Entertainment
The Little Mermaid grows some teeth
Thanks to Disney’s ability to cash-in on nostalgia, a tale as old as time with songs as old as rhyme is back in theaters...
The greatest of all time
Hyperbole is great for journalism, terrible for art. Granted, the above headline might draw attention, clicks and (hopefully) puts asses in the seats, but...
Are cigarettes cool again?
It wasn’t supposed to rain on the second night of Caamp’s two-night stint at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. But it’s Colorado, and droplets began to...
For the sake of the endeavor
Under the dim light of the full moon, a group of poets gathers in a hollow of Pearl Street’s Morrison Alley. Most people come...
Bark at the moon
It was a full moon when the Boulder County trio known as Prairiewolf rolled tape on the first recording session for their self-titled debut...
The Iron Giant
Before the 1990s, animated
family films were in the gutter. Deemed too expensive, too labor-intensive,
their demise was certain. But then came The
Little Mermaid, and a...
Books bound in yellow
Through works of fantasy and what she calls “alt-history,” Longmont-based author Molly Tanzer pushes forgotten narratives to the forefront. With her novels Vermilion, The...
The dead won’t die
American playwright Irwin Shaw’s 1936 anti-war play Bury the Dead was a prescient foreshadowing of World War II. It pointed out the absurdity of...
Rock trio Chevelle more grounded as latest album explores UFOs
What do unidentified flying objects, aliens and hard-rock...
You definitely won’t shoot your eye out
It doesn’t matter whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it isn’t, by the by, from Bruce Willis’ own lips during the only funny...
Once a year on the prairie
Boulder’s orchestras like to present nature in their programming. In Kansas, they like to present their programming in nature.
Symphony in the Flint Hills is...
A place for all of it
"You can make changes. Thus, you can change the world. Right?” It’s a bit of wisdom Mark Oliver Everett, who largely goes by the...
