MUSIC
3OH3! officially a smash
After seeing their alternative-rock single “Don’t Trust Me” take off on Top 40 radio, Boulder-based electro duo 3OH!3 watched the song go platinum this week. Sales topped 1.1 million, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
The glitchy, electro-pop single (hear it at ) is currently No. 9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart andNo. 1 on iTunes’ Hot Alternative Songs chart.
The band soon will be co-headlining the Vans Warped Tour — but skipping the tour’s Aug. 9 Denver date in favor of a big slot at the Mile High Music Festival in Commerce City on July 19.
Ricardo Baca
VENUES
A gift, a name
The hall within Su Teatro’s forthcoming $4.5 million performing arts center will be named the Angelica Martinez Performance Hall, in acknowledgment of a $75,000 gift from Colorado Supreme Court Justice Alex J. Martinez and his wife, Katherine Martinez.
Angelica Martinez, the justice’s mother, was a longtime Denver Public Schools employee who maintained a lifelong commitment to education and the arts. She raised her family next door to Elyria Elementary School, current home of El Centro Su Teatro in north Denver. She died in 1990.
The performance hall will be a multipurpose space adjacent to the new theater, together anchoring the new $4.5 million performing-arts center Denver’s 36-year-old Chicano theater company plans to move into by the end of the year at 215 S. Santa Fe Drive. Construction starts in July.
The gift will also seed the Angelica Martinez Scholarship Fund.
John Moore
TELEVISION
Denver duo could be “Amazing” tonight
They’ve dashed across three continents, nine countries and 40,000 miles.
They’ve seen eight other teams eliminated.
Now, as one of the three duos still in the running on “The Amazing Race 14,” Denver’s Luke and Margie Adams, mother and son, right, tackle the final leg of the race, Beijing to Maui.
The season finale, “This Is How You Lose a Million Dollars,” airs tonight at 7 on KCNC-Channel 4. Joanne Ostrow
FUNDING
Cash for jobs
Twenty-two of the 42 eligible arts organizations in Colorado have applied for economic stimulus grants of $25,000 or $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts, said agency spokeswoman Victoria Hutter.
The endowment is distributing $50 million set aside for the arts as part of a $787 billion federal stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama in February.
Groups that have received previous endowment support could apply for support of projects directly resulting in job preservation. The remaining funds will go to state and regional arts agencies for redistribution.
Hutter said recipients of the endowment’s stimulus grants are expected to be announced in early July. Kyle MacMillan
MUSIC
Rose Hill Drive takes a breather
Is Boulder rock band Rose Hill Drive breaking up? The rumor has been circulating for the last week. But The Post has the answer:
Not exactly.
“Rose Hill Drive is taking ’09 off,” said Brian Schwartz, the band’s manager. “They’re recharging the batteries and having normal lives for the first time since they were young guys fresh out of high school … Jake’s doing some Aikido, Daniel’s playing golf and Nate’s doing drum lessons.”
The band has opened for the likes of Van Halen and the Who, and its members also have toured extensively on their own. Schwartz said there will be a band meeting at the end of the year to “see where it all goes from there.” Ricardo Baca
