Entertainment
As ‘Office’ finale nears, will Steve Carell’s Michael Scott return?
NBC's popular comedy The Office is drawing to a close as its ninth season ends, and speculation is ramping up that beloved former character Michael Scott will return...
A woman’s work and a son’s obsession
There’s a bit of fairy
tale when it comes to Benedetta Barzini. As the story goes, it was 1963 when
Barzini was discovered on the streets...
The Motet on Halloween: Knee-deep in inspiration
For some years now, The Motet has been leading kind of a schizophrenic life, serving up its regular, originals-heavy set on the festival circuit, while spending some portion of its off time working up cover-version tribute shows for mainly local gigs (Fort Collins, ...
Going off topic
An interview with Gregg Allman can easily go off topic, which in this case means several intended questions — including those about his new concert CD/DVD, Gregg Allman Live: Back To Macon, GA, and the status of Midnight Rider, the movie biopic about the Allman ...
Valentine’s Day weekend in nether-land
The Vagina Monologues are not for the squeamish. During the annual performance at the University of Colorado Boulder you’ll see women rip the covers off and lay bare the wondrous mysteries of an oft-ignored region...
Stepping outside the country box
Phil Vassar found out that country music is still a play-it-safe genre when the song “Bobbi With An I” was floated to radio as a first single off of his current CD, The Traveling Circus...
Sinners and saints
You may not consider yourself a “theater person.” You may be one of the many who feel a twinge of actual fear when contemplating reading — or even just seeing — a work by William Shakespeare. Regardless of your preconceptions or past experiences, I can’t encourage ...
Spanning the globe at The Dairy
On Oct. 8, The Dairy Arts Center will present a concert titled “World Beat,” but that enticing title could easily be applied to most...
‘Underrated masterpiece’
Antonín Dvořák has written some of the most, and least, familiar works in the classical music repertoire.
On the one hand are the “New World”...
Studio savior
It’d be difficult not to hear an echo of Fleet Foxes shaggy Northwestern Pacific folk-pop or Elliott Smith’s strummy melancholia in the delicate chamber-folk beauty of Blind Pilot’s second album, We Are the Tide. The Portland sextet’s September release is a dramatic ...
‘I’m home’
Hazel Miller got into music as a kid, while doing chores.
“My mother had a rule: Saturdays were for cleaning the house,” she says....
Todd Snider’s bipolar spring
Our rationale goes something like this: Hey, The New York Times, Rolling Stone and USA Today have already lauded Todd Snider’s Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, the songwriter’s none-too-subtle screed against the current trickledown angst consuming an American public ...


















