Denver Post: Entertainment

Denver has always been happy to flaunt its most visible artistic assets, given that they’ve helped reshape the city into a walkable playground of sculptures, murals and interactive installations.

In 1999, the U.S. women’s soccer team captivated sports fans across the globe when it won the World Cup and became the first team in the female league to do so on home soil.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The arrest of Denver jam-band fixture Jay Bianchi this week on suspicion of sexual assault follows three decades’ worth of other legal trouble and criminal allegations related to his businesses and personal practices.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Rapper Afroman has performed many shows in Colorado and each time he visits, the people here always seem to make him uncomfortable with how nice they are.
“One time I was looking for an address and three strangers came from out of nowhere trying to help me find it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Denver is well known for its green space, but every April it gets even greener with the arrival of 4/20.

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Materials from Otis Taylor’s decades-long career as an internationally recognized Boulder-based blues banjo artist are now part of an archived collection at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Taylor, who’s lived in Boulder since 1967, has released 15 albums and been at the forefront of Black banjo music.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

An Iranian son channels his mother — robes of lamé fabric and all. A high school student wrestles with parental and cultural expectations after her sister’s death. A murderer hides amid a boarding house full of suffragettes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By KELVIN CHAN (AP Business Writer)
Monday’s total solar eclipse might become one of the most filmed and photographed events of the year.
As the moon passes in front of the sun, plunging a swath of North America into a few minutes of darkness, throngs will take pictures or videos of the moment.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

On stage at the Aurora Fox Arts Center sits the house at 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburgh’s polyglot Hill District. The year is 1904. In that slat-wooden home, its front door opens on a wide room where guests plop down for food but also for talk.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share