It’s like a first date—exciting, unpredictable and only partially in your control. You can give your input or make suggestions, but it’s up [...]

Everyone knows comics are an anxious, fearful bunch. In fact, a recent article on The Independent’s website claimed to prove the link between [...]

About three weeks ago I got a call from a comic friend—he had just bombed at an open mic. He lives in New [...]

“Sometimes you feel like there’s walls all around you, and you’re at the bottom of a chimney and you’re thinking, ‘How the hell [...]

An older Latina woman stands clutching a telephone pole painted with colors of the American flag in a border town of the Southwestern [...]

Loss shatters you. Unlike any other experience in your life, the loss of a loved one breaks the human spirit in such intense [...]

A few months ago, I wrote about Denver’s successful High Plains Comedy Festival, which spotlighted such high profile alt-comics as Reggie Watts and [...]

On a hot Tuesday evening in early September, I joined a few local comics around a table at Blackbird Buvette before an open [...]

Noon the second day of the inaugural High Plains Comedy Festival and about 15 of us hungover comics piled into a party bus [...]

I called comedian Kurt Braunohler right after one of our Albuquerque monsoons—a real gully washer. The cell reception was sketchy and my phone [...]