Entertainment
Happiness for you and me
The 1998 Academy Awards Ceremony felt a little bit like a private party James Cameron threw for his monumental Titanic, which sailed away with 11 statues that evening, but that was also the night 57 million Americans met one singer/ songwriter who left almost as ...
Theater | Week of May 14, 2015
Hysteria — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 17...
Clyfford Still and the natives
Before he became the creator of explosive and epic-scale abstract expressionist paintings and then an artist so reclusive and elusive that he nearly wrote himself out of the art history books, Clyfford Still was a graduate student and instructor at a college in ...
A perfect piece for Robert Olson’s final MahlerFest
Robert Olson’s final concerts with the Colorado MahlerFest will be memorable occasions — for Boulder audiences, for the festival’s world-wide fans and for Olson himself...
Arts | Week of May 14, 2015
Acrylic Paintings by M.G. Davis. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 30...
Are you not entertained?!
Another epic tale about incredibly powerful beings fighting against one another with melodramatic overtones? Ugh.” – Theater critics in ancient Greece reacting to the latest play about Gods and mortals Whenever a new cinematic comic book adaptation hits — and, ...
The new reality
When Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig) was 11, she was diagnosed manic-depressive, put on medication and grew up like most teenagers do. Yet, the events that shaped Alice’s upbringing, although not abnormal, stuck deeper in her mind than most. Where most people learn to ...
Show and tell
Storytelling is one of the most ancient traditions among us. Stories form connections. Whether passed down from generations or an anecdote from the grocery store, stories help break down the barriers between shared human experiences. It’s through their stories that ...
A portrait of the artist as a young transplant
More than a lot of other locales, Boulder is peopled by transplants. Almost everyone you meet is from somewhere else. In all my years living in our fair city, I’d estimate only a miniscule percentage of the people I’ve known were actually from here. Maybe it’s a ...
