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part 2 of 2
Perhaps because of the company's financial straits, Mack's lavish lifestyle began causing some discomfort in corporate headquarters. Harold Arnold, for instance,...
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Michael Roberts, Brad Jones and Susan Dunlap Published:
March 30, 1994
Elvis Costello
Brutal Youth
(Warner Bros.)
Of course you've read those interviews in which Mr. McManus has claimed that this reunion with his original band (the...
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Given the miserable survival rate of new restaurants, Willie Nelson could have sung a different tune: "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Restaurateurs." Better the...
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The idea for Twenty Bucks probably came from Max Ophuls's sparkling 1950 comedy La Ronde, but its prickly sensibility is pure 1990s. Rather than chase the flame of love, as...
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Wednesday March 30 Three for the stage: You can always count on the US West TheatreFest for an interesting time--the annual series that puts new works by unknown playwrights...
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If one word can sum up something as complex as Asian art, that word is "tradition." The strictly observed methods of mixing and applying ink, the narrow range of acceptable...
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part 1 of 2
On a recent sunny day in the beginning of March, Donald Mack relaxes in his Greenwood Village house, a brick-and-wood affair that sprawls over a couple acres off...
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There undoubtedly are some artists from days gone by whose out-of-print recordings haven't been reissued in the past year, but I'll be damned if I can figure out who they are....
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End of an era: If, like me, you've never had the pleasure of participating in a Hotluck, well, hots of luck.
Private investigator Scott Keating started the Hotluck ten years...
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The youngish filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen might do well to come out into the light once in a while. As it is, their parochial, stubbornly adolescent view of life seems...
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Turning Nathaniel Hawthorne's brilliant novel The Scarlet Letter into a contemporary drama is a doomed proposition. Phyllis Nagy's torturous attempt, now playing at the Denver...
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It is still well before lunchtime, and Loren Newton is on a road west of Denver, headed toward Morrison for his fourth corpse of the day. He is at the wheel of his car--a big,...
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David Roback, the guitarist and conceptualist behind the mood band Mazzy Star, doesn't reveal much about himself--and you get the feeling that he'd like to retract the little...
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In Barry Levinson's Jimmy Hollywood, an unemployed actor finally gets his shot at five minutes of TV fame by casting himself as a real-life anticrime vigilante. Sound...
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All wet: Whitewater spilled over into Denver last week with President Bill Clinton's televised explanation of why he'd misstated the size of the Clintons' loss on the land...
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Chandelaria, back-up chanteuse for the Boulder-based quintet called the Letches, puts it succinctly: "The Letches are a slap in the face to the music industry."
The group's...
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Ordinarily, Governor Roy Romer takes a backseat to no man. But then there's Henry Alford.
Alford, a prankster and journalist, had already inflicted his own yummy snack...
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Acetone, Friday, April 1, at the Boulder Theater, is opening for Mazzy Star during its upcoming appearance in Colorado, but the band is more than interesting enough to justify...
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These are strange days in the arenas and on the playing fields, wouldn't you say?
The White Sox have sent nagging irritant Michael Jordan down to Single A, and the United...
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In order to maintain his buffness, Playgirl's Man for March Greg Lane eats practically no fat at all. He says this caused his blood cells to get "all clumped up." Luckily, a...
