IN a landmark collaboration, five of Colorado’s leading arts and cultural organizations are coming together for “A Journey of the Human Spirit,” Wednesday, Jan. 16 and Thursday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m., at DU’s Newman Center of the Performing Arts.
The program presents two new works: the regional premiere of Viktor Ullmann’s opera, “The Emperor of Atlantis,” and Garrett Ammon’s world premiere dance set to “From Darkness to Light,” an original composition by Colorado College Music Professor Ofer Ben-Amots.
Ben-Amots is an Israeli-born composer whose work is performed regularly in concert halls and festivals worldwide.
“From Darkness to Light” is a complex celebration of the best of humanity, and fittingly concludes “A Journey of the Human Spirit” on a note of light and hope.
AMSTERDAM — Skiing has always been something of a rich man’s sport.
Between the costs of travel, accommodations, lift tickets and lessons, a family with children can easily drop upwards of $6,000 for a few days on the slopes. If you keep kosher, the costs can be even higher.
No longer. Over the past decade, Jewish entrepreneurs have been crafting affordable alternatives to Europe’s handful of $250-per-night kosher ski lodges. The result is that nowadays, hundreds of observant middle-clas...
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Denver historian Phil Goodstein found the perfect subtitle — “The Quest for an Idyllic Denver Neighborhood” — for this, the latest installment in his methodical and exhaustive piece-by-piece history of the Mile High City.
Park Hill, probably more than any neighborhood in Denver’s history, was conceived as, and in many ways still considers itself to be, the best-planned, most aesthetically pleasing, best organized and most livable of Denver district...
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Anyone who’s been around Colorado for, say, 30 years or more, remembers Bill Daniels as a larger-than-life figure, something of a legend in his own time.
This book — a coffee table tribute financed by his foundation, the Daniels Fund — reminds us that Daniels was also something of a legend in his own mind.
Daniels, a self-made man if ever there was one, was never ashamed of the many billions of dollars he made in the course of a wildly successful busi...
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While chanukiot and Chanukah-related gifts are available just about anywhere, including online, you might want to peruse your friendly synagogue gift shop before stepping out of the communal box.
Run by sisterhoods and staffed by volunteers, synagogue gift shops have evolved from a few cards, kipot and card games to a wide selection of Judaica appropriate for all ages, budgets and aesthetic tastes.
“The biggest thing I’m noticing in terms of trends this ...