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Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2013 offers both tradition and twists

Boulder News | Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2013 offers both tradition and twistsThe 56th annual season of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will feature a classic lineup — a comedy, a tragedy, a history — alongside a hilarious Shakespeare sendup and a return engagement of an Off-Broadway hit. But if anything, ...

Same-sex couples wed in Colorado for first time

Boulder News | Same-sex couples wed in Colorado for first timeAlmost a year ago, Erika Highstead and Sarah Musick rented a party space, dressed in their finest and vowed their commitment to each other in front of a hundred friends. “By the power I truly wish was vested in me, I now pronounce you ...

Aspen Institute names Yo-Yo Ma its artist in residence

Boulder News | Aspen Institute names Yo-Yo Ma its artist in residenceThe Aspen Institute Arts Program on Monday announced that world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma will serve as its 2013 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence. In this role, Mr. Ma will participate at the Aspen Ideas Festival from June 24 to June 29 and ...

Rose Hill Drive, Stringdusters, Yonder to jam for The Nomad

Boulder News | Rose Hill Drive, Stringdusters, Yonder to jam for The NomadBOULDER — Some of the area's most successful musicians are banding together Saturday to try to drum up money to help restore a small theater here. Built in 1952, the 155-seat Nomad Theatre, located just off of Broadway and Quince Avenue ...

Rolling Stone names The Fox the fourth best U.S. rock club

Boulder News | Rolling Stone names The Fox the fourth best U.S. rock clubBOULDER — Rolling Stone has declared The Fox Theatre is the fourth best rock venue in the country. The Fox is one of three Colorado clubs to earn high praise from the prestigious rock-and-roll magazine. The Bluebird Theater in Denver ...

Rankings say Denver a haven for young adults, gamers

Boulder News | Rankings say Denver a haven for young adults, gamersDENVER—Young adults with an affinity for video games would fit right in in the Mile High City's up-and-coming downtown. At least that's what a trio of lists released this week say about this former dusty old cow town. Forbes magazine ...

Sunday Traveler: Iceland's twilight zone

Boulder News | Sunday Traveler: Iceland's twilight zoneThe saga of our ongoing quest to see the aurora borealis continues in Iceland, where we stop for a week on our return from arctic Norway. However, more awaits us on this volcanic moonscape of an island than just the northern lights. There are ...

'Tick, Tock, Poe' mashes up horror pioneer's most famous works

Boulder News | 'Tick, Tock, Poe' mashes up horror pioneer's most famous works Four travelers flee to the mountains to escape a terrible plague — a Red Death. There they meet at an ancient, crumbling abbey and begin to share tales of mystery and imagination to pass the time. A man plots deadly revenge against ...

Verdi's Falstaff, with an emphasis on funny

Boulder News | Verdi's Falstaff, with an emphasis on funnyBOULDER—Bradley Thompson, who played the lead in CU Opera’s 2001 production of Falstaff, will reprise the role in a new production of Verdi’s beloved take on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV. The ...

'Chesapeake': Man bites dog - and vice versa - in one-man comedy

Boulder News | 'Chesapeake': Man bites dog - and vice versa - in one-man comedyBOULDER—Lee Blessing’s provocative one-person play, “Chesapeake,” takes its cues from the heated culture wars of the late 1980s and early ‘90s, when members of Congress accused federally funded visual and performing ...

Over quarter million of Denver workers live outside county

Boulder News | Over quarter million of Denver workers live outside countyDenver has among the highest number of commuters coming from another county in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Among workers in Denver County, 268,512 live outside the county, according to 2006-2010 estimates from the American ...

Boulder band hitting its groove

Boulder News | Boulder band hitting its grooveBOULDER — The guys and gal in Cold River City are doing it right. The sextet slept on the floor of the Haus of Kraus recording studio in Fort Collins to make its first EP, "Start A Change" - six raw, rebellious tracks of its unique brand ...

Sunday Traveler: Aurora Borealis performs a symphony of light

Boulder News | Sunday Traveler: Aurora Borealis performs a symphony of lightThe guide is so excited that he fairly tumbles out of the bus, and as I follow, peering up, a wispy green veil appears to flicker overhead, wavering softly.  Within moments, the pitch-black Norwegian sky explodes into a frenzy of undulating ...

Boulder film fest to roll out 47 movies, honor Peter Fonda

Boulder News | Boulder film fest to roll out 47 movies, honor Peter Fonda“One of the coolest film festivals in the world,” as described by MovieMaker magazine, will bring Captain America and 47 flicks from around the world to Boulder for four days starting next week. Peter Fonda will headline the ninth ...

Court and forest, dark and light

Boulder News | Court and forest, dark and lightBOULDER—Though widely considered to be part of Shakespeare’s comic canon, As You Like It also takes a walk on the dark side. It is a study in contrasts, a pastoral comedy and romance with a satirical bite. Director Lynn Nichols intends to explore all those angles and more in the CU Department ...
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