Entertainment

reel to reel | Week of Jan. 12, 2012

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The Adventures of Tintin...

Blues to make you dance

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Around the same time Robert Johnson was emerging from the crossroads with his newfound guitar-picking skills, wailing about how all his love was in vain, blues music was going through a transformation of its own. The genre was spreading from its humble beginnings on ...

Sweet like baklava

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If you missed New Year’s the first time, Planina offers you another chance to celebrate...

Creative co-operation

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What do you get when you mix Marxists, socialists and communists? A cooperative housing unit in the heart of Boulder known as Chrysalis. And what happens at coops after the collective gardening and cooking and cleaning gets done? Pure, enchanted creativity...

A tale of two predators

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In 1989, a jury found Brent Brents, then 18, guilty of raping two children. He spent the next 15 years in jail, and when he got out in July 2004, he went on a terrifying rampage, raping and assaulting dozens of men, women and children until his capture in February ...

Fox series gives an improbable second act to ‘Napoleon Dynamite’

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PASADENA, Calif. — It’s time for the return of “Napoleon Dynamite...

Coachella festival unveils expanded lineup

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LOS ANGELES — Rapper Dr. Dre will close the 2012...

Fox is going after ‘SNL’ with new block of cartoons

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PASADENA, Calif. — Fox Broadcasting Co. is betting on cartoons to challenge NBC’s “Saturday Night Live...

Oscar nominee Don Cheadle stars in new Showtime series

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LOS ANGELES — From his Oscar-nominated performance in...

The reintroduction of Clyfford Still

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Even art enthusiasts who believed they knew the work of leading American abstract expressionist Clyfford Still had surprises waiting when the museum of his work opened in Denver. But for everyone else, it was a surprise just knowing the man existed at all...

Cinema highlights

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How bad of a year was it for movies? As late as August, I was wondering if there would be enough films to fill a list of 10. Then came the fall movie season and everything changed...

Sherlock Holmes minus the mystery

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While I enjoyed the 2009 Guy Ritchie reinvention of the fabled detective in Sherlock Holmes, applying the same formula in this newer film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows proved more a boring, tedious exercise in special effects and self-conscious filmmaking and ...