French Davis

Sanctuary.

What a strange word to have become so politically charged. When I was a child, I attended religious school every Saturday or Sunday (depending on how heavy the enrollment was) at Temple Emanuel in Denver. It’s the oldest Jewish congregation in Colorado. I started attending there before they built their additional, smaller sanctuary for the school, and the main one was was a massive

Spotlight: Maria Bamford

It's been 15 years since Maria Bamford's first comedy album dropped, and to say that's it's been a straight line from there to the success she enjoys today would be a misstatement. If you're fan, you know much of her comedy stems from her struggle with Bipolar II disorder, which led to a few hospitalizations in 2011 and 2012. She’s found an amazing way to present material that makes

Scene Stealers

The Nutcracker at Ellie Caulkins Opera House A Christmas Carol. The sound of Salvation Army bell-ringers. The lights on the Denver City and County Building. The holiday season brings a slew of traditions to the Centennial State, but few of them are as enduring as the Colorado Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker. Named the best-loved Nutcracker in the U.S. in the 10th Annual

Scene Stealers

Kyle Kinane at Comedy Works Kyle Kinane’s impressive resume includes TV shows like @Midnight, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Conan, Workaholics, This Is Not Happening, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, and Comedy Bang! Bang! His breakout hit special, I Liked His Old Stuff Better, aired on Comedy Central in 2015 — and he followed up this year with a new one-hour special titled Loose in

Duly Noted: Editorial Ethics

“In their efforts to appeal to the extreme left-wing elements in their base, the Democrats are becoming the party of lawlessness and anarchy.” This was the lede of the op-ed written by Donald Trump Jr. and published last month by the Denver Post. True to form, the editorial was divisive, disingenuous and distasteful. In a wandering, self-righteous, hypocritical and

French Five

This month: A two-fer, courtesy of Redbox, who conducted a poll of 1,200 customers: Favorite Family Friendly Halloween Movie, Ranked Top 5 1. Hocus Pocus 2. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 3. Beetlejuice 4. The Nightmare Before Christmas 5. Hotel

Scene Stealers – September

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change was one of the longest-running shows ever to be performed at the Denver Center’s Garner Galleria Theatre. The small four-person musical review is a compilation of scenes exploring the journey of dating, marriage, children and aging. It’s always a popular show among

All in the Family

The racism is bad. The unapologetic ignorance, at times, seems possibly worse. What follows is the result of reviewing 100s of hours of recordings, dating back decades. This is by no means comprehensive, but most of what was quoted below is certainly illustrative of the man’s backward beliefs, his base bigotry, and his inability to grasp basic concepts of geography, history

Spotlight: St. Paul and the Broken Bones

Paul Janeway’s soft-spoken Alabama drawl belies a lot about what you might have come to expect from white guy who grew up in a conservative Christian community in the Deep South. And when you get him on stage, the part of him that almost found its way into the cloth grabs hold, but it’s the Marvin Gaye-influenced vocals that blow you away. St. Paul and the Broken Bones dropped their third

“I’m Voting My Conscience”

When archaeologists from the year 3160 look back at the collapse of the United States, this will be what they see etched onto the yellowing marble of our Nation’s tombstone. Listen, I get it. I was all-in on Bernie in 2016. And I was incensed at the way Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC torpedoed his campaign. And, to be honest had any of the GOP field aside from Cruz and Trump sealed