The hero of Omaha Perez’s black-and-white graphic novel piss-take on the world’s greatest detective, Holmes (AiT/Planet Lar), is far removed from the familiar deerstalker capped brainiac we’re accustomed to seeing. This Sherlock Holmes is a half-crazed dope fiend more concerned with looking good in the press than in actually solving the case. Prone to paranoid [...]
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May
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Feb
Friday’s concert by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and conductor Peter Oundjian got me wondering about the balance between programming and the quality of a performance.
No doubt, conductor and orchestra delivered supreme music-making in a trio of works by Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner and Sergei Prokofiev. But Boettcher Concert Hall was conspicuously empty for this [...]
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