Entertainment
Laurie Morvan burns in blue
California blues guitarist Laurie Morvan and her band are in that place right now where they draw two-paragraph mentions in local newspapers, generous but usually short features, CD reviews in small-circ blues magazines, and generally positive festival appearance ...
Kid, you’re gonna go far
Meet Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher); she’s 13, lives in a suburban home with her single father (Josh Hamilton) and is about as put together...
‘Fantastique’ opening
Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2016 season June 30 at Chautauqua Auditorium, and no one is more excited than music director Jean-Marie...
SUBVERSIVE
Bill Ayers, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074...
A feast for the soul
It seems too soon, but it’s here — that subtle change in the evening air that suggests the shift from summer to autumn is nearing. We’ve just transitioned out of what the Old Farmer’s Almanac considers the oppressively hot “dog days of summer,” and a reprieve from ...
To bend, not to break
Marda Kirn is no stranger to the topic of immigration. Raised in the U.S. by a traveling father and an Austrian mother, Kirn faced...
Capitalism is the crisis
Despite sub-zero temperatures — because of them, actually — protesters gathered outside Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center in early February 2019. Inside, inmates also braced...
TLC’s ‘Breaking Amish’ goes too far in exploiting religious group
Reality television is exploitative, make no mistake. Viewers flock to Snooki, the Real Housewives of This or That Place and the Duggar army because they like the voyeurism, the ability to look in on other people's bizarre lives and insane decisions...
Books bound in yellow
Through works of fantasy and what she calls “alt-history,” Longmont-based author Molly Tanzer pushes forgotten narratives to the forefront. With her novels Vermilion, The...
History starts here
When Martin Scorsese sat down with friend and classmate Mardik Martin to pen Season of the Witch — later rechristened Mean Streets — he...
