Entertainment headlines from The Denver Post

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Today's Entertainment and Lifestyle Headlines

Opera Colorado drops CSO
With a few scattered exceptions, there never has been any question during the 28-year history of Opera Colorado about who was serving as its pit orchestra: the Colorado Symphony. But that longtime partnership will come to end — at least temporarily — in 2012.  

• Curators becoming a vanishing breed on local art scene
• The film is called "We Were Here." But what if you were there?
• "Pretty normal" Kate Bush turns prolific with two albums this year
• Newest album reflects a wiser, stronger Blige
• Colorado's year-round Christmas workshop

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Moms - Parenting

Shakespeare gives the latest strategy in anti-bullying in schools
Shakespeare is the latest strategy in combating bullying in America’s schools, but the idea was not an immediate hit. “When we first told people, they said, ‘What? That’s weird. How do those two things go together?’ ” said Jane Grady, assistant director for the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of  

• Be the mosquito! (Or, how to take action on issues you care about)

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Today's Movies

The film is called "We Were Here." But what if you were there?
When the trenchant documentary "We Were Here," about the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, screened during Denver's Cinema Q Film Festival, Jeff Trujillo of the Colorado AIDS Project, a sponsor of the screening, was moved. He wasn't alone.  

• Review: Kid's passion finds furry outlet in "Being Elmo" documentary

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Music - Classical

Opera Colorado drops CSO
With a few scattered exceptions, there never has been any question during the 28-year history of Opera Colorado about who was serving as its pit orchestra: the Colorado Symphony. But that longtime partnership will come to end — at least temporarily — in 2012.  

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Reverb

News: Kesha, Miley Cyrus, My Chemical Romance, more to cover Bob Dylan for Amnesty International
Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Maroon 5, My Chemical Romance and more will cover Bob Dylan songs on an Amnesty International benefit album. Yes, this is the worst news we've heard all week.

 

• WTF: Billy Corgan starts a wrestling company
• Best shows this week: Nathaniel Rateliff, Thee Oh Sees, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
• Don't Push Play: Denver Public Schools Elementary Honors Choir spits dope rhymes and sh*t

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Today's Style

Family Fun, 11/26/11
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science will host live coverage and interactive programming from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in honor of the launch of the Curiosity rover to Mars today (Nov. 26).  

• Hey, readers, we want your holiday photos!
• Out & About, 11/26/11
• In House, 11/26/11
• Sale Insider, 11/26/11
• Colorado's year-round Christmas workshop

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Theater - John Moore

Schedules by company
Last updated Nov. 25, 2011  

• Schedules by opening date
• "Collapse" needs a bit of scaffolding
• A more human, tender "Phantom"
• "Escanaba 1922": Of fate and flatulence