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Spotlight on Janice Sinden, New CEO of the DCPA

September 27, 2016 Like 0 French Davis

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is the nation’s largest nonprofit theatre organization, a Tony Award-winning company (1998 Tony for Outstanding Regional Theatre), and is now home to another big first. Janice Sinden, who has been serving as Denver…

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Scene Stealers and Editor’s Picks

September 27, 2016 Like 0 French Davis

SCENE STEALERS They’ve been called “the most dynamic duo of this generation” by The San Francisco Classical Voice. Now, classical music’s most powerful pair are bringing their dazzling Concerto for Two Pianos to Boulder audiences. Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy…

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Five Questions with Coheed and Cambria

September 27, 2016 Like 0 French Davis

Yellow Scene: The Color Before the Sun is a fantastic departure from what we’ve come to expect from Coheed and Cambria after your epic Amory Wars anthology. Talk a little bit about the composition and production process and how it differed from everything before…

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Sleater Kinney brings A game to Riot Fest

September 4, 2016 Like 0 French Davis

If anyone was wondering why Sleater Kinney has landed on several “best band” lists, their energetic set Saturday night at Riot Fest in Denver answered that question loud and clear… and loud. The all-girl trio from Olympia, Wash. (with Corin…

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Blunt Talk: Cannabis and Cognition

September 3, 2016 Like 0 Mitch Shenessa

I once quipped to a friend who’d given me a sample of a strain called Brain OG that it felt to me more like Braindead OG. With so much herb that hits like a young George Foreman, I sometimes have…

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Duly Noted: I’m With Her

September 3, 2016 Like 0 French Davis

Tikkun olam. It’s Hebrew for, “repair the world.” There’s some room for interpretation as to what that fundamentally means. In my Jewish perspective, it means I have a duty to try and leave the world better than I found it.…

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Scene Stealers and Editor’s Picks

September 3, 2016 Like 0 French Davis

The Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder brings together distinguished contemporary authors from across the globe to share in a celebration of culture, art, music and the written word. We caught up with Punjabi folk, jazz and soul artist Amrit…

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Culture: How to Write an Outstanding College Essay

September 3, 2016 Like 0 editor

Writing college application essays fills many students with dread, especially if they don’t like to write. However, a college essay is very different from the kinds of essays you typically write for school, and you might find that you actually…

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Spotlight on Mike Birbiglia

September 3, 2016 Like 0 editor

Any given Wednesday, you might find Mike Birbiglia walking down the streets of Denver … or any other comedy-loving city. But it wasn’t stand-up that brought him to Cherry Creek this time (though he did play the Paramount on his…

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Jane’s Addiction headlines Friday night at Riot Fest

September 3, 2016 Like 0 Jim Burrus

L.A. rockers Jane’s Addiction ripped through their 1990 hit album “Ritual de lo habitual” start to finish as headliners Friday night at Riot Fest in Denver. Fans jammed against barricades passed occasional crowd surfers over to waiting security guards as…