Entertainment

U2’s manager says the ‘free’ ride for music via the Internet...

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As far as solving the music industry's financial woes, U2 manager Paul McGuinness still hasn't found what he's looking for. But he's not about to stop beating the drum...

Inmate who recorded life behind bars eyes a sequel

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BALTIMORE — The way Omar Broadway sees it, Maryland...

Filling the gaps of experience

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There must be something in the mountain air. More and more young writers are coming to Boulder from far-flung American locales, unlearning who they thought they were as artists and people, and then (usually) moving on, spreading the cool, creative calm of Colorado ...

Rocking tour

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When Peter Mortimer premiered his first movie Scary Faces 10 years ago at the Boulder Theater, the local filmmaker had his doubts...

Comedy, with flashes of Hughes

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The ghost of John Hughes smiles upon Easy A, a film that freely and giddily borrows from and pays tribute to Hughes’ famous Holy Trinity of ’80s teen angst comedies...

Building blocks of sound

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 Back in 2003, drummer Danny Seim was abusing employee perks at a Portland, Ore., Kinko’s. Using the store’s photocopiers, Seim produced copy after copy of the handmade flipbook he designed as packaging for his band Menomena’s debut album I Am The Blame Fun Monster. ...

Affleck actually delivers

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The robbers work with a confident, brutal and bracing efficiency. And the same could be said of their director...

Rogue Sound around town

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There was a time when college bands were real bands with real instruments. It’s hard to believe if you live on the Hill and see DJs every weekend, but things used to be done sans laptop and it was awesome, better, back when the most expensive drum machines sounded ...

Affleck fought cliches for ‘The Town’

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LOS ANGELES — Some movie sets abound with producers and studio executives, others teem with entourages of dodgy hangers-on. Ben Affleck invited a slightly different class of visitors to his bank heist story "The Town" — a bunch of real-life criminals...

Joaquin Phoenix is still here (and may be available for film...

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TORONTO — Throughout the new film "I'm Still Here," Joaquin Phoenix...

Mavis Staples visits her folk-gospel past, with the help of Wilco’s...

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LOS ANGELES — It's early July, and Mavis Staples is sitting in the offices of Epitaph Records, a truth that is surprising to her. The 71-year-old gospel and soul legend from Chicago...

Scottish actress plays Irish character in HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Actress Kelly Macdonald...