screen Friday January 19
James Brown dance Party
Feat memBers oF James Brown’s Band, Big gigantic, the daP Kings, taliB Kweli, John legend, lauryn hill, odesza, Pretty lights, Bootsy collins, snarKy PuPPy & denver’s michael JacKson all stars
saturday January 20
Bass Physics & exmag thursday January 25
summer camP on the road Friday January 26
oaKhurst
w/ clustePlucK & hawthorne roots
Friday January 19
tatanKa
w/ BumPin uglies & aPex viBe
saturday January 20
Jazz is Phsh
Feat chris BullocK (snarKy PuPPy), adam & matthew chase (the chase Brothers), scott Flynn (odesza), reed mathis (electric Beethoven), michael ray (sun ra) & todd stooPs (raq)
sunday January 21
audio Push
JeFF austin Band
w/ Byz, Kent washington & Flawless money
saturday January 27
monday night menagerie
w/ chain station
the FunK hunters w/ deFunK & truFeelz
Friday FeBruary 2
monday January 22
tuesday January 23
Judo choP
w/ aqua Phellem
orchard lounge
wednesday January 24
saturday FeBruary 3
Feat modern measure & Brownie dJ set (oF the disco Biscuits) w/ miKey thunder, JuBee, Jordan Polovina oF whisKey BlanKet & grim/darling thursday January 25
w/ tiger Party Feat allen aucoin (disco Biscuits) & Josh Fairman (sunsquaBi), JacKlndn & Binary-Bits
eminence ensemBle
w/ evanoFF, Kessel run & gaia’s groove
Friday FeBruary 9
Joyner lucas / dizzy wright
w/ marlon craFt & eli reezy
re: search
raPidgrass
w/ salen (late set), miles over mountains // turBodoJo showing on the Patio
saturday FeBruary 10
Friday January 26
Feat madliB (dJ set) w/ ayalew mesFin & deBo Band’s ethioPian FunK
w/ lesPecial & the elegant Plums
thursday FeBruary 15
dave & scott’s 92nd Bday Bash Presents
w/ dwayne Jr & dJ Fresh Jones
Feat dave watts (motet), Jason hann (sci), roosevelt collier, ian neville (dumPstaPhunK), chucK Jones (doPaPod), todd stooPs (raq), Jans ingBer & camille who?, gaBe mervine (motet) & nicK gerlach w/ Big mean sound machine
madliB medicine show chieF KeeF
Friday FeBruary 16
PimPs oF Joytime w/ touBaB Krewe
saturday FeBruary 17
Praang
Feat steve KimocK, michael travis & Jason hann (sci/eoto) & Jamie Janover w/ temPlo
thursday FeBruary 22
the travelin’ mccourys & Billy strings saturday FeBruary 24
J Boog
w/ Jesse royal & etana
Friday march 2
dual venue! Kyle hollingsworth Band
cycles
saturday January 27
dave watts & Friends
monday January 29
monday night menagerie Feat consensual circus & mammoth water
tuesday January 30
Fat tuesdays
triBute to new orleans FunK, soul, r&B Feat the music oF the meters, allen toussaint w/ house Band: casey russell (magic Beans), will trasK (great american taxi), clarK smith (dynohunter) & sean dandurand
thursday FeBruary 1
the holduP Friday FeBruary 2
dyrty Byrds
Feat michael Kang, JenniFer hartswicK & the motet horns w/ head For the hills, hot Buttered rum & Front country
(Play led zePPelin For andy claPP’s 40th Bday) w/ the matt Flaherty Band
sunday march 4
PinK talKing Fish
thursday march 8
monday FeBruary 5
ty dolla $ign hirie
w/ induBious
saturday march 10
the exPendaBles w/ through the roots & PaciFic duB
sunday march 11
Futuristic: what more could you asK For? w/ ishdarr
saturday march 17
marK Farina & sacha roBotti w/ dereK russo
saturday march 24
the dance Party time machine thursday march 29
michael schenKer Fest
Feat michael schenKer, gary Barden, graham Bonnet & roBin mcauley & doogie white (michael schenKer’s temPle oF rocK), chris glen, ted mcKenna & steve mann
Friday aPril 13
BasstracKs
A muted, but important, retelling of the decision to publish the Pentagon Papers despite threats from Nixon, The Post features not-so-great performances but a truly important message. Perhaps this isn’t meant for angry liberals but their parents?
thursday January 18
saturday FeBruary 3 w/ henna roso
monday night menagerie Feat roxy roca, dog city disco, zagriculture & green hit
tuesday FeBruary 6
waKe uP & live
(6th annual BoB marley Bday show) w/ Policulture, denver reggae social cluB Feat memBers oF John Brown’s Body, thievery corPoration, doPaPod, motet, tatanKa & euForquestra) & selecta c
thursday FeBruary 8 grass For that ass Presents
PicKin’ on talKing heads w/ that damn sasquatch & Friends Feat tyler grant (grant Farm) & the Jauntee (late set) w/ dusty green Bones Band
Friday FeBruary 9
dirty revival w/ BacKuP Planet
saturday FeBruary 10
the larry Keel exPerience
w/ Part & Parcel, Bonnie & the clydes
thursday FeBruary 15 old shoe & chicago Farmer Present
dylan & the dead
(Plus original sets From each act) w/ the mighty Pines
text cervantes to 91944 For ticKet giveaways, drinK sPecials, discounted ticKet Promotions & more
O
f all the questions The Post raises when considered through a contemporary lens, the most surprising are: “Why is Tom Hanks constantly posing like he’s in a slutty Dockers ad?” and “Shouldn’t this movie be, you know, better?” With a thesis that’s both red meat to us liberal lions and a timely wake-up call to a country content with a largely toothless and sycophantic press, The Post’s conclusion should have been either a stern rejoinder to “do better” or a soaring reminder of when we were better. Instead, the whole thing is a muted contemplation seemingly targeted at those exceptionally few Fox News viewers who can still be saved. At the center of The Post are the Pentagon Papers, a leaked governmental report that revealed multiple presidents and scores of officials lied to the public about the truth behind the Vietnam War. Because many white American boys from middleand upper-class families died in that conflict, the public was outraged by the revelations. This is in contrast to when more recent reports detailed how we killed tens of thousands of Iraqis because of imaginary WMDs, and nobody gave a shit. So it’s not just the journalists who lost their integrity, as the movie probably should have explored.
When lapdogs were watchdogs ‘The Post’ yearns for a free press by Ryan Syrek
At any rate, the film is a methodical exploration of the decision by then-owner of The Washington Post, Kay Graham (Meryl Streep), to allow her editor, Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), to publish the top-secret documents despite threats from Nixon and his cronies. Because we know they did publish them, the 90 minutes of discussion about whether they should publish them feels like a labored analysis of whether someone should eat chocolate cake when their face is already covered in frosting. The final act seems set up as a welcomed pivot to a courtroom drama. Instead, more time is spent watching Streep enter and leave the Supreme Court, and the final verdict is repeated by someone hearing the results by phone. Maybe that’s the best analogy: The Post is like the game of telephone played with an important message. Sure, you can recognize the point by the time it gets to you, but it feels like odd things were inexplicably added in translation. Things like Graham’s anti-boy’s-club bravery being dramatically undercut by an insipid monologue to her daughter that waxes nostalgic for a simpler time, back when her rich father gave her rich husband all the responsibility and she got to just make babies. Even watching as competing publishers put aside corporate profits to serve the greater good of informing the people lands with the force of a mumbled, “Hey, that must have been nice.” Save for Streep, everyone in the movie talks with a goofy, affected accent and leaves no imprint, with Hanks playing footsie with an outright stinker of a performance. And yet, the message is so crucial, the weight of the increasingly forgotten journalistic obligation is so heavy, that The Post still winds up a must-see. Maybe Spielberg didn’t make this movie for those of us already flogging social media with demands for accountability. Maybe he crafted this message for those relatives who won’t read what we ask them to read but may watch a nice movie with that nice Tom Hanks about a nice idea without which very mean things happen. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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36 January 18, 2018
Boulder Weekly