Entertainment
Who the hell is Tyler Bates?
It’s around one in the morning in Kiev, Ukraine, and Tyler Bates is just settling into his hotel room. It’s the first day of...
‘Bachtoberfest’ concerts are all about Bach, not beer
Boulder’s ever-adventurous Bach Festival embarks on a new season of exploration, with concerts in Boulder Oct. 12 and Longmont Oct. 14.
Boulder Bach Festival music...
The problem with pulling your punches
When Wonder Woman sailed into theaters this summer, coolly breaking superhero box office record after box office record, it was no surprise that curious...
Replicant? No, repli-can!
It is profoundly insightful and upsetting that both Blade Runners explicitly tackle the sins of civilizations built on slavery and sexual subjugation without including...
The ambassadors of Mexico
At around 11 a.m. local time on Sept. 19, residents of Mexico City methodically filed out of office buildings, homes and restaurants — wherever...
Ars Nova singers open season with the Monet of choral music
If Monet’s paintings were music, they would be the choral works of Maurice Duruflé.
That’s the view of Thomas Edward Morgan, director of Boulder’s Ars...
Looking at time
One late night last year M. Ward dreamt he was sitting in a smoky blues club watching Chuck Berry perform on the stage. In...
Double fault
As the Supreme Poohbah of Pastry, Mary Berry, would far more eloquently and pleasantly explain from beneath the tent during The Great British Bake...
Some humor, a little sex and a whole lot of humanity
In the 1970s, she was one of the dominant, and most provocative, Italian filmmakers. From behind her trademark white-framed glasses, Lina Wertmüller saw the...
Food as culture, food as language
It would be low-hanging fruit to open this column with a declaration along the lines of: “The Flatirons Food Film Festival returns for a...
Couldn’t put eggsy together again
When done well, a movie that simultaneously exists as a certain thing while satirizing that same thing resembles a Mobius strip, a tantalizing narrative...
The recesses of unconscious
Sam Amidon wears headphones a lot, although a lot less than he used to. Think of them like a stethoscope and Amidon the physician,...
