Entertainment

Glassblower: Henry Grindrod

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Insta: @thewiscokid_glass  How long have you blown glass? Since 2010. What—or who—drew you to the art form? I started right out of high school when a...

Christian Bale visits hospitalized victims of Colorado shooting

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In the wake of Friday’s shooting at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo., Warner Bros. canceled...

CMF ends on a high note

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When you plan a summer festival, you want to end on a high note. And this year, Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Colorado Music Festival...

Giving voice

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There’s an earthiness in the air as several young people work on potting some 300 flowers in the lobby of the Boulder Museum of...

The final countdown

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Ska music has a rough-and-tumble energy. The energy comes easily for Hatrick Penry, whose members have an average age of 19. Like all things, though, eventually the music comes to an end, and Hatrick Penry will be playing its last show as a band at the Fox Theatre on...

Hip-hop Rok

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Denver rapper Mane Rok, real name Sam Baron, has been cutting his teeth in the Colorado hip-hop scene for more than a decade. Whether it was competing in rhyme battles, organizing shows and events or releasing albums with his group, ManeLine, Mane has proudly ...

Awakening a lifetime

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It’s a warm spring day when John, dressed in a red plaid shirt with notes peeking out of the breast pocket, the first few scrawled pencil lines of which read yesterday’s date and “7:49 a, wind blowing from the west very hard,” and tan corduroys that sag in the seat, ...

Flying Fish

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Vince Herman was in a van last week, somewhere in Northern California, on his way to a gig with Great American Taxi at John Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom Room in San Francisco. The gig was near the tail end of a stretch of late-year gigs Taxi had peeled off in support of ...

Words from the road

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It’s just like me singing in your living room with a three-piece band, or in some little dive bar,” indie-folk singer-songwriter Luke Redfield told me about his new album, The Cartographer, by phone from Minnesota just after spending Christmas with his family there...

‘Bright Star’ pretty, but lacking substance

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Certain images in Jane Campion's Bright Star are beautiful, as opposed to merely attractive, and only a major talent could've produced them. My favorite is a sundrenched shot of Abbie Cornish's Fanny Brawne, her head and heart newly opened to the intoxication of love...

Point/Counterpoint

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To criticize a movie, you have to make another movie. — Jean-Luc Godard It might be the most notorious climax in American cinema: A black...

Rupert Murdoch needs to be convinced Conan O’Brien can make money...

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LOS ANGELES — News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said it's up to Fox Broadcasting to make a case that a late-night show hosted by Conan O'Brien can make money...