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1998 Stories by Susan Froyd

• Raising the Barrio

  published August 13, 1998

  Over 25 years old and, proudly, the third-oldest continuous Chicano theater troupe in the country, Denver's El Centro Su Teatro defines what a... More >>

• Night & Day

  published August 6, 1998

  Thursday August 6 Oral history, folklore, tall tales and flights of fancy will all take their place around the campfire at the Rocky... More >>

• Under the Volcano

  published August 6, 1998

  The "floating world" of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan reflected a time of urbanization and swift transitions. In turn, the great... More >>

• Have PEN, Will Travel

  published July 30, 1998

  Many fiction writers don't choose their profession--it chooses them instead. And some, like jazz critic and novelist Rafi Zabor, are lifelong... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 30, 1998

  Thursday July 30 Leave it to the Colorado Dance Festival to go out with a flourish. Wrapping up the fest's month-long tenure in... More >>

• Pulling Strings

  published July 23, 1998

  Denver puppeteer Annie Zook looks like a laid-back, middle-aged librarian from Kansas. But on closer examination, you'll see mischief in her eyes,... More >>

• Naked Launch

  published July 23, 1998

  Who does a good fan dance these days? The now-you-see-it, now-you-don't days of Sally Rand popped like a bubble decades ago in favor of more... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 16, 1998

  Thursday July 16 It's summer, so loosen up. Try things on. Kick back. You can do all those things and still take in some culture. At... More >>

• Solo Flight

  published July 16, 1998

  Lisa Lusero's boyish, austere body is a draftsman's sketch of curves and angles, plain-faced with round glasses and an eighth of an inch of fuzz... More >>

• Top Drawer

  published July 9, 1998

  Artist, radio personality and professional speed-talker Bill Amundson has built a career out of just being Bill, which in his case means being a... More >>

• Night & Day

  published July 9, 1998

  Thursday July 9 Ben Sidran--the same Ben Sidran who played alongside Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs in an early rendition of the Steve... More >>

• Go, Girls

  published July 2, 1998

  When artistic director and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Women launched the troupe in 1984, her vision was for an all-woman... More >>

• Made in Colorado

  published July 2, 1998

  The Cherry Creek Arts Festival tops almost everyone's list of things to do in Denver over the Fourth of July weekend. The award-winning fest,... More >>

• Bring in Da Noise

  published June 25, 1998

  They have no visible tattoos or notable piercings, and their clothes are just clothes, unrent by strategic rips or tears. But looks aren't... More >>

• Corner Market

  published June 25, 1998

  Karen Quest does tricks with ropes and whips, wears leather and, yeah, lives in San Francisco, but what she ultimately does is really a family... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 18, 1998

  Thursday June 18 Denver's notable Greek population loves to share its culture, something it does with more than the average gusto at... More >>

• Spanish Gold

  published June 18, 1998

  Federico Garcia Lorca, an Andalusian poet and playwright of the early 1920s and 1930s, would have been 100 this month. Students of world... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 11, 1998

  Thursday June 11 Comparisons to Terry McMillan are inevitable, but novelist Lolita Files says she's her own woman and her... More >>

• Wide-Open Spaces

  published June 11, 1998

  At a time when the buzz in LoDo is about how all the galleries are fleeing, here's one making a solid commitment to staying put: Under the... More >>

• Travels With Sweeney

  published June 4, 1998

  What do visitors remember most about a trek through Denver International Airport? The terminal's tented peaks and monumental marble expanses?... More >>

• Night & Day

  published June 4, 1998

  Thursday June 4 It's not often you'll find a singing voice this strong and clean in your own backyard. Local country/folk diva... More >>

• An Oy for an Oy

  published May 28, 1998

  Kathryn Bernheimer knows movies. The Boulder film critic's name has been seen regularly in print for nearly twenty years in such places as the... More >>

• Night & Day

  published May 28, 1998

  Thursday May 28 For Pavel Dobrusky, staging a new interpretation of Cervantes's Don Quixote was a completely possible dream. The... More >>

• Night & Day

  published May 21, 1998

  Thursday May 21 Budding filmmakers will be in the spotlight when the Denver Public Schools Film/Video Arts Program Student Film... More >>

• Picking Up the Pieces

  published May 21, 1998

  Documentary filmmaker Don McGlynn is one of those charmed individuals who do for a living exactly what they like to do most. But in his case, it's... More >>