After a winter spent rearranging house, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is ready to defend its position as cultural and educational touchstone. The 2013 edition has sprinted ahead of expectations and appears on tap for a successful start to the season. It may not be a make-or-break year, but plenty of eyes will be on the CSF as it unfurls its latest repertoire.

Ever get the feeling you just can’t concentrate like you used to? Feel like your brain is stuck on overload and you can’t put together a coherent thought?

Not many bands that come through Boulder are able to cull a playlist from a catalog that has sold more than 250 million albums worldwide. Yet this is what will happen when the Wailers come to town for their nearly annual pilgrimage Dec. 28 at the Fox Theatre.

Remembering the spirit of Christmas can get difficult when parking lot road rage and wrestling over smartphones overtake Santa and good cheer.

Judging by the way folks are lining up to grab the latest updates and models of items they may already have, the biggest winner so far in this holiday shopping season may be planned obsolescence. Let the electronics buying begin.

A dozen opera singers walk into a bar. It may sound like the setup to the punch line of an old joke, but in this era of micro-brewed entertainment, any place can be a stage.

If you’re having a hard time this holiday season doling out your entertainment dollars, kill three birds with one stone.

If a photograph is a mere snapshot in time, the caption becomes the clock face of history. Being able to read both can illustrate our understanding of the world.

A Rocketman Crashes and Rises in the West is an exhibit of assembled art by artist Jimmy Descant on display through Dec. 1 at the Dairy Center for the Arts. A believer in the messages told by art, Descant’s pieces shed insight into a self-described “severe reconstructivist” and the life that he has lived.

Like bipartisan support for Amendment 64 or Tim Tebow winning a playoff game, we may not know how things work together, but we enjoy the sum of the parts. Such is the case with RNDM, who despite their moniker are virtually certain to appear Nov. 18 at the Fox Theatre.