Entertainment
The center will not hold
When Star
Wars debuted in 1977, it was an immediate revolution of cinema and
culture. Audiences voted with their wallets: This is how we want our...
Gregory Alan Isakov: The horticultural hypnotist
A vein of nature runs through troubadour Gregory Alan Isakov’s music, fitting imagery for the singer-songwriter, who lived on a farm for several years. On his new album, The Weatherman, which dropped July 9, Isakov sings of “casting hooks off the California coast,” “...
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...
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...
Just Mercy
Monroeville, Alabama,
1987: A man is condemned to death for a crime he did not commit. Do you need to
know the color of his skin,...
Did you hear they’re young?
If there was ever an overstated comment about Michigan-based three piece The Accidentals, it’s that they’re so young. String instrumentalists Savannah Buist and Katie...
‘Go back the way you came’
On the night before her band’s hotly anticipated reunion show last summer at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, Elephant Revival co-founder Bonnie Paine dreamed about...
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...
Words from the road
It’s just like me singing in your living room with a three-piece band, or in some little dive bar,” indie-folk singer-songwriter Luke Redfield told me about his new album, The Cartographer, by phone from Minnesota just after spending Christmas with his family there...
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...
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...
Elephant Revival splits the sky with “Break In The Clouds”
There are some voices that reach out through the speakers and beg everyone in the room to stop their conversations for a moment and just listen. Elephant Revival’s Daniel Rodriguez has such a voice. It’s a timeless folk voice, deep and hearty, weathered but ...
