Entertainment
Building power
If you live in Boulder County, you’ve probably heard the story of Zayd Atkinson and John Smyly. On March 1, 2019, Atkinson, a Naropa...
Conversations from the stage
On her way to the Pekoe Sip House on 30th Street, Megan Falley steps across a message painted on the sidewalk. She pauses, reversing her...
History belongs to everyone
When author Preston Lauterbach first met Ernest Withers, the famed Civil Rights-era photographer left Lauterbach in his studio alone while Withers took a meeting.
“Before...
Imperfect characters
Animal behavior specialist Temple Grandin has often said that autism helps her connect with animals.
“I think in pictures,” she told Stanford’s School of Medicine...
A beloved staple of the holiday season in a new medium
It’s a Wonderful Life, a new opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, started its performance life with a workshop at CU...
Something to do with death
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will...
‘This is the sound of a gavel’
Gilly had beef with her husband Steve. The conflict rested on a wrinkle the Denver couple couldn’t quite iron out: Should the city’s historic...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do. . .
EVENTS
Boulder Book Store Author Talk: James Balog—‘The Human Element’ (virtual). 6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 27. Tickets: $5. Virtual Event URL: boulderbookstore.net/event/james-balog-human-element
For four decades, world-renowned...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do. . .
EVENTS
Opening Reception: ‘RETURNING’: Contemporary Works by Arapaho Artists. 5-7 p.m. Thursday, December 2, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Tickets: $8- $10, museumofboulder.org
The Museum...
Where the coconuts are
Zama — the latest from Argentinean writer/director Lucrecia Martel — opens with a parable: There is a fish, a long-suffering fish, which spends its...
2020 in movies
2020 was the year I watched more but understood less. With a rotating series of crises to consider, rare were the instances where I...

















