William Butler Yeats

St. Patrick's Day: The ten recurring themes that crop up in your traditional Irish drinking songs

Irish drinking songs may seem fairly simple to the casual listener. The main theme is in the title, right? These are songs concerned with alcohol of any kind, tunes in 4/4 that are easy to clap along with during St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Though that may be the kind of criteria that guides thos ... More >>

Nick Drake's Pink Moon turns forty

In his best selling book Killing Yourself to Live, Chuck Klosterman asserts that "the best career move any musician can make is to stop breathing." When examining Kurt Cobain's post-mortem transformation from junkie dad to iconic voice of a generation, Klosterman notes that the suicide told everyone ... More >>

Once "thrown into the fire," Tennis emerges with Young & Old

Artist and writer: An interview with my brother, painter Evan Kutz

Sarah CassBrother and sister in Olympia, Washington earlier this year.​This is one in a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week that salute some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. I have watched my younger brother, Evan Kutz, build his artist's portfolio since he first ... More >>

Behind the controversial Anthology of Rap, co-edited by CU hip-hop professor Adam Bradley

The Anthology of Rap: The hip-hop soundtrack to go along with this week's cover story

​This week's cover story, "Word," tells the extraordinary tale behind The Anthology of Rap, released last year to high praise and a bit of heated debate. The Westword story focuses on Anthology co-editor and CU-Boulder professor Adam Bradley, a hip-hop academic whose own narrative is as compel ... More >>

Letters: Hick is in, misogyny is out

Looking for the Face is Adam Lerner's first exhibit at MCA Denver

Gloom with a view: Synge's The Well of the Saints at Germinal Stage Denver

Cash Course

Eastwood's latest Baby proves he's still a money player.

Touchless Touching

Pinter's Old Times excavates the passions of love and memory.

Brilliant Beckett

The Bug's Waiting for Godot cuts to the funny bone.

Svich Hunt

A playwright's intentions get lost in a murky bayou of words.

Prozium Nation

Normal human feelings prove lethal in Equilibrium.

Parade of Pointless Pain

The Lonesome West provides a flat ending to Martin McDonagh's harsh Irish trilogy.

Saints and Sinners

Rebel Without a Pause

Lemon Lime

SCENE STEALERS

BLARNEY: THE SEQUEL

BEYOND BLARNEY

AND JUSTICE FOR NONE