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Jeanne-Claude, one half of the art team that wrapped the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and installed 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels in Central Park, died yesterday in Manhattan, where she lived with her husband, Christo.
Jeanne-Claude was 74. She met Christo Javacheff, a Bulgarian refugee, in Paris in 1958. Christo was already wrapping small objects at that time. Three years later, the two collaborated on a temporary installation in Cologne, Germany—oil drums and rolls of industrial paper wrapped in tarpaulin.
To establish an artistic brand, they used only Christo’s name, but in 1994 they retroactively applied the joint name “Christo and Jeanne-Claude” to their outdoor and large-scale temporary indoor works, according to The New York Times.
In an online statement, Christo says he is saddened by his wife’s death but remains “committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago: that the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude would continue.” That means completing their controversial “Over The River” installation project on the Arkansas River in Colorado. But even with Christo’s determination to finish the $50 million project, it has many hurdles to clear.
The Bureau of Land Management is reviewing the artists’ proposal and is assessing the environmental impacts, the Colorado Springs Gazette points out, after Cañon City-based Rags Over the Arkansas River stated its opposition to the project. Christo and Jeanne-Claude first visited the Arkansas River Valley 14 years ago, notes The Pueblo Chieftain, which interviews the couple’s local independent consultant.
Macky Auditorium, an elegant and intimate concert hall on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, is a fine venue for one of the most influential and angelic voices in American music. Emmylou Harris’ forte—interpreting country, pop, and folk songs with a rustic, heartrending beauty—will guide a set list that spans more than 40 years of recording.
Usually, when Colorado Public Radio asks its listeners for cash, the station keeps it.
But between November 30 and December 2, CPR, known for its love of classical music, will conduct a rare, on-air fundraising drive with the Colorado Symphony that culminates in a live broadcast of cellist Yo-Yo Ma from Boettcher Concert Hall (via press statement).
In September, CSO musicians agreed to a 12.5 percent pay cut, as many as four weeks of unpaid vacation, and suspension of employer contributions to their retirement fund.
“Colorado Public Radio recognizes the CSO’s unique role as one of Colorado’s key cultural assets and petitioned the Federal Communications Corporation for permission to conduct a one-time-only, on-air fundraising drive to support its major classical music provider, the Colorado Symphony,” CPR President Max Wycisk says in a statement (via the Denver Business Journal).
Wycisk notes the FCC hasn’t authorized a broadcast station to run this sort of fundraiser for another group since 1993.
Popular Colorado photographer John Fielder is zig-zagging the state after spending a year with ranchers.
He’s touring to promote his latest book, “Ranches of Colorado,” which includes a stop for a slideshow and book signing tomorrow night on the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins—an event that will help support the Legacy Land Trust, a nonprofit land-conservation organization, notes the Northern Colorado Business Report.
The ornate book is Fielder’s “most beautiful innovation so far,” writes the Estes Park Trail Gazette, with 232 pages and 375 color photographs of working cattle ranches. The book is meant to bring attention to the rapid loss of ranchland in Colorado to development. As Senior Editor Luc Hatlestad wrote recently for 5280, Fielder has focused his lens on the outdoors for more than three decades. Now, he’s beginning to recognize the value of putting people into the frame.
Despite some kind of promotional relationship with that cute Esurance gal, the future of the Monolith festival is “very grim.” Those words come straight from the “Monolith team” that puts on the two-day indie-music festival at Red Rocks.
“A tough economic year and an opening day of chilling rain combined to put a serious dent in our humble operation,” the team writes in a note on Monolith’s Web site. “We have continued to pursue any and all options that would allow us to recover from this year and head into 2010 with full steam. At this point in time, we have been unable to secure any options.”
This year’s turnout seemed solid, as did the acts—which included the Mars Volta and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, among many others. But the outcome “unfortunately, seemed foreseeable, especially when organizers parted ways with AEG Live, the promoter who produced the 2008 installment of the festival and who opted out this year,” writes Westword.
There’s a glimmer of hope: The festival could go on if a new promoter who appreciates Monolith’s ear for great music can be found to provide the needed cash.
Beaujolais & Beyond Festival, Mile High Station
Thursday, November 19 | Details | Read more
You know it’s November when Beaujolais Nouveau makes an appearance. Around the world, the fruity, punch-like wine is always released—and celebrated—the third Thursday of November. In Denver, it’s no different. Sip Beaujolais and a variety of other French wines, and dine on appetizers, entrées, and desserts prepared by more than 20 restaurants, including Jonesy’s EatBar, Encore, Brasserie Felix, and 1515 Restaurant.
Pixies, The Fillmore Auditorium
Monday, November 16, and Tuesday, November 17 | Details | Read more | Listen
The Pixies’ late-’80s album, Doolittle, is an underground rock masterpiece, a shimmering opus of jagged punk fury, tasty pop hooks, and weirdo lyrics that laid the foundation for what became mainstream alt-rock. Longtime fans and giddy neophytes will be floored when the reunited group plays the entire album (plus B-sides) for the LP’s 20th anniversary.
An Evening With Will Allen, Fuel Cafe
Saturday, November 14 | Details | Read more
Discuss urban agriculture and sustainability over New Belgium beers and tasty eats with this MacArthur Foundation Fellow, who has been a speaker for the Clinton Global Initiative. Allen is admired and respected for his pioneering efforts to cultivate the urban-agriculture movement and is visiting to support the debut of Feed Denver: Urban Farms & Markets.
East End Arts District’s Winter Art Walk, Multiple Locations, Aurora Friday, November 13 | Details | Read more
Set out from the Martin Luther King Jr. Library and allow this vibrant enclave to introduce itself. Admire sculptures by local artists, get your hands dirty at Mud Hut Ceramics, sip hot cider during a rehearsal at Shadow Theatre Company, and ruminate on your night’s journey while listening to live music at Zephyr Lounge.
The Winterling, Paragon Theatre
Through Saturday, November 14 | Details | Read more
Taking a page from Guy Ritchie’s playbook, The Winterling is a dark, British comedy about three loser gangsters. In the dead of night, in a deserted farmhouse, in the middle of an uninhabited forest, the outcasts unite. But why? And who’s the mysterious woman living upstairs?
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have forsaken the area (Park County) for which they named “South Park,” their subversive cartoon series.
Instead, the two have built their massive retreat in Steamboat Springs, reports Steamboat Today, which notes the abode’s many amenities: a balcony overlooking Steamboat Ski Area, a curved, granite kitchen counter, a 19th-century Japanese chest, a 110-inch projection screen, two dining rooms, two master bedroom suites—even a Japanese tea house.
The $5 million home also claims many environmentally friendly features, notes The Associated Press, which reports that Parker and Stone have wanted to build a getaway in Steamboat since they were kids.
Afro-Punk—a Web site, documentary, and now, a concert tour—asserts that a burgeoning community of African-Americans love and play punk rock, a musical form mainly credited to Caucasian musicians. Slam poet/musician Saul Williams headlines the show, which includes a host of other acts that dig upending expectations of race and genre.
Saturday Night at the Museums, Multiple Locations
Saturday, November 7 | Details | Read more
Eleven museums throughout Denver offer a night of free cultural events based on Paris’ popular La Nuit des Musées. And with special arts-centric programming taking place at each venue—like a peek at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Genghis Khan exhibit, edible Dia de los Muertos projects at Museo de las Americas, and re-enactments at the Black Americans West Museum—you’ll want to take advantage of the free shuttles running throughout the night.
Well, Ricketson Theatre
Opens Friday, November 6 | Details | Read more
As Lisa Kron tells it, her life growing up in suburban Michigan was full of puppy love and crazy neighborhood antics. Then, her invalid mother butts in to convey the “true” version of events. Kron uses humor to address her mother’s chronic illness in this autobiographical play about mother-daughter relationships.
Tapped, American Mountaineering Center
Thursday, November 5, and Saturday, November 7 | Details | Read more
As Nestlé prepares to tap local Arkansas River water for its Arrowhead bottles, the annual Colorado Environmental Film Festival brings water issues front and center with “Tapped.” The award-winning documentarians explore various concerns surrounding the precious resource, including some tough questions on bottling.
DU Vin Festival, Daniels’ School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, University of Denver campus
Wednesday, November 4, and Sunday, November 8 | Details | Read more
Rendezvous with local talent during Wednesday’s Wine Pairing Dinner, an elegant five-course meal featuring grilled rack of lamb over braised rainbow chard with a red-wine gastrique. On Sunday, head to the Grand Tasting to sample delicious cuisine and pours, while raising money for DU’s Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management students.
For about a year now, a plan has been in place to make downtown Denver’s 16th Street Mall more “vibrant and successful” for the generation to come.
“This project will be more than a makeover of the mall,” Cassie Milestone, urban planning manager for the Downtown Denver Partnership, says (in a statement via the Denver Business Journal).
“Ultimately, it will integrate place making, economic development, universal access, historic preservation, and other components to create a space that will be sustainable economically and environmentally for the next 25 years.”
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP of Portland, Oregon, has been picked to develop a design that will include a makeover that runs to the core of the mall, including its infrastructure. (more…)
Nir Barkat, Gates Concert Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts
Tuesday, November 3 | Details | Read more
Since being elected mayor of Jerusalem in November 2008, Nir Barkat has spent his time in office trying to modernize the ancient city, which is caught in constant conflict.
Hear his vision for transitioning Israel’s poorest city into a cultural, educational, and economically sound destination. Colorado Governor Bill Ritter also is scheduled to attend.
The storm that dumped loads of snow on Colorado has moved out of the Denver area and is now headed east, but there are plenty of closures and icy roads (via 9News). Still, the worst is over—just in time for the Halloween weekend, with its possible Mall Crawlers and Naked Pumpkin Runners.
That news will be music to the ears of Stephen Cooper, a missile-defense instructor who has synchronized 68 plastic, light-up pumpkins to music as part of a $6,000 Halloween show of sound and light in his front yard, writes the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Meanwhile, kids aren’t as scary as they used to be on Halloween, notes The New York Times in an article that points to the apprehension of schools these days to permit anything that could be construed as a weapon. Various school districts have encouraged kids to dress as historical characters or food items. Or perhaps Balloon Boy? One Canadian company has manufactured such a costume (pictured), with a price tag of $19.99, according to 7 KLTV in Texas.
And despite the recession, haunted houses, including one that CNN visited in Aurora, are doing a booming biz. Haunted houses not your thing? Hit up our list of recommendations for Halloween fun.
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Jeanne-Claude, one half of the art team that wrapped the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and installed 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels in Central Park, died yesterday in Manhattan, where she lived with her husband, Christo.
Usually, when Colorado Public Radio asks its listeners for cash, the station keeps it.
Popular Colorado photographer John Fielder is zig-zagging the state after spending a year with ranchers.
The Winterling, Paragon Theatre 
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have forsaken the area (Park County) for which they named “South Park,” their subversive cartoon series.
Well, Ricketson Theatre 
For about a year now, a plan has been in place to make downtown Denver’s 16th Street Mall more “vibrant and successful” for the generation to come.
Nir Barkat, Gates Concert Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts 
The storm that dumped loads of snow on Colorado has moved out of the Denver area and is now headed east, but there are plenty of closures and icy roads (via 
