Entertainment
A jumbled mess
As a family demographic product, Rango has a million selling points, among them an unusually strong voice cast headed by Johnny Depp in tremulous-aesthete mode, a popular live-action director making his feature animation debut, and a twist on a genre temporarily back...
Physical theater and the silent tragedy of the inanimate
Claire Patton and Lucia Rich, both wearing all-black clothes for the evening’s rehearsal, are sitting in a studio space in a structure outside a North Boulder home, trying to explain what “physical theater” means...
Child’s tale come to life
Know how to give mild G-rated fare a little something special? Cast Sandra Oh as an elementary school teacher who enjoys her orderly ways and who regards the Ramona half of Ramona and Beezus, taken from the venerable Beverly Cleary children’s books, as more ...
Hairy Plotter
Here, in Trump’s America, the question is no longer “Why do bad things happen to good people?” but “Why do good people do bad,...
Wood Brothers
The Wood Brothers’ new LP, suggestively titled One Drop of Truth¸ starts its program with a simple acoustic guitar bounce, a bluesy, sundance-in-the-field filigree...
Theater | Week of September 17, 2015
BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303- 449-6000. Through Nov. 14...
The Devil’s Advocate is a Pacifist
As I stared into the eyes of Michael Cohenon the Lucky’s market television; blinded by humanity or lack thereof.I saw a system which breeds...
David Crosby’s cliff dive
David Crosby loves science fiction novels. Yes, that David Crosby. The mustachioed troubadour; the man who almost cut his hair; the shadow captain himself;...
‘Baby Doe’ opens Central City Opera season
Central City Opera (CCO)has a fresh and imaginative remake of an old friend this summer.
Their 60th-anniversary production of Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby...
What to do when there’s nothing to do…
EVENTS
Author Talk: Joanne Tubbs Kelly—‘Walking Him Home’
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderbookstore.net
Alan and Joanne marry in...
Citing Bono’s back injury, U2 postpones its American tour
After hurting his back during concert rehearsals in Munich, Germany, Bono...
REVIEW: A Perfect Circle at Red Rocks
How does a band that hasn’t released music since 2004’s eMOTIVe, and has played few shows since, sell out the 9,450-capacity Red Rocks Amphitheatre? The simplest answer may be that the band features Maynard James Keenan, the lead singer of the rock band Tool. The ...


















