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How The Colorado Rockies Became America's Team

UCD Prof Asks: Just How Long Is Your Fifteen Minutes?

CU's hospital plays the branding game

Hearty warriors of Hyperborea at Tuba Christmas

There must have been a time, in sunnier days, when the idea of 400 tubas playing holiday tunes in Skyline Park sounded like a really cool idea. In fact, the Tuba Christmas Concert, now in its 29th year in downtown Denver, bills itself as "one of the most celebrated and longest-running holiday fest ... More >>

Best News for Movie Buffs

The Starz Encore Film Center

Wake-Up Call: The rest is history

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the "Rush to the Rockies." As rumors of the May 1859 gold find echoed back east, hordes of fortune-hunters started the arduous trek across the plains to the confluence of the Platte and Cherry Creek. Many never made it to what was then the Kansas Territory; ... More >>

Serious Series

A Rocky Mountain PBS dramedy uses all local talent.

Today's featured event: Fledgling actors at UC-Denver take on David Ives

Any stage director worth his salt knows that it's all in the timing. Without it, the stars won't align onstage or backstage and -- horrors -- the moment will be mediocre. In the world of theater, that's the kiss of death -- a point the accomplished local director José Mercado, known for his work ... More >>

Hit Pick

Dick Weissman

Iron Wills

The Western Cast Iron Art Conference takes over the town.

Mini Makeover

Things are looking up at BMoCA.

Spiked

Spike Lee talks about doing the right thing.

Room for Errors

José Mercado reworks a classic Shakespearean tale.

Brain Food

José Mercado reworks a classic Shakespearean tale.

Winging It

José Mercado reworks a classic Shakespearean tale.

From Russia, Without Love

Hackers are selling rape porn through university websites -- including student pages at UCD.

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Ghoul Crazy

Dr. Colorado leaves no tombstone unturned.

Quantum Leap

Sci-fi meets high art at the Mizel Center.

Techno Love

From beeps to heart beats, xy tracks love in the 21st century.

Digging Up the Past

Theater students at UCD explore the history of a Japanese internment camp.

Artbeat

Michael Paglia's brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Art Beat

Michael Paglia's brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Alice in Harlem Land nods its head to classic blaxploitation films.

The Place to Be

A Beaux Arts Ball will raise money for UCD’s architecture and planning school.

Sale Away

Riverfront neighbors pitch in for PlatteForum.

The Show Must Go On

Before ArtLab takes a shot at High School Musical, take a shot of tequila.

Laughs for Lit

Before ArtLab takes a shot at High School Musical, take a shot of tequila.

Strike While the Iron Is Hot

Before ArtLab takes a shot at High School Musical, take a shot of tequila.

Cuba Libre

Before ArtLab takes a shot at High School Musical, take a shot of tequila.

Spring LoriFling

Before ArtLab takes a shot at High School Musical, take a shot of tequila.

Potty pistol: Gun misfires in Auraria campus women's restroom, police searching for witness

Auraria Campus students walk the hallway of the South Classroom building as police section off the woman's restroom.​Auraria campus police are looking for a woman whose 9mm pistol accidentally fired in a woman's bathroom stall in classroom building this morning. No one was hurt, police say, an ... More >>

Penguin's revenge: UCD students' animated short drawing studio buzz

The Penguin as seen in "A Complex Villainelle."​Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utte ... More >>

Sweet Mixers

The Penguin as seen in "A Complex Villainelle."​Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utte ... More >>

Root of a Problem

The Penguin as seen in "A Complex Villainelle."​Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utte ... More >>

Sweeping the Sidewalk

The Penguin as seen in "A Complex Villainelle."​Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utte ... More >>

Artbeat: Memory Trips shines a light on the civil-rights era

The Penguin as seen in "A Complex Villainelle."​Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utte ... More >>

Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead

The Penguin as seen in "A Complex Villainelle."​Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utte ... More >>

Tantric Picasso

Life's a Bitch and Then You Die So Why Not Laugh Until You Cry?
Goose Records

Debate points: The Pride gets a free discussion panel tonight

Is this poster too rainbow-y? YOU decide.​Solve one set of problems, get another. That's the central theme of Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride, now playing at the Paragon Theatre, which takes a look at the relationships of three characters transposed onto different eras: In 1958, Oliver, Philip ... More >>

DeVotchKa slated to perform at University of Colorado Denver this Friday night

​If you happen upon a bunch of starry-eyed students in caps and gowns this Saturday at the University of Colorado Denver's commencement ceremony, don't be surprised. And don't automatically assume that the looks of utter euphoria plastered to their faces are because they're graduating.

Owen Kortz Trio

Owen Kortz Trio
Self-released

Political protest has a lively history in Denver

Owen Kortz Trio
Self-released

Green River Vibe

Sun Comes Up
CAM Records

Med. marijuana laws = 9 percent traffic-death decline, 5 percent beer-sales dip, study finds

​The subject of driving under the influence of marijuana has been much debated in these parts. A bill to set a THC driving limit was shelved in May, shortly before an HDNet report demonstrated pot-related driving impairment -- and in August, the Colorado Department of Transportation launched a ... More >>

Reader: Drunk drivers are more lethal than stoned ones

​In our post about a University of Colorado Denver study that found traffic fatalities declined in medical marijuana states, weed advocate Mason Tvert argued that pot smokers drive more cautiously than do those who use alcohol and get behind the wheel. This statement spurred a lively conversat ... More >>

Gene Sobczak returns to head the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

​Gene Sobczak, who was a VP and marketing guru for the Colorado Symphony Orchestra when he left in 2007 to head the Arvada Center, will soon be making beautiful music with the CSO again: The symphony board has appointed him to replace interim director Jim Copenhaver, who returned this fall to ... More >>

Colorado Business Committee for the Arts announces finalists for 2012 awards

​Supporting the arts is just good business. That's the basic message of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, which was founded in 1985 and has grown to over 130 members, just announced the finalists for the 25th annual CBCA Business for the Arts Awards. And not only does this award co ... More >>

Tantric Picasso: "That alchemy is so precious and nurturing"

​Tantric Picasso (due Thursday, February 2 at the Bluebird Theater) started in 2008 among a group of friends who met at school, which is typical enough, but in naming the band, the fivesome created a personal mythology (partly detailed below) that is somewhat embodied in the name with hints of ... More >>