Entertainment
Death or psychosis
You have to let go of the living,” says the funeral director played by Liam Neeson to Anna, the dead schoolteacher in the red slip, played by Christina Ricci, in the new thriller After.Life. He sounds like the stage manager in a particularly grim production of Our ...
Electronic Mayhem: Communikey offers interactive electronic music experience
Grown organically from a decade of electronic music, this week’s Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts will build cultural bridges between audiences, performers and continents with more ambition than ever before...
Dr. Dog is helping resurrect lo-fi rock, not like they’ll admit...
Two years ago, Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog — a quirky, loveable indie-soul band that released its so-so sixth album Shame, Shame on April 6 — packed Denver’s Hi-Dive, a tiny bar on South Broadway that holds about 200 people when the fire department isn’t looking. ...
Citizen Cope has flitted from label to label and now has...
Citizen Cope has never been an artist that has enjoyed much radio play or even a big push from his record companies, even though he has spent his entire career up to now on major labels...
Classical music and classic musical madness
For years now, the Curious Theatre Company has impressed me. Always serious but never pretentious, Curious pushes envelopes while never forgetting that the first rule of theater is — and no, it’s not that you do not talk about theater — that theater must ...
Jay-Z goes where rappers haven’t tread before: Glastonbury, Coachella …
NEW YORK — The plan was to rock the mike, not cause an identity crisis...
Team of adults works to keep Justin Bieber from getting too...
LOS ANGELES — Justin Bieber had finished school for the day, but the threat of detention was still looming...
O’Brien gives up on Fox; signs deal with TBS
LOS ANGELES — Wayward late-night entertainer Conan O'Brien finally has found a home, and it's not on Fox television...
Actress Dixie Carter, ‘Designing Women’ star, dies at 70
Dixie Carter, who gained television fame as Julia Sugarbaker on the long-running CBS sitcom "Designing Women," has died. She was 70...
Netflix wins streaming deals from 2 studios
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Netflix, the Internet DVD rental pioneer, is gaining movies and TV shows from two big Hollywood studios — Fox and Universal Studios — for its online instant-streaming service...
The science of Signtology: Crafting pop art from the everyday
While Dan Ericson was attending Arapahoe Community College to tighten up his graphic design skills, he didn’t expect a simple homework assignment to shape his career as an artist...
Bland, flavorless cheese
Sand dunes at sunset, summer lovin’ (had me a blast!), a third-act medical crisis and a clutch of letters designed to be read aloud in voice-over: Another month, another adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks romance. This month’s is called The Last Song, starring Miley ...
