Entertainment
The young eTown troubadours
The doors to eTown Hall might be closed on a gloomy weekday afternoon, but while the stage is vacant and the curtains are drawn,...
‘Forgotten Jewels’ adds to the history books
Everyone has a story to tell, but stories are fragile and can easily be forgotten. They must be cared for and saved for future...
Missy Raines is thundering into Boulder
As a kid in the 1970s, Missy Raines didn’t have a lot of female bluegrass role models.
“I come from a genre that, up until...
DeVotchka translates Sondheim
Denver-based, indie rock band, DeVotchKa is no stranger to unconventional projects. With multiple original albums, the band has also scored movies including Little Miss...
Exhibit chronicles the career of Boulder artist Martha Russo
Martha Russo didn’t always dream of being an artist. As an accomplished field hockey player, Russo took a year off from Princeton University in...
I dare ya’
This might be a stretch, but if you get right down to it, Joey Vega owes his 30-year career in comedy to a nightclub...
Boulder Phil to help produce a ‘masterpiece’
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is at least three different works.
It is a sacred work, written and performed in Bach’s lifetime as part of...
Hanging with Hannibal
Everybody kind of stinks, in my opinion. I don’t really like anyone,” says comedian Hannibal Buress.
As most comedians do, Buress draws from his daily...
Why not Longmont, as a Colorado film hub?
You may not have heard much about Colorado’s film industry. When you think cinema, you think New York or Hollywood. If you do think...
Beasts of burden
The Jungle Book is director Jon Favreau’s “live-action” — if you count an entirely CGI environment with almost entirely CGI characters to be “live-action”...
Two bloated egos harmonize in ‘Elvis & Nixon’
There is an often-repeated anecdote that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came in second. It’s a popular story, one...
Keeping the heart alive
"When you grow up, your heart dies,” Allison “Basketcase” Reynolds sadly theorizes in The Breakfast Club. It serves as a forewarning, one that teenagers...
