Entertainment
Heaven is overrated
Recently, I joylessly trudged through the first season of Amazon’s Transparent, a show populated with so many soulless, vacuous, obnoxious characters that I began rooting for them to die horrifically. This follows my quasi-traumatic enduring of Breaking Bad, an over-...
Not your average stoner
Michael Grab thrives on the impossible. In fact, the professional stone balancer has made the phrase “as impossible as possible” the motto by which he creates...
Arts | Week of Feb. 12 , 2015
Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through March 22...
Putting down another piece in the Jorma Kaukonen puzzle
If you think of Jorma Kaukonen’s career as a jigsaw puzzle, the whole thing sort of makes sense. It began as a pile of disjointed pieces containing just a hint or color of things to come. Each day, each year, each decade the puzzle becomes more complete. Every new ...
Paying homage to melting pot musicians
For Gumbo Le Funque frontman and sax player Jason Justice, there is more to music than having a good time. Getting instruments to kids facing tough economic conditions and high-stakes school testing provides a crucial opportunity for experiential learning, he says. ...
Don’t let millennials time travel
Project Almanac understands what people really want in a time-travel movie: long stretches of people soldering circuit boards and buying batteries. I mean, why waste time pondering temporal paradoxes when audiences just want to sit back and marvel at the thrill of ...
Arts | Week of Feb. 5, 2015
Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through March 22...
moe. blows out a few candles
About three weeks ago, the dutiful webmaster running moe.’s homepage linked to a piece lauding the band’s long-tenured moe.down festival, held in upstate New York, as one of the world’s best music festivals, putting the low-key and locally beloved event alongside ...
