Pearl Duncan traces 400 years of ancestry using DNA By Leigh E. Rich “My mother’s ancestors used to own my father’s ancestors,” joked author and educator Pearl Duncan Thursday when she spoke at the Auraria campus as part of the Metro and CU-Denver combined Distinguished Lecture Series. Duncan, whose decade-long research into her family tree […]
02.20.2002
… à la Dorothy Parker By Leigh E. Rich Hate. À la Mrs. Dorothy Parker. Certainly, it goes without saying, no one—man or woman—could craft such lovely hate poems as the irascible Parker. For those who know only of her rabidly biting sayings (“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses”) and equally feral […]
02.20.2002
‘Sometimes a Circle’ By Leigh E. Rich Louise Goffin Sometimes a Circle DreamWorks A- Many likely recognize singer-songwriter Louise Goffin from the 2001 Gap commercials featuring her and mother Carole King, but make no mistake, Goffin is no newcomer to the music scene. The daughter of King and longtime partner in songwriting fame Gerry Goffin […]
02.20.2002
‘Lovers Live’ By Leigh E. Rich Sade Lovers Live Sony Music C- Lovers Live, the latest release from Nigerian-born Sade featuring mainstays “No Ordinary Love” and “Smooth Operator” alongside five songs from Lovers Rock (2000), provides the ultimate in study music, as the only thing that’ll disrupt you from the books is the obnoxious screaming […]
02.13.2002
Valentine’s Day quiz By Leigh E. Rich With the ever-popular St. Valentine’s Day (aka Hallmark Holiday) around the corner—that’s tomorrow for you lovable or lovelorn out there—we friendly (and we do mean friendly) journalists here at your beloved Advocate thought some of you could prosper from our extensive “love” expertise sought after by four out […]
02.08.2002
An interdisciplinary romp with a professor of pathology By Leigh E. Rich Faith, Madness and Spontaneous Human Combustion: What Immunology Can Teach Us About Self-Perception By Gerald N. Callahan, Ph.D. A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin’s Press January 2002 256 pages $23.95 Who came first, the pathologist or the poet? The world may never […]
02.06.2002
Words, of a ‘meshugah bubbe,’ to live by By Leigh E. Rich Passing down. Passing away. Passing on. All these things my grandmother has accomplished, even in her final moments this week when I, in a post-Advocate production night haze, joined my fellow journalists for a beer at the Boiler Room. I had no idea […]
02.06.2002
‘Miles of Skye’ By Leigh E. Rich Matt Ender Miles of Skye Etherean Music B+ Celtic composer Matt Ender brings home more than the Irish in his second album on the Lakewood, Colo.-based label Etherean Music. Three years after his Ancient Isle was dubbed Irish and Scottish “music for the masses,” Ender’s Miles of Skye […]
01.30.2002
‘Jukebox Sparrows’ By Leigh E. Rich Shannon McNally Jukebox Sparrows Capitol B- Apparently the back-up career for anthropology majors these days is coffeehouse maiden singer-songwriter, and newcomer Shannon McNally serves her debut right out of the ’90s caffeine scene—lukewarm but with a perky smile. Though this 27-year-old from Long Island is rather late in the […]
01.23.2002
Intestinal therapy for 2002 By Leigh E. Rich New Year. New colon. At least that’s the way my roommate sees it. Instead of making half-hearted, life-long resolutions neither of us ever intend to keep—fortunately, for most of you out there, as my last resolution was to be meaner—she has convinced me to partake in a […]
01.17.2002
Aurarians do it with their heads on By Leigh E. Rich I haven’t dated. I’ve done research. Really, I make a lousy first date. And I wouldn’t know about the second and third as I am rarely invited back. Perhaps I should follow the advice of my cousin, who sternly admonishes me before I leave […]
01.11.2002
Book takes long look at endangered cranes By Leigh E. Rich The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes By Peter Matthiessen, with Paintings and Drawings by Robert Bateman North Point Press December 2001 352 pages, 16 pages of color illustrations $27.00 In the same year Colorado, the “centennial” state, became the 38th addition to this […]
