Entertainment

Running with it

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A rich and surprisingly old-fashioned musical biopic, The Runaways has neither the bloat nor the blather of your average Hollywood treatment of stars on the rise. It’s pungent and quick on its feet, capturing the clubs, the shag-heavy interiors and the Farrahhaired...

What to do when there’s nothing to do

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Amelia’s Big Idea—A Musical. 10 a.m. Friday, July 22, Harlow Platts Park, 1360 Gillaspie Drive, Boulder. Free Gather the kids and head to the park...

Theater | Week of Jan. 15, 2015

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Appoggiatura. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Jan.16- Feb. 22...

Real Genius

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Jad Abumrad, host of NPR’s Radiolab, doesn’t know exactly when it happened. Maybe it was as the show started climbing the podcast charts, maybe it was when it won a Peabody, or maybe it was around the time he was personally awarded a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” but he ...

Fame is not the goal

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In a way, Hanson has been laying the foundation for their upcoming orchestrally driven album, String Theory, since the “MMMBop” days. That was 21 years...

Training in 3-D

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How to Train Your Dragon, the latest film from Dreamworks Animation, tells the story of Hiccup ( Jay Baruchel), a young Viking and the only son of village chief, blacksmith and single dad Stoick The Vast (Gerard Butler). Hiccup is attracted to Astrid (America ...

Covering your tracks: Boulder favorites The Motet amp up for New...

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Drummer and Motet bandleader Dave Watts was enjoying a little pre-holiday chill time when we caught him last week...

Ghost stories

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According to the new documentary, Chasing the Shadows (chasingtheshadows.com), one-third of Americans believe in ghosts and more people in the United Kingdom believe in ghosts than believe in God. With many ghost-hunting reality shows, like Ghost Hunters on Syfy, ...

Busting the Bailouts

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I don’t drive, but every time I bike or walk past a gas station I can’t help reflecting on the fact that the price Americans pay for one gallon of gas is literally more than Exxon Mobil Corp. pays in taxes. In fact, due to federal subsidies — as Jim Hightower ...

Laughing through time

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The Savoy lives tucked on the second floor of a 19th century Victorian building in Denver. While it was renovated a few years ago,...

Rapper M-Bone killed in drive-by shooting

LOS ANGELES — Rapper M-Bone, a member of the platinum...