As the reality of summer blockbuster season sets in, a simple truth becomes all too clear: Moviegoing can be quite stressful. Death and destruction abound on the silver screen, sometimes from monsters raging for alpha dominance, other times from mutants … Continue reading ZEN FOR NOTHING
Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I sit down to discuss Rocketman, Nureyev, and a few classics to catch up with. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM Denver/Boulder, 93.7 FM in Nederland, 98.7 … Continue reading
Why do you want to dance?Why do you want to live?Well, I don’t know exactly why, but I must.That’s my answer too. —Boris Lermontov and Vicky Page, The Red Shoes Born March 17, 1938, in Irkutsk, Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was a … Continue reading NUREYEV
Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I sit down to discuss Aladdin, Hagazussa, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM Denver/Boulder, 93.7 FM in Nederland, 98.7 FM in Fort … Continue reading
Good news, Longmont: The movies have returned to Main Street. You’ve probably seen the building about a hundred times: the Longmont Performing Arts Center at 513 Main St. It’s been there for years (since 1939, to be precise), and though … Continue reading Movies on Main: The Return of the Trojan Movie House
Some movies are better left misunderstood. A Long Day’s Journey Into Night might be one of those movies. Sure, if you wanted to, you could noodle out the plot, the main characters’ desires, and what it all means. Or, you can surrender … Continue reading LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (地球最后的夜晚)
Modern politics and media are so intertwined it’s hard to view one without the other. But hasn’t it always been this way? Where would the Framers be without the printing press? Franklin Roosevelt without radio? Trump without Twitter? And though … Continue reading Political Documentaries in a Partisan World
Few words in the English language come as charged as “Satanism.” Conjuring images of blasphemy, ritual, sacrifice, and perversion, Satanism seems to be the sort of thing people can oppose on name alone. Then again, few know what Satanists believe. … Continue reading HAIL SATAN?
Let’s talk about sex. Or better yet, let’s talk about Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a 4-foot-7, 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who loves to talk about sex. For 40 years, she’s been “America’s sex therapist,” an honor she wears with pride. But Westheimer … Continue reading ASK DR. RUTH
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