Pearl Harbor

Last Night: Birdy, Tiny Television, Hello Kavita, Three Cheers Faraday @ Larimer Lounge

A Rainbow in Brown

Blue is only one of the musical colors produced by Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.

Skip It

Why the best teen movie of the year, based on a beloved novel, won't be in theaters.

Firing Line

A salute to the late, great James McKinnell, a master of Colorado ceramics.

Animal House lover Mike Littwin declares "It's not over!" for the Rocky Mountain News

One of the few things worth laughing about among reporters and editors following yesterday's announcement that E.W. Scripps has put the Rocky Mountain News up for sale was columnist Mike Littwin's newsroom reenactment of a famous scene from Animal House -- John Belushi's "It's not over!" speech. ( ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 8, 2004

The Rocky Mountain News is going down

From the week of January 8, 2004

Hollywood's Long March to War

The release of Apocalypse Now Redux sharpens the debate over the moral complexities of the battlefield.

Dynamic Duo

Two shows focus on the kith and kiln of Colorado ceramics.

Devil's Advocate

Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

White Out

As a film adaption of a bestseller, Snow Falling on Cedars flakes out.

Origin of Innocence

The New World boldly reclaims the Pocahontas tale from Disney.

Unknown Soldiers

The Great Raid's compelling story never comes to life.

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes one long for good Nic Cage movies . . .like Con Air.

Pitt and the Pabulum

Brad's ripped and The Iliad's shredded in the scintillating spectacle Troy.

Barton's Goodbye

Peter Barton’s life is compressed in his book.

Bucking the Odds

Seabiscuit races to the front of the cinematic pack.

A Change Blowing In

The Zephyr has weathered life on Colfax for 56 years. But can it withstand the march of progress?

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Distant Replay

Expect the anniversary of 9/11 to bring out the media's worst.

Hell on Earth

In this early battle of the Vietnam War, they were Soldiers -- and then some.

Cheaters Never Win

Even with Jason Schwartzman, Slackers swindles its audience.

Czech Marked

Even war heroes can be treated like villains in a Dark Blue World.

Zoom Through Doom

Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real American warriors.

War on War Books

Donald Miller has rewritten one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Arabian Knight

Jack Shaheen crusades against cinema's depiction of Reel Bad Arabs.

Law & Disorder

As one of TV's best and best-loved series launches a new spin-off, its creator grapples with the aftershocks of terror

War and Remembrance

Father Jim Sunderland chose to spend his life as a middleman -- between killers and God.

Culture Shock

How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?

Forward Into the Past

At Camp Amache, a school project reopens an ugly chapter of Colorado history.

Legally Bland

Reese Witherspoon's talents are wasted in the muddy, unoriginal Legally Blonde.

War As Video Game

In the whiz-bang Pearl Harbor, vintage history takes a back seat to a dated love triangle.

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Spring, With Relish

Hotdog vendor Jeordon Little is on a roll.

Digging Up the Past

Theater students at UCD explore the history of a Japanese internment camp.

Double Trouble

Navy poster boys Dick and Doc have grown old but never apart.

Letters

Navy poster boys Dick and Doc have grown old but never apart.

Three's Company

Navy poster boys Dick and Doc have grown old but never apart.

Stupor Bowl

Navy poster boys Dick and Doc have grown old but never apart.

Robinson U.

Navy poster boys Dick and Doc have grown old but never apart.

The Unknown Sailors

Over fifty years after these boys first set sail, their ship has finally come in.

Off Limits

Over fifty years after these boys first set sail, their ship has finally come in.

STRIKE?! YOU'RE CRAZY!

Over fifty years after these boys first set sail, their ship has finally come in.

Ariel Pink's Ariel Rosenberg on his breakout album and art-world con-artists

Tim Saccenti​ In this week's Rough Mixes entry, we got a much needed introduction to Ariel Rosenberg, the creative force behind Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. He has a reputation for being a bit of a pistol, but now that we've felt him out, we feel comfortable digging a little deeper. In this ... More >>

Time traveler Sarah Vowell pops in for Denver Post Pen & Podium lecture series

​Sarah Vowell is in town tonight for The Denver Post Pen & Podium lecture series at Newman Center for the Performing Arts, following the success of her book The Wordy Shipmates. We caught up with her for a quick interview just after she'd put the finishing touches on her next book, Unfamiliar ... More >>

Sarah Vowell on Hawaii, monarchy and Unfamiliar Fishes

​At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sarah Vowell will sign copies of her latest tome, Unfamiliar Fishes, at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street. We caught up with Vowell about her inspiration for the book, what she learned and how this book fits into her previous body of work.

Barack Obama Afghanistan speech drinking game: The revenge of Rush Limbaugh

The toastmaster.​I watched Barack Obama's speech about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan more closely than any presidential address ever -- but not for the expected reason. I was a (sober) judge in a speech-related drinking game suggested yesterday by none other than super-conservative Rush ... More >>

Peter McGraw, Humor Research Lab director, takes his comedy theory to the International Humor Conference

Peter McGraw.​As described in the cover story "The Nutty Professor," Boulder professor Peter McGraw, with the help of his Humor Research Lab (HuRL), has come up with a universal theory of comedy they call the Benign Violation Theory (BVT). Last week, McGraw and theory co-creator Caleb Warren s ... More >>

Great Lives in Colorado History: What we learned by channeling our inner third-grader

​Last week, DPS launched the Great Lives in Colorado History series. Written by local educators, the thirteen biographies completed so far introduce Coloradans of the past to third-graders of the present. The results are both educational and complete: In the two we borrowed to channel our inn ... More >>

Hawaii Five-0 producer's apology to Pearl Harbor vets insincere, says host

Big pics below.​Hawaii Five-0's executive producer has apologized to members of Denver's The Greatest Generations Foundation, whose members were "unintentionally offended" when a ceremony on the seventieth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor coincided with filming. But the event's host, ... More >>