Entertainment
Love, Irish style
The Political Correctness Police seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the Irish. Racial slurs against African Americans, Asians, etc. are obviously right out. Heaven forbid you should question Caitlyn Jenner’s beauty or courage. And you can’t call the 350-pound...
Theater | Week of Sept. 24, 2015
As You Like It. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720- 865-4239, Through Nov. 1...
The M stands for middling
For the first time in over a decade, director M. Night Shyamalan has made a film that won’t end up on many “worst of the year” lists come late-December… but will probably be forgotten by early next week. The Visit is a horror film presented in the cheap, “found ...
Forget the stars, aim for right here
You’re the star of where you are” is the message Cory McAbee wants to tell the world. “Give up your goals, stop reaching for the stars and look for the stars within [your] own mind...
Unknown commodity
Ever since her high school senior play in 1954, Houston Roberts has wanted to be a performer. But her stage dreams took a back seat to her real life as she went on to get married and have kids. Roberts found herself at a turning point in her early 40s when she went ...
Burning houses, debauchery and acid
It approaches the realm of impossibility to describe the sound that emanates from the band The Growlers. The amalgamation of genres sounds as though it shouldn’t exist: a combination of mellow reverb-filled surf rock, garage band guitar, country-folk and gypsy ...
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...
