Entertainment

After this many years covering it, there’s not a lot of new things BW can say about the University of Colorado Boulder’s annual Conference on World Affairs in a global sense. Since it was founded in 1948, it’s kept on keeping on with its half-spontaneous intellectual...

Setting one of Shakespeare’s plays in a relatively modern time and place is more the rule than the exception these days. Of the dozens of performances of the Bard’s works I’ve seen, only a small handful has used a “traditional” setting. Instead, directors tend to ...

Red Cliff is the first Chinese-language film from John Woo in more than a decade, and reportedly the most expensive Chineselanguage movie ever made (though, once you see its Lord of the Rings-like immensity, that “reportedly” becomes “oh, totally”). It is two-and-...

going through your instagram feed desperately trying to reconstruct your history artfully revealing yourself through clever angles and snapchat filters.  what happens when children lose sight of themselves via the...

Vance Gilbert is black. Vance Gilbert plays the acoustic guitar. Vance Gilbert does not play the blues. Most of us assume a black man...

Shrek the Musical. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303- 449-6000. Through Sept. 6...

When you’ve seen Annie as many times as I have, it’s easy to dread another couple of hours spent with that plucky, Depression-era redhead,...

Saturday, January 18: Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy. 10 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St.,Jamestown, 303-442-5847...

LOS ANGELES — Rapper M-Bone, a member of the platinum...

Losing the West...

There’s no denying the 20th century was one of radical changes. The century was ushered in on horse-drawn carriages and exited in an SUV. Humans invented plastics, factories, nuclear bombs, rock music, the Internet, spandex and iPhones. It was a hundred years ...

Friday, February 7: Sex Workers Unite, Melinda Chateauvert, Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 7:30 p.m...