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Halloween events around Boulder and Longmont

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La Ofrenda de los Muertos Celebration...

The walking nightmares

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Under a full moon during the lead-up to Halloween, zombies, killer clowns and a bloody bride mill around in a defunct furniture store in Longmont’s Twin Peaks mall, snacking on burritos and corn chips while they trade scare tactics and reminisce about their former ...

Storytime for adults

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Anthony Powell, artistic director of Stories On Stage, admits that his company’s mission can be a bit of a tough sell...

Leaning forward, staying present

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News about the near-fatal shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai reached Eve Ensler in a text message. It was already a few days into previews of Emotional Creature, her newest play that chronicles the triumphs and struggles of six...

A dirge for the American dream

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If Willy Loman were an ice cream flavor, he’d be American Raspberry. If he were a car, he’d be a Ford Edsel. If he were a song, he’d be Sinatra’s “Here’s to the Losers.” Willy is one of Americana’s saddest sacks, and the fact that his 1940s-era story resonates so ...

Fear and self-loathing in New York

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Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) is one of Boulder’s best, bar none. From its first production, Antigone, BETC began raising the bar for Front Range theater. With Seminar, BETC gets its eighth season started with the second lively, sly and often humorous ...

This American radio show

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The most noticeable thing about Ira Glass, when Boulder Weekly reached him for an interview, is his voice — the nasally, soft-spoken, atypical radio voice that has broadcast stories on the public radio program This American Life since 1995. He says hi and introduces ...

Fringe benefits: Boulder’s festival continues

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When you see fringe, you are probably looking at ornamental highlights on a piece of clothing or something unconventional and extreme. Either way, Boulder is the perfect place if your mainstream exists on the periphery...

Bus Stop: Princeton, Topeka and points beyond

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Einstein stated it most elegantly with his explications of the theretofore ineffable mysteries of the space-time continuum, “Everything is relative.” Despite the human yearning for black-and-white absolutes, anyone who’s ever been in love knows with certainty that ...

A starcatcher is born at Denver Center for the Performing Arts

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Every child yearns to grow up and throw off the seemingly unbearable yoke of parents, teachers, priests and other bullies. Invariably, they realize too late that while the adult world is a place in which they can eat ice cream for dinner and stay up as late as they ...

Revamping a tragedy

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For most of Joe Hill’s life the United States has been embroiled in a constant, never-ending, oft-forgotten war...

Boulder’s stand-up success

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This summer, if you were on the prowl in Boulder looking for something to do, there’s a good chance you could have stumbled onto a standup comedy performance...