Author: John Moore
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The DeVotchKa story: ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ meets cosmic pizza
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Denver’s enduring and globally adored artists will play homage to the film that changed its trajectory before Monday’s screening at Red Rocks. On a hot July afternoon in 2002, I gathered with members of the band DeVotchKa on the patio of a north Boulder bar to tell them the serendipitous news: A poll of 47…
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Surf’s up, Colorado: Hey, hey, we’re the Astronauts!
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The Colorado 150, Part 3 of 6: Meet everyone from Woody Paige to Frank Welker to Bill Murray to India.Arie as our countdown moves into the top 100 leading up to Colorado’s 150th birthday “Who the hell ever heard of a surf band in Boulder, Colorado?” So says the late, legendary producer Al Schmitt on…
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World Cup fans taking ‘Country Roads’ straight to the top
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Arts news: Soiled Dove reopening … Twisty (and John Carroll Lynch) are back … Dancin’ Dentist wins award and what is John Oliver doing on daytime (soaps?) As upsets go, it isn’t quite as monumental as Paraguay’s shocking elimination of Germany. But it’s bigger than, say, Australia beats Turkey. Out of every song in every…
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Bret Saunders takes his place among the greats: ‘I can’t imagine not doing this’
Part 2 of 6: Our countdown of 150 Colorado Cultural pathmakers over 150 years continues with those ranked 101-125 I called Bret Saunders on June 20 to tell the adored and enduring morning radio personality he has landed at No. 117 on The Denver Gazette’s new Colorado 150 — a sesquicentennial list of cultural pathmakers…
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Longtime Colorado radio personality leaves airwaves
Longtime morning Colorado radio personality Bret Saunders shocked his fans late Wednesday morning when he said goodbye to a nearly 30-year career at KBCO, according to various social media channels. He posted this on X Wednesday: “To My Friends: Thank you for 28+ years. I’ve loved every day with you, and being a small part…
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The countdown begins: Introducing ‘150 Years of Colorado Cultural Shakers’
Part 1 of 6: Meet our surprising first class of first-class artists as we build toward Colorado’s 150th birthday Philip K. Dick, Blinky the Clown and the String Cheese incident walk into a bar … As Colorado approaches its 150th birthday, we at The Gazette wanted to attempt something both impossible and irresistible: identifying 150…
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Broadway, babies! Two Colorado high-school actors take their dreams to New York
Arts news: Grayson Allensworth is a Jimmy Awards hopeful … Nuggets’ ‘Love Island’ connection … Bonfils-Stanton names ‘Impact’ artists … Hey, Denver: Look up! Aerial sculptures! And more. The Denver Center’s annual Bobby G Awards, which honor achievements in Colorado high-school musical theater, have named Windsor High School’s production of “Bright Star” the most outstanding …
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A father-son story for Netflix … and Fathers Day
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History-making Aurora actor Jeremiah Daniels, 14, stars in moving drama about a grieving boy with Down syndrome Jeremiah Daniels is a 14-year-old movie star with a megawatt smile that could light up a marquee. Of course he has a girlfriend. Have you met this kid? Comedy legend Melissa McCarthy has. (Not that she’s the girlfriend.)…
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‘Nice Work,’ Lone Tree: 17 Henry Award nominations
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Denver Center, Firehouse, Arvada Center lead Colorado companies in a wildly unpredictable year celebrating Colorado theater The Colorado Theatre Guild’s wildly unpredictable Henry Awards promise to be even more wild and unpredictable than ever when the advocacy group’s 20th annual celebration of achievements in the Colorado theater year are doled out on July 20 at…
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Boulder theater company lands rights to newest Tony Award-winning best play
Arts news: BETC has its ‘Liberation’; Murray leaves Florida post; Sandoes keep Shakespeare tradition going in Boulder; People’s Building adds second space The Tony Awards crowned Bess Wohl’s Pulitzer-winning “Liberation” as best new play of the year on Sunday – and Denver audiences will get to see it sooner than they have perhaps ever seen a…