Denver Post: Entertainment

SAN DIEGO — Ben Affleck is still Batman. The actor shot down rumors that he would be hanging up his cape for the stand-alone Batman film, even though he recently ceded directing responsibilities.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

NEW YORK — Actor John Heard, best known for playing the father in the “Home Alone” movie series, has died. He was 72.
His death was confirmed by the Santa Clara Medical Examiner’s office in California on Saturday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Veg-heads, prep your stomachs.
VegFest Colorado, the annual vegan festival by Animal Action Network, is this weekend. The festival will host vendors, authors and chefs who all celebrate a plant-based diet.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

MARBLE — Their faces ghostly white, the sculptors carefully conjure their visions from blocks of stone.
With screaming machines, the art appears. An ocean wave. A distorted face. A great ape.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Move aside, Ann Coulter. The newest airline war stars 9News anchor Kyle Clark and Frontier Airlines. The two can’t seem to get along, and their week-long war of words has now entered its fourth day.

Roy and Linda Dietz, who have been married for 58 years, wandered the floor of the Denver Convention Center on Thursday, looking over hundreds of vehicles at the Mecum auction.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

“Dunkirk “ is not a typical war movie.
There are no brothers in arms, no flashbacks to simpler times and pretty wives and girlfriends left behind, no old men in situation rooms pontificating about politics or helping with exposition.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

“The masters of the short story come to no good end,” wrote Ernest Hemingway, in a bitterly prescient moment. He was, of course, a master of the short story who came to his own no good end with a shotgun.

Central City Opera’s “Carmen” is everything you want it to be, and then some — sexy, sultry and just a little sleazy. Its famous heroine uses and abuses just as she is known to do, teasing men and tempting fate until it all catches up to her in one violent moment.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County coroner says Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, who sold millions of albums with a unique mix of hard rock, hip-hop and rap, was found dead in his home near Los Angeles on Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share