RMSMC :: Staff : Anna Baldwin

The sky is the limit

Luke Peckinpaugh started acting on a whim. After finishing two years of college as an undeclared major in Northern California, he moved out to Colorado to be a ranchhand in 2004. In Fall 2008, Peckinpaugh, who had no previous acting experience, decided it was time to finish college and walked into the University Center for the Arts to try theater. May 8, 2011 | 10:16 pm

Concert hosts special guests

Internationally recognized ensemble Brigham Young University Singers will join the CSU Chamber Choir and Rocky Mountain High School Singers at 7 p.m. Apr 29, 2011 | 12:06 am

Students bring smooth notes to jazz concert

Tenor saxophonist Everett Cencich says he’s not very good at naming his music compositions. A jazz graduate teaching assistant, he describes his original piece, “S.I.M.U.” –– an acronym for “Song I Made Up” –– as high-energy Latin, like Miami Cuban music.
This piece will be performed with several other student originals, as well as jazz classics, tonight at 7:30 p.m. Apr 6, 2011 | 1:03 am

KCSU Station Manager resigns

After working as KCSU’s Station Manager since May 2010, Dylan Wray resigned from his position last Thursday afternoon due to personal reasons. He resigned with a letter given to Rocky Mountain Student Media Corporation President Larry Steward. Apr 4, 2011 | 11:34 pm

Walking the tight rope

Just north of mainland Canada is Baffin Island, the largest island in the Arctic and home to polar bears and the coveted big wall climbing location, Mt. Feb 25, 2011 | 11:33 am

LuLu Asian Bistro, HuHot tie for Best Asian Food

There’s proof that LuLu Asian Bistro and HuHot Mongolian Grill are about more than just fortune cookies. CSU students voted both Old Town establishments as the best Asian restaurants in town. Feb 21, 2011 | 12:50 am

Art origins: Exhibit features Renaissance work

A 19th century portrait of a young English boy, painted by French artist Charles Albert Waltner, is University Art Museum Director Linny Frickman’s favorite piece from the new exhibit. The portrait is of the artist’s friends’ adolescent son, and it is the first time the museum has shown this type of material since its grand opening in April 2009. As just one of the 54 drawings featured in the exhibition, “Sure of Hand: Drawings from the Renaissance to the 19th Century,” opening today at the museum, it illustrates the extraordinary detail seen in many of the other pieces. “The exhibition covers drawings from the Renaissance in the 16th century, through the Baroque period and into the 19th century,” Frickman said. Jan 21, 2011 | 1:02 am

Quick tips to graduation party hopping

The first rule of graduation party hopping is that you don’t talk about graduation party hopping. The sheer act of party hopping is likely to be considered rude. Dec 17, 2010 | 6:53 pm

Swing society of CSU joins friends for grooving

Maybe you’ve seen them Jitterbugging in the Transit Center, near Cam’s Lobby Shop in the Lory Student Center. Dec 9, 2010 | 12:18 am

An American classic play opens at the UCA

It’s a parent’s duty to teach his or her children everything they can about surviving in the real world. This includes honesty. Dec 2, 2010 | 2:08 am

Dance Concert features all original pieces

“The floor is burning,” CSU ballet professor Carol Roderick said, this after she and her dancers had spent nearly 10 straight hours rehearsing at the University Center for the Arts. Monday night Roderick and performers –– students, faculty and guest artists –– began the last week of rehearsals for the Fall Dance Concert, for which dancers take the stage at 8 p.m. Nov 12, 2010 | 12:10 am

New Belgium to host ski film

Director of Diamond Peaks Ski Patrol Lucas Mouttet has not been in an avalanche in more than 10 years, but he describes these waves of snow as a tide that can have devastating consequences. Started in the early 1990s, Diamond Peaks Ski Patrol is based in Fort Collins and serves the Cameron Pass area of Colorado, a popular backcountry skiing location, and is more of a search and rescue team. The ski patrol will host Powderwhore’s all telemarking ski film “Tele-vision” tonight at New Belgium Brewery as a benefit for the group. Nov 3, 2010 | 11:45 pm

Dance concert all student-run

Senior dance students Kayla Freeman, Annessa Kohlhardt and Kim Norberg will direct the Student Dance Concert, which is completely student-run, opening tonight at the University Center of the Arts. Auditions for the dance parts began at the beginning of the semester, and since then the lighting, music, producing, directing and choreographing have all been completed by students. “There’s a lot of teamwork, planning and deadlines involved,” Kohlhardt, one of three directors, said. Oct 28, 2010 | 11:30 pm

Something from the farm

I’m not going to lie, when I heard that the maze at Something From the Farm was called the “Fear at the Farm,” I thought I’d be laughing my way through it. Oct 28, 2010 | 3:19 am

Mozart arrives for CSU's Homecoming

The “All-Mozart Concert,” presented by the CSU Sinfonia Orchestra, Chamber Choir and Concert Choir will take the stage tonight night at 7:30 p.m. Oct 14, 2010 | 11:19 pm

First theatre production of semester; student-written prologue to open

This one’s a tearjerker. It’s quite shocking. It begins with CB’s dog dying from rabies, which forces him to begin questioning his role in the world. Oct 9, 2010 | 4:15 pm

Symphony starts semester with acclaimed cellist

One of the largest student string sections to ever perform at CSU will take the stage Thursday and Friday night at 7:30 p.m. For the first performance this semester, The University Symphony Orchestra will be accompanied by artist-in-residence and CSU teacher Barbara Thiem on cello. The symphony will play three pieces in the Griffin Concert Hall at the University Center for the Arts under the direction of Director of Orchestras Wes Kenney. The first piece is Brahms’ “Symphony No. Sep 23, 2010 | 12:37 am

From The tops of glaciers to back country woods

At 10 p.m. last Friday all four of us were finally packed tight into the truck, ready to leave Fort Collins for the weekend. Our destination almost two hours away: St. Mary’s Glacier near Idaho Springs. Sep 23, 2010 | 12:20 am

Sign language comedians to perform in LSC

Kevin Wann’s parents were proud and smiling during his fourth grade band concert in which he played the bass violin. Apr 27, 2010 | 11:52 pm

Artist coalition to host half-day art marathon

Northern Colorado artists will spend a lot of time Saturday at the Poudre River Arts Center. To be exact, 12 hours.
The event: the Colorado Coalition of Artists’ 6th Annual, 12-hour fundraising Artathon, Saturday. Community members will sponsor these artists as they volunteer their time to create art for 12 nonstop hours, from 9 a.m. Apr 16, 2010 | 1:02 am