As events begin to pick up again, downtown Cowtown will be booming with the sounds of New Orleans. The Roots of Music series, at Downtown Cowtown the Isis at the Fort Worth Stockyards, has an upcoming program highlighting Black music, packed with jazz, blues, R&B and hip-hop.
Originally scheduled for a two-night premiere on May 7 and 8, the show has been pushed back to June. It will be one of the premiere live music performances debuting at the theater, which airs Western movies in the day and transforms into a live event stage at night.
Adonis Rose, a Grammy-winning jazz drummer and co-founder of a division of the Funky Town Music Festival called FunkyTown Agency, is hosting and performing at The Roots of Music series. If you can’t make it to the debut shows, you re in luck; there’ll be a total of 12 shows, one each month.
Visitors walk past the Isis Movie Theatre in downtown Aspen on Friday, April 23, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
The future of Aspen’s only movie theater is playing out behind the scenes as Aspen Film has taken on a new role of finding a tenant who is able to successfully operate even though unprecedented challenges in the film industry continue to force many small and mid-sized theaters into bankruptcy.
When Los-Angeles Metropolitan Theatres the longtime tenant of the Isis Theater and to Aspen Film, which is the subleasee to the city-owned building ends its run here in August there is no operator lined up to show movies in the four-screen cinema.
Visitors walk past the Isis Movie Theatre in downtown Aspen on Friday, April 23, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
The future of Aspen’s only movie theater is playing out behind the scenes as Aspen Film has taken on a new role of finding a tenant who is able to successfully operate even though unprecedented challenges in the film industry continue to force many small and mid-sized theaters into bankruptcy.
When Los-Angeles Metropolitan Theatres the longtime tenant of the Isis Theater and to Aspen Film, which is the subleasee to the city-owned building ends its run here in August there is no operator lined up to show movies in the four-screen cinema.
“We are hoping for late May,” said David Corwin, president of Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Theaters
, which operates the Isis Theater. “We are gradually getting it together.”
The Isis closed initially in mid-March 2020 when the pandemic hit, and then re-opened in August only to shut down again in November.
Since the novel coronavirus swept across the world just over a year ago, the movie industry has changed significantly with a larger focus on online and on-demand streaming, and less production for the big screen.
Many new releases have been postponed as production companies are waiting for theaters to reopen.
“There’s not a lot of significant product left so we are guided by what’s going to be available,” Corwin said. “There’s not much between now and late May.”
Troost Village Plan Would Transform Heart of Historic Commercial District
Troost Village Plan Would Transform Heart of Historic Commercial District We see Troost not as a dividing line, but a meeting place. Share this story Published February 12th, 2021 at 10:06 AM Above image credit: The Troost Village redevelopment proposal calls for the renovation of the historic Firestone service station at Linwood and Troost. (Rendering | Pendulum Studio)
A $162 million redevelopment concept that would energize the historic commercial heart of Troost Avenue by adding apartments, retail, office and an amphitheater is being pursued by Midtown Development Partners.
Tim Bowman, the partnership leader, envisions capitalizing on the art deco character of the historic buildings fronting the east side of Troost between 31st Street and Linwood Boulevard, and creating a destination not only for the neighborhood, but the entire metro.