Entertainment
Feel good
I let my 12-year-old serve as DJ on the way to the Gorillaz show at Ball Arena in Denver last night, and from Boulder...
Tone of voice
More than 30 years after the release of Passion and Warfare, Steve Vai’s landmark instrumental solo album and an essential component of the instrumental...
Mapping our history of violence
Poet Jessica Lawson started out writing what she thought would be a book of poems themed around maps.
“Shortly into the writing process, Donald Trump...
Still alive
As Pearl Jam’s two-and-a-half-hour, tour-closing show at Ball Arena concluded last night and the Seattle rock group stood on stage thanking fans and crew,...
Branching out
The next time you bemoan a bad driver in Boulder with a Texas license plate, or see another “Go Back to Texas and Tell...
‘Sweaty Greeley Soul’
A music pastor and a trumpet player walk into a bar. It’s May of 2013, and Johnny Burroughs — a licensed minister — is...
‘Cinema was a comfort’
“Movies aren’t just making history; they’re making our history,” filmmaker Mark Cousins muses in his latest documentary, The Story of Film: A New Generation. “They’re...
Bad education
Growing up partly on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota, Jerilyn DeCoteau was often puzzled by the rigid and disciplinary way her...
Let it flow
The Colorado River is in trouble. Now in its 23rd year of drought, the once-mighty water source flowing nearly 1,500 miles from the Rocky...
Andrew Sean Greer offers more on ‘Less is Lost’
Andrew Sean Greer catapulted onto the literary scene with his 2017 breakout novel Less, an equal-parts poignant and hilarious book that took home the...
‘We were there’
"Hollywood cinema has had a complicated relationship with race and ethnicity since its very beginning,” says Luis I. Reyes at the beginning of his...
Five Point Dancing into Boulder
Andrea Basile was living her childhood dream.
All the hours spent in the studio practicing to perfection, pushing herself mentally and physically and leaving home...
