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I was raised with a strong sense of social justice. There was a real obligation to make the world a better place. Education is the civil rights issue of our ... >More
T he barbed wire, watchtowers, and armed guards have vacated the 10,500 acres in southeast Colorado. So have the thousands of Japanese Americans relocated here in 1942 in a misguided government effort aimed at preventing them from aligning with Japan against their own nation.
The site looks unspectacular to the naked eye but is in fact one of the most well preserved relocation camps in the ... >More
Main Image Photo Credit: Courtesy of Denver Art MuseumThis month is your last chance to view the site-specific installations that make up the Embrace! exhibition at the Denver Art Museum (denverartmuseum.org). Seventeen artists were asked to stake their claim in the Daniel Libeskind–designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building and install works inspired by its harsh angles and sloping walls — ... >More
Dangling ribbons tied to celebratory ceiling balloons recently greeted a visitor to Jim Palermo’s office in the bowels of Boettcher Concert Hall. The Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO) president was celebrating his 50th birthday, a new musicians contract, and a radio telethon that netted the cash-strapped CSO $625,758. As orchestras around the country suffer alarming attendance declines, Palermo ... >More
