Entertainment

Movie Ticket Prices Hit All-Time High in 2011

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Going to the movies has never been more expensive...

Sucker punched in the head

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Imagine a building where one side is a dark, dreary insane asylum populated by sadistic guards, doctors and attractive female inmates, and the other side is a popular brothel and speakeasy. Sounds like the heart of a B-movie exploitation film, and that’s what Sucker ...

Pretty Lights Music clowns around at the Fox

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Pretty Lights Music is loaded with solo electronic acts, so it’s refreshing to see that as lead man Derek Smith (Pretty Lights) has shed drummers over the years, Pretty Lights Music as a label is increasingly inclusive...

‘South Park’ Wins ‘What What (in the Butt)’ Legal Fight

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An appeals court has refused to revive a lawsuit against Viacom...

‘The Wolverine:’ Better Orient-ed

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the kind of movie that is released with apologies and finger-pointing. After his first solo stint landed with the grace and majesty of a wet fart, odds were stacked against a sequel for Wolvie. But if Hugh Jackman can forcibly warble Les ...

Storytelling takes the stage

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Theater, at its core, is storytelling. It’s a gathering together to hear another’s life story, to see ourselves in those stories in ways that make our own stories make a little more sense and to experience that catharsis as part of an audience. At Local Lab, the ...

theater

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Friday, April 4 William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead. Theater Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through April 26. What do you get when you combine poetry with zombies? William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead. ...

Are you awake?

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The folks at Microsoft announced Alan Wake back in 2005, hyping how the game would change the face of gaming. Wish they let us know we would have to wait five years for the game, during which Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto IV and Modern Warfare have already changed ...

American dreaming

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Nora Douglass decided to get personal when she started working on her master’s thesis in playwriting at the University of Washington. Rather than writing...

Flamenco gaining ground in Boulder

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The Spanish art form flamenco, known for its percussive footwork, sharp clapping, earthy dance movements and the rasgueos strumming technique, is taking root here in Boulder. There are a variety of classes that teach flamenco technique, the aesthetics of flamenco and...

Team Jarmusch

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It’s amazing how popularity can change perception. When Stephanie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Twilight, cracked The New York Times bestseller list, vampires were brought back into the mainstream in a big way. Beginning in 2008, Meyer’s series was adapted into five movies and...

The universal voice

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Sitting in the corner of the Dairy Arts Center’s McMahon Gallery, the band is set to play. The all-women ensemble features a diverse set...