Entertainment
If Leonard Cohen, Jim Morrison and the Wu-Tang Clan had a...
When we set up a time to talk, Daniel Rodriguez still had an intimate dinner show scheduled for Dec. 5 at Boulder Theater.
That’s of...
‘Hidden Figures’ has bad-ass thinkers
Attention: Hollywood has accidentally made a mainstream movie that involves race without a substantial white savior character. Kevin Costner comes very, very close to...
Alexander Payne’s sweet stakes
I like Alexander Payne. I really do. His ability as a director to mine for subtle laughs others would leave buried is as pleasant as his now-signature genre of “middle-aged-and-older men having muted epiphanies.” I guess I just miss the Citizen Ruth/Election-era ...
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ Unveiled by Harvey Weinstein
What would American slaves have called a Quarter Pounder with cheese? The first footage from Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained...
Broken Poem
There is a poem
lying beside the road, its red
fur ablaze in the morning sunlight.
The spine of the poem is broken
and one leg is partially...
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:...
Quicksilver Baroque brings ‘Strange and Wonderful Music’ to Macky
How many pieces of chamber music for two violins, trombone, bassoon and lute can you name?
None? Meet Quicksilver, a Baroque ensemble specializing in the...
An Ang Lee masterpiece
Being stranded in the middle of an unforgiving ocean is a theme that’s been explored in films as diverse as Swiss Family Robinson and Hitchcock’s surprisingly tense Lifeboat. But being cast adrift for more than 200 days in a lifeboat with an adult Bengal tiger? It ...
Knowledge is power
The word ‘planet’ means wanderer,” the narrator says, explaining the captivating, wandering harmonies of Gustav Holst’s popular orchestral piece The Planets. “To the ancient world, the planets were the stars that changed position, that wandered from one place to ...
Theatre | Week of Sept. 18, 2014
Driving Miss Daisy. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303- 772-5200. Through Oct. 4...