Entertainment
REVIEW and SLIDESHOW: Foster The People at the Bluebird Theater June...
Photos by Jules Kueffer...
From desert soirees to swanksville
To our great disappointment, Denver post-rock group Woodsman aren’t whittling sticks in a log cabin when Boulder Weekly reaches guitarist Trevor Peterson by phone. At the first stop of their current tour, the group finds themselves in the rather plush Hotel Congress ...
Raging the Cajun back where it all started
These things must be approached delicately, but the lead-off track from Steve Conn’s elegant new CD Beautiful Dream, an unraveled lament to gazing back over the years and pondering what-ifs called “Easier Said Than Done,” resonates a little as an apology self-...
Gentlemen, start your symbolism
"Aww, can you buy alcohol now?” A colleague teased Ryan Everson about his recent birthday this past Sunday. Having just turned 24, University of Colorado Master of Fine Arts candidate Ryan Everson has been the center of plenty of youth-driven wisecracks. But his ...
One for the fan boys
Primarily for dues-paying “X-Men” club members in good standing, rather than anyone wandering by a multiplex wondering if the prequel stands on its own, X-Men: First Class settles for moderately engrossing second-class mutant super-heroism. Plus it includes January...
Mary Poppins meets Charles Bukowski
T.J.needs a friend. His mom has just died in a traffic accident. His dad, Paul, has withdrawn into a haze of tranquilizers and group-therapy blather. His grandma is kind but housebound. The school bully likes pushing him facedown onto urinal cakes. The woman in his...
Comedians review reels of forgotten treasure
Nick Prueher would never wish his career on anyone...
Laurence Fishburne is leaving ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’
LOS ANGELES — Laurence Fishburne is out as Dr. Raymond Langston on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation...
NBC holds onto Olympics through 2020 with $4.3 billion bid
LOS ANGELES — The Olympic flame will continue to burn proudly on NBC into the next decade — and it will cost only $4.38 billion...
Iron & Wine: A closet jam band?
When Iron & Wine took the stage at the Boulder Theater this weekend, the crowd, which looked like mostly couples in their late-20s, probably expected vocalist Samuel Beam and the band of more than 10 players to romance and enchant them into bliss.Instead, Beam’s ...
New York Times bestselling author comes to Boulder
(Editor's note: Justin Cronin speaks at the Boulder Book Store on Monday, June 6. Doors...
It’s Bootsy, baby
William “Bootsy” Collins, bassist extraordinaire and rhythmic savant, has done it all. He played regimented, tightly wound funk with Godfather of Funk James Brown. He played with George Clinton and his merry band of Funkadelic freaks. He broke out on his own. He made...
