Pence, along with his fellow co-founders, created a world-class film festival that helped put Telluride on the map. He has died at age 82.
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A movie about politics, lies, corruption and greed still resonates 80 years later
Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is an election-season reminder that democracy matters
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How a Denver-based singer is trying to connect new audiences to opera
Leah Podzimek, the singer, will be at the fifth Original Thinkers festival in Telluride later this month for the gathering of artists, scientists, activists, authors and filmmakers
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Opinion: COVID lockdowns were hard on cultural centers, but business partnerships have helped
Facing closures and severely limited in-person visitor options, museums and other cultural institutions have experienced significant challenges over the past year. According to a recent study by the Americans for the Arts as of July 2021, the nation’s nonprofit arts and culture organizations lost an estimated $17.97 billion. Closer to home, the Colorado Business for […]
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Movshovitz: “The Day the Earth Stood Still” still speaks to us, if we’re willing to listen
“Gort, KLAATU BARRATA NICTO” A loose translation of this famous line spoken near the end of the brilliant 1951 movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (forget the splashy, nowhere 2008 version with Keanu Reeves) would go something like “Gort, Klaatu says don’t incinerate the Earth — yet.” To go backwards in the story, Gort […]
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You’ve seen the murals. Now meet the pro snowboarder behind them.
AVON — The teacher at the preschool asks for a photo with the artist. As she poses with Pat Milbery, a local passing by on a scooter waves and honks at the muralist’s 40-foot tall paintings covering the cinder-block walls of the rec center. “Your kids have been watching for three weeks. What do they […]
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Movshovitz: The coronavirus pandemic will inspire filmmakers, but we’ll have to wait a while to see
Movies are not a popular art for nuthin’. They may not appear to take on serious aspects of our lives at the moment they hit the screens, but what’s going on in the world registers in all sorts of ways, both obvious and opaque. Great and traumatic events — hot world wars, cold wars, financial […]
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Grizzly Rose temporarily closes after video shows recently packed dance floor
A country bar and dancehall near Denver has temporarily and voluntarily closed its doors after a video widely shared on social media showed a recently packed dance floor, calling the venue’s safety guidelines into question. Tri-County Health Department Environmental Health Director Brian Hlavacek said The Grizzly Rose in Adams County was questioned for allegedly violating […]
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Original Thinkers plans “an ingenious heist of people’s brains”
Not long ago, a friend observed David Holbrooke, founder of Telluride’s Original Thinkers Festival, at his post — leading troops and extinguishing assorted fires. Impressed by Holbrooke’s multitasking, the friend praised him as the “ringmaster” of his festival’s circus. Holbrooke replied that he prefers a similar, yet not-identical title: “Yeah, OK,” he said. “But think […]
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Silverman: Hamilton offers us the inspiration we need during the coronavirus
We’ve “seen the lights go out on Broadway” until at least 2021. Live theater is gone. Talk about your tragedies. I love a good play, especially a musical. Hamilton was scheduled to return to Denver’s Buell Theatre this summer. It would have sold out again. Alexander Hamilton epitomized the American dream. Our first Treasury Secretary, a […]