Entertainment

reel to reel | Week of Sept. 22, 2011

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Abduction...

The totality of me

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Call Marlon Riggs whatever you want. He describes himself as an “independent documentary producer,” but if you want to call him a Black gay...

Funny or try

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Vinny Thomas was only 15 years old when he first decided to give comedy a try. He was a high schooler at the Denver...

Double take

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In Monique Crine’s picture “Jake,” a buff man stands alone in a pool gazing at the viewer. When standing a few feet away from the 6-foot-by-9-foot portrait, it seems as if you’re staring at a photograph. But upon closer inspection of the curve of the jaw or curl ...

Home viewing: Satire streams

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A lecture may get your point across, but a story illustrates it better. And if you can smuggle in a little humor, it’s a...

Passion and performance are the heart of Lil Sum’n Sum’n

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When I first saw Lil Sum’n Sum’n listed on The Laughing Goat’s event calendar for this month, I told my wife, “I hope to God this band is as cool as their name because I already want to interview them!” Turns out not only is this band talented, creative and ...

Raging the Cajun back where it all started

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These things must be approached delicately, but the lead-off track from Steve Conn’s elegant new CD Beautiful Dream, an unraveled lament to gazing back over the years and pondering what-ifs called “Easier Said Than Done,” resonates a little as an apology self-...

The never nervous, always prodigious Acoustic Kids

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Andy May is a soft-spoken man who calls children “youngsters” and adults “folks.” His talent as a musician and teacher is undisputed, but he’s...

And now for something completely different

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Unlike the 20-something I overheard on Pearl Street the other day exclaiming to her friends that she was “literally shitting bricks” as she awaited a call or text from some unnamed hottie she met at a recent party/rave/ bash/hoedown/Burning Man, I know the ...

Emerging from the shadows

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Karen Elson on being the musician who is Jack White’s wife Karen Elson is not Jack White’s wife. Well, technically she is, but the famous model-turned-musician lives under a looming shadow of attachment to The White Stripes that seems a bit unfair. Perhaps ...

When Everything Falls Away

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This is the place of the dead. Smooth, square, polished stones stand in a meadow. There are names carved on these stones As if to say, “This...

Boulder band The Wood Brothers tap into the ‘The Muse’ on...

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Among its many discrete charms, The Wood Brothers’ new CD The Muse features a crafty little number, buried well down the program, which gracefully frames the Boulder-native siblings’ quizzically symbiotic approach to songwriting. Titled “Keep Me Around,” a poignant ...