Author: John Moore
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After school shooting, Evergreen’s ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ returns — without guns but full of heart
Performances of ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ resume to help community cope, on stage and off EVERGREEN – The cast of 30 opened Friday’s performance of “Annie Get Your Gun” perhaps smiling a little more widely and kicking their dancing feet a little more insistently than before. One cheerful lad clenched his teeth so hard, it looked…
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Rateliff feels the love at Americana Awards
‘South Park’ goes dark; a look back at Redford’s final film in Colorado The Americana Music Awards were Nashville’s coronation of Denver’s favorite musical son. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats won Album of the Year for “South of Here,” prompting the ever-humble singer to say: “I’ve never won an award after all these years,…
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High Plains Comedy Festival returns with empathy at top of the marquee
At this highly charged time, headliner Kyle Kinane faces ‘the paradox of tolerance’ head-on In these highly charged times, there is a Faustian short-cut to comedy fame. We’ve seen it play out in the phenomenal rise of Tony Hinchcliffe, whose cult-like popularity skyrocketed after he made a crude joke at a Madison Square Garden rally…
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Jeff Campbell invites you to join him on the dark side
‘Jedidiah Blackstone’ will introduce a new kind of Jedi hero to audiences Considerable Denver theatermaker Jeff Campbell knew exactly what he was doing when he teased his newest multidisciplinary project as “a walk on the dark side of the wild West.” He’s playing with you. Campbell knows what centuries of predominantly White pop culture have…
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Evergreen’s Annie Oakley is a real-life Marine Sergeant
Actor turns protector for shaken community thrust ‘outside the wire’ Imagine how Marine Sergeant Michele Crowe must have felt while working her job as an ultrasound tech on Wednesday when she heard that an active shooter had opened fire at nearby Evergreen High School. You can’t. Not unless you, too, have served two combat tours…
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Oprah reaches the waterfall in Telluride
It was an easy story to make light of – Oprah takes a hike! – except for the fact that, like most things Winfrey – this one is actually kind of cool. I mean, she’s 71, and here she was blazing through the mountains above Telluride, Colorado’s 12th-highest town. Winfrey, who first bought property in Telluride 40…
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Netflix has a ‘Blind’ date with Denver dropping Oct. 1
It’s not as big as, say, when “The Real World” invaded LoDo in 2006, but it’s still pretty big in the world of reality TV. I know, because AI told me so. “Love is Blind” is described by Netflix as “a social experiment where single men and women look for love and get engaged, all…
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‘Office’ visit: ‘The Paper’ is, regrettably, paper thin
When voters approved the construction of Denver International Airport in 1989, the initial plan was to turn Stapleton Airport’s 4,700 acres into a major film and TV studio. A contest was announced seeking pilot scripts for a Denver-based sit-com to be the first big thing produced there. I entered a spec script called “Dirty Little…
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Lumineers’ Fraites scores Springsteen, King films
The Oscar-buzzy Bruce Springsteen biopic “Deliver Me from Nowhere,” which will be released Oct. 24, had its world premiere screening Friday at the Telluride Film Festival, and it already has people talking about … Nathaniel Rateliff – who has no connection to the film, which focuses on Springsteen’s moody 1982 album “Nebraska.” But now that “Deliver Me…
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Utah violinist freed after being detained for two weeks in Aurora
A Utah family’s Colorado nightmare moved closer to a happy ending Thursday. A $25,000 bond was approved for violinist John Shin, who had been picked up by Homeland Security agents in Colorado Springs on Aug. 17. He has been facing possible deportation at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora ever since. “Right now, I…