Entertainment

Neal Morse doesn’t apologize for easy listening

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"I need to come out of the clouds every now and then,” Neal Morse says, apologizing for being immersed in writing, and calling into our...

Magic in the acoustic guitar

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We don’t know, and wouldn’t ask, if Andy McKee was a church-going kind of guy. But preparing for our interview, we came across a...

The way Charlie Parr is built

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"The shortened version of the extremely long story,” Charlie Parr begins when I ask about the journey he took to make his new record,...

To live

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Here dies Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura). For 30 years he has been pushing pencils and stamping government documents inside the cluttered offices of Tokyo’s...

Janiva Magness draws strength from turmoil

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When listening to blues vocalist Janiva Magness, there are a lot of words that come to mind that could describe her sultry and lilting interpretations. Whether uplifting or drifting into darkness, one word that never comes across when hearing her voice is “fake.” ...

Jenn Zuko on the art of violence and sex, on stage

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You’re at the theater, watching a lovely scene succumb to violence. You’ve just seen the marriage of a young couple but now, moments later,...

Roll another one

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As a child growing up in Pennsylvania, Alexandra Schwan had no idea that she would eventually join musical forces in Colorado with another native...

Home viewing: ‘The Breaking Point’

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When Jack Warner previewed The Breaking Point in the summer of 1950, he knew he had a hit on his hands. And with good...

The hakawati

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Across the Potomac, Helen Zughaib could see the Pentagon burning from her home in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001. Soon enough, phone calls...

Exhibit chronicles the career of Boulder artist Martha Russo

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Martha Russo didn’t always dream of being an artist. As an accomplished field hockey player, Russo took a year off from Princeton University in...

Too much violence — despicable

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Despicable Me is a surprisingly violent animated movie that suffers from being released within a few weeks of Toy Story 3. Where Toy Story 3 has warm characters who seek to do well by each other, Despicable Me is populated by characters who constantly hurt each ...

Five steps to love yourself

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Megan Bloomfield (Natasha Lyonne) is the all-American girl next door. She’s bubbly and perky, lives in the suburbs with her parents and is dating...