What ‘the treasures we cart home’ say about us By Leigh E. Rich I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers By Thomas Hine HarperCollins November 2002 240 pages The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year, followed by a feeding frenzy through Christmas. Contrary to popular opinion, this isn’t some […]
11.19.2002
Moore concession would be prudent By Leigh E. Rich If life is a game, then rest assured a television executive will make a primetime game show out of it. It seems nothing is no longer sacred, as one can expect to find the most mundane aspects of everyday life—shopping, dating, foraging for food—replayed nightly in […]
11.06.2002
Center for Visual Arts depicts best of Stieglitz By Leigh E. Rich He was to photography what Samuel Clemens was to literature, Samuel Barber was to music and Frank Lloyd Wright was to architecture. There is no doubt Alfred Stieglitz embodied the modern 20th-century America he helped create and capture on the photogravure plate. And […]
10.30.2002
Media not alone in childish behavior By Leigh E. Rich We apparently all have our price. But in light of recent events in the Washington, D.C. area and with midterm elections just around the corner, we must ask what exactly the media’s role—and responsibility—is in this, our complex, multi-issued corner of the world. Let’s face […]
10.09.2002
Now is the winter of my discontent By Leigh E. Rich There are only two things you can count on in this world—your unwaveringly loyal dog and a good set of flannel pajamas. I admit, I felt a sense of equivocation when I pulled the warm and fuzzy PJs from my closet the other night. […]
09.11.2002
Categories: Editorials, Media, Politics, Utrinque Paratus | Comments Off on Today, ‘This Week,’ this year
On the anniversary of Sept. 11 By Leigh E. Rich My week, I must admit, starts with David Brinkley. Well, it used to. For some time now, the ABC Sunday morning program This Week has been hosted instead by Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. But as of Sunday, they too—this dynamic duo—will turn in their […]
08.28.2002
Theatre Buffs update Roman tragedy into corporate power play By Leigh E. Rich For most students, not only has Julius Caesar been stabbed 33 times, he’s been beaten to death. But fear not, all you who managed to survive the carnage of sophomore-year English, and hold onto your dramatis personae—the UCD Theatre Buffs’ rendition of […]
08.21.2002
‘Hard Candy’ By Leigh E. Rich Counting Crows Hard Candy Geffen A Similar to the alcoholic who’s hit rock bottom, the musical perfection the Counting Crows achieved with their debut album, August and Everything After, in 1993 left them few places to go. While 1996 and 1999 releases Recovering the Satellites and This Desert Life […]
08.20.2002
Apparently, it is whether you win or lose By Leigh E. Rich Apparently, it is whether you win or lose and not how you play the game. True, I usually am a cynic—an optimistic gloomy Gus, as it were—but what should have been a nondescript 2002 has proven my pessimism with a capital “P.” And […]
06.26.2002
Honoring the passing of Billy Wilder By Leigh E. Rich Gone, but with an extensive list of movie credits of which most have heard if not seen, legendary director Billy Wilder is certainly not forgotten. The nonagenarian’s passing earlier this year gives one pause, and what better way to spend that moment of silence than […]
06.26.2002
‘Emerson Drive’ By Leigh E. Rich Emerson Drive Emerson Drive DreamWorks B It had to happen sooner or later: Boy band goes country. There is no other way to describe the debut of the sextet known as Emerson Drive—and with blown-dry coifs adorning its J Crew-esque liner notes, the emphasis is on “sex” … at […]
06.26.2002
Selected show By Leigh E. Rich Though you’d be hard-pressed to pronounce its name, the latest deejay soiree brought to you by Cyber Visions is out to make a few friends. Transgressing the cultural boundaries of the many microcosms that make up metro Denver with an evening of house, trance, and Eurotech, Zjednoczeni—Polish for “united”—and […]
