Entertainment

Musicals get a bad rep. It’s as if breaking into song has to equate with jazz hands and snappy songs about Oklahoma. But for decades musicals have tackled dark subject matters and made the macabre their playground. Take Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street...

Alfred Hitchcock may not have invented the moving image, but he defined what it was capable of. The son of a London grocer, Hitchcock’s career...

Boulder’s orchestras like to present nature in their programming. In Kansas, they like to present their programming in nature. Symphony in the Flint Hills is...

Kelly Monico, Nebraska native though she may be, has always been a fan of rap — old school rap. Then the Metropolitan State University of Denver art professor encountered her first Nicki Minaj video on a student’s blog...

None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before Me...

The Rolling Stones have somehow made it to 50 — and not just as individuals. The band itself is now at half a century, and to mark the occasion the members are planning to perform for the first time since 2007 before the end of the year...

"It’s just like those people that got married at 18 and stayed together forever,” says Ryan Patterson, frontman of the Louisville, Ky., punk band Coliseum...

The 1998 Academy Awards Ceremony felt a little bit like a private party James Cameron threw for his monumental Titanic, which sailed away with 11 statues that evening, but that was also the night 57 million Americans met one singer/ songwriter who left almost as ...

World affairs to be conferenced includes no shortage of arts topicsAfter 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 ...

The Australian government has put new incentives in place to urge TV networks to broadcast Australian programs. But for some producers, it's not enough...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the kind of movie that is released with apologies and finger-pointing. After his first solo stint landed with the grace and majesty of a wet fart, odds were stacked against a sequel for Wolvie. But if Hugh Jackman can forcibly warble Les ...

As the story goes, the Greek titan Prometheus so loved man that he stole fire from Mount Olympus and brought it to Earth for all...