SUN, 11/7 From jingle slinger to jazz balladeer, Barry Manilow has proved to be mercilessly enduring. But seriously, how can you hate the guy? His songs have become part of America’s musical wallpaper, subliminally comforting in their sappy, maudlin nostalgia. Maybe that’s why, decades after his last Top 40 single,…
SAT, 11/6 Yoga is all about how you breathe, says Kirtan chant leader Dave Stringer: “If you have no awareness of breath, you’re just exercising. If you’re using your breath, you’re practicing yoga.” And while Kirtan doesn’t involve the thoughtful stretching of limbs or the fine art of tying oneself…
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 forget trying to describe its unfolding saga or style. Instead, think of a creepy alien spaceship landing tonight in Boulder at the International Order of Odd Fellows Hall,…
>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 cherished fiercely, and he’d sometimes allow me to come in for listening sessions — indoctrinations, really — that covered the gamut of what was…
THURS, 10/14 Photographer Subhanker Banerjee’s two-year, 4,000-mile odyssey across Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge began in 2001 and yielded 200 photographs. The Indian-born naturalist undertook the journey on foot as well as by kayak, raft and snowmobile in his quest to capture vivid scenes of creatures living in the refuge…
SAT, 10/9 Centuries ago, minstrels roamed the countryside with lutes and mandolins, trilling ballads of romance, chivalry and the glories of ages past. Today the music of the masses has a little less hindsight. Consider: Legendary British songwriter Richard Thompson was one of dozens of rock dignitaries asked by Playboy…
FRI, 10/8 From Harry Potter to Sabrina, the practice of witchcraft has been ripped off, exploited and corrupted over the past few years. Hmm…kind of like the United States presidency. The Mercury Motley Players will help set straight both injustices tonight during its presentation of The Allied Witches’ Presidential Election…
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,…
THURS, 9/30 Q: What’s the connection between English artist Ralph Steadman and a microbrew called Broken Keg Ice Bock? A: Both will be appearing somewhere between the long rows of kegs at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival at the Colorado Convention Center from Thursday, September 30, to Saturday, October…
FRI, 10/1 Dogs are only as good as their trainers. That’s why the Association of Pet Dog Trainers is unleashing its Rally Obedience Trial today at 2 p.m. in tandem with Educanines, a local canine trainer. Organizers have set up a course that teaches classic obedience skills and lets pet…
THUR, 9/23 Ladies, the Commish is up for sale. Note his authentic Denver hipster look, complete with ’70s mesh cap and short athletic shorts. His muscular thighs toned from years of captaining the Denver Kickball Coalition. The nonchalant stare and devil-may-care attitude. For the right price — minimum $10 bid,…
SAT, 9/25 One of the big-city touches that Denver has always had down cold is the tradition of the downtown street fair. If nothing else, we know how to throw a party. And now we can add the Festival Italiano to all of the old faves. Things begin tonight, sort…
FRI, 9/17 Strolling the Pearl Street Mall in the early 1980s, it wasn’t uncommon to come across groups of jugglers performing mind-boggling feats. Those were the golden years of busking, before outside influences intruded, when it was juggling for juggling’s sake, pure and true. But diamonds in the rough can…
