Email Author Susan Froyd

2004 Stories by Susan Froyd

• Talking Shop

  published July 22, 2004

  What do 'zines, pirate radio and hacking all have in common? For one thing, they all have subversive underpinnings, and for another, the folks who... More >>

• Giant Steps

  published June 24, 2004

  SAT, 6/26 Polly Letofsky was walking on a "barren highway through a tiny town in northern Australia" when a senior citizen... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published June 24, 2004

  Karen Moore is a walking fashion statement, the keeper of a personal style so strong that she's managed to shape it into a local retail temple of... More >>

• Dream Weavers

  published June 24, 2004

  For weavers, introspection comes with the territory. In its simplest form, the repetitive act of weaving cloth, driving threads together into... More >>

• Goodnight, Gracie

  published June 17, 2004

  FRI, 6/18 At the beginning of Say Goodnight Gracie, comedian George Burns is in limbo. Caught between this world and the... More >>

• Hearty Appetites

  published June 17, 2004

  FRI, 6/18 Last New Year's Day, while the rest of us were watching Bowl games or trying to figure out where, exactly, we lost that... More >>

• Hollywood Square

  published June 17, 2004

  Robert Lecher says he was born in Spain and grew up in a small town of 5,000 somewhere in the Nebraska heartland before eventually landing here in... More >>

• Crybaby

  published June 10, 2004

  THURS, 6/10 These days, you're as likely to come across George Lopez on ABC as you are on HBO or Univision. His smiling face is... More >>

• Tin Can Alley

  published June 10, 2004

  SAT, 6/12 Back in 1979, the art of home brewing was just a bit of foam with possibilities, relegated to the garages and basements of... More >>

• Yard Artists

  published June 3, 2004

  FRI, 6/4 The relationship between people and their gardens is an ancient one, primeval as a redwood, humanity's link to its own... More >>

• Road Warriors

  published June 3, 2004

  We love our cars -- that's a fact. They're our homes away from home, the canned personification of whatever freedoms we have left to enjoy in... More >>

• Living Color

  published May 27, 2004

  When invited by the City of Broomfield to put on an art exhibit in the building shared by its library and public auditorium, members of the... More >>

• The Eagle Soars

  published May 27, 2004

  MON, 5/31 The Shona people of Zimbabwe call the bateleur eagle (a rare native raptor that in Shona religious lore serves as a... More >>

• Get a Move On

  published May 20, 2004

  SAT, 5/22 As Karl Marx said, revolution is not a fixed, static phenomenon; it's a perpetual and ever-evolving process. So it makes... More >>

• Aria Ready?

  published May 20, 2004

  FRI, 5/21 Opera usually brings to mind a grand spectacle with lavish sets and costumes, supertitles and glass-breaking arias. But in... More >>

• Waver of the Future

  published May 20, 2004

  There's a lot more to leading an orchestra than podium skills, so if you think just anyone can wave that little stick around in time to the music,... More >>

• Land of the Free Spirits

  published May 13, 2004

  THURS, 5/13 Americans have no single governing persona, and that's as it should be: The Land of the Free has no room for a... More >>

• Day Trippers

  published May 13, 2004

  SAT, 5/15 Stamina is key at the Go Fast 24 Hours of BoulderSThe Run, during which more than 100 runners will race to complete... More >>

• Tears of a Clown

  published May 13, 2004

  THURS, 5/13 Who's had the longest continuous run on Denver television? Russell Scott is first by a big, red nose. As Blinky the... More >>

• Davy's Lost and Found

  published May 13, 2004

  Davy Rothbart, a 29-year-old hipster with one of those anemic, pencil-thin Honest Abe beards, is probably the nation's most notable pick-up... More >>

• Palsy Becomes a Punchline

  published May 6, 2004

  MON, 5/10 Local comedian Josh Blue turns his disability into a laughing matter. Blue, who says he "puts the cerebral in... More >>

• Do You Vodou?

  published May 6, 2004

  According to Sandra Renteria, owner of Indigena Gallery, Denver is finally ready for Vodou art -- readier, in fact, than she ever could... More >>

• Song Cyclist

  published April 29, 2004

  FRI, 4/30 People are always telling country rocker Marshall Chapman: "You talk in song titles." And she does. The thirty-year... More >>

• Historic Save

  published April 29, 2004

  Sometimes folks tackle a project even though they know it's gonna be bigger, tougher and meaner than they are. That's how it was for local artist... More >>

• Word Out

  published April 22, 2004

  FRI, 4/23 El Centro Su Teatro's annual Neruda Poetry Festival and Barrio Slam events are all about instilling a new appreciation for... More >>