Author: John Moore Special to The Denver Gazette
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Looking ahead at the Oscar candidates | John Moore
The pandemic changed movies forever. Not only what films we see and how we see them, but when the seasonal national discourse blissfully shifts from head-splitting partisan politics to something far more partisan — and far more fun: The debate over the best films of the year. After about two decades with a consistently late…
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Report shows pandemic’s blow to Denver arts community
The pandemic-fueled shutdown of the cultural economy reversed up to two decades of growth in some segments of the metro Denver arts sector, according to a devastating new report released Thursday by the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts. The prolonged closure of theaters, concert halls, galleries and more starting in March 2020 had a…
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Former Loretto Heights theater would get boost from 2A
Much of the attention on Tuesday’s election is focused on a controversial bond initiative that eventually would replace the Denver Coliseum with a $210 million, 10,000-seat concert arena at the National Western Complex. But Denver arts advocates also have their eyes peeled on Referred Question 2A, which would, among other things, dedicate $30 million to…
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‘I got to see everything’: Denver music writer G. Brown a pioneer in the industry
G. Brown is a man of 3,248 stories (and at least as many bad jokes). That’s the number of music personalities he interviewed in his 26-year career as pop-music writer for The Denver Post. Brown can tell you about the time in 1978 when he had a chance encounter with Bruce Springsteen on an otherwise…
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Kirkland Museum reopens Friday after pandemic, flood
The lifespan of Denver’s Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art has at times seemed like one ongoing existential crisis. But the beloved downtown art salon gets a new lease on life when it reopens to the public on Friday. When the $22 million building opened in 2018, it incorporated Vance Kirkland’s original 150-ton brick…
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Vaccinations, masks to be required at Denver Center for the Performing Arts events
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, which has not presented indoor programming since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, today announced its reopening vaccination policy in conjunction, it says, with other tenants of the Denver Performing Arts Complex including the Colorado Symphony, Colorado Ballet and Opera Colorado. DCPA President and CEO Janice…
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‘Mystery Quest’ to send history buffs on Denver-wide scavenger hunt
Part history lesson, part outdoor escape room, History Colorado’s “Mystery Quest” is about to set adventure-seeking history buffs off on a Denver-wide, episodic scavenger hunt from Sept. 3-19. Organizers call the returning favorite an opportunity for Denverites to discover their city through new eyes and ears by embarking on a self-guided, COVID-conscious journey to unravel…
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Director Ben Raanan crushes eggshells
For new Phamaly Theatre Company Artistic Director Ben Raanan, live theater is an act of political violence. Then again, as a man with disabilities, he thinks pretty much everything he does is an act of political violence. Because ordinary people tend to be as terrified of disability as they are of that sociopathic cat in…
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Denver Film names chief administrative officer
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver Film has hired a familiar face in its newly created position of Chief Administrative Officer. Most recently, Amy Allison served as Chief Operating Officer for the Colorado Springs Community Cultural Collective at the City Auditorium, where she led the planning of a coming public…
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‘Wild Fire’ mixes live experiences with music
Last August, as playwright Jessica Kahkoska was driving through surreal-looking plumes of orange wildfire smoke enveloping Interstate 70 near Idaho Springs, she couldn’t help but feel that the image of hopeful headlights poking through the toxic daytime haze looked to her somehow theatrical. Beautiful, even. “I was listening to music at the same time,” said…