, the crystalline sugar that results from all that busy-bee gathering is always the king of the show. Seeing...