screen Friday april 7
Joey porter’s shady Business
Feat Joey porter (Motet), Kris Myers (uMphrey’s McGee), JenniFer hartswicK (trey Band), Garrett sayers (Motet), adaM sMirnoFF (lettuce), lyle divinsKy (Motet), drew sayers (Motet) &
con Brio w/ runniKine
saturday april 8
phoFFMan/BecK Quartet Feat paul hoFFMan & anders BecK, Billy strinGs & saMson GrisMan w/ Grant FarM
thursday april 13
QuannuM Mc’s
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Friday april 14
MicKey avalon & dirt nasty
Grass For that ass
Free BeFore 8pM & Free BeFore 9pM For all teXt MessaGe suBscriBers
teXt cervantes to 91944 to siGn up 4/6: whitewater raMBle picKin’ on Zeppelin Feat Jessica Jones & picKin’ on phish Feat MeMBers oF deadphish orchestra 4/13: the wooKs (early set) w/ the Mallet Brothers Band (late set) & Miles over Mountains
Friday april 7
Genetics
w/ sKydyed (late set) & spectacle
saturday april 8
tropidelic
w/ red saGe & secret creatures
sunday april 9
Gateway to leGends Fest Feat denver’s Best unsiGned talent live
Monday april 10
dave B
w/ FeeKi, Flavortooth, Joon BuG & Jdirty
w/ rhyMesiGht & Kid veGa$
saturday april 15
Monday niGht MenaGerie – special tuesday MenaGerie!
the GrateFul Ball
Feat the travelin’ Mccourys w/ drew eMMitt, andy thorn, GreG Garrison (leFtover salMon) & adaM aiJala (yonder Mountain strinG Band)
sunday april 16
pnB rocK & Felly
Feat Music By dJ BrooKlyn2BiGG X dJ Blasian
wednesday april 19 @ red rocKs
MiGhty tree presents
420 eve on the rocKs
tuesday april 11
Feat Mass relay, KavsKo, doct3r, Miss Jaedha & oBeMusic
wednesday april 12
re: search
Feat plastician, vinnie Maniscalco, GinGer perry, MiKey thunder & JuBee
Friday april 14
wicK-it the instiGator & unliMited Gravity
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w/ BeaK nasty & notorious conduct
thursday april 20 (early show)
w/ stay tuned & rooKe5
w/ cousin stiZZ
dJ Ktone’s annual denver Got neXt
Kyle
thursday april 20
MiGhty tree presents
saturday april 15
Murs & Zion i sunday april 16
Monday april 17
Method Man & redMan
Monday niGht MenaGerie
Friday april 21
wednesday april 19
w/ aFroMan
the underachievers
w/ JuBee Feat Brisco Jones, reason the citiZen, planes!, write Minded & david FredericK
Feat the hiGh desert, peaK2peaK & GoodniGht FreeMan
re: search
Feat artiFaKts w/ GiBBZ, pandasaywhat?!, MiKey thunder & JuBee
thursday april 20
thursday april 27
MiGhty tree presents
w/ Mindstate
w/itsevi, talent aMonG us & otis Feat dJ cos & riMes
toMorrows Bad seeds Friday & saturday april 28-29 dual venue
sonic BlooM pre party
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Friday May 5
Brother ali
w/ sa-roc, last word & sol Messiah
saturday May 6
lil BiBBy
w/ younG nero – hosted By lana J & nooK eX
saturday May 13
wooKieFoot tuesday May 16
wale
saturday May 20
start MaKinG sense
(ultiMate talKinG heads triBute) w/ orKa odyssey
Friday May 26
diGaBle planets sunday May 28
diZZy wriGht Friday april 21
Green is BeautiFul
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saturday april 22
ruMpKe Mountain Boys w/ cascade crescendo & canyon collected
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tuesday april 25
seeds?
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wednesday april 26
re: search wednesday
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thursday april 27
Brothers Gow
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This reboot of the 1990s TV show features five teenagers who must stop Elizabeth Banks from getting to a Krispy Kreme. That’s the real plot. And you know what? It’s pretty great.
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I
n the first 10 minutes of Power Rangers, an alien Bryan Cranston kills all the dinosaurs and a high-school kid performs bestiality. Things get weirder from there. No one had reason to expect much from a big-budget reboot of the profoundly schlocky 1990s TV show, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, which was itself hobbled together out of bonkers stock footage from a Japanese series. Both buoyed and burdened by the maniacal nostalgia of fans, director Dean Israelite and screenwriter John Gatins had to delicately balance an inexplicably dense sciencefiction conceit with gaudy visual goofiness, kung fu and teenage angst. The result is a messy, weird, simplistic superhero riff that is somehow pretty great. Honestly. From worst to best, the core characters are Jason (Dacre Montgomery), who is basically the embodiment of season two of Friday Night Lights; Kimberly (Naomi Scott), who has an updated backstory involving revenge pornography; Zack (Ludi Lin), who lives in a trailer with his mom and claims to be “crazy” every other sentence; Trini (Becky G), who is bisexual and unhappy at home; and Billy (RJ Cyler) who is wicked smart and on the autistic spectrum. The five find glowing magic coins that give them superpowers and are told by the holographic head of Zordon (Bryan Cranston) and a robot, Alpha 5 (Bill Hader), that they’ll need to stop Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks) from using a giant monster made of gold from pulling a giant crystal out from beneath a Krispy Kreme. Cue the wailing guitar, it’s morphin’ time! Power Rangers is stupid. But almost every comic book or superhero movie is, at its core; some just successfully disguise that stupidity with spectacle and quality characters (most Marvel movies), whereas others attempt to mask it with gritty self-importance (most DC movies). Power Rangers goes with secret option C: It embraces the stupidity and conflicting tones, and rides that shit like a roller coaster designed on LSD. This is a movie where heartfelt, nuanced character revelations are sandwiched between Elizabeth Banks eating gold necklaces and Bryan Cranston emotionally chastising teenagers for their lack of morphin’ prowess. And it works. It works precisely because it is sincere about every ridiculous twist of tone, committing as much to quiet father/son strife as to lines about stopping the forces of evil from getting to the Krispy Kreme. It also works because they cast the living crap out of it, choosing young actors with potent charisma and not just model-caliber bods. The nonchalant handling of Trini’s nonbinary sexuality is deft, with her and Kimberly having as much flirtatious energy as any would-be hetero pairing. Billy’s autistic spectrum placement may not get the most revelatory or nuanced handling, but he’s easily the best character and refreshingly different from 99 percent of superhero tropes. Sure, nobody needs another white, misunderstood, small-town high-school star quarterback as “team leader,” but even Jason is surprisingly forgivable in light of how other characters are depicted. Compared to the bulk of the superhero cinematic era, Power Rangers has more diversity in sexuality and race; is more secure in its silliness; demonstrates fantastic pacing; places its emphasis on its heroes and leads, and not supporting cast or villains; and feels light and kinetic even when trying to be “real” and serious. Exceeding expectations and promising fun times ahead, give me scores more Power Rangers before whatever Batman has in store next. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
Might be more fun
‘ Power Rangers’ is likely better than you think by Ryan Syrek
Boulder Weekly