Entertainment
Lindsay Lohan sentenced to 90 days in jail, 90 days in...
LOS ANGELES — A Beverly Hills judge Tuesday sentenced Lindsay Lohan...
Worlds of sci-fi and horror collide in ‘Predators’
Bacon and eggs. Stripes and solids. Lennon and...
Sam and Max deliver the laughs again
It was a boring weekday night when I stumbled across what I thought was a relic from my youth: a Sam and Max video game, fully restored and buyable from the Playstation Network store. But I was wrong. Delightfully wrong. The game I had found was Sam & Max: The Devil...
Delightful con artists
Sean-Pierre Jeunet hasn’t directed many films, but they’ve all been terrific, distinctive and stylish. Two you’ll hopefully have enjoyed already are The City of Lost Children and the weird Amélie. With Micmacs (original title Micmacs à tire-larigot) Jeunet moves ...
Grown up but not good
Grown Ups is a sure thing — a film you think you’ve seen before, and probably saw somewhere a second time, so why not another? Actors, particularly stage actors in longrunning plays, strive for “the illusion of the first time.” High-concept comedies like Grown Ups ...
Classical culture
Music festivals are springing up all around Colorado this time of year like columbines blooming along mountain hiking trails, from classical music in Aspen and Breckenridge to opera in Central City to bluegrass in Telluride and Lyons. The Colorado Music Festival, ...
Taming of the bard
When you’re putting on a production of a classic play — already performed thousands of times — by a canonical playwright like Shakespeare, the devil’s in the details of the adaptation. For this summer’s production of King Lear by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (...
Charles Bukowski uncovered
Absence of the Hero, Vol. 2, the latest book of uncollected Charles Bukowski writings, begins with “The Reason Behind Reason,” a poignant tale of a professional baseball player who has somewhat of a psychotic break while playing the outfield. In the middle of a game...
