Entertainment
Berta Rojas carries torch for tradition
The leadoff track “Tambito josephino” (“Tambito from San Jose”) from Berta Rojas’ recent release Salsa Roja will surprise few of her followers for its lithe and masterful guitar work. Rojas is one of the most accomplished classical guitar instrumentalists on the ...
Theater | Week of September 3, 2015
Book of Mormon. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Sept. 13...
Arts | Week of May 14, 2015
Acrylic Paintings by M.G. Davis. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 30...
A slight case of accidental murder
The rocky, seaside village of Easter Cove, Maine, does not look like the kind of place you’d want to spend a winter. The snow...
The way to dusty death
Style is half the picture. Story is the other half. William Shakespeare’s 17th-century play, The Tragedie of Macbeth, might be one of the greatest stories...
Now serving number 666
Is there a less desirable room to be in than a courtroom? True, courtrooms are the spaces where civility and rhetoric determines the justice of actions, but entering one is like traversing Dante’s Inferno. Justice may be served, you might even come out the victor, ...
Bold thinking at the BolderLife Festival
Often we are so bombarded with media and messaging that it can become easy to distance ourselves from the harsh realities of the world. At precisely the time our civilization should be taking a hard look into what makes us a communal society, we are retreating en ...
The value of failing
Early this year, Laura Ann Samuelson, founder of the experimental dance company Hoarded Stuff, began asking fellow artists — who find themselves caught in an endless wheel of marketing and self-promotion — about the opposite end of their resumes. Not how they’d ...
Sinful and sorrowful
The
Irishman begins in darkness. A small box of light at the center of
the frame opens like an iris, and we see nurses and doctors....
Avant garde pop
Satomi Matsuzaki, a Japanese-born, self-taught musician who moved to San Francisco from Tokyo in 1996, highlights the avant indie-rock of Deerhoof with her childlike vocals and thunderous bass guitar. From the simultaneous irreverence, innocence and brilliance of ...
Hollywood’s golden year
It’s hard to overstate the significance of 1939 in American cinema.
Even though the movies were nearly four decades old, a series of events and...
