Entertainment

Theater | Week of June 4, 2015

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Brighton Beach Memoirs. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through June 28...

Aural orgy

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While most of America was dealing chips and cracking cold ones in anticipation of the Super Bowl last Sunday, DeVotchKa’s Nick Urata was at home, catching his breath from an afternoon band rehearsal. The iconoclastic Denver quartet had a Valentine’s gig coming up — ...

Kicking up the dust

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During the two years that went into making her current album, Midnight, Grace Potter realized a game-changing truth about herself. “I figured out that I’m...

The antidote to despair

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In a storage unit in Boulder sits a sort of museum of remembrance, momentos of lives past, curated intentionally by CU Theatre and Dance...

‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ raises a toast to the jerks,...

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KANYE WEST "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" 3 1/2 stars...

Beyond the binary

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Adorned with horns and hooves, topless and draped in fabric reminiscent of a long skirt, mononymous artist Shamir dresses as the pagan deity Baphomet...

A matter of persistence

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The legacy of Orson Welles looms large in the history of cinema. So large, even Welles himself fell into its blackness. “The word genius was...

Familiar fish tale


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Baby Dory is the cutest thing that has ever been recorded in the history of cinema. This is an inarguable fact. She’s 90 percent...

‘This great stage’

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With this summer’s premiere of King Lear, the 66th season of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) has reached a new high. That’s thanks in...

Bag it up

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A really good documentary isn’t about whatever it looks like it’s about. It’s about people.I don’t mean nature docs, which are actually about nature. I mean films like Ready, Set, Bag!, an independent documentary that follows eight competitors in the National Grocers...

Those barbaric Yawpers

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No one knows for certain why some bands connect with the public and others don’t. It’s a mystery that musicians and critics have argued about for ages. No Doubt wallowed in obscurity for almost a decade until Gwen Stefani began writing accusatory songs about her ...

The man, the myth, the legend

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Though they were incredibly gifted performers whose music still resonates and whose influences remain readily apparent today, you don’t see bumper stickers reading, “God Bless Janis Joplin.” Or Jimi Hendrix. Or Frank Sinatra. Or Dean Martin. The only such bumper ...