Stage
Sight, sound, mind and mirth
Halloween is but a few scant days away, and whether you celebrate it as Samhain, All- Hallows-Eve or the Feast of Heedless Inebriation, it’s time to get ghouly, ghostly and ghastly once again...
Philately attraction
Did you know that Mauritius is a tiny island just east of Madagascar? Neither did I. That Mauritius was the sole, native home of the now extinct Dodo bird, and that Mauritius was only the fifth country ever to issue postage stamps, were also facts that had, until now...
Where the rubber meets the stage
It´s human nature to want to be first. From something as simple as two friends on a morning jog to the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, people are driven to outstrip the next guy. It’s hardwired. It’s why both joggers push a wee bit harder ...
Shades of grey
Having lived and traveled all over this great land of ours, I can say without reservation or equivocation that Boulder is one of the most racially homogenous places left in the United States. Despite its pronounced liberal bent and the fact that it wears its ...
Wrecked ’em? Damn near kilt ’em!
So, you owe me. Yes, you, the reader of this review who will not have to endure the gastronomical atrocities that I, Christ-like, have suffered for thee. Before you start flipping pages or reviewing the table of contents, this is not a restaurant review. You are ...
Fringe with benefits
I have never liked filet mignon. I don’t have much feeling for Armani or Chloe. And I certainly can’t stand Cy Twombly or that dude who covers castles and rivers and whatnot with white sheets...
Twin trouble
The Comedy of Errors is not exactly known for being the most intellectually rigorous member of the Shakespeare canon, even though scholars, perhaps bored with several centuries of excessive analysis of the heavyweight plays, now project layers of new meaning onto the...
From Russia with laughs
One of my high school teachers believed — decades before the advent of Avenue Q — that everyone is just a little bit racist. He claimed, therefore, that the best anyone could do was to be “actively anti-racist,” and I have always done my best to follow that credo. So...
Music in the mountains
A fierce and earthy Carmen stalks the stage at the Central City Opera this summer...
A mime speaks
Samuel Avital speaks many words about the art he has spent his entire life perfecting...
