When I sat down to watch David Foster: Off the Record, I was hoping that, since the film was about a successful record producer, it was …
Movies
Almost Famous Turns Twenty
Twenty years ago this month, Almost Famous hit theaters and my best friend and I bought tickets anticipating an extraordinary movie. As soon …
The Allure of Laurel Canyon
While folk music is not my favorite genre, there are plenty of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Buffalo Springfield, Doors, Mamas and the Papas, …
Caine’s Arcade and the Power of Creativity
Six and a half years ago I started tutoring at Colorado Mountain College and one of my first students was Nidia Villalobos. She was a young …
The World According To Star Wars
Back when shopping at a bookstore in a small town was a standard thing to do, I walked by The World According to Star Wars a few times …
The Beastie Boys Story
When I sat down to watch the Beastie Boys Story on Apple TV+ (the app that appeared on my computer a few months ago), I wasn’t expecting a …
Coronavirus: Observations + Realizations
In the newspaper business, you don’t write about a topic that has been incessantly covered unless there is a different angle or something …
The Ride of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned From The CEO Of Disney
In sentence one of chapter one, Robert Iger makes it clear that his book is not a memoir – but in a lot of ways it is because it chronicles …
Lukas Nelson Brings Outlaw Country to Beaver Creek
Seven years ago I interviewed Lukas Nelson about his upcoming show at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek. At the time, he was …
