Entertainment
Pics from The Motet’s Mixtape 1975 Halloween show
Each Halloween the Motet unites costume-clad fans of the Front Range and transport them to a funkified era of the bands choice. Nobody knows how to start a dance party better than this Colorado-based, seven-piece funk ensemble, and this year their annual hometown...
Arts | Week of July 16, 2015
Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29. Ansel Adams: Matsterworks. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Aug. 30. Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum...
Philately attraction
Did you know that Mauritius is a tiny island just east of Madagascar? Neither did I. That Mauritius was the sole, native home of the now extinct Dodo bird, and that Mauritius was only the fifth country ever to issue postage stamps, were also facts that had, until now...
Liz Berube’s mountain road
Sometimes the best choices you can make are the ones that seem completely unplanned...
With Windows Shut Tight
No clouds today
but
the sky is white:
like a negative image
of
the night
the air is coated
the distant trees are
gray, smothering
the day in bleakness
in poison in
sadness
as fires rage
further...
Power from within: Ghanaian CU dance teacher uses art as a...
A few days before her African dance class presentation, University of Colorado Boulder student Jessie DePasquale’s dance partner said she wouldn’t be there. Her teacher, Nii Armah Sowah, had put DePasquale in a group with only one other person, while other groups had...
James McDaniel back on TV in ‘Detroit 1-8-7’
Actor James McDaniel says he thinks he's as much a politician as he is an artist. The actor who played the memorable Lt. Arthur Fancy...
The children’s revolt
The Wormwoods in Roald Dahl’s 1988 classic children’s book Matilda are notoriously nasty parents. They spend hours rotting their brains on mindless television and convince their children to do the same. If the Wormwoods got their way, every child would be raised by a...
PETA Responds to HBO’s Decision to Cancel ‘Luck’
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has issued a response following news that HBO canceled horse-racing drama Luck after a third horse died during production...
Thanksgiving
When we arrived in this unknown placewe knit together in a waythat made me want to shoutthis, this is my family.How could you know...
With ‘The Rum Diary,’ Johnny Depp seeks ‘closure’ with an old...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Like everyone who knew him, Johnny Depp collected Hunter S. Thompson stories...
