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Welcome to the Jungle: the local event brand shaping China’s flourishing electronic music culture

The atmosphere at China’s Electric Jungle music festival is rife with over simply thick blankets of meandering cigarette smoke. The untethered Chinese digital festival goers beam together with the enthusiasm of a civilization not yet jaded by the “put-your-fucking-hands-up” of everything.  China’s sprawling electronic music scene, while always unique (despite Western influences), follows the standard […]

Colorado made a great setting for big movies in 2018. Too bad not one was filmed here.

From the new biopic of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “On The Basis of Sex,” which opens Dec. 28, Ginsburg and her staff march up the white, marbled steps of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals at downtown Denver’s Byron White Courthouse, where much of this movie ’s third action takes place. In “The […]

Blue-collar buddha John Prine returns to Colorado with “The Tree of Forgiveness”

John Prine has scrawled almost an album’s worth of tunes into the American Songbook. His self-titled 1971 album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame at 2015, set involving a John Coltrane album and Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode. ” Bob Dylan lists him one of his favorite songwriters of all time. Yet, 48 […]