Entertainment

‘Chubby Behemoth’

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If you’re making people think too hard on stage, Sam Tallent questions your chops as a comic. He’s in the business of belly laughs:...

Art for art’s sake

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manifesto, noun: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer What we need is works of art that are strong,...

Mark Rothko: The vanishing figure

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If it is true, as Mark Rothko has said, that art lives in the eye of its viewers, then what comes to life in the Denver Art Museum exhibition of his work is the most formative decade of his life. A decade in which the nearly mature artist uses the anguish and angst ...

Identity crisis

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One ever feels his twoness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body,...

Boring vampire sex

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The fourth film in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 reveals a flash or two of real filmmaking (mostly in a suggestively grotesque birthing sequence), enough to save it from pure lousiness...

A woman’s place in cinema

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There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man, and there is no...

Off Country

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We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the twentieth century: our tools are better than we are, and...

‘I’m home’

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Hazel Miller got into music as a kid, while doing chores. “My mother had a rule: Saturdays were for cleaning the house,” she says....

The living afterlife

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The latest offering from celebrated Detroit post-punk outfit Protomartyr begins with a grim salutation: “Welcome to the haunted earth / the living afterlife,” vocalist...

What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…

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EVENTS Dairy Arts Center presents Creative Nations Conversations with Walt Pourier and Kelly Holmes. 7 p.m. Thursday, June 3. Virtual Event URL: bit.ly/3p9I5Ii Join Dairy Arts...

GasPops channel Petty

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Seemed a curious thing that Clay Rose and the Gasoline Lollipops should be doing a Tom Petty complete-album for New Year’s Eve at the...

What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do. . .

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EVENTS Jeff Leeson and Tige Wright’s 2021 Comedy Tour. 7 p.m. Thursday, October 21, Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont. Tickets: $12, dickensoperahouse.com For more...