French Davis

When Heroes Fall

When I was 9 years old, I had three favorite authors: Franklin W. Dixon (a pen name for dozens of authors who wrote the Hardy Boys series), Walter Farley (writer of the Black Stallion series), and Roald Dahl. Of the three, Dahl topped the list. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. James and the Giant Peach. The Twits. The Witches. I read

Spotlight on Til Willis

From his sparkling tin foil suit to his snow-topped, coiffed pompadour, Til Willis’ stage presence isn’t lacking. But the real standout is his songwriting. Over two decades and 13 albums (Dirtflowers is his fourth outing with his current band, Erratic Cowboy), Willis plants his flag deep in the Americana topsoil that is a modern day troubador’s

Scene Stealers

Happy Birthday, Wanda June at the Mary Miller Theater The Theater Company of Lafayette is paying homage to one of the most compelling literary giants of the recent past with Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday, Wanda June, playing Feb. 14–29 at the Mary Miller Theater (300 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette). This is the story of Penelope Ryan and her son Paul, who deal with the ramifications

Scene Stealers: December 2019 — Yellow Scene Magazine

Napoleon Dynamite featuring a talkback with Jon Heder and Efren Ramirez at Boulder Theater Capturing lightning in a bottle is one of those things that pretty much never happens intentionally. And it’s hard to find a better real life example of the time-honored cliche than the story of Napoleon Dynamite, the 2004 indie comedy shot for a total budget of around $400,000 that ended up

Spotlight on Brian Regan: “He just goes out and kills.”

Ask any pro comic about Brian Regan, and their response will be some variation of that quote. Try it. For more than 30 years, he’s been turning clubs and theaters inside out with a steady stream of hilarity, thanks to an almost supernatural ability to write relatable material and a deft sense of timing and physical comedy.

An Unsettling Time

“It couldn’t happen here. Not like that. Trump loves Israel. His own daughter is Jewish. You’re being ridiculous.” My original opening to this column was going to be: “it’s a very unsettling time to be an American Jew.” But after a moment’s reflection I remembered that in all of recorded history, it’s always been an unsettling time to be a Jew. The timeline of

Scene Stealers: November 2019 — Yellow Scene Magazine

3 Questions about The Best Christmas Pageant Ever In The Best Christmas Pageant Ever a couple is struggling to put on a church Christmas Pageant and they’re faced with the very worst kids in theatrical history. Mayhem ensues when the troublesome kids collide with the well-known Christmas story and an ever-popular holiday play was born. Based on the best-selling young adult book, The

“…Unmarried, straight white dudes who couldn’t get laid.”

There it is. The admission of guilt, in print. The architect of the Trumpian era, Steve Bannon, knew exactly what he was doing all along. Bannon reached into the deep, dark fears of the weak-minded, white, male, incel psyche, and twisted it with the help of Cambridge Analytica and a library’s-worth of false conspiracies and racist rhetoric, according to a Newsweek article published on

Spotlight on Josh Mattison and The Order of Death

June 18, 1984. Around 10 p.m. Denver AM radio Shock Jock Alan Berg had just returned home from dinner with his ex-wife. A moment later, Berg perished instantly in a hail of .45-caliber bullets fired by a fully automatic MAC10 submachine gun

Time After Time…

“Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road, Time after time, he had the opportunity to choose the noble and honorable path. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness—for the simple reason that he did not want to endanger his hold on public office.” The eloquence of this simple quote does an unimpeachable job of arguing the point for impeachment