In thirty years, rock historians will look at the three decades prior to this moment and -- if they don't laugh at the idea of an encompassing term like "indie rock" -- identify Yo La Tengo not only as one of the genre's foundational acts, but also one that consistently challenged itself to... More >>

The lazy days of summer are almost here, and to usher in the season, Larimer Square boutiques are joining forces to show hot looks to update your wardrobe. Young professionals from groups like the Central City Opera, the Denver Center Theatre Marquee Club and the Reel Social Club will model... More >>

EatDenver, a group of independent restaurateurs who collaborate on a variety of food-related charitable initiatives, is the force behind the Big Eat, an annual pig-out celebrating the local dining scene. Now in its third year, the Big Eat has made a big move — to Sustainability Park, at... More >>

Despite the beefed-up security in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the BolderBoulder will move forward today, as it has every Memorial Day since 1979. The first waves of Boulder’s storied 10K run start at 7 a.m. at 30th and Walnut streets, setting in motion a spectacle that... More >>

“Have you ever thought about Mars...like, ever?” That’s just one of the many spacey questions routinely asked of the public by Julia DeMarines, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science astrobiologist who hosts the monthly science-outreach program Space in Your Face at Deer Pile,... More >>

The film of the Czech Republic may not have the cultural cachet of the cinema of such powerhouse nations as France, but there’s still plenty to enjoy. And cinephiles can now check it out at Czech That Film, a program of five recent films showing this week at the SieFilm-Center. “For... More >>

Denver’s made the national news a lot over the past year, whether for last summer’s wildfires, the Aurora theater shootings or the legalization of marijuana. Inspired by these events and looking for a way to process them through art, the Damsels Dance Company created Denver on Fire:... More >>

Two major holiday-weekend arts fests open today in downtown Denver, and while there could be some competition for crowds (and their wallets), organizers of both events insist that they’ll complement each other — and give viewers a bigger, bolder taste of (mostly) contemporary... More >>

Just like a summer blockbuster film, the open-entry exhibition Let’s Pretend We’re Robots, opening tonight at Good Thieves Press, is meant to be a double dip of summer fun. But it’s completely serious, too, notes Good Thieves member Corrina Espinosa. “We genuinely love... More >>

Textile arts comprise some of the most grassroots forms of expression. Born of necessity and woven through with elements of creative design since the dawn of mankind, in modern times they’ve morphed into a whole genre of multimedia work that slides right off the functional grid and... More >>

Denver Urban Gardens outgrew its office a long time ago; much like a root ball squeezing its way out of a clay pot, DUG was confined and finding it more and more difficult to get things done in a packed space where desk-sharing is the norm. But that will change in June, when DUG moves into new... More >>

It's been more than three years since Vampire Weekend last released a record and almost that long since the act was last at Red Rocks. That's a long time between releases for any band, but it's a couple lifetimes in the blogosphere. A parade of subsequent buzz bands (groups like Haim, one of... More >>

Lamb of God started in 1990 as an instrumental metal band called Burn the Priest. But it wasn't until 1995, after recording a few demos and playing countless house parties, that the band recruited singer Randy Blythe and started developing into the band you would recognize today as Lamb of God.... More >>

"Soundgarden has always shown a willingness to experiment well outside the standard rock mode, which has given the act a greater arc of creative development than that of many of the other bands who were also lumped in with the grunge phenomenon." The band's 1989 album, Louder Than Love, was... More >>

Having honed his chops early on with jazz heavies like Jon Hendricks, Wynton Marsalis and Betty Carter, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, who turned fifty in January, is a fine musician and leader in his own right, as evidenced on a number of discs he's released under his own name. The fiery vibraphonist... More >>

A trashy vampire flick in art-film drag, Kiss of the Damned satisfies on neither level. Drawing on a host of Euro-horror influences, including but far from limited to a synth score reminiscent of Dario Argento’s Goblin-performed soundtracks, Xan Cassavetes’s pastiche follows lonely... More >>

Taken together, Ulrich Seidl’s three Paradise films will be hard to beat this year for sheer arthouse scald. Seidl has a relentless vision but one worth reckoning with, especially now that he has turned world-class ambitious and crafted his epic: this trilogy of doomed emotional struggle.... More >>

Artist Colin Livingston's conceptual diptychs -- which are steeped in our sterile commercial culture to the point that it's hard to say if he's embracing or lamenting the fall of civilization -- might not always be easy to understand. But most people who see them know they're supposed to laugh,... More >>

The LIDA Project was named for a Soviet device that was supposedly capable of manipulating human brain-waves through the use of low-frequency radio, and for nearly two decades, this innovative theater company has offered productions that often incorporate technology in unusual ways. It latest... More >>

Downtown Denver, already an arts-and-culture hot spot this weekend, will welcome another new event tonight: Denver Digerati’s Friday Flash, with public motion-based art and animation screenings on the city’s jumbo LED screen at 14th and Champa streets. An outgrowth of some Create... More >>

For the past eight years, Curious Theatre has been honoring local icons who’ve been key players in shaping Denver’s cultural landscape with short plays about their lives. This year, it’s focusing on music-business luminary and AEG Live Rocky Mountains president/CEO Chuck... More >>

Tonight is all about arts and crafts — art projects and craft beers, to be precise. At Hops & Hooks, the first in a series of Colorado Women’s Beer Club events pairing lager and lady-tailored leisure, Bitter o’Clock crafting entrepreneur Kelli Petersen will teach the art of... More >>

As a founding member, rapper and producer of Three 6 Mafia, Juicy J helped cultivate a sound that combined a creeping darkness with DJ Screw-influenced, syrup-induced trippiness, pairing unlikely horror-flick sound effects with rolling hi-hats and popping snares. The group complemented their... More >>

When Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times was completed in 1936, silent film was already on its way out. But while the rest of the film industry had moved on to talkies, Chaplin’s last silent film commented on industrialization through his signature physical comedy as the Little Tramp, a... More >>

"The Cold War is very often believed to be kind of a good war because it was never fought," explains Rocky Flats Cold War Museum executive director Conny Bogaard. "But the price that we paid for that time of building nuclear weapons on a mass scale is all the anxieties and the fear that is very... More >>