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Benefit concert for Jacob Cuff (from the Christian Cuff Band) featuring artist lineup: Jeff Lemons, Justin Lantrip, and The Yellow Roman Candles.

THE STORY

On December 29th my brother Jacob Cuff left our house in Avon, Colorado to get himself checked out at Vail Valley Medical Center nearby. He had been feeling a bit beaten down all month and was noticing small lesions on his leg and stomach. Throughout the month he had maintained a full-time schedule at two busy restaurants, so he checked the exhaustion off as just the result of working doubles for 3 and a half weeks and hadn’t grown really concerned about the lesions until that week. The next morning the doctors came in with the “right out of left-field” bit of news that they thought Jake might have cancer. Pretty hard hitting news and they immediately put him in an ambulance to University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Cancer Pavillion. They said they got him just in time, as Acute Myeloid Leukemia acts very quickly, and without treatment most sufferers die within two and a half weeks. He’s a lucky, lucky boy, and he’s been responding very well to the Chemo thus far, so we have a reasonable hope that he will be outpatiented by mid next month. He will still of course need to stay near by for his 3 time a week treatments, so life won’t go right back to normal.

The big game right now is the financial, we have just topped $500,000 and the hospital estimates that we are looking at a little over $2 million…funny number right?

Also, while you’re thinking on that, try to imagine Jacob getting Health Insurance; pretty funny huh? Yeah, he thought so too. We are working at insurance, but the premium offers for a pre-existing condition like Leukemia for a new resident are made up numbers…like wizard spells. The goal now is to get him insured, regardless of the premium offers, and that’s where everybody else comes in. Within all the benefit events for the Leukema-pa-looza we will be hosting silent and loud auctions, and offering donation incentives like private concerts and lift tickets, as well as autographed goods by folks far more famous than us. Along with this we have a slew of art work, jewelry, services, and vouchers donated by people all over the world. So keep in touch, and if you have any questions just send them along to donate@jacobcuff.org.

It may be an N.F.L. Super Bowl Sunday, but are you ready for that other kind of football?

 

For the fourth time this in the past year, the Fox network will bamboozle couch potatoes with a misdirection play that marries an N.F.L. game with a tape-delayed soccer match from the English Premiere League.

 

The header will take place on Sunday, February 5, 2012 between Manchester United and Chelsea.  The time delayed game is scheduled to begin between 10:30-11am.

 

Frontier will be serving from our new brunch menu within the restaurant portion of our business and encourage patrons interested in watching the game to arrive early to enjoy a meal at a table or to reserve a table for afterwards.

The 46th Super Bowl will take place on Sunday, February 5, 2012 between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.  Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30.

 

From the Queen of the Night’s pyrotechnic high notes to Papageno’s chirpy birdsongs, The Magic Flute is one of Mozart’s most charming and engaging operas. This celebrated production by artist William Kentridge joyfully bursts onto the stage of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy – and onto the big screen!

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Hailed as “fantastic” and a “jazz guitar virtuoso” by the Portland Phoenix, composer/guitarist Richard Nelson turns his attention to jazz standards in small-group settings in an ongoing series of Wednesday night appearances in the soft-seated, "Crossroads", setting within Frontier's restaurant.  Expect creative, spontaneous interpretations of familiar (and some not-so-familiar) jazz tunes featuring some of the area’s finest musicians.

LIVE ACTION – total running time approx. 110 minutes

Pentecost – 11 minutes – English – Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane

When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish, he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo, or serve an extended ban from his life’s passion – football.

Raju – 24 minutes – English/German – Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren

Director Max Zaehle, together with his Director of Photography Sin Huh, and wonderful actors Wotan Wilke Möhring and Julia Richter, succeed at making the moral dilemma faced by couples wishing to adopt emotionally palpable.

The Shore – 31 minutes – English/Gaelic – Terry George and Oorlagh George

After 25 years in exile, Jim Mahon (Ciaran Hinds) returns to Ireland to show his American daughter Patty (Kerry Condon) his Belfast roots. But things don’t go as planned when she learns of a secret love triangle and a long lost best friend, Paddy (Conleth Hill). Their reconciliation leads to hilarious confusion. Directed by two time Oscar nominee Terry George, The Shore won Best Director and Best Actor at the Rhode Island Film Festival, and is nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award.

Time Freak – 11 minutes – English – Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey

A neurotic inventor creates a time machine, only to get caught up travelling around yesterday.

Tuba Atlantic – 25 minutes – Norwegian – Hallvar Witzø

Everybody is going to die one day. Oskar, 70, is going to die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago. Will he reach his brother, who he believes live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it’s too late?

ANIMATED – total running time approx. 80 minutes (including the “Highly Commended” titles, which are TBD)

Sunday/Dimanche – 10 minutes – English – Patrick Doyon

Every Sunday, it's the same old routine! The train clatters through the village and almost shakes the pictures off the wall. In the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox. And of course later Grandma will get a visit and the animals will meet their fate.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – 15 minutes – No Dialogue – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg

Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

La Luna – 7 minutes – English – Enrico Casaroasa

A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work.

A Morning Stroll – 7 minutes – No Dialogue – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe

When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we're left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.

Wild Life – 13 minutes – English – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Calgary, 1909: an Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.

You may know Tom Porter as the English voice on Maine public radio, but he will not be appearing at Frontier in his capacity as a news broadcaster. Tom will be here to indulge his passion for playing Jazz. A former professional jazz pianist in his native UK Tom has played with some of the top recording artists on both sides of the pond. On February 18, he'll be joined by a superb collection of Maine-based musicians: Musical educator Tim O'Dell on saxophone. On bass is the hugely talented and experienced Sam Sherry (and he's not as old as that makes him sound!).  Percussive accompaniment is provided by the subtle and creative drumming of Mark Barnette. They'll be performing a mixture of a old and new music, including some original material and several much-loved standards.

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Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd (1960), Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer (and family man), pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the ’60s.

Paul Goodman Changed My Life immerses you in an era of high intellect (that heady, cocktail-glass juncture that Mad Men has so effectively exploited) when New York was peaking culturally and artistically; when ideas, and the people who propounded them, seemed to punch in at a higher weight class than they do now. Using a treasure trove of archival multimedia—selections from Goodman’s poetry (read by Garrison Keillor and Edmund White); quotes from Susan Sontag, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Noam Chomsky; plentiful footage of Goodman himself; plus interviews with his family, peers and activists—director/producer Jonathan Lee and producer/editor Kimberly Reed (Prodigal Sons) have woven together a rich portrait of an intellectual heavyweight whose ideas are long overdue for rediscovery.

Praise for Paul Goodman:

“His impact is all around us.”
–Noam Chomsky

“Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.”
–Grace Paley

“Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.”
–Hayden Carruth

“There has not been such a convincing, genuine, singular voice in our language since D. H. Lawrence. Paul Goodman’s voice touched everything he wrote about with intensity, interest, and his own terribly appealing sureness and awkwardness.”
–Susan Sontag

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Music: DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
Choreography : ALEXEI RATMANSKY
Designer: BORIS MESSERER
Music Director: PAVEL SOROKIN
Lighting Designer: ALEXANDER RUBTSOV
Libretto: ADRIAN PIOTROVSKY and FYODOR LOPUKHOV

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A doll come to life, love triangles, illusions, doubles – the story of Coppelia is just as intriguing and fanciful today as it was in 1870! From the Bolshoi Ballet; Original choreography by Marius Petipa recreated by Sergei Vikharev. Starring Viacheslav Lopatin and Natalia Osipova.

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From the Royal Ballet, London, England

Music: PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Conductor: BORIS GRUZIN
Choreography: MARIUS PETIPA
Production: CHRISTOPHER NEWTON, NICHOLAS SERGEYEV, NINETTE de VALOIS, MONICA MASON
Designer: OLIVER MESSEL
Additional designs: PETER FARMER
Lighting: MARK JONATHAN

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