Entertainment
Social media Twitter has allowed TV stars and staffers to spread...
LOS ANGELES — It used to be that if you wanted to...
Taking out the thrash
How can you have an ’80s revival without inviting the skaters? You can’t, which is why over the last half-dozen years there’s been a thrash resurgence — a wave Richmond’s Municipal Waste was out in front of by five years. Started in 2001, the quartet’s proven one of ...
Psych rock group Eugene’s Axe on the leading edge
There’s some undeniable peril in tapping a rock song reference to name your band. The casual listener may mistake you for a tribute band (and conversely, if you are a tribute band, you’re more or less compelled to do it), and the obsessive-retentive types are likely ...
kindled, a fire no more to burn
and i can not be,
here, not tonight,
a dying vine,
these memories
twisted backward, embers of a life
retreating back to the earth
with thoughts, evolved
to die
an ego, regressed,...
Theater | Week of Feb. 19, 2015
24 Hour Theater — presented by Bolder Acts. 7 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303- 443-7510. Feb. 21...
Never let ’em see you sweat
The band is just settling into their hotel in Lake Tahoe when Dawes’ drummer, Griffin Goldsmith, calls to chat. It’s par for the course;...
For Jackie Earle Haley, ‘Nightmare’ is a dream come true
SAN FRANCISCO — Jackie Earle Haley knew he had to find the line between the familiar and the new to properly take over the iconic horror figure Freddy Krueger in the relaunch of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series...
Focusing the sound
After eight years in the Americana band Boulder Acoustic Society, multi-instrumentalist Aaron Keim has picked up on a fundamental truth of aging...
Matt Damon receives a film society award and good-natured barbs from...
LOS ANGELES — The 24th annual American Cinematheque Award presentation to Matt Damon on Saturday night was far more Friars Club Roast than earnest tribute to the 39-year-old actor-humanitarian...
Meta-references are not always good
In the first few minutes of Scream 4, the teenage girls home by themselves on a dark night are watching a DVD and discussing the merits and demerits of the Saw franchise, which one of the girls refers to as “torture porn,” and then brrrrrrrrrrrrp brrrrrrrrrrrrp goes ...
Unity of style and identity
It seems that every month brings a new article announcing the demise of classical music...
