Entertainment
Australia pushes for locally made TV, but producers cry foul
The Australian government has put new incentives in place to urge TV networks to broadcast Australian programs. But for some producers, it's not enough...
Kurt Vonnegut the teacher: An assignment from his writing class
Kurt Vonnegut, the counterculture author whose works include Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and Mother Night, was for several years an instructor at the well-respected Iowa Writers' Workshop...
KBCO´s newest Studio C album a holiday surprise
Every holiday season, KBCO releases its famed Studio C album. Since 1991, the radio station has released compilations of performances done by touring musicians who stop by the station’s studio and donated the proceeds to charity. It has become a type of local holiday...
Change at the ends of the world
If a photograph is a mere snapshot in time, the caption becomes the clock face of history. Being able to read both can illustrate our understanding of the world...
Voulez-vous coucher avec Bah!
If you’re having a hard time this holiday season doling out your entertainment dollars, kill three birds with one stone. By catching a local performance of the holiday musical Moulin Scrooge, fans of comedic acting, over-the-top Jukebox musicals and old flaccid ...
A surreal take on a classic
Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity, Anna Karenina has been brought to stage and screen many times, often with mediocre results due to its complexity. Pay attention: It’s mid-1800s Russia, and Anna (Keira Knightley) is married to Karenin (Jude Law), a dull...
Killswitch Engage is looking back to look forward
This November and December Killswitch Engage is spending a month looking back at a key point in its career, marking the 10-year anniversary of the release of the band’s second album, Alive Or Just Breathing...
Collage artist Jimmy Descant is building a different future
In most cases, walking into an art gallery and proclaiming that the exhibit looks like garbage would be considered rude. But in Boulder, such criticism only earns you thanks...
Craptabulous!
The University of Colorado Boulder boasts many distinguished alumni. Famous scientists, authors and professional football players have all graduated from this hallowed institution. For many, including myself, the most noteworthy CU alumnus is by far Trey Parker, the ...
Emancipation examination
A humble suggestion: Force the chittering, self-serving partisans in Washington who increasingly prefer filibusters over floor votes to watch Lincoln. Director Steven Spielberg’s latest provides a character sketch, not of its titular president, but of America’s ...
An Ang Lee masterpiece
Being stranded in the middle of an unforgiving ocean is a theme that’s been explored in films as diverse as Swiss Family Robinson and Hitchcock’s surprisingly tense Lifeboat. But being cast adrift for more than 200 days in a lifeboat with an adult Bengal tiger? It ...
