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2010 Stories by A.H. Goldstein

• Minor Disturbance poets get back to their roots at Yellow Feather

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Denver's Minor Disturbance youth Slam Team made history for the local poetry scene earlier this year when they appeared in Brave New Voices, the HBO special that followed the 2010 National Slam Team c... More >>

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  Playwright Frank Oteri on jaded Santas, local theater

  published Dec 28, 2010

  There aren't enough opportunities for local playwrights to please Frank Oteri. It's a shortage that drove Oteri to create A Very Dark Holiday Playwright Festivus at the Vintage Theatre, a showcase tha... More >>

• RIP Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart

  published Dec 20, 2010

  The music world is a little less surreal this week. Don Van Vliet, better known to fans as Captain Beefheart, died from complications tied to multiple sclerosis in California on Friday. He was 69 year... More >>

• Behold: Yuletide carols being sung by, uh, Gwarr

  published Dec 17, 2010

  Here's something you don't see everyday -- well, unless you're one of their neighbors: Just in case your holiday season hasn't been splattered with enough fake blood and mindless destruction, the me... More >>

• Eolian

  published December 9, 2010

  Eolian's connection to past prog-rock giants shows on Egg, the band's 35-minute, single-track concept album. The group — frontman... More >>

• The Anthology of Rap co-editor Adam Bradley on his background and compiling the book

  published Dec 07, 2010

  Making connections between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wonder Mike isn't such a stretch for Adam Bradley. As one of the editors of The Anthology of Rap, a newly released collection from Yale Universit... More >>

• Aurora's Handsome Little Devils gets a positive nod from the New York Times

  published Nov 23, 2010

  The Handsome Little Devils' efforts to bring old-fashioned Vaudevillian melodrama to theatergoers in New York City has caught the attention of town's snootiest critics. Earlier this year, the local tr... More >>

• Johann Sebastian Bluegrass: "The Bach Project" offers acoustic interpretations of classical sonatas

  published Nov 22, 2010

  Sandra Wong made a bold claim as she held the elaborate wooden instrument, an alien-looking contraption with 16 strings and a dense thicket of white keys: "Personally, I think if Bach had known about ... More >>

• The Curious Theatre takes a Kate Light poem about Einstein and Mozart, adds Mozart

  published Nov 15, 2010

  The music of Wolfgang Amadaeus Mozart was both a haven and an inspiration for Albert Einstein. When the physicist would get stuck on a particularly puzzling problem regarding the nature of the univers... More >>

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  Keith Rabin, Jr., of Gravity Defied Theatre talks economics and f-bombs

  published Nov 08, 2010

  The founders of Gravity Defied Theatre had their work cut out for them when they founded the troupe in 2008. In addition to facing the standard pitfalls and challenges of starting a new theater compan... More >>

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  The Denver Press Club's Gridiron Show packs old-school send-ups and silliness

  published Nov 01, 2010

  There's something wrong with the Les Paul. I fumble with the knobs that control the guitar's volume and tone; I switch between the pickups; I try like mad to coax a discernible sound from the instrume... More >>

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  Ween at 1STBANK Center, 10/31/10

  published Nov 01, 2010

  WEEN 10.31.10 | 1STBANK Center The scene captured the sheer surrealism of Ween's Halloween show at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield: Toward the end of the band's three-hour performance, Mickey Melc... More >>

• Dean Ween on fundamental changes to the recording industry and pot-smoking hippies

  published Oct 28, 2010

  For nearly thirty years, Mickey Melchiondo's been making music under a moniker. As Dean Ween, one of the eponymous creative forces behind Ween, Melchiondo's carved out an ambitious musical niche sin... More >>

• Ken Arkind and Minor Disturbance rep Denver in HBO's Brave New Voices

  published Oct 27, 2010

  Young poets from Denver's slam poetry scene have taken their words and images far beyond the confines of the city. The HBO special Brave New Voices premiered this week and featured performances from M... More >>

• Dean and Gene put the Ween in Halloween

  published October 28, 2010

  Mickey Melchiondo keeps getting distracted. Speaking via telephone from his home in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Melchiondo — better... More >>

• The Cripple of Inishmaan takes boredom to transcendent levels

  published Oct 25, 2010

  Forget the rugged beauty and natural splendor of the small, windswept islands off the west coast of Ireland. The Arans' isolation and foul, monotonous weather can render life dull and dreary; their br... More >>

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  Nathaniel Rateliff at Lost Lake Lounge, 10/21/10

  published Oct 22, 2010

  NATHANIEL RATELIFF 10.21.10 | Lost Lake Lounge Nathaniel Rateliff struck a delicate musical balance in his tribute to Leonard Cohen Thursday at the Lost Lake Lounge. His two-part solo performance s... More >>

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  Over the Weekend: Stories on Stage is a telling experience

  published Oct 18, 2010

  There's no expensive special effect or fancy set piece that can match the evocative power of a good storyteller. That was the resounding message at the Stories on Stage "New Frontiers" performance Su... More >>

• Curious Theatre gets a potent mix from Poe and Caplet in its new "Backstage Pass" series

  published Oct 11, 2010

  French impressionist composers had an odd obsession with Edgar Allan Poe. Years after the author's death in 1849, seminal composers like Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Andre Caplet remained fixated... More >>

• Nathaniel Rateliff, Gregory Alan Isakov, Danielle Ate the Sandwich at the Gothic Theatre, 10/8/10

  published Oct 09, 2010

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• Fright Fest at Elitch Gardens inspires more camp than horror

  published Sep 27, 2010

  It's shortly after sundown, and the growing crowd is getting impatient. I'm standing with a friend at the head of the VIP line for "Bloodlust," one of the two haunted houses that debuted over the week... More >>

• Handsome Little Devils is packing up the giant juggling machine and heading to New York

  published Sep 20, 2010

  For the past three years, the members of the Handsome Little Devils have drawn on Vaudevillian slapstick and Chuck Jones-inspired gags to form the "Squirm Burpee Circus," a stageshow that features ext... More >>

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  Interview: Ken Arkind, the "LeBron James of Denver Poetry"

  published Sep 15, 2010

  In the past decade, Ken Arkind has seen the Denver poetry scene morph and evolve. A fixture in the local scene for a decade, Arkind has made multiple trips to national competitions across the country,... More >>

• Portland's Menomena on time and the creative process

  published September 16, 2010

  The release of Mines in July capped a long creative process for Menomena. Two years ago, members of the Portland-based trio had... More >>

• Doing it live: Dubskin at Reggae on the Rocks this Saturday

  published August 26, 2010

  For Cory Eberhard, the liberation of playing reggae hasn't come solely from the music's messages of political activism and rebellion. The... More >>