At first, the darkness was intimidating and the smell of ozone strong. My mind wouldn’t slow down. Why, I kept asking myself, would a self-proclaimed ADD sufferer voluntarily submit to lying in a ten-inch-deep tank brimming with water and enough epsom salts to fill the Dead Sea? I was trapped…
SAT, 1/22 It so happened one year that I found myself in the seaside town of Swansea, Wales, two weeks before Christmas. A friend of my good friend and traveling companion lived there, and he took it upon himself to show us around. One night he led us through a…
Three things you never want to hear coming from the stage at a local battle-of-the-bands contest (but invariably do): 1. “Hello, Denver!” 2. “Let’s make some noise!” 3. “Are you ready to rock?” Although these sayings should be reserved for cheesy ’80s hair bands and Spinal Tap, their longevity attests…
THURS, 12/30 At this point in the season, most of us don’t know whether to laugh or cry. But the holidays are all about being of good cheer — so get happy or else, because comic Adam Ferrara is bringing his Sopranos-style humor along with his New Yawk accent. The…
WED, 12/29 Of all the rock stars who made their marks in the ’70s, Rickie Lee Jones was one of the easiest to imagine someday settling down and shunning the public eye. Strutting more grit than glam, she swept the end of that decade with a string of Grammy nominations…
SUN, 12/5 For someone like Richard Nelson, who grew up in the small northeast-plains town of Peetz, Colorado, East High must have seemed a far cry from the schoolhouses of his youth. His first shock came when he walked into the mammoth school as the new English teacher in 1964…
FRI, 11/26 As a girl, Jenee Brown would sit in front of the TV in her Thornton home, watching the Rockettes strut in the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. Back then, she fantasized about becoming a member of the leggy dance troupe. Now her childhood wish has been granted, and Brown will…
SAT, 11/20 Round up the literature posse! The Tattered Cover Book Store will add new turf to its bookish Bonanza when it burns the “TC” brand in Highlands Ranch. Plans are for the 21,764 square feet of suburban space to translate into bibliophile bliss, with the same look and feel…
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 over breakfast every morning to discuss artistic life and, perhaps most of all, to complain. There was plenty for Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe and David Lang…
FRI, 11/12 When Brandon Borchert plays Powerball, he is always a winner. Borchert is a Denver artist who has developed a master list of 53 numbered images matched to the digits printed on the white betting balls. When the lucky gaming globes of Powerball are drawn, the Dada-inspired painter heads…
Watching a movie in which you know someone or recognize a location often causes a case of fame by proxy. That feeling will hit Denverites in spades during the premiere of Colfax Ave, a new documentary that explores a grand stretch of U.S. 40, most notably in the environs of…
TUES, 10/5 Composer Tan Dun unites sounds from Western classical music, nature and the East in Water Passion After St. Matthew. The acclaimed composer’s composition will fill Gates Concert Hall at the University of Denver at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Dun, who won multiple awards for the score of Crouching Tiger,…
