Kanye West grabbing the mic from Taylor Swift. Rep. Joe Wilson shouting “You lie!” during a speech by President Obama. Tennis player Serena Williams cussing out a line judge. Has an age of incivility come to America? Not if Jon Williams (BA ’76) has anything to say about it. Sixty […]
A few years after graduating from DU with a degree in international business, Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan had a business lunch that changed her life. She was working for Citibank in London, and on the lunch menu was herb-crusted salmon and Sancerre — a white wine from the Loire valley in France. […]
For songs that ended up as staples at church services and youth camps, spirituals have a subversive history. “A lot of the songs had all kinds of secret meanings that were passed from person to person and community to community,” says Arthur Jones, founder of the DU-based Spirituals Project. “The […]
It’s been 11 years since gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was lured from a Laramie bar, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead. It’s a sad anniversary, but it’s one the New York-based Tectonic Theater Project thought was worth recognizing. The company already has paid […]
With credits on some of the biggest movies of the past 15 years — including The Sixth Sense, Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon and Bruce Almighty — Roger Birnbaum (attd. 1968–71) has made his mark in Hollywood. He returns to his alma mater Oct. 2–3 as a keynote speaker at DU’s […]
It’s often been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of the Zimbabwe AIDS Treatment Assistant Project (ZATA), a picture has the potential to save a thousand lives. Founded five years ago by Denver doctors Thomas Campbell and Robert Schooley in cooperation with the University […]
Family pictures are as old as photography itself, but many artists still find ways to put their personal stamps on the classic family portrait. Three such photographers — Janet Delaney, Todd Hido and Cecil McDonald Jr. — are featured in “The Family Stage,” a new exhibit opening Thursday, Sept. 24, […]
Most of DU’s incoming first-year students are 18 years old, which means they were likely born in 1991. Also born that year were the grunge revolution — Nirvana released its landmark Nevermind album in September — trash-TV staple “The Jerry Springer Show” and Operation Desert Storm. Top movies in 1991 […]
The world has changed a lot since Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater premiered choreographer Donald McKayle’s Blood Memories in 1976. A deeply symbolic piece about the black experience, Blood Memories centers on two rivers — the Nile in Africa and the Mississippi in America — as centers of community life. […]
The University of Denver’s Magness Arena is packing the rock ’n’ roll into one October week this fall. The venue has announced an Oct. 21 concert by rock legend Bob Dylan, the 68-year-old composer of timeless hits including “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They […]
For the second year in a row, Colorado Ballet will leave its home stage — the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver — to open its season at DU’s Newman Center. Playing at the Newman Sept. 11–13, All Pointes West kicks off the company’s 49th season. The Colorado-themed show […]
For a different view of many of DU’s iconic buildings, one need just visit the on-campus studio of Chen Hao, a Chinese painter and visiting scholar who came to the University to share his expertise in urban landscape with students and faculty. Chen grew up studying his country’s traditional method […]
Illegal drugs may be a familiar topic of discussion on college campuses, but according to DU’s Arthur Gilbert, that doesn’t mean students understand them. Gilbert says students often are bombarded with information about drugs but they rarely get an opportunity to study the business of illegal drugs or their impact […]
This mask from Indonesia is part of a donation of 56 masks Denver resident Henry Strauss recently made to the DU Museum of Anthropology. It depicts Garuda, a Hindu deity that is half-man, half-bird. Strauss and his family have spent decades traveling the world. He purchased his first mask in […]
Football may have left DU in 1961, but Pioneers hockey more than filled the gap, going from an athletic also-ran in the late 1940s to one of the country’s most talked-about college programs in the 1960s. The DU hockey program, which began in 1949, celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. […]