Entertainment

Getting over the obstacles

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Guitarist Matt Flaherty’s been making music in the Boulder/Denver scene for the past 12 years, fronting his own funk-forward rock project Hot Soup, and...

Meet Dalton Trumbo

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If you’ve spent any time on CU’s campus, you probably noticed the courtyard fountain next to the UMC — the kind where couples take their engagement photos and children play on hot summer days. You might’ve even noticed the small plaque on the south pillar, dedicating...

If I can’t have all of you, then I don’t want...

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So it's fare-thee-well, my own true love. We'll meet an-other day, an-other time. It ain't the leavin' that's a-grievin' me, but my darlin' who's...

Funny in a ‘foreign’ language

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It’s no great secret that being a woman in a leadership position comes with many unfair challenges — and for women of color, those...

Thompson’s last stand

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In 2001, convicted murderer Lisl Auman was 13 months into a life sentence when she wrote a letter to the author of a book that had recently brought her some joy in prison...

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

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EVENTS Downtown Chalk Art Festival. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, Downtown Longmont.  The Downtown Chalk Art Festival will bring more than a dozen artists together to...

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story

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Alexander Hamilton was a thinker, a writer, a dreamer, a mind constantly at work. Born out of wedlock and orphaned on a Caribbean island,...

The age of innocence

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Jo March is elated. A few moments earlier, she was in excruciating pain: Another pie-eyed scribbler stranded on the non-editorial side of the desk. Too shy to...

Cirque de la Symphonie makes fourth appearance with Boulder Phil

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The circus is coming back to town, and this time they’re bringing a fiddler. The circus is the acrobatic troupe Cirque de la Symphonie, returning...

The con man’s lament

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Some men just think they’re better than others. Connie does. Scratch that, Connie knows he’s better. Better than the two-bit drug-dealer he’s in cahoots...

Jimmy Herring’s event horizon

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Is that lawnmower bothering you?” Jimmy Herring asks during our phone interview a few weeks ago. “There’s a guy cutting the grass next door,...

Too cool to be forgotten

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When Girlfriends opened in New York City on Aug. 11, 1978, a newspaper strike kept the movie’s release from a public announcement. So, director...