Entertainment
Heavens to BETC
The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company — aka BETC, which is pronounced “Betsy” for those of you still puzzling out the headline above — concludes its fifth season with the regional premiere of Michael Hollinger’s An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf. A scrumptious...
Paul McCartney to reissue classic solo albums ‘McCartney’ and ‘McCartney II’
LOS ANGELES — There is justice in this world for those of us who have long contended that Paul McCartney's...
Obamas go to Chicago for taping of Oprah’s show
CHICAGO — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived in Chicago on Wednesday morning to tape Oprah Winfrey's nationally syndicated television show...
Tragedy brings Deftones closer for a new album
The Deftones had a tough task in front of it as it recorded its latest album "Diamond Eyes...
Ann Curry said to be new ‘Today’ co-anchor
NEW YORK—She's jumped from airplanes, interviewed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, bowed to the Dalai Lama, traveled to Darfur...
HBO looks at the making of the show that ruined TV
At the beginning of the annual congressional shootout over funding for public broadcasting, PBS...
Mel Gibson finally talks about the Oksana tapes, and the future
LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson...
Meta-references are not always good
In the first few minutes of Scream 4, the teenage girls home by themselves on a dark night are watching a DVD and discussing the merits and demerits of the Saw franchise, which one of the girls refers to as “torture porn,” and then brrrrrrrrrrrrp brrrrrrrrrrrrp goes ...
A conspiracy full of holes
Heartbreakingly average, director Robert Redford’s The Conspirator errs in the way so many films do, especially films about unsung pieces of American history. It focuses on the wrong character — in this case the white male, i.e. the “bankable” one, instead of the ...
