Entertainment
Are you game?
A basketball in the middle of the floor is a standing invitation — pick me up and give me a toss, it says...
Point/Counterpoint
To criticize a movie, you have to make another movie. — Jean-Luc Godard
It might be the most notorious climax in American cinema: A black...
Bruce Springsteen Delivers South By Southwest Keynote
Right before Bruce Springsteen took the stage at 12:30 p.m. CDT...
Jenn Zuko on the art of violence and sex, on stage
You’re at the theater, watching a lovely scene succumb to violence. You’ve just seen the marriage of a young couple but now, moments later,...
Late to the zombie party
The popular platitude to the contrary, sometimes you actually can judge a book by its cover or — in the case of theatre — a play by its title...
2012, will you marry me?
I want the 2012 year-in-film to have my babies. Heck, I’ll have its babies; it has been so durn good I’d totally go seahorse for it. Before I reduce a year that renewed my cinematic soul to a series of arbitrary numbers and rankings, a quick caveat: Because ...
Life during wartime
Ellis French (Jeremy Pope), a gay Black 20-something, trades the cold streets of New York City for the harsh regiment of Marine boot camp....
Coco Montoya continues to redefine an age-old sound
With all the hallmarks of the classic rocky road to success as a blues musician, Coco Montoya’s story is filled with its share of peaks and valleys. But no matter how you shake it, there always seemed to be a certain feeling of destiny attached to Montoya’s rise to ...
Kanye West’s album art: Banned in the U.S.A.?
LOS ANGELES — Superstar rapper Kanye West...
Tree in Winter
You will be here again. Your eyes
closed in brightening light from
a window, open in winter. Magenta
blooms lidded, your forehead held
by a shoulder put forward...
Conan O’Brien comes to Boulder
Embattled former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien is embarking on a comedy variety tour and will stop in Boulder’s Mackey Auditorium on May 9...
Herbie Hancock is hitting 70 on a high note
LOS ANGELES — When journalists ask Herbie Hancock which musicians he listens to, he thinks that they're expecting him to say Oscar Peterson and Chick Corea — that is, virtuoso jazz pianists like himself...


















