Author: John Moore
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Colorado Symphony’s upcoming season includes nearly 100 concerts
The Colorado Symphony announced its long-awaited return to normal concert operations with a 2021-22 season featuring 49 titles across 90 concerts. Among the highlights will be an April 2 concert appearance by Leslie Odom Jr., who this year was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as Sam Cooke in the film “One Night…
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‘I got to see everything’: Denver music writer G. Brown a pioneer in the industry
G. Brown is a man of 3,248 stories (and at least as many bad jokes). That’s the number of music personalities he interviewed in his 26-year career as pop-music writer for The Denver Post. Brown can tell you about the time in 1978 when he had a chance encounter with Bruce Springsteen on an otherwise…
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Kirkland Museum reopens Friday after pandemic, flood
The lifespan of Denver’s Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art has at times seemed like one ongoing existential crisis. But the beloved downtown art salon gets a new lease on life when it reopens to the public on Friday. When the $22 million building opened in 2018, it incorporated Vance Kirkland’s original 150-ton brick…
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‘Mystery Quest’ to send history buffs on Denver-wide scavenger hunt
Part history lesson, part outdoor escape room, History Colorado’s “Mystery Quest” is about to set adventure-seeking history buffs off on a Denver-wide, episodic scavenger hunt from Sept. 3-19. Organizers call the returning favorite an opportunity for Denverites to discover their city through new eyes and ears by embarking on a self-guided, COVID-conscious journey to unravel…
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Director Ben Raanan crushes eggshells
For new Phamaly Theatre Company Artistic Director Ben Raanan, live theater is an act of political violence. Then again, as a man with disabilities, he thinks pretty much everything he does is an act of political violence. Because ordinary people tend to be as terrified of disability as they are of that sociopathic cat in…
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Denver Film names chief administrative officer
Denver Film has hired a familiar face in its newly created position of Chief Administrative Officer. Most recently, Amy Allison served as Chief Operating Officer for the Colorado Springs Community Cultural Collective at the City Auditorium, where she led the planning of a coming public facility that will be used for arts, culture, education, events…
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‘Wild Fire’ mixes live experiences with music
Last August, as playwright Jessica Kahkoska was driving through surreal-looking plumes of orange wildfire smoke enveloping Interstate 70 near Idaho Springs, she couldn’t help but feel that the image of hopeful headlights poking through the toxic daytime haze looked to her somehow theatrical. Beautiful, even. “I was listening to music at the same time,” said…
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Family, friends, former students celebrate the life of ‘Mr. Nelson’
When two educators marry, life is like one big school assembly that gathers generations of students, parents and fellow teachers into one, extended family. So it was fitting that the marriage of teachers Steve Nelson and Stacie Sakowski officially began at a huge holiday assembly at High Plains Elementary School in Colorado Springs back in…
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Meow Wolf brings big boost to Denver arts employment
No one knows exactly what Meow Wolf Denver will turn out to be just yet — that’s part of the intrigue that will reveal itself when the hipster arts and entertainment installation opens Sept. 17 at the juncture of I-25 and the Colfax Avenue viaduct. But one thing that’s already as clear as the eyeballs…
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In praise of Cheese Frenchees
When I heard that a food truck is serving up Cheese Frenchees on Saturdays outside a brewpub in Timnath, the memories immediately started deep-fat firing – and my arteries instinctively began clogging – at the very thought. Two days and a no-brainer, 50-mile drive north from Denver later, I was in near tears of joy…