Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Budget weighing on CSO
The Colorado Symphony and its players union began renegotiating their recently approved labor agreement Friday as part of an attempt to slash expenses and balance the organization's 2011-12 budget.  

• Events, ceremonies around Colorado will commemorate 9/11
• Weekend Project: Smart cutting with fall tree pruning
• Theater: A new national puzzle, but no answer with a power that equals "Angels in America"
• Bias still taking up residence in "Clybourne Park"
• Art from the ashes: A decade later, great art inspired by 9/11 is rare

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Today's Celebrity Buzz

People: Mel Gibson plans to produce film on Jewish hero
Also

Paltrow loves 'Glee' character but skips Emmys

Bono, The Edge rock Toronto film fest with U2 doc

 

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Today's Fitness

Growing strong and healthy bodies
Like the squash vines she helped plant, Patricia Grado sends out tendrils from one family to another, connecting gardeners to the earth of their own backyards and neighbors to one another.  

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Gossip - Bill Husted

Husted: Wedding bells to sound next week for singer Lannie Garrett
Denver chanteuse Lannie Garrett and 5280 publisher/editor Dan Brogan get married in the high country Sept. 17 with a few friends and the Freddi-Henchi Band playing.  

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Moms - Parenting

9 Tech Accessories Busy Parents Need
If you’re a busy parent who relies on technology to help you cope with crazy schedules, communication, entertainment and everything between, you’re probably always on the lookout for great accessories that compliment your phone or computer of choice. I know I have a weakness for a good gadget or accessory and I know I’m not  

• Top Ten Green Boutiques for Your Shopping
• How to help your child make friends and fit in

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Today's Movies

Movie review: "Bucky" is repellantly smirky smut
The story of a budding porn actor undeterred by his, ahem, shortcomings, "Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star" aims to be the grossest comedy of the year and may well succeed.  

• Review: "Shaolin" is a martial-arts blast
• Review: "Contagion's" infectious style lacks real substance

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Music - Classical

Budget weighing on CSO
The Colorado Symphony and its players union began renegotiating their recently approved labor agreement Friday as part of an attempt to slash expenses and balance the organization's 2011-12 budget.  

• Classical Music: John Adams' "Transmigration" succeeds as 9/11 eulogy
• Denver chamber choir takes meditative approach to 9/11 anniversary concert

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Reverb

Considering 9/11: Sorting out the best music, TV and video games from our collective tragedy
Considering pop culture in the wake of 9/11: How Jay-Z's "The Black Album," Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," "Rescue Me" and Call of Duty responded to tragedy

 

• Mile Marker: Alberta Cross
• These go to 11: The 11 best concerts of summer '11
• News: Beach Boys, Colorado Symphony Orchestra team up to commemorate 9/11
• Pop & Circumstance: Foster the People and the art of the mainstream crossover

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Today's Style

Growing strong and healthy bodies
Like the squash vines she helped plant, Patricia Grado sends out tendrils from one family to another, connecting gardeners to the earth of their own backyards and neighbors to one another.  

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Television - Joanne Ostrow

Ostrow: Highlights of 9/11 TV programming for 10th anniversary of attacks
How much is too much? Viewers will decide for themselves whether an immersive day of onscreen 9/11 reflection is advisable, or whether it's better to pick and choose as the TV networks present an abundance of memorials, documentaries and concerts to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.  

• Ostrow: "Rescue Me" helped us exorcise our own demons

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Theater - John Moore

Theater: No answer with a power that equals "Angels in America"
Hardly any play written since 9/11 isn't in some way informed by it. But, 10 years later, why is it that the one play with the most illuminating, specific things to say about America's role in the new worldTony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul" — was written two years before the attacks?  

• Bias still taking up residence in "Clybourne Park"
• Schedules by opening date
• Schedules by company
• Complete rundown of auditions
• Plays aplenty: Fall theater begins in full force