Entertainment
Extra, extra bad things
So I’m talking to a friend the other day, and he says “I don’t see why we need the news anymore if we have social media.” The minute I stopped beating him senseless whilst vomiting due to the sulfuric smell of stupidity, I pointed out that Twitter has yet to take ...
Recognize this
I want to tell you a story about a story,” writer/director/performance artist Laurie Anderson tells the audience. She recounts the time she spent in the hospital as a child after breaking her back. Anderson tells it in a rather typical manner: accident, negative ...
Theater | Week of Dec. 17, 2015
A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865- 4239, Through Dec. 27...
The music tells me what to do
Satirist Tom Lehrer once said, “Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it...
No one promised ‘great’
Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur is a retelling of every story involving a beloved pet ever told, with the twist being the human is the pet. In an alternate reality where dinosaurs and man walked the earth together (that’s called creationism), Aldo (Raymond Ochoa), a runt ...
Decoding the Master
By its very nature, cinema is a collaborative art. As Orson Welles said, “A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.” To whom then does a movie belong? In his 1954 essay, “A certain tendency in French cinema,” the young critic, ...
Borders of the heart
The bonds of family go beyond borders and beyond generations. Many Latin American women, who come to the U.S. looking for better opportunities for their children and grandchildren, are also deeply tied to their parents and other family left behind. It is this ...
Theater | Week of Dec. 10, 2015
A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865- 4239. Through Dec. 27...
