Email Author Susan Froyd

2004 Stories by Susan Froyd

• Better Late

  published December 30, 2004

  TUES, 1/4 I worked for years in the retail world, where the general atmosphere always builds to an apocalyptic frenzy in December.... More >>

• Calling All Collectors

  published December 23, 2004

  People collect the oddest things: photographs of WWII bombings of Papua New Guinea, salt shakers, monk figurines. Despite the time, effort and... More >>

• Needed Needles

  published December 9, 2004

  Growing up, I spent at least twenty Decembers covered with pine needles and sticky with sap, working my family's Christmas-tree lot in Scottsdale,... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published December 9, 2004

  SAT, 12/11 Next to Santa's workshop, could any place on earth be more magical to a kid at Christmas time than the Hammond's Candies... More >>

• Freedom Sings

  published December 9, 2004

  The folks who started the Denver Gay and Lesbian Community Band rechristened it the Mile High Freedom Band shortly after its debut in 1984,... More >>

• The Sounds of Solstice

  published December 2, 2004

  SAT, 12/4 Neal Conan may know radio, but he can't keep a beat. The Talk of the Nation host was once a peppy percussionist who... More >>

• Angels in the City

  published December 2, 2004

  SUN, 12/5 For someone like Richard Nelson, who grew up in the small northeast-plains town of Peetz, Colorado, East High must have... More >>

• Fire Tribe Gets Hot

  published November 25, 2004

  FRI, 11/26 This year, I'm going to put myself in the holiday spirit. No more procrastinating. I'm going to get out and enjoy all that... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published November 25, 2004

  FRI, 11/26 I tend to be a surreptitious shopper, sliding quietly through stores like a sylph on a mission, waiting for an item to... More >>

• Voices Carry

  published November 18, 2004

  SAT, 11/20 Harmony: A Colorado Chorale has something sing about. When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of... More >>

• Highlands, Ho!

  published November 18, 2004

  SAT, 11/20 Round up the literature posse! The Tattered Cover Book Store will add new turf to its bookish Bonanza when it... More >>

• Heart of Glass

  published November 11, 2004

  THURS, 11/11 Three young composers, just out of music school and trying to make it in New York during the mid-'80s, took to meeting... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published November 11, 2004

  The gift-giving season draws nigh, so sound the battle cry and dig in: Shop early and shop often! After all, frenzy can be fun, especially when... More >>

• La MaMa or Bust!

  published November 11, 2004

  Down in Durango, a southwestern Colorado town we Front Range sophisticates don't usually associate with cutting-edge culture, Fort Lewis College... More >>

• Time Travel

  published November 4, 2004

  SAT, 11/6 Photographer Robert Doisneau, who likened his art to a fisherman's catch, loved Paris more than anyone possibly could, and... More >>

• Kirtan Call

  published November 4, 2004

  SAT, 11/6 Yoga is all about how you breathe, says Kirtan chant leader Dave Stringer: "If you have no awareness of breath,... More >>

• Viva La Diversidad

  published November 4, 2004

  SAT, 11/6 When the Denver School of the Arts opened its new facility in 2003, administrators decided that what they had was too... More >>

• Baroque and Roll

  published October 28, 2004

  FRI, 10/29 To truly appreciate Red Priest, you really must transport yourself to Baroque times -- when Handel and Bach were... More >>

• Tell You What

  published October 28, 2004

  SAT, 10/30 The Billy Nayer Show, a New York City-based band, has created bizarre story-driven rock for more than a decade. But... More >>

• Vault of Horror

  published October 28, 2004

  T. Jefferson Carey -- playwright, actor, artist, set designer, landscape laborer -- might be the most unassuming Renaissance man you'll ever meet.... More >>

• Seers for Years

  published October 21, 2004

  >My first time with Bob Dylan was a million years ago in my brother Mark's room. There, Mark kept a bare-tubed amp and stereo that he... More >>

• Politics Today

  published October 14, 2004

  THURS, 10/14 When John Patrick Shanley's play Dirty Story debuted in New York in 2003, the playwright chose to forgo the... More >>

• A Slice of History

  published October 14, 2004

  FRI, 10/15 "I once danced on that table right over there," said the executive vice president, pointing with a well-manicured finger at... More >>

• Rock of Ages

  published October 7, 2004

  SAT, 10/9 Centuries ago, minstrels roamed the countryside with lutes and mandolins, trilling ballads of romance, chivalry and the... More >>

• Real Life

  published October 7, 2004

  FRI, 10/8 I remember spending glorious afternoons at my grandmother's house as a child, thumbing through yellowing issues of... More >>