Entertainment
Only time to be yourself
Shantell Martin works fast. With a marker in hand, she stays in constant motion — drawing lines, faces, words, squiggles, stick figures and various...
Circular logic
Writer/director Rian Johnson is fantastic at making pretty good movies. 2005’s Brick was a slyly conceived yarn that took 1940s private dick dialogue and plot and affixed them to a modern high-school setting, with middling effect. 2008’s The Brothers Bloom was a ...
The reintroduction of Clyfford Still
Even art enthusiasts who believed they knew the work of leading American abstract expressionist Clyfford Still had surprises waiting when the museum of his work opened in Denver. But for everyone else, it was a surprise just knowing the man existed at all...
Jimmy Herring’s event horizon
Is that lawnmower bothering you?” Jimmy Herring asks during our phone interview a few weeks ago. “There’s a guy cutting the grass next door,...
Roll out the barrel
Martin has been immobilized. He’s only 40, but the life drained out of his face years ago. His wife barely talks to him, and...
Collage, a century later
Collage as an art technique and craft might be ubiquitous today, but when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque first began experimenting with incorporating found materials into their paintings in the early 1900s, it was a radical innovation. Art has never been the same ...
‘Jump for Joy’
Singer-songwriter M.C. Taylor didn’t set out to make a “pandemic record” when he went into the studio to record his 2021 LP, Quietly Blowing...
Surprise funk
Keller Williams’ new CD, Funk, is being touted as something of a surprise album. Considering that Williams is known for playing acoustic music that often has leaned toward folk, that’s understandable...
Writing the unwritten
All of us are haunted — by vestiges of the past, and, as Hannah Nordhaus poignantly observes in American Ghost, by the ghosts of who we thought we were or thought we would become. Her story is a different kind of personal haunting, though, as she writes of the ghost ...
Hometown heroes
March might be the best
month for Boulder moviegoers. From the smattering of archival prints unspooling
at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series to the delightfully bizarre and
thought-provoking...
Fantastic furry fun in ‘Mr. Fox’
In a world of children’s films increasingly characterized by technological accomplishment and sophisticated rendering in lieu of good old-fashioned storytelling, it was a breath of fresh air to enjoy the stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox...
