Entertainment
Lean, mean empathy machine
Smarter, better people than me have written about Moonlight, writer/director Barry Jenkins’ megaton bomb of artistic triumph. Honestly, I almost didn’t write this at...
‘Ya-Ka-May,’ Galactic’s latest, is a blast
Just like the album’s cover, Ya-Ka-May by the New Orleans band Galactic and released on...
Arts | Week of Dec. 18, 2014
Affordable Art Show. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303- 651-2787. Through Dec. 28...
Yo La Tengo still has it
Staying the same for almost 30 years has it benefits, explains Yo La Tengo helmsman Ira Kaplan, but it’s also OK to shuffle the deck once in a while...
Cons, vexing
Despite its title and the fact that Will Smith continually mouth-dumps exposition about how pulling a con requires attention to detail, Focus is hella sloppy. It’s not just that genuinely thrilling “who’s playing who” moments bump up against a holistically ...
‘The Revenant’ punishes DiCaprio for Academy love
Without spoiling whether survivalist/tempting-bear-treat Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) survives The Revenant, we can still talk about one climactic shot. DiCaprio, having been maimed in...
What to do when there’s nothing to do
EVENTS
Seniors Fish-Off. 6:30-10 a.m. Friday, April 29, Wally Toevs Pond at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, 75th St., between Valmont and Jay Roads, Boulder. Free,...
The value of failing
Early this year, Laura Ann Samuelson, founder of the experimental dance company Hoarded Stuff, began asking fellow artists — who find themselves caught in an endless wheel of marketing and self-promotion — about the opposite end of their resumes. Not how they’d ...
Accidental Institution
"Man, I seen so much stuff go down,” reflects Dirty Dozen Brass Band saxophonist Roger Lewis. “We was playin’ a gig in some club, I can’t remember what city, and this woman took all of her clothes off. I ain’t lyin’, this woman just got buck naked on the stage. She ...
Curiouser about Curious
About 10,000 playwrights live and work in the country, but in the past 10 years, there have been an average of two new plays produced on Broadway each year, according to Jason Loewith, executive director of the National New Play Network. The task of finding new ...