Entertainment
Foals and Cage the Elephant, uncaged
I'll be honest: I didn't expect much going in to see Cage the Elephant at the Ogden Theater on May 18. The opener, U.K. band Foals, with its equal parts luscious and vicious guitars that come off somewhere between Bloc Party and Interpol was what drew me in...
Party
First Annual Boulder Block Party, 6 p.m., Friday, May 16, Madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, www.facebook. com/bdrblockparty, 303-927-0802 $10...
Arts | Week of May 15, 2014
Arvada Fine Arts Guild Annual Spring Membership Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through June 1...
Waltzing with the enemy
Since 1994, Pierre Dulaine, subject of the 2013 documentary Dancing in Jaffa, has run a program called Dancing Classrooms, which teaches fifth graders the fundamentals of ballroom dance. The program teaches more than just footwork, it teaches the students elegance, ...
Hazy Hazings
Let’s start with something that’s apparently really, really hard for edgy comedy people to grasp: jokes about rape or the N-word suck, and you suck for using them. Yes, you are allowed to make them; they aren’t illegal or anything. But saying “nothing is off-limits ...
A lie told often enough
Back in the aughts, the Bug Theatre Company consistently produced exciting, affecting theatre of a kind not commonly seen elsewhere. Its hauntingly beautiful 2003 production of Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues brought tears to my eyes. Its take on David Sedaris’ ...
Theater | Week of May 15, 2014
Shrek The Musical. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 6...
