Author: John Moore
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‘Soul Power’: Long live the ABA
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Fifty years later, new documentary series takes nostalgic look at how the rebel American Basketball Association changed the NBA – and the world Three-point ABA trivia question: What do rapper-actor Common and Grammy Award-winning singer India.Arie have in common? Answer: Their fathers both played for the Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association. No, I am…
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Rich Cowden abruptly exits top job at Aurora Fox
Executive producer of city-owned theater organization says ‘it was clear it was in the best interest of the theater.’ Rich Cowden has abruptly left his position as executive producer of the city-owned Aurora Fox Arts Center after just 2½ years. And no one is saying why. Cowden has confirmed to the Denver Gazette that he…
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Denver playwright Edith Weiss: Short and sweet
The beloved local playwright, actor and director is having her moment at age 74 with an evening of ‘fierce’ short plays How good of a humanoid is Edith Weiss? “She feels bad killing Japanese beetles,” said Christy Montour-Larson, her friend and co-host of their award-winning gardening podcast “Upside Down Tulips.” That good. It’s true: Weiss…
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New York ❤️ Colorado Symphony
Arts news: ‘Shrek’ drama deepens; important internment play in Brighton; John Irving salutes Olympic grandkids The Colorado Symphony is still floating on an apex after last weekend’s historic tour gave 15,000 New Yorkers a listen to the best our state has to offer the orchestra world. Team Colorado played two instantly sold-out concerts with Boulder…
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New Bonfils-Stanton leader has a name that’s all his own
A broken neck gave James-Allan Holmes his life back as an artist. Now he’s ready to lead (and cheerlead) for estimable foundation Like so many others, James Holmes was never the same after the Aurora theater massacre of July 20, 2012. Not after a digital mob who wrongly assumed he was the triggerman posted 30,000…
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‘Shrek’ check: ‘Rally more, protest less,’ suggests former Parker mayor
‘There is this major lack of empathy out there right now,’ says the bearded and burly Mike Waid, who plays three roles in controversial musical Mike Waid wonders if this country might not be so divided if we just rallied more – and protested less. As in: More in support of the things we believe in…
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Denver film debut has its moment in the Sundance
Seattle critic says Adam Cayton-Holland’s ‘See You When I See You’ compares favorably to ‘Ordinary People’ Denver comedian Adam Cayton-Holland is experiencing the highest highs and, I am assuming, a few lows all at once this week as the film based on his deeply personal, award-winning memoir makes its world premiere at the high-stakes Sundance…
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Crisosto Apache named Colorado’s 11th Poet Laureate
Indigenous poet will succeed Andrea Gibson, who died of cancer last summer, and serve two-year term Gov. Jared Polis continued to make history Wednesday with the appointment of his third Colorado Poet Laureate: Crisosto Apache, an associate professor at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Apache will serve an uncommonly short two-year term with…
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‘Shrek’ Freak flags will continue to fly in Parker despite audience complaints
High school drops sponsorship but Pride flags remain in homegrown staging of popular musical Let your freak flag fly … just not your Pride flags. That was the message for the cast of a local stage production of “Shrek the Musical” this week. The 2008 Tony Award-winning stage adaptation of the 2001 hit film “Shrek”…
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Super! Colorado Symphony is about to turn New York City into classic country
Historic tour will feature Gregory Alan Isakov at Radio City Music Hall and virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman at Carnegie Hall Daniel Wachter was born in Germany, but he knows exactly how to talk to his fellow Coloradans. “For the Colorado Symphony, playing at Carnegie Hall – this is our Super Bowl,” said the ebullient president and CEO…