Pulitzer Prizes

The Color Purple is long on talent, short on passion

Time to Grow Up

Roger Ebert: Why there can never be another

All the World’s On Stage

In Jon, teens express themselves in an artificial world

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The ten best concerts in Denver this weekend

10. SNOW THA PRODUCT @ ROXY THEATRE | SAT, 2/16 It may at first seem easy to dismiss Snow Tha Product as another Iggy Azalea or Kreayshawn-level gimmick because of her gender and unconventional appearance, but it gets harder and harder the more you listen to her. Make no mistake, Snow can ride a bea ... More >>

Dave Barry brings a taste of Insane City to the Tattered Cover

What do Miami Herald columnists do when they're bored? They write books, of course, and not necessarily ones that reflect their journalistic oeuvres. Like Carl Hiaasen before him, Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry chooses to spin comic thrillers with plenty of Florida color. But given Barry ... More >>

War and Peace

Medical Marijuana Industry Group likes not always flattering Newsweek "pot barons" article

Newsweek may be abandoning print at year's end, but the venerable magazine remains an actual publication -- and its current cover story, "The New Pot Barons," shines a light on a major player in the Colorado weed biz: the Medical Marijuana Industry Group. The resulting article doesn't always cast MM ... More >>

Get your tickets now for the Denver Center Theatre Company's 2012-2013 season

People get lazy in the summertime, but it's time to wake up: The fall theater season is only weeks away, and Denver Center Theatre Company tickets are now on sale. The focus may be on The Book of Mormon, which opens today in the Denver Performing Arts Complex, but when Mormon leaves, the DCTC season ... More >>

In Spring Awakening, teens sing through violence, death and sexual frustration

William Friedkin on Killer Joe and Hollywood

One Book One Denver may have trouble feeling Colorado, but Texas doesn't

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One Book, One Denver finally comes up with decent choices for next tome on the range

The ninth time's the charm. After years of serving up the literary equivalent of a Happy Meal for the One Book, One Denver program, the city finally has three great choices for 2012: Through June 22, you can vote for Denver, Enrique's Journey or The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan's book on the Dust B ... More >>

Felisa Cardona, Ann Schrader, Margaret Jackson exiting Denver Post

In our interview with the Denver Post's Tina Griego, whose decision to accept a severance package originally intended to reduce the copy-editing staff by two-thirds could lead to the paper being metro-columnist free until 2013, we noted that several other writers would also be leaving. We've now ID' ... More >>

Denver Post to lay off two-thirds of its copy editors?

Within the past several months, the Denver Post has made buyout deals with nineteen staffers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Keefe, and laid off popular columnists Mike Littwin and Penny Parker, among others. But the cuts aren't over. In an internal memo on view below, editor Greg ... More >>

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Denver Center Theatre Company announces 2012-13 schedule

Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Kent Thompson has chosen his 2012-13 lineup. It contains some safe choices, some doubtless designed to appeal to high schoolers, the requisite Christmas show (not A Christmas Carol this time, but White Christmas), two scripts selected from this year's ... More >>

Chip Walton promises Curious's next season will be provoking...and entertaining

Curious Theatre Company just announced its fifteenth season, which includes five regional premieres as well as Yasmina Reza's Tony award-winning God of Carnage. Artistic director Chip Walton says he uses two criteria in making his selections: "I need to be moved intellectually and not just emotional ... More >>

And the insanity in Arizona continues...

Theater openings are off to a fast start in January

If the flurry of excitement and variety we're being offered in January is any indication, this is going to be an amazing year for theater. The month opens on a light note: a 1930s Noel Coward play set in the big-haired 1980s. This isn't the kind of interpretation you expect for Coward, not even fo ... More >>

Denver Post changes include new city editor Kevin Vaughan, new columnist Chuck Murphy

Kevin Vaughan.​Clearly, change was in the offing for the Denver Post, which confirmed last week that nineteen staffers took buyouts. But the scope of shifts among those who remain is still surprising. Among the most notable: the naming of longtime reporter Kevin Vaughan as city editor and vet ... More >>

Reader: Naming the best Chipotle is an intriguing idea

Where it all began....​What's your favorite Chipotle? The food at each one tastes different, founder Steve Ells revealed in his recent interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold, because employees at Chipotle actually cook. "When our employees walk in in the morning, they see ... More >>

Jonathan Gold weighs in on Chipotle founder Steve Ells

ChipotleJonathan Gold calls Steve Ells the most innovative man in food​"The most innovative man in the world of food at the moment is Chipotle founder Steve Ells," writes Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic at Westword's sister paper, LA Weekly, in a profile of the CEO that r ... More >>

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Tree of Life, exploring the history of the universe, and more new-release picks for October 11, 2011

​This week, we have a load of solid new releases, including a new book from Jeffrey Eugenides, whom the reading public hasn't heard from in almost ten years and whose book Middlesex now holds a permanent spot in nearly every used book store in the country. We also have the DVD release of Terra ... More >>

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Roxanne Pulitzer's Telluride house for sale: It can be yours for $19.9 million (PHOTOS)

Pulitzer in '85.​Not to be outdone by fellow Playboy cover girl Barbi Benton in the marketing of extreme cribs, Roxanne Pulitzer and husband Tim Boberg recently offered the Wall Street Journal a tour of their 23,000-square-foot Telluride home -- which is up for sale for $19.9 million. That's ... More >>

Stephanie Tanny, Denver native, on her speech at the Campus Progress National Conference

Campus Progress​As we reported yesterday, Denver native Stephanie Tanny won a speaking spot at the Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday. The speech "went really well," says the 2010 Colorado State University graduate. "I messed up a little bit, but I don't think anyon ... More >>

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Mike Keefe wins Pulitzer Prize -- and Denver Post deserves prize for keeping him on staff

Mike Keefe.​Yesterday, the Denver Post's Mike Keefe won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning -- an honor that will cheer those of us who've enjoyed his work for years. But the Post deserves a tip of the cap, too, simply for keeping Keefe on the payroll. Because these days, folks with K ... More >>

Lynn Nottage illuminates the plight of Congolese women in Ruined

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Max MacKissock, the Squeaky Bean and the culinary cutting edge

Lori Midson​When I reviewed the Squeaky Bean nine months ago, I was amused and delighted by what Max MacKissock was dreaming up in his tiny kitchen, playing with classic American dishes and making them into something new and unexpected. A reimagined shepherd's pie, light enough for a summer ev ... More >>

Susan Greene compares working at Denver Post to Stockholm syndrome in HuffPo debut

Susan Greene.​Update below: Susan Greene resigned from the Denver Post late last year after being told her column would be canceled -- and while she was clearly saddened by the circumstances of her departure, she had only positive things to say about colleagues and didn't criticize the paper a ... More >>

Brian Yorkey explains how his Pulitzer-winning Next to Normal evolved

Do these birthday candles seem vaguely ominous to you?​Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's musical Next to Normal won the Pulitzer for its authors -- the book and lyrics are by Yorkey, the music by Kitt. Yet it began simply as an exercise for a musical theater workshop, one of those "show us everythin ... More >>

Mood Swings

Fringe benefits: Boulder Fringe Festival offers intriguing productions

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