By Toni Tresca - Feb. 14, 2024

Last of a kind

Driving northbound on I-25, the Flatirons fade in the rearview mirror, replaced by the expansive vistas of the rural Colorado plains. Turning off past RV parks and a livestock trailer...

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 13, 2024

Short kings

There are no small parts in movies — only those that are long and those that are short. That was the philosophy British filmmaker Michael Powell ascribed to. It’s one...

By Jezy J. Gray - Feb. 13, 2024

‘Big Day Coming’

Few bands have surfed the sands of time quite like Yo La Tengo. Formed in 1984 by married creative team Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan, the revered indie-rock outfit gelled...

By Gabby Vermeire - Feb. 7, 2024

Dear Whole Foods Daddy: Feb. 7, 2024

We all have questions and need advice, but sometimes the pseudo therapy in the Instagram stories of astrology girls doesn’t cut it. Or maybe the gate-keeping culture of adventure bros...

By Toni Tresca - Feb. 7, 2024

Curtain calls

From gripping thrillers to immersive experiments, Colorado’s theater scene is vibrant and varied. Here are three ongoing stage shows in Boulder, Aurora and Golden highlighting the breadth and depth of...

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 7, 2024

Hollywood gate crashers

They play together and laugh, eat meals, discuss school and tend to the garden. They’re just like other families, except for one crucial detail: When it’s time to go to...

By Lauren Hill - Feb. 5, 2024

Let’s talk about sex

As an artist, poet and educator whose work meditates on the body and sexual experiences, Aimee Herman has never shied away from constructive discomfort.  “I’ve been writing about sex since...

By Toni Tresca - Feb. 5, 2024

Framing ‘the frontier’

The underlying myths of the so-called “Wild West” may be suspect at best, but the natural grandeur of its backdrop is without question. That much is clear at the new...

By Toni Tresca - Jan. 31, 2024

Gotta have faith

As the world whirls in turmoil and cynicism, it can be easy to lose faith in the institutions and people around us. Boulder-based Local Theater Company’s latest production, acts of...

By John Lehndorff - Jan. 31, 2024

Ramble on

Some things sound like they really don’t belong together. For instance, whose playlist would include bar rocker George Thorogood, cosmic avant-garde master Sun Ra, banjo savant Béla Fleck, singer-songwriter Nathaniel...

By Bart Schaneman - Jan. 31, 2024

Dammed river

The Colorado River has served as a centerpiece for so much of the mythology and literature written about the American West. From books like John Wesley Powell’s Exploration of the...

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 31, 2024

Room for improvement

Of all the film fests hit hard these past four years, none took it on the chin quite like the Sundance Film Festival. First, there was the planned switch from...

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 24, 2024

Cinema springs eternal

You could see Stanley Kubrick’s iconic anti-war film Paths of Glory (Jan. 30). Or maybe you’ll check out Kasi Lemmons’ feature debut Eve’s Bayou on 35 mm (Feb. 3). You...

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 24, 2024

Forget the Alamo, remember ‘Lone Star’

A skull has turned up in the desert along the Texas-Mexico border, and near it lies a sheriff’s badge. So opens John Sayles’ 1996 Lone Star — newly restored and available...

By Toni Tresca - Jan. 24, 2024

Final curtain

A chapter in Boulder’s cultural history ended Jan. 14 at 12:09 a.m., when the last notes of Fiddler on the Roof reverberated through the BDT Stage hallway. After nearly half...

By Adam Perry - Jan. 24, 2024

Absolutely fabulous

North Carolina native Doug Gaddy opened Absolute Vinyl Records & Stereo in a tiny, spartan space in then-quiet North Boulder in 2009 with the help of his wife, Annie. The...

By Jezy J. Gray - Jan. 22, 2024

Little thing called love

When singer-songwriter Buck Meek signed up for a workshop led by longtime friend and fellow music artist Luke Temple, he found himself faced with a daunting assignment: Build a song...

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 16, 2024

Bestselling book, midlevel movie

It’s not about race; it’s about caste — the system of injustice and subjugation that persists, generation from generation, resistant to the individuals who work to defy and shatter it....

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