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Crested Butte Film Fest Goes Digital, Sept. 25 – Oct. 4: This is a WIN!

With the virtual pass, you have the ability to watch movies *in advance* from the comfort of your own home, to beam an International Film Festival of the highest note right onto your big screen, with popcorn to pop in the kitchen, and local beers on chill mode in the fridge, and share the experience with your family. There's no reason why anyone should miss out on this year's Crested Butte Film Festival.

Scene Stealers – August 2020

SUPPORT LOCAL MEDIA - DONATE NOW Frequent Flyers at the Westland Development While opportunities for live performance may be scarce these days, many organizations are finding ways to perform outside, where social distancing is easier and the air is safer. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance is one such group, preparing a packed evening of dance

SPOTLIGHT on the SOS and RESTART Acts

The devastation COVID-19 has wrought was nearly unimaginable a scant 8 months ago. Today, we face the greatest GDP plunge in history, unprecedented unemployment, and the heartbreaking loss of more than 160,000 American lives (and counting).

AMERICA: Love it or…

“If you don’t like it, leave!” That’s a pretty common refrain Cult 45 likes to fall back to when faced with criticism of the High Priest of their American Freedumb Movement, or any of the litany of social and political ills he’s unleashed on the populace to date.

Scene Stealers

SUPPORT LOCAL MEDIA - DONATE NOW! Arlo Guthrie at Boulder Theater Arguably the most “prodigal” son in all of music, Arlo Guthrie’s unending torch-bearing of the genre his father Woody pretty much launched back in 1940 (Dustbowl Ballads, Victor Records) burns as brightly as ever, even as he wades deep into his 70s. In this appearance, Arlo brings his

Spotlight on Colin Bricker

Casting a weary eye over the music scene in Colorado doesn’t stir up much optimism. Sunken into a COVID-19 crater unlike any collapse ever seen, the music industry remains mired in the quicksand of a 1-2 punch between the advent of subscription music services and then the inability to perform live.

The American-ness of American Jews

I’ve seen variations on this theme dating back to his candidacy in 2016. It’s always posed by a gentile — even right-wing Likunik Jews know why the rest of us dislike him. And the reasons are myriad.

United

SUPPORT LOCAL MEDIA - DONATE NOW! United. That’s the first word in the name of our nation, and today, we are anything but. The power base that wields control remains the only thing united in this nation — a group of old, straight, white men and their hangers on, buoyed by the bottomless pockets of their corporate

Duly Noted – Trump’s Deadly Tune and Those That Listen

“HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

Spotlight on… Sandra Watts and Live at Jack’s

For more than 20 years, Sandra Watts has kept the lights on and the jams flowing at Live@Jack’s (formerly Jazz@Jack’s). One of only a handful of women-owned such venues in the state... but now they're no more.

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