Entertainment
Freedom fighter
In writing a historical novel about Dutch World War II resistance fighter Hannie Schaft, author Buzzy Jackson didn’t feel like she needed to embellish...
Is Eric Johnson learning to relax?
Anyone following the career of Austinbased guitarist Eric Johnson has learned to reconcile the guitarist’s singular fretboard mastery with his sluggish pace of releasing recordings. Johnson endured years of interview questions about his notorious perfectionism (...
Act accordingly: ARISE up
There was a time, if you can believe it, when Paul Bassis — co-founder of the extremely woke, half music, half co-creative ARISE Festival,...
I Kent believe it got better!
Superman is lame. Fight it all you want to, DC Comic loyalists, but there’s a reason people cheer whenever Batman bests him. Consumed by a fetishized, flag-waving patriotism that makes his status as a full-fledged illegal alien somewhat hilarious these days, Superman...
Musical medics
Everything you need to know about psych-rockers The Black Angels is right there in the name. Think other-wordly dark comfort, inspired by the Velvet Underground and their fuzz-laden epic, “The Black Angel’s Death Song.” Billowing clouds of guitar shrouding sultry ...
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 ...
Elyse Miller surprises with ‘Paperdoll’
Paperdoll, Fort Collins singer-songwriter Elyse Miller’s debut effort, is an unusual entry in the seemingly endless catalog of soft, somewhat sardonic music made by acoustic guitar-wielding musicians so ubiquitous in our nation’s coffee shops and open mics...
Shining a light on a musical ‘blind spot’ in Vienna
Vienna’s rich musical heritage of the Classic-Romantic periods is very familiar to audiences. But for a full century before Haydn or Mozart ever set...
The Constellation Collective: An organization of minor stars
When Kyle Donovan ran sound for a group of soulful songwriters at The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse in the summer of 2016, he knew he...
Boulder Symphony’s family affair
The opening of the Boulder Symphony’s 2015–16 season features three members of Boulder’s legendary musical family, the Lehnerts, playing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. And it all got started at the farmers’ market...
Happy little trees
With a tightly wound blond perm, a smoker’s pipe and a voice that registers just north of a whisper, Carl Nargle is one of...
The machine of death continues to roll on
"The cold weather is terrible here,” Bertha Bermúdez Tapia says over Zoom from a refugee camp in Matamoros, a city in Mexico just across...


















