How many times have you and your friends found yourselves watching some random, awful movie? Faster than you can say “Zardoz” you’re all chiming in with witty comments, ripping the movie apart like you’re Joel — or maybe Mike — and the bots on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Punk bands aren’t known for longevity. After all, punk rock is more Sid Vicious than John Lydon. From time to time, though, a punk outfit stays together long enough to warrant a “Best Of&r

All of you — okay, both of you –— avid theatre review readers will remember that my last review was of Roller Skating With My Cousin which, unsurprisingly, contained generous amounts of on-stage roller skating. Who’d of thunk that this, my very next review, would be of a play as different from the last as peanut butter is from the space shuttle and yet, through some heretofore unheard of cosmic convergence, would also feature roller skating? I mean, what are the odds? No, seriously, I have no idea. Feel free to email in with your statistical estimates.

How many times have you been to the theatre during the past year? Granted, you’re reading a theatre review, so you’re probably pretty far down the right hand side of the Bell Curve, but be honest. Did you go once? Twice?

This Saturday, Anti-Flag brings its “The Economy Sucks, Let’s Party!” tour to Cervantes in Denver. Lead singer, Justin Sane, talked with the Boulder Weekly about the tour, the band and the state of the nation.

Christmas time is again upon us. Depending on your orientation, it is a time for celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, a time for jubilant gift-giving in the name of secular bonhomie or a time to get all Grinch green in the gills and decry every thought and action of anyone subscribing to either of the first two groups.

I can’t speak for any other critics, but for me the most difficult plays to review are those that rest in that nebulous in-between place, those that are formidably mediocre and thereby fail to inspire either serious praise or derision.

Judging from the Theater Company of Lafayette’s latest Halloween homage to all things Twilight Zone, the cast and crew must have some serious trust issues. Because if it’s not a sort of group sublimation, then it would have to be some incredible concatenation of coincidences that results in each of the three Twilight Zone parodies in this year’s show revolving around the need for and pitfalls of trust and belief.

In the world of pop culture, you can’t walk to the corner store for a soda without running into 15 examples of paeans to the popular kids. Plays, movies and songs seem to suckle at the teat of social acceptance as they lavish praise on the beautiful and adroit, the alpha males and females. If you’re the captain of the football team, the head cheerleader or even the bad-boy loner smoking at the edge of school grounds during lunch break, the world idolizes you.

Over the past few weeks, America's football season once again kicked off. As is the annual custom, fans of college football engaged fans of professional football in the ageless, spirited debate about which version of the sport deserves higher praise.