The award-winning Lamont Wind Ensemble, directed by Joseph Martin, is recognized for interesting, diverse, and approachable programming. The ensemble’s upcoming Golden Age of Bands concert features several pieces that might have been heard in a band concert of the 1950-1960s, beginning with a popular transcription for winds, Berlioz’s Roman Carnival […]
For 35 years, alumna Lucy Jane Miller (PhD ’86) has channeled her time, energy and imagination into advancing our understanding of a much-misunderstood disorder that has long befuddled the medical and education communities. Founder and executive director of the Colorado-based Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation, Miller is regarded as one of […]
The restaurant scene on South Pearl Street is undergoing its biggest change-up in years, as two longtime staples trade places and a pair of newcomers bite the dust. After 29 years in business, the Pearl Street Grill, 1477 S. Pearl St., closed its doors on Dec. 30. The Denver Post […]
After more than 60 years as a go-to Denver nightspot, Club 404 on South Broadway has closed its doors. But owner Jerry Feld, who bought the bar in 1951, when he was a law student at DU, is keeping the spot in the family, so to speak; he’s selling the […]
As 2012 begins, two countries of strategic interest to the United States are launching new chapters in their troubled histories. With the official end of Operation Iraqi Freedom in December, a sovereign Iraq will attempt to negotiate democracy without assistance from the U.S. military. Meanwhile, North Korea begins life under […]
Growing up in Corpus Christi, Texas, DU alumna Mary Pat Mueller (BA ’83) learned how to upholster a simple story at a young age. It’s a hazard of small-town life. When your setting lacks hustle and bustle, Mueller says, “you have to channel a part of yourself that knows how […]
DU music Professor Lawrence Golan has lost his 10-year legal battle with the U.S. government. In 2001, Golan and a group of arts professionals around the country filed a lawsuit against the government, claiming that current U.S. copyright law has made it prohibitively expensive for smaller orchestras to perform copyrighted […]
The 21-time NCAA champion University of Denver ski team continues the action of the Denver Invitational this weekend with two days of skiing at Devil’s Thumb Ranch. The Nordic team will conclude the invitational on Friday, running the classical races followed by the freestyle on Saturday. Last week was a […]
For students who may have doubted their pursuit of degrees in law and social work, for students who doubted that one person can make a difference, for students who doubted their own resolve, Morris Dees had a message. Dees, a champion litigator for the civil rights movement, spoke at the […]
The Lamont Faculty Piano Trio, featuring Linda Wang, violin; Richard Slavich, cello; and Alice Rybak, piano, perform Jan. 20 in the last of a series of three concerts that pay tribute to the late Jane Anderson Saul (1929-2004). “Jane was a music activist,” says her husband, Max Saul, a Lamont […]
Students in DU’s School of Art and Art History see their work exhibited regularly on the walls of the Myhren Gallery, but it’s only once every three years that the faculty gets the same treatment. The latest faculty triennial, running Jan. 19–March 11, features work by 16 DU faculty and […]
Defining the art of photography in an age where nearly everyone is armed with a high-quality cell phone camera is now a way of life for Rupert Jenkins (MBA ’07). As executive director of the Denver-based Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Jenkins helps organize shows like the upcoming “iWorld” — which […]
Martin Luther King Jr. visited the DU campus twice, first in 1964 and later in 1967. On Jan. 24, 1964, he spoke before a crowd of 600 in the old Student Union Building (now the south end of the Driscoll Student Center) in an appearance sponsored by the local Shorter […]
The DU-based Edward W. and Charlotte A. Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media bestowed its 2012 Anvil of Freedom award on the nonprofit organization Ushahidi at a ceremony on Jan. 12 at Davis Auditorium in Sturm Hall. Around 75 people attended the award presentation, including Edward and Charlotte […]
Following a two-game Sun Belt Conference road trip, the University of Denver women’s basketball team returns home to Magness Arena to take on the Western Kentucky Lady Toppers at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. This marks the 15th meeting between the Sun Belt foes, with the Lady Toppers controlling the all-time series […]