Entertainment
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
When Avatar shattered box-office records in 2009, many
attributed the movie’s success to 3D’s profitability. And not just because
viewers were intrigued, but because tickets cost...
A feast for the eyes
Summer is over, school is back in session and that can only mean one thing: the glorious return of the University of Colorado Boulder’s own International Film Series (IFS...
The rebel we need
About a year ago, Tash Sultana had to press pause — the world was eating them alive, consuming the young Australian multi-instrumentalist’s talent as...
Seuss is spinning
The new animated feature The Lorax, known in its entirety as Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax to keep it straight from “John Grisham’s The Lorax,” does a few smaller things right but the bigger things not quite. I’ve come to fear these movies. I love Seuss so much, even his ...
A more engaging Thing
The slippery, effective new version of The Thing serves as a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film, explaining what went down, down in Antarctica, after the intergalactic thing thawed and began eviscerating humans and a husky or two...
Brewers
Saturday, August 2: Avery Brewing Company’s 21st Anniversary Party, 12 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303- 440-4342...
Ode to coronavirus
As I lay here watching the world crumble from my phone screen,
I look outside my window.
The trees stand as per usual.This time covered in...
Arts | Week of August 28, 2014
Game Changer — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443- 2122. Through Sept. 14...
NedFest 2013: Standing strong
A year after Michigan Mike’s tie-dye-in-the-dust music fest proved it can go on without him, with a little help from his friends, NedFest still swings a pretty mean hula hoop...
Lost in a sea of memory
Few films can announce themselves as succinctly with an opening image as Frantz does. In the foreground: green leaves and pink flowers waving in...
Genre jumper
Afronauts bassist Eric Keeney is a self-proclaimed music geek. For much of his life as a musician, he played in bands that cater to music geeks — complex and technically impressive, but not necessarily conducive to an all-night dance party. That all changed, however...
