Entertainment
Grow where you’re planted
Prolific playwright Steven Dietz has many connections with Colorado. The most obvious is that he was born and raised in southwest Denver, attended John...
The bluest sky you’ve ever seen
When head flight attendant Jan Brown told her crew on United flight 232 what was about to happen, she said it clearly and calmly:...
Alyssa Milano returns to prime time in ABC’s ‘Romantically Challenged’
The list of flaws plaguing the new ABC sitcom, "Romantically Challenged," begins with its premise and builds from there...
Call and response
For Betty Hart, theater is both a call and a response. What happens on stage is a crucial piece of her work as a new...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
EVENTS
33rd Annual Charles Sawtelle Memorial Mountain Jam. 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m Sunday, July 18, Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder. Tickets: $35-$45, goldhillinn.com
The...
The shame of a nation
The year was 1978, and
China’s future did not look promising. The country had survived wars,
depression and famine, plus a cultural revolution was taxing the...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do. . .
EVENTS
American Music Research Center Symposium: Borders/Boundaries/Fronteras. Noon-5 p.m. Friday, October 15, Koelbel Building (Room C342), 995 Regent Drive, Boulder. Free.
This symposium brings together leading...
‘SNL’/ ‘MacGruber’ star Will Forte is a soldier of fortune
Will Forte has learned that life can deliver you to some pretty weird and unexpected places...
Mickey Rourke put steely determination into preparing to play ‘Iron Man...
When Mickey Rourke talks about the...
Feel the feeling
The term “emo” has lived many lives since its origins in the evolving D.C. hardcore scene of the late 1980s. Three decades later, the...
Outside the gallery walls
When you enter an art gallery, you agree to an experience. There will be some sort of exchange between art and viewer — more...
Take it easy, sweet and slow
There is a rhythmic force that lives deep inside of Anaïs Mitchell. On stage she can’t help but pop and bob, as if punctuating...

















