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Box it up
With the holiday shopping season in full fidelity, finding the perfect gift for that special music obsessive in your life can be a stiff...
Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’ inspires CU production of a Baroque masterpiece
Nero and Poppea were the amoral power couple of 60s A.D. imperial Rome, and they didn’t care who got in their way. They are the subjects of Claudio Monteverdi’s final operatic masterpiece, The Coronation of Poppea, based on Roman history and written in 1653 for the ...
Fade to blackout
The Hangover Part III is so jaw-droppingly terrible, America deserves an explanation. Not because this series has become some nation-defining work of art, but because it sure feels like writer/director Todd Phillips just told everyone who likes his films to go “make ...
A film of great scowling
Actors learn only by doing, and by getting in over their heads. In the heyday of the Hollywood studio era, often they’d do this while wearing extremely heavy battle garb, surrounded by extras yelling “Aarrrrrghhhh!” as they run toward the enemy...
Heavy Rotation
“SULA (Paperback),” Jamila Woods
For her most recent release, LEGACY! LEGACY!, Chicago R&B artist Jamila Woods highlights artists of color who have inspired her: Zora...
Still the queen of the local scene
"I’m sorry,” Wendy Woo says over the phone one recent afternoon, “I feel like I’m not a hundred percent focused. I’m taking a defiant...
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 ...
The National rock Denver’s Fillmore
Crystal chandeliers glow coldly in the dark Fillmore Auditorium. On stage, Matt Berninger stands tall in a black suit, carefully caressing his glass of Bacardi. His band swarms around him in a cacophonous wave of composition...
The virtue of cool
The art in PUSH.POP.KICK. isn’t what you normally find on the walls of Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center. Loaded with themes of violence, racism, drugs and sex, the skateboard-themed show hangs counterculture on white walls more familiar with the politically correct. ...
The many surprises of Wilco
Glenn Kotche is supposed to be on a plane headed to rehearsals when we catch up by phone. But he’s back at home after...
