Entertainment

Review: The Portal: A Cosmic Rock Odyssey

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Billed as modern interpretation of a classic shamanic journey, The Portal: A Cosmic Rock Odyssey combines film, music and lighting to try and create a surreal, out-of-body, perhaps even religious experience for its audience. In the case of the audience at the Boulder...

Ann Curry said to be new ‘Today’ co-anchor

NEW YORK—She's jumped from airplanes, interviewed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, bowed to the Dalai Lama, traveled to Darfur...

Seicento celebrates Scarlatti and son

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Evanne Browne, artistic director of the Baroque vocal ensemble Seicento, wants you to know that she is excited about their next concert. Very excited. “I...

Under the covers

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Paul Simon, Velvet Underground and Blind Willie McTell covers on the same album … you don’t hear that every day...

Please sir, may I have my job?

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Sit down, Sartre. Writers/directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne get it a bit more right: Hell isn’t just other people. Hell is asking other people to surrender their bonuses so you can keep your job. Two Days, One Night is a harrowing social allegory, a dramatic ...

Poetry in motion

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With all the effort it takes to get students simply to show up for class, do schools even teach poetry any longer? Does the current crop of K-12 get any exposure to meter and verse that isn’t contained in a rap song? Do they have any inkling who Walt Whitman, Oscar ...

Going through phases

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Lindsey Stirling could not have experienced a more abrupt and dramatic stop to her music activities than what happened when the pandemic hit in...

José González: Breaking down barriers

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It’s difficult to observe the current state of the world and not feel some level of frustration, disappointment and maybe even a little bit...

Chemistry without a textbook

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Vintage Trouble might just have the best live show going...

What can be done with what we throw away

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Nick Cave can take a garish ceramic bird, and a kitschy ceramic fruit bowl, and a few strings of plastic beads, and put it all together in a way that makes a stunning, and beautiful, sculpture. There’s no breaking that equation down to make the math work on how ugly ...

Riding for the feeling

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When local singer-songwriter Patrick Dethlefs looks back on his earliest memories, he hears the sound of his dad’s guitar. Music filled the rooms of...

‘Crazy, Stupid, Love,’ ‘Bridesmaids,’ ‘Modern Family,’ ’30 Rock,’ lead Comedy Awards...

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The nominations for the second annual Comedy Awards were announced today. Television series Modern Family and 30 Rock and films Bridesmaids and Crazy, Stupid, Love...