Entertainment

Larry King closes his CNN gig

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LOS ANGELES — The man behind the microphone has hung up his suspenders...

‘True Grit’ gets the Coen brothers treatment

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LOS ANGELES — It wasn't the celluloid ghost of John Wayne that inspired the Coen brothers to go off into the dusty ravines and bleak prairie land of New Mexico to make "True Grit," their first Western. No, this was a project with a storybook beginning...

Dark side of ballet

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Black Swan is a breathtaking, intense, horrifying and beautiful cinematic essay on obsession, maturity and the fine line between reality and fantasy, and it’s well worth seeing, regardless of whether you’re interested in ballet...

A thriller for grandma

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The Tourist is a facsimile of a masquerade of a gloss on Charade, and on all the lesser cinematic charades that followed in the wake of director Stanley Donen’s 1963 picture. While it’s fairly easy to take in its retro way — it certainly takes it easy on the audience...

Punching back in

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When she moved from San Diego to Boulder in 2007 my partner, Irene, was hoping to discover Colorado musicians who moved her as much as the reggae-tinged San Diego-based alt-folkie Beth Preston had. So one can imagine Irene’s surprise when she went grocery shopping at...

Hardcore plus electric equals skrillectrostep

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Once an obscure corner of English electronic music, dubstep will likely become a mainstream American sound in a matter of months — look no further than dubstep champ Rusko talking production with Britney Spears for definitive evidence that the genre’s days in the ...

Surfing with Satch

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Swansea song

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It’s been 10 months since I last reviewed a show at the Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden. Unlike Courtney Love or the majority of the Baldwin brothers, time has been kind to Miners Alley...

Robert De Niro named Golden Globes’ 2011 Cecil B. DeMille honoree

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LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. enlisted the help of actor Kevin Spacey Tuesday morning to announce 2011's Cecil B. DeMille award winner Robert De Niro...

Elephant Revival splits the sky with “Break In The Clouds”

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There are some voices that reach out through the speakers and beg everyone in the room to stop their conversations for a moment and just listen. Elephant Revival’s Daniel Rodriguez has such a voice. It’s a timeless folk voice, deep and hearty, weathered but ...

Rival takes on Jackson estate with help from Michael’s mother

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LOS ANGELES — For someone trying to sell a book, it couldn't get much better than this: Oprah Winfrey, the nation's reader-in-chief, was holding up a glossy volume of Michael Jackson...

Performance soul in black and white

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When Lisa Siciliano bought her neighbor’s camera on a whim in 2002, she had no idea that such a small decision would alter the course of her life...