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Spotlight on Jackie Venson

July 7, 2021 Like 0 French Davis

Jackie Venson is a new find for me, and I’m hooked. The first black woman to win Austin’s Music Awards’ Best Guitarist for 2019 gets had only been playing the guitar for EIGHT years prior to that honor. But don’t…

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Spotlight on Sarah Mount

June 12, 2021 1 0 French Davis

The Sarah Mount origin story could be ripped straight from the pages of a silver-age DC comic book.

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Spotlight on Laura Ruttum Senturia | April 2021

April 21, 2021 Like 0 French Davis

We decided to contact Denver Public Library Archivist Librarian Laura Ruttum Senturia to get the scoop on how that whole thing works. And boy did we learn a lot.

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Spotlight on Karl Christian Krumpholz

March 29, 2021 1 0 French Davis

Karl Christian Krumpholz’s slice-of-life comic, 30 Miles Of Crazy, is the single most authoritative view of what Colfax Avenue has become over the last decade or so.

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Spotlight on Reese Roper and Five Iron Frenzy

March 2, 2021 2 0 French Davis

It was 1996 when Five Iron Frenzy first unveiled their somewhat non-secular take on Third Wave ska with their debut outing, Upbeats and Beatdowns, which was re-released a year later after they signed to SaraBellum Records, a sub-label of 5…

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Spotlight on our Local Music | Year End Wrap

January 26, 2021 Like 0 French Davis

After a year that has all but cratered the entire music industry in Colorado thanks to COVID-19, let’s take a look back at some great recordings released this year.

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Spotlight on… Colorado Gives Day

December 1, 2020 Like 0 French Davis

As we careen through the financial impact of the pandemic-fueled recession, now more than ever is the time these non-profits need the support from those who can give it. Here are just a handful of organizations you can give to…

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Spotlight…on Ron Miles

October 29, 2020 1 0 French Davis

Ron Miles is not only a brilliant trumpeter and composer — nearly peerless in today’s jazz realm — but he’s a beloved educator and mentor as well. Here, Miles talks about the profound experience of his father’s “transition,” why music…

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SPOTLIGHT on Lisa Young and IDEAs

October 7, 2020 Like 0 French Davis

*To say that the artistic community throughout the world is going through some major changes is an understatement. As theaters of all sizes deal with dark stages and the crushing blow of COVID-19, there is also a growing movement…

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SPOTLIGHT on the SOS and RESTART Acts

September 12, 2020 Like 0 French Davis

The devastation COVID-19 has wrought was nearly unimaginable a scant 8 months ago. Today, we face the greatest GDP plunge in history, unprecedented unemployment, and the heartbreaking loss of more than 160,000 American lives (and counting).