Indie rock group returns with a 1960s inspired album
By Matt Glassett on October 13, 2010
Just by looking at the cover of Deerhunter’s “Halcyon Digest,” listeners can tell that they will be taken on a weird and wonderful journey. Thirty seconds into the album, they’ll know that they’re right.
Posted in Entertainment, News | Tagged Album, Album review, Music, Review
"Freakonomics" Director Talks to CU Independent about documentary
By Seth Gitner on October 13, 2010
“Freakonomics” is a film that includes segments by six of the top documentary filmmakers around today.
Posted in Entertainment, Front Page | Tagged Documentary, Entertainment, freakonomics, Interview, Movies, Review, seth gordon
Upslope Brewing haven for local beer
By Ben Macaluso on October 12, 2010
On the never-ending quest to find good beer, a journey to North Boulder’s Upslope Brewing Co. provides a good alternative to whatever that stale, red-cupped liquid is, seemingly served to students at every college outing.
Posted in Entertainment, Front Page | Tagged Beer, Boulder, Local business, Review, Students, Upslope Brewing Co.
Can Zach Galifinakis win viewers over again, post-Hangover?
By Leah Knauer on September 30, 2010
An actor who shined as a strange, but loveable character in “The Hangover” has taken a different step into a more dramatic role in “It’s Kind of a Funny Story.”
Posted in Entertainment, Front Page | Tagged comedy, CU, Emma Roberts, Entertainment, Movie review, Movies, program council, Review, Zach Galifanakis
John Legend gets back to The Roots
By Ben Macalusco on September 28, 2010
Imagine a world in which contemporary R&B/Soul music wasn’t funneled through an Auto-Tune machine while chanting the same contrived messages of causing alcohol-induced mayhem in a godforsaken club.
Posted in Entertainment, News | Tagged Album, Album review, John Legend, Music, Review, Roots, Students, wake up!
It starts with "T" and ends with unintentional boredom
By Kyle L. Haas on April 30, 2010
If you’re sitting in class, staring out the window at people having more fun than you as you study for finals, then you might know what it’s like to drive a 2010 Toyota Corolla LE.
Posted in Entertainment, Front Page | Tagged Cars, Review, Transportation
Dierks Bentley and the Travelin’ McCourys ramble through Boulder
By Taylor Coughlin on April 23, 2010
Boots are still stomping and empty beer bottles are being cleaned up after a night of rollicking bluegrass and roots country at the Boulder Theatre.
Posted in Entertainment, Front Page, News | Tagged Music, Review
“Kick-Ass” kicks some ass
By Stephanie Davis on April 15, 2010
As a child, we all wanted to grow up to be a superhero. With arms outstretched and blankets tied around their necks, superheroes zoom around the neighborhood saving imaginary damsels in distress.
Posted in Entertainment, News | Tagged Movies, Review
Big names can’t save this flop
By Kenna Egbune on April 11, 2010
New Jersey couple Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire Foster (Tina Fey) schedule a weekly “date night” to spice up their normal routine, but things don’t turn out as they expect.
Posted in Entertainment, News | Tagged Review
Before someone sinks their fangs into you
By Ana Faria on April 10, 2010
Get ready to laugh out loud at Christopher Moore’s new sequel “Bite Me: A Love Story.”
Posted in Entertainment, News | Tagged Review