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Dog House Music Studios has become Boulder County’s one-stop shop for...
Liz and Kenny Vasko keep taking leaps of faith and landing firmly on their feet.
The first jump was when the couple — a former...
An orgy of one
Why do you want to dance?
Why do you want to live?
Well, I don’t know exactly why, but I must.
That’s my answer too.
—Boris Lermontov and...
Rock trio Chevelle more grounded as latest album explores UFOs
What do unidentified flying objects, aliens and hard-rock...
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...
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...
‘Moby-Dick’ on horseback
It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of Western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was the 1960s, and...
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...
Home viewing: Satire streams
A lecture may get your point across, but a story illustrates it better. And if you can smuggle in a little humor, it’s a...
Lessons in leaving
For more than a decade, we’ve been able to make little stops by this small, fictional town of Holt, out on the eastern plains of Colorado. We were first delivered there in Plainsong, the 1999 novel about two aging brothers, cattle ranchers who take in a pregnant, ...
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...
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...
