Music
Boulder Phil launches ‘Legends’ season with a bang
Opening night for the Boulder Philharmonic offers a real triple threat...
Nineteen voices a snap for Ars Nova singers
A choral piece for “only” 19 parts is almost too easy for the experienced voices of Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers.
Last year they sang two...
Laugh until it hurts
Like much of how singer-songwriter Stefan Babcock deals with the relentless pressures of life, the opening interlude on his band PUP’s latest album started...
Record year
By the end of every year, I end up with a stack of new books about music so tall I end up needing more...
Longmont Jazz Festival highlights Colorado’s jazz scene
High school students and renowned jazz artists will take the same stage this weekend to present a sampling of jazz in Colorado...
Found Sounds: Nov. 10, 2022
What’s in Boulder’s headphones this week? From reigning champ T-Swift to newcomers Ghost Funk Orchestra, these are the albums flying off the shelves at...
Still the queen of the local scene
"I’m sorry,” Wendy Woo says over the phone one recent afternoon, “I feel like I’m not a hundred percent focused. I’m taking a defiant...
When you don’t want the spotlight
Alexi Murdoch does his own thing. It just happens to be getting picked up by the mainstream and put on national TV...
The mad scientist
By day, Jake Sheppard is a Boulder-based scientist, studying how the immune system interacts with cancer, using gene-editing software to explore how cancer cells change when certain genes are repressed...
Luck happens
Sometimes all you can do is marvel at someone’s dumb luck, blessed fortune, or whatever you want to call it. Like the guy who wins the lottery because he picked one or two of the right numbers by mistake, the woman who hits the jackpot on her first pull on a slot ...
The only chip in the cookie
Vance Gilbert is black. Vance Gilbert plays the acoustic guitar. Vance Gilbert does not play the blues. Most of us assume a black man...


















