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Arts news | Isakov to join Colorado Symphony in ‘sacred space’ | Arts & Entertainment
Boulder indie-folk hero Gregory Alan Isakov is again teaming up with the Colorado Symphony in August. Rebecca Caridad Singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov has been mesmerizing audiences with his singular indie-folk sound since moving to Boulder in 2000 to attend horticulture school at Naropa University. But there is something to be said for collective sound. As in, playing with an entire symphony behind you. “There’s something so magical that happens when we play with a symphony,” Isakov said in advance of his two upcoming appearances with the Colorado Symphony at the Boettcher Concert Hall on Aug. 19-20, which are expected to be sold out by this weekend. “It’s a holy experience.”…
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San Francisco artist and real estate firm join forces for unique solution to shuttered storefronts plaguing the city
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco is loaded with empty storefronts. They plague each individual neighborhood. In the Mission District, a making at 780 Valencia sat vacant for two decades immediately after Betabrand, the former tenant, left throughout the pandemic. The true estate organization that owned the house, Basking Investment Group, was exhausted of looking at it boarded up, so they turned to a regional artist for support. “Aspect of my business product is to activate place,” reported Renee DeCarlo, who took the 6,000 sq. foot setting up and turned it into an artwork gallery. The reveals at The Drawing Place have themes. The initially 1 concentrated on weather change,…
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Florence Pugh and Rami Malek Join Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as Oppenheimer, Shang-Chi 2, and Disney’s Strange World. This WEEK’S TOP STORY FLORENCE PUGH AND RAMI MALEK JOIN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S OPPENHEIMER (Photo by Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection) Ever since it was first announced in September as the next film from director Christopher Nolan, one of the few things that was known about his atomic bomb biopic Oppenheimer was that it would feature an ensemble cast. That initial story was followed in October by the casting of Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, and in November, by the casting of…
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World-famous photographers join forces to protect the environment
Written by Amarachi Orie, CNN The final moments before the death of the last male northern white rhino, a 66-year-old elephant swimming in the ocean, and renowned primatologist Jane Goodall searching for chimpanzees in Tanzania in the early 1960s; these are all moments captured in a collection of powerful photographs that have been donated to raise funds for conservation projects. Works by 100 photographers from around the world will be sold until the end of the year by Vital Impacts, a non-profit that provides financial support to community-orientated conservation organizations and amplifies the work of photographers who are raising awareness of their efforts. Contributing is a who’s who of nature…
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