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Keyboardist Joey Porter remembers the first time he encountered Herbie Hancock — or, to be more precise, the first time he mainlined Hancock’s feral funk stylings after the pianist had left Miles Davis’ legendary quintet in 1968...

This might be a stretch, but if you get right down to it, Joey Vega owes his 30-year career in comedy to a nightclub...

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...

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...

For thousands of years, humans have passed stories down to younger generations with the hope they’ll continue the practice. As a member of the...

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...

There was no show last year; it was called on account of pandemic. Just as well: Wildfires all along the West draped a burnt...

By the spring of 2020, André Ramos-Woodard (they/them) was mad as hell. It started with Ahmaud Arbery, chased and gunned down by white men while...

Shantell Martin works fast. With a marker in hand, she stays in constant motion — drawing lines, faces, words, squiggles, stick figures and various...

The biggest surprise cinema held for me in 2021 came at the Telluride Film Festival with the U.S. premiere of The Power of the Dog,...

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

Back for number 42, the Denver Film Festival (DFF) returns Oct. 30 through Nov. 10, but under a dark cloud. This will be the first DFF...