Entertainment
Martina Hoffmann’s world as art
%uFFFDBoulder-based artist Martina Hoffmann says growing up in equatorial Africa as a blond-haired, blue-eyed child was “a beautiful experience.” The German-born painter remembers how indigenous children would surround her, touching her skin and hair with curiosity ...
An unpretentious timewaster
Ten percent to the usual charities?” I love a line like that, smack in the middle of a scene featuring bank robbers dividing up the spoils. It proves they’re good guys at heart, willing to spread it around (if only for the sake of appearances) while blowing the rest ...
Not far enough
There’s an unexpected wistfulness, a bittersweet undercurrent to Going the Distance that could not have been in the script. This romantic comedy co-starring Drew Barrymore and longtime beau Justin Long was finished just as the real life couple was splitting up. For ...
Rebuilding Coliseum
"It’s just like those people that got married at 18 and stayed together forever,” says Ryan Patterson, frontman of the Louisville, Ky., punk band Coliseum...
A common theme
Listening to a young band can be as fun as opening the door of an outhouse. Unfocused songwriting and lackluster instrumentation, spoon-fed by the blind adoration of equally young, equally uninformed fans, can make for an unpleasant experience, to put it mildy...
Back to school bash
Boulder Weekly hosts a concert on Friday at the Fox Theatre welcoming students to town with Boulder’s Only Back to School Bash, an event free to anyone with a student ID. The ushers escorting students into another year of collegiate life will be Colorado-based rap ...
Spectacular Eminem-Jay-Z production was months in the making
DETROIT — You can finally accuse Eminem of understatement...
Robert Rodriguez unleashes edgy ‘Machete’
One of the deciding moments in the making of the neo-exploitation, ultra-violent-comedy thriller "Machete" came when star-to-be Danny Trejo was doing an autograph signing in England. "These guys came up and they had pictures of 'Machete' tattooed on their backs," ...
Emmy night is big for first-timers
LOS ANGELES — It was a good night for first-timers...
T.I. reworks his act for Hollywood
LOS ANGELES — "Would you mind taking your shoes off before you come inside?" a willowy brunette asked T.I. at the door of Brett Ratner's mansion...
Better than nothing
Set in Manhattan, The Switch is all over the place. But around the halfway point it starts getting interesting and the people who put it together are at least working in a realm of reasonable intelligence and wit and respect for the audience. I wish it were great, ...
A winning ticket
It`s hard out there for a kid from the projects who scores a $370 million lottery payoff, but must wait for the claim office to reopen (infernal federal holiday!). Suddenly he is pursued by “a premature crack-baby felon” straight out of prison and willing — eager, ...
