David Sedaris

Comedian Bruce Vilanch on being more than a gay caricature

Comedy writing pioneer Bruce Vilanch is bursting with gayness. One of the first openly gay comedians, he's known for his continuing role on Hollywood Squares and as a head writer for the Academy Awards show, as well as writing jokes for Bette Midler, Elizabeth Taylor, The Brady Bunch, Donnie and Mar ... More >>

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company announces eighth season -- including a world premiere

The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company has just announced its upcoming season, the eighth for this troupe, and it's an intriguing one that includes three regional premieres and one significant capture: And the Sun Stood Still, a play about Copernicus and his struggle to publish On the Revolutions of t ... More >>

Westword Book Club: Brandi Shigley focuses on the essential and eliminates the rest

This week, Westword asked fashionista Brandi Shigley about her favorite books. The interview was fittingly conducted in front of an adorable lofted book shelf, which Shigley refers to as her treehouse, at Fashion Denver, her combination boutique, studio, consulting office, and mini roller-s ... More >>

Writer Susan Cain on her New York Times bestseller and the quiet power of introverts

It can be difficult to be an introvert growing up in a world geared toward extroverts. In her New York Times bestselling book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain questions what she calls the "Extrovert Ideal" of Western society and suggests that by nurturin ... More >>

Sundance 2013 rolls out a surprisingly good lineup

Boulder's Left Hand Books will close in April

After 33 years, Boulder's Left Hand Books is closing its doors. Since it was founded in 1979, the bookstore has offered alternative books and periodicals by such noted authors such as Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. According to Louise Knapp, a member of the bookstore collective, closing the store be ... More >>

What you need to know from Sundance 2013

Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color -- a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body -- was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Well, let's say it was a class shared by a more conventional but no less heady consideration o ... More >>

Indulge in the hilarious SantaLand Diaries in Boulder

Unwrapping David Sedaris and The SantaLand Diaries on their twentieth anniversary

"I wear green velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock, and a perky little hat decorated with spangles. This is my work uniform," David Sedaris said for the first time on NPR's Morning Edition twenty years ago this Christmas. Chronicling his stint as an elf in the madcap Santa Land at Macy's, th ... More >>

Here's a Christmas Miracle you haven't seen here 1,000 times

Poetic Salvation

Review: Creed at the Paramount Theatre, 5/19/12

CREED at PARAMOUNT THEATRE | 5/19/12There are two kinds of people in this world: those who can be open-minded about Creed and those who cannot. It's fair to say that the majority of the mainstream media falls into the first category, and perhaps for good reason: The '90s all-stars have had almost tw ... More >>

Top ten Show and Tell posts of 2011

Number 5​Depending on who you're listening to, the world is going to end in 2012, or the world will undergo some sort of transformation. Either way it's spiritual. What's not spiritual, however, are these cold, hard numbers: The top ten posts on Show and Tell during 2011, which may or may not ... More >>

Bad Elf

It ain't easy being elfish: The SantaLand Diaries opens tonight at the Dairy Center

A few years ago, when actor Gary Culig abandoned his beloved longtime role as Crumpet the Elf in the Bug Theatre's perennial holiday production of The SantaLand Diaries, he left the local field wide open for a new kind of Crumpet, the sourly wry Macy's elf based on the true adventures of humorist Da ... More >>

Reader: Give David Sedaris a hand!

​David Sedaris played the Paramount on November 7, and the essayist/commentator was a big hit, discussing everything from the house he wanted to buy in England to where white men shit to, well, shitting in your hand, as Kelsey Whipple noted in her "10 best David Sedaris quotes" post. A fan ha ... More >>

The 10 best David Sedaris quotes from last night's lecture, presented free of context

Image via​David Sedaris is a tiny man with a huge life. Truly, the man is pretty darn small, and though his voice sounds like that of a timid librarian, it packs a biting combination of charm and painful humor that's strong enough to ring through even the spaciousness of the Paramount. Last ... More >>

Readers: Fanning the flames with hot answers to our David Sedaris contest

​David Sedaris will be talking pretty at the Paramount tonight, and many of his fans did the same when they entered our contest to win two tickets to the David Sedaris appearance. The rules? To enter, you simply had to tell us what you would do "when engulfed in flames..." Here are just some ... More >>

Pretty Is As Pretty Does

Win tickets to see David Sedaris on November 7

ViaDavid Sedaris​If you have no pressing plans a week from tonight, Monday, November 7, why not go see acclaimed essayist, author and unique orator David Sedaris at the Paramount Theatre?

Telling Stories takes to the airwaves courtesy of Colorado Public Radio

Jennie Dorris​Telling Stories, a group of musicians and writers combining classical pieces with David Sedaris-style essays, is one of the hippest home-grown cultural endeavors around. No wonder founder Jennie Dorris scored a 2010 Westword MasterMind award for her efforts. And while for years T ... More >>

Best American Nonrequired Reading highlights Denver Voice story by William Hillyard

William Hillyard.​Some people surely pay for the Denver Voice simply because the money goes to the homeless and hardly glance at it before tossing it -- although that would be a mistake. Not only does the Voice represent a worthy cause (for which is won a 2009 Westword MasterMind award), it al ... More >>

Bad Elf

Ozzy Osbourne, Crystal Castles and Lucero shows announced

The Ozzman cometh to the Pepsi Center in February​Ozzy Osbourne, who just launched a column in Rolling Stone called Ask Dr. Ozzy, in which he offers health and diet tips (no, really), hits the Pepsi Center with Slash on Tuesday, February 8, as part of an eighteen-month long world tour, which i ... More >>

Blonde Redhead, Deadmau5, Tech N9NE shows announced

Josh RothsteinBlonde Redhead​Blonde Redhead, the New York trio who borrowed its moniker from a song by the '80s no wave group DNA, is set to release Penny Sparkle, its third album for 4AD, September 14 (the album's opening cut, "Here Sometimes," is available for streaming and download on the b ... More >>

Ten eleven albums for your summer road trip

With the passing of Memorial Day we can finally say summer is here. And with summer comes summer camp, vacations and tours -- and how do we get there? We drive. That's how. This is America, after all. In celebration of seemingly endless sunny days and left-arm tans, we've picked some of our favori ... More >>

Celebrate Artopia and Westword's newest MasterMinds

While the Girls Are Away

The Santaland Diaries wraps up the holiday in humor

Gary Culig says so long to The SantaLand Diaries

Today's Night & Day featured event: Gary Culig's The SantaLand Diaries swan song at the Bug Theatre

The holiday season is rife with traditions: trimming the tree, kissing under the mistletoe, sitting through The Nutcracker for the umpteenth time, and -- for the ultra-hip of Denver -- reserving a seat once again for The SantaLand Diaries, the Bug Theatre's annual staging of the David Seda ... More >>

Dear Diaries

Suddenly Sedaris

An essayist extraordinaire offers up his latest tome.

Delegating Denver #36 of 56: New York

Delegating Denver #10 of 56: Dems Abroad

Silly Symphony

Dear Diaries

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Hearty Appetites

Electro Lunchbox packs a flavorful blend of music, art and dance

Me, My Elf and I

St. Nick's helper confesses all in The SantaLand Diaries.

Welcome to SantaLand

Bug’s The SantaLand Diaries has become a holiday treat.

Oh, Brother!

Paragon's production of The Book of Liz is no sibling revelry.

Grrrl Power

LILT spotlights local talent

Making Radio Waves

Ira Glass tapes in Denver

Talking Shop

Rare finds and real deals

Not My Cup of Tea

The ringing telephone in Fully Committed leads to a disconnect with the audience.

A Folly Jolly Christmas

The Santaland Diaries offers an elf of a good time.

Him Write Pretty

David Sedaris spins a twisted sort of homespun humor.

And to All a Good Night

The stage is set for Christmas in Denver.

Thrills for the week