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Matthew R. Kerns on Gay Fantasia, his late-night theater immersion project

For Gay Fantasia, opening this weekend at Naropa University's Nalanda Campus, the audience has a chance to be direct participants in the production. The piece -- which binds the last days of Harvey Milk together with the beginning of the HIV and AIDS crisis through a personal story -- is presented i ... More >>

Enter, Stage Write

Top five picks for the Boulder International Film Festival from Kathy and Robin Beeck

The Boulder International Film Festival opens tonight with Muscle Shoals and continues through the weekend with three more days of independent cinema, symposiums and events featuring special guests from all over the world. It can be tricky to pick films from the festival's extensive schedule, so we ... More >>

Dance the Orange takes a multimedia walk through the underworld at work | space

On the cutting edge of the dance world, it's not just about movement anymore, although the physical voyage through space is still an integral part. In Dance the Orange, a new performance created by Monica Dionysiou and Marc Devine of the the Umbrella Collective, the movement is suspended in a web of ... More >>

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, June 8-10, 2012

Down to your last ten dollars? Don't worry, there are plenty of things you can do this weekend that cost a Hamilton or less. Gawk at a performance artist living in a box, usher in summer at a dance party, or pretend you're in Paris at a Francophile craft party. You might even have some money left ov ... More >>

Try, Try Again

Happy Shmappy

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, February 3-5, 2012

The mounds of snow aside, there's plenty to do this weekend, whether or not you care about beefy dudes throwing a ball around. Yes, the Super Bowl is happening. But so are a bunch of equally exciting events that will happen despite the blizzard. We've got: A drunken spelling bee, a beatnik's birthda ... More >>

John Hickenlooper's bucket list for experiencing Colorado in 2012

​In recent decades, this state has been the focus of numerous doomsday predictions that Colorado -- if not the world itself -- was in imminent danger of disappearing. The most recent furor involves the Mayan calendar's prediction that the world will end on December 21, 2012 -- a prediction deb ... More >>

Fly high Friday with Rudolph, the Band of Toughs and other artists on the fringe

​If performance-on-the-fringe is your cup of tea, here's a great way to support it -- Silver and Gold: A Holiday Extravaganza, hosted by Band of Toughs at Naropa University at 7 p.m. Friday, focuses on a handful of qualifying Boulder fringe ensembles and their friends buy presenting three-minu ... More >>

Art With a Future

Poetry In Motion

Just say Noh: Revel tomorrow in the spirit of SAWAGI!, and help Japanese quake victims, too

David Wheeler​In Japanese, "Sawagi" is so defined: Uproar, Commotion, Revel, Excitement, Hubbub, Ado, Merrymaking. In plain English, it's a hell-raisin' party, though tomorrow night's SAWAGI! Raising a Ruckus for Japan, a joint effort of Naropa University and Kansuke Productions to raise funds ... More >>

Pueblo nuclear power plant proposal radiates with fear from Japan and Rocky Flats fallout

Rocky Flats​Yes, timing is everything. Last night, opponents of a proposed nuclear power plant in Pueblo County pointed to the situation in Japan as just one reason to stop the project. And tonight, experts will talk about how nukes already resulted in plutonium contamination outside the forme ... More >>

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Now Playing

James Franco portrays Allen Ginsberg and Aron Ralston, giving him some Colorado cred

​Next month, actor James Franco stars in Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, a movie that chronicles the grim hours Aron Ralston spent pinned beneath a rock, an experience that provoked the Colorado climber to use one of his arms to cut off the other. But first you can catch Franco in another movie that ... More >>

Three questions with Denver DJ Narky Stares

Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Prize winner, inspires Denver one community at a time

Rigoberta Menchú Tum.​Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, visited two at-risk Denver communities yesterday, not to preach peace but to preach "harmony." For Menchú Tum and Mayan spiritual teachers Don Pedro Yac Noj and Doña Faviana Cochoy Alva, who are traveling wi ... More >>

And the Beat Goes On

Death Penalty Discourse

Just Beat It

The Naropa conversation continues, thanks to a book that speaks volumes.

Ashes to Ashes

Naropa remembers Allen Ginsberg.

Made-in-Colorado film Entanglement debuts tonight

An image from the Ed Bowes film "Entanglement." The last major Hollywood movie filmed in Colorado was Eddie Murphy's Imagine That, which prompted yawns from most critics and scored so poorly at the box office that it may well have led to the firing of two top executives at Paramount, the studio tha ... More >>

Tyva Kyzy Times Two

With help from the French, a seasoned drunk makes the case for a lower drinking age

Community Art

Head to Boulder for a celebration of all things creative.

Community Art

Head to Boulder for a celebration of all things creative.

Defying Convention

Poetry to the People

Forward Thinking

Waiting for Butoh

Viva Mexico

Dead Beats

Ruling the Road

A Howling Good Time

Allen Ginsberg's spirit lives on.

Czechmate

Druhá Tráva won't be a pawn in the bluegrass game.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

An Open Book

Will everyone in Boulder please get on the same page?

Spiking Poetry

Landmark readings honor Kenneth Koch

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Literary Tours

Denver's Beat Poetry Driving Tour and
Denver's Literary Landmarks

Hit Pick

Dialy Kounda

Night & Day

July 15 - 21, 1999

Night & Day

July 8 - 14, 1999

Thrills for the week

Thrills for the week

Thrills for the week

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