screen Friday November 3
dumpstaphuNk w/ polyrhythmics
Saturday November 4 • dual veNue!
soNic blossom
Feat kalya sciNtilla & eve olutioN,
rumpke mouNtaiN boys w/ useFul jeNkiNs & jauNtGrass
Friday November 3
philsh aka character zero
Force, lyFted & mass relay
Feat phil salvaGGio as trey, Fleeb as mike, eric as FishmaN & jeremy mcdoNouGh aka space paNda as paGe w/ the jauNtee
suNday November 5
wedNesday November 8
bluetech, whitebear, Frameworks live baNd, G-Nome project, bluNt
the uNderachievers w/ warm brew
Friday November 10
the paNcakes & booze art show saturday November 11
perpetual Groove w/ skydyed & moNtu
thursday November 16
shakewell & Nobide w/ chewy&bach & partyGoers
Friday November 17
everyoNe orchestra Feat claude colemaN jr (weeN), michael travis (sci), chuck Garvery (moe.), joel cummiNs (umphrey’s mcGee) mike rempel (lotus), zdeNek Gubb (twiddle), josh schwartz & shira elias (turkuaz) & matt bricker (euForquestra) w/ rastasaurus
saturday November 18
trout steak revival
re: search
Feat blockhead w/ maNatee commuNe, NiNety siX, direct drive & jubee thursday November 9 Grass For that ass preseNts
the moves collective w/ heNry & the iNvisibles, moderN whiskey market
Friday November 10
homemade spaceship w/ FuNkstatik, truFeelz, paNdasaywhat & kiNGloop3y
saturday November 11
2Nd aNNual corduroy classic Feat aNders beck w/ scott hachey & casey russell (the maGic beaNs), emily clark (passiNG FaNcy) & members oF emiNeNce eNsemble & teNth mouNtaiN divisioN
tuesday November 14
morsel
w/ muscular housecat
thursday November 16 Grass For that ass preseNts
w/ chaiN statioN &
pickiN’ oN NirvaNa
the mulliGaN brothers
w/ pickiN’ oN the 90’s & shaky haNd striNG baNd
suNday November 19
aztroGrizz
w/ stilz uNiqe, hitmaNN & deoN wilsoN
Friday december 1
phutureprimitive w/ aNdreilieN, soulacybiN & midiciNal
saturday december 2
draGoN smoke Feat robert mercurio & staNtoN moore (Galactic), ivaN Neville (dumpstaphuNk) & eric liNdell
Friday November 17
jyemo club w/ project 432
wedNesday November 22 re: search
Feat late NiGht radio – viNyl restoratioN w/ supervisioN (late set), borham lee trio (blt) oF pretty liGhts live & break scieNce saturday November 25
moNXX
w/ GreeN is beautiFul – tribute to
w/ syNoid, swayd, bloodhouNd & Njoy
blue Note Guitarist GraNt GreeN Feat
tuesday November 28
eddie roberts (New mastersouNds) & alaN evaNs (soulive)
Fat tuesdays
Friday december 15
tribute to Nola FuNk, soul, r & b Feat the music oF the meters, alleN toussaiNt & more w/ house baNd: casey russell (maGic beaNs), will trask (Great americaN taXi), clark smith (dyNohuNter) & seaN daNduraNd
w/ dylaN moNtayNe & dallas Garcia
thursday November 30 Grass For that ass preseNts
Friday & saturday december 8-9
the del mccoury baNd w/ the traveliN’ mccourys
shwayze
saturday december 16
azizi GibsoN w/ j-krupt
kiNd couNty
w/ acoustic miNiNG compaNy & bottlerocket hurricaNe
Friday december 1
Friday & saturday december 30-31
oliver FraNcis
thursday & Friday jaNuary 11-12
whitewater ramble
trevor hall
the New mastersouNds cervaNtes’ 15th aNNiversary celebratioN saturday jaNuary 13
octave cat
Feat jesse miller (lotus), eli wiNdermaN (dopapod), charlie patierNo & braziliaN cheese
saturday december 2
Friday & saturday december 8-9
joey porter’s shady busiNess Feat joey porter (the motet), robert “sput” seariGht (sNarky puppy), moNoNeoN (priNce), dj williams (kdtu), jeNNiFer hartswick (trey baNd), drew sayers (the motet) & corey Frye (the maiN squeeze) w/ cbdb
Friday & saturday december 15-16
Feat michael kaNG (sci), domiNic lali
steve kimock & FrieNds
(biG GiGaNtic), aaroN johNstoN &
Feat jeFF chimeNti, johN kimock, aNdy hess & leslie meNdelsoN
jesse murphy (braziliaN Girls)
saturday jaNuary 27
the FuNk huNters
Matt Damon plays a schlub in the late 1950s who gets embroiled in a murderous plot in this dark comedy that also tries to tackle the sins of racism. If you think that sounds like a weird combination that can’t quite work, you’re right.
thursday November 2
Friday december 22
disco Floyd w/ phour poiNt o
teXt cervaNtes to 91944 For ticket Giveaways, driNk specials, discouNted ticket promotioNs & more
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hings I was unprepared for in George Clooney’s Suburbicon, based on the trailers: (1) Fatt Damon spanking Julianne Moore (doing a weird Marilyn Monroe impression) with a ping-pong paddle, (2) Oscar Isaac’s mustache (even though I knew it was coming), (3) racism playing a central role to the film’s plot and (4) the sounds Fatt Damon makes when eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Around 30 years ago, Joel and Ethan Coen wrote Suburbicon. The fact that they didn’t direct it, and that Clooney and Grant Heslov wrote another draft, makes it impossible to know who thought it was a good idea to attempt to make a point about white bigotry in a murderous black comedy.
Suburbs are hell
‘Suburbicon’ is a weird American nightmare by Ryan Syrek Set in the late 1950s, the film opens with an extended sequence detailing the idyllic origins of Suburbicon, a utopian neighborhood. When a black family moves into a white house, everyone loses their minds and acts vile, making ugly decisions that are ultimately against their own self-interests. So, yes, it’s a metaphorical take on present-day America with slightly less gun violence, as some people are killed with knives and poison instead. Fatt Damon plays Gardner Lodge, a schlub whose wife, Rose (Moore), is killed during a home invasion that isn’t what it appears. When Gardner and his wife’s sister, Margaret (also Moore), intentionally refuse to identify the killers in a police lineup, his son, Nicky (Noah Jupe), wisely figures out things are going to get very bad very fast. An insurance claims adjuster, Bud Cooper (Oscar Isaac), shows up asking the right/wrong questions and everyone goes bonkers. All of this happens while, right next door, white people are openly torturing a black family. The climax involves a hate crime and Fatt Damon frantically peddling a tiny bicycle, which are actually two separate things here. As someone who adores the genre-jumbling shenanigans of Joon-ho Bong and the grim nonsense that happens when the Coen brothers Fargo for it, Suburbicon’s intention to frappe together vastly disparate tones is groovy. Except it gets none of those tones quite right. The dark comedy is never funny enough, the macabre nihilism is never sincere enough, the critique of racism is never substantive enough and the noir thriller aspects are never thrilly enough. Original ambition makes even the most categorical misfire more interesting to watch than safe, measured repetition, but Suburbicon is all ambition with little execution. When white writers and directors and actors and producers get together to make a film that predominantly features racism, they have a responsibility to make a far, far more salient point than this. Ostensibly, the message is that the white neighbors condemning the new black family are not only ugly bigots, they’re stupid hypocrites who fail to see that the real evil has lived in the house next door to them this whole time. That sounds like an OK point to make, but it doesn’t play OK here. It plays weirdly trite and exploitative and not as sophisticated as it needed to be. Basically, repeatedly working with the Coens didn’t turn Clooney into a Coen any more than his playing a doc on E.R. means I’d let him near me with a scalpel. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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Boulder Weekly