Entertainment
Just as I remember
This is not based on a true story; this is a true story.” So proclaims the title cards that open American Animals — a...
Forest Whitaker gets to play good guy on ‘Criminal Minds’ spinoff
LOS ANGELES — Forest Whitaker...
The Constellation Collective: An organization of minor stars
When Kyle Donovan ran sound for a group of soulful songwriters at The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse in the summer of 2016, he knew he...
Love, Irish style
The Political Correctness Police seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the Irish. Racial slurs against African Americans, Asians, etc. are obviously right out. Heaven forbid you should question Caitlyn Jenner’s beauty or courage. And you can’t call the 350-pound...
‘We’re all freaks, together’
G. Willow Wilson has spent her life telling stories. She’s told her own in her graphic novel Cairo and memoir Butterfly Mosque. She’s chronicled...
’23 and me
We’re suckers for a good year-end list here at Boulder Weekly. And as enthusiastic (some might say obsessive) consumers of culture, there’s no shortage...
What to do when there’s nothing to do…
EVENTS
Author Talk: Joanne Tubbs Kelly—‘Walking Him Home’
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Tickets: $5, boulderbookstore.net
Alan and Joanne marry in...
Garden Graves
To my surprise,
there are still three Cardinal Climbers which have bloomed in the chill of mid-October;
their regal red trumpet petals open & held high...
Review: Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s ‘Macbeth’
Setting one of Shakespeare’s plays in a relatively modern time and place is more the rule than the exception these days. Of the dozens of performances of the Bard’s works I’ve seen, only a small handful has used a “traditional” setting. Instead, directors tend to ...
Studio savior
It’d be difficult not to hear an echo of Fleet Foxes shaggy Northwestern Pacific folk-pop or Elliott Smith’s strummy melancholia in the delicate chamber-folk beauty of Blind Pilot’s second album, We Are the Tide. The Portland sextet’s September release is a dramatic ...
Gentlemen, start your symbolism
"Aww, can you buy alcohol now?” A colleague teased Ryan Everson about his recent birthday this past Sunday. Having just turned 24, University of Colorado Master of Fine Arts candidate Ryan Everson has been the center of plenty of youth-driven wisecracks. But his ...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
EVENTS
Poetry Reading: An Evening with Abigail Chabitnoy. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 8. Live-streamed to Facebook, LongmontPublicMedia.org, and Local Comcast Channel 8/880, longmontcolorado.gov
Abigail Chabitnoy, winner...

















