Entertainment
Getting over the obstacles
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
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...
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
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...

















