Wednesday February 1 Belly up to the barre: Dancers from twenty colleges converge on Boulder this week to learn, perform and compete at the American College Dance Festival. But before the fledgling hoofers are put to the test, they’ll have a chance to see six of Colorado’s most accomplished professional…
Wednesday January 25 West meets west: The names of Sandy Greenhills and Urbana Asphalt West may not sound familiar to you, but you read about them all the time. In fact, this divorcing couple is regularly splashed all over the newspapers. But the bickerers are actually representatives of the urban…
Wednesday January 18 A stand-up kinda guy: Remember Tom Hanks in his role as a comedian in Punchline? The comic touch in his routines came directly from the funny bone of Barry Sobel, who not only coached Hanks in the fine art of making people roll on the floor but…
Wednesday January 11 Be a sport: The next best thing to a tramp through the woods is a visit to the Denver Sportsmen’s Show, a five-day event opening today at the Colorado Convention Center. There you’ll find the indoor Wild Trout River, a slate of outdoor seminars, a fly-tying theater…
Wednesday January 4 It’s all relative: Mom never wore neat shirtwaists and pearls in the kitchen the way June Cleaver did, and Dad is nowhere near as cute a roost ruler as Dr. Huxtable used to be. Your brothers and sisters had normal growing pains, not the contrived problems faced…
Wednesday December 28 The opposite sax: The Creative Music Works continues its Frontiers: Explorations in Out Music series tonight with an adventurous performance by Random Axe. The saxophone duo (Mark Harris and Glenn Nitta)–a pair of locals who both have been seen previously with Monkey Siren and various Fred Hess…
Wednesday December 21 A matter of chorus: Acclaimed lyric soprano Faith Esham and the Denver Gay Men’s Chorus will get together tonight at Boettcher Concert Hall, 14th and Curtis St. in the Plex, to prove all over again that Christmas and music are inseparable. The program, O Night Divine!, features…
Wednesday December 14 Out there: Improvisation–a staple of the jazz aesthetic–is only the springboard for the kind of sounds you’ll hear during Frontiers: Explorations in Out Music. The new series, sponsored by the Creative Music Works and taking place every other Wednesday through February at the blessedly smokeless Vartan Jazz,…
Wednesday December 7 Beethoven’s 224th: Who knows what leonine Ludwig might have gone on to accomplish were he still around to party–perhaps the great composer would have hightailed it down to the mall to boogie down on a bank of synthesizers. But as it is, 1770 was a long time…
Wednesday November 30 Feed the Meters: Truly, it’s hard to say no to any configuration of former Meters members. So tonight, when the Founders of Funk –with Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste, the respective guitarist and drummer of New Orleans’s celebrated rhythm-meisters–put that trademark chunky sound together at the Fox…
Wednesday November 23 Touchy subject: Modern issues and sexual politics get an incendiary workout during David Mamet’s play Oleanna–in previews tonight at 6:30 in the Space Theatre, 14th and Curtis in the Plex. The work, delivered in Mamet’s shotgun style, pits a college professor against his faltering student–resulting in a…
Wednesday November 16 Jazz on the rocks: Thought-provoking, avant-garde music hasn’t exactly been a mainstay here in stolid old Denver, but that seems to be changing. More venues mean more variety, and as concert halls blossomed in the last year or so, so did the fare. In that spirit, the…
Wednesday November 9 All keyed up: Classical music will never seem the same after you’ve attended one of Jeffrey Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations, an annual mainstay at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth in Arvada. The internationally known pianist’s popular lecture/concert series, beginning its 1994-1995 season tonight at 7:30, combines Siegel’s renditions…
Wednesday November 2 Signs of life: A bout with spinal meningitis left Peter Cook permanently deaf at the age of three, but that hasn’t kept the Chicago performance artist from expressing himself. This amazing dynamo’s Flying Word Project–a funny, topical and sometimes surreal poetic interpretation incorporating sign language, gestures and…
Wednesday October 26 Hollywood and race: Young African-American filmmakers may have recently carved a brilliant niche in the artistic life of the nation, but you might not know about their predecessors from the cinema’s earlier days. “Midnight Ramble,” tonight’s episode of PBS’s The American Experience, delves into the “race movies”…
Wednesday October 19 Too many spooks: A fascinating footnote in U.S. history becomes a focal point in tonight’s segment of PBS’s The American Experience. Telegrams From the Dead explores an American movement obsessed with the notion of life after death. Known as Spiritualism, it has had a following that included…
Wednesday October 12 Favorite haunts: That black pall hanging over the city is a little bit eerie, but…not to worry. It happens every year as people begin to gear up for the ghoulish costume balls and general mayhem of Halloween. And in preparation, several haunted houses are opening their doors…
Wednesday October 5 American flyers: Sometime between the early Seventies and today, Boston rockers Aerosmith rose from the status of fourteen-year-old boys’ cult favorites to their current berth as grand old band of the decade. Behind Steve Tyler’s fiery, acrobatic vocals and Joe Perry’s smart guitar work, the group’s arrangements…
Wednesday September 28 Back in action: In the real world, there are few things you can really count on to be pleasing all the time, but the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble has a way of dancing all over that theory. The group will put its trademark skill and elan…
Wednesday September 21 Meal ticket: Boulder’s favorite home and gourmet store (actually two stores) is throwing a four-day Peppercorn Anniversary Celebration, beginning today and continuing through Saturday. Each day will be loaded down with cooking demonstrations and myriad food tastings, with delicious wares from Colorado and around the world. Customers…
Wednesday September 14 Tommy, can we see you? Yes, we can. Pete Townshend’s brilliant and durable rock opera, Tommy, transformed over the years from its beginnings as a concert vehicle for the Who (the piece has since been reincarnated as a smash recording, a classical recording, a ballet and a…
Wednesday September 7 The thrill of the hunt: No matter what side of the hunting dispute you straddle, a new book written by nature writer Ken Kerasote should prove fascinating. In Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt, Kerasote relates his experience traveling with Inuit hunters in Greenland and explores the…
