Author: By T.D. MOBLEY-MARTINEZ

Looking back, it’s hard to imagine Bill Maher’s life working out much different than it has. “My father was a newsman,” says Maher — the jester, inquisitor and political rogue at the center of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” “He was on radio. I grew up with it. In my family, we talked politics…

Maybe it’s different these days. Kids still fantasize, of course — but now, it’s about fronting a mega-selling boy band, becoming an Internet mogul or grabbing fame for … well, does it really matter? But for generations, children dreamed of running away to a life without “no” and “because I said so” under the Big…

It’s only a rehearsal, but Martile Rowland sparkles in the light of the Colorado College stage. It’s the purple sequins — and that still-exquisite voice. “What can anyone expect, except to recollect?” sings Rowland, who plays a sour dowager in Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music,” an Opera Theatre of the Rockies production that begins…

Steve Martin has probably always done his own thing.In the early days, it was his astonishingly accomplished banjo playing, “King Tut,” “The Jerk” and that Mark Twain white suit.Over time, though, Martin has peppered his keen sense of comedy with more serious stuff, including building a A-list art collection, recording a bluegrass album (“Rare Bird…