Thirty-some years ago, Yale Drama School graduate Lewis Black and several friends drove cross-country to Colorado Springs to reclaim a dilapidated theater. “All of a sudden, we see the mountains,” Black recalls. “It was astonishing. Suddenly, like in a movie, the song ‘Rocky Mountain High’ comes on. We’re fucked, I…
THURS, 1/8 The Denver Center Theatre Company is heating things up this winter with a new production of Tennessee Williams’s sizzling drama A Streetcar Named Desire. In a twist on the award-winning classic, the DCTC show will feature an all-African-American cast. “To do Streetcar with an all-black cast was a…
In the summer of 2002, three punks from East High School and their Brickyard skate crew (BYC) gained sudden and unexpected notoriety. At the Tony Hawk Skate Park Tour, BYC member Alex Calvert sneaked the crew’s banner into a prominent spot on the stage, hanging it among the high-dollar-sponsor advertisements…
FRI, 1/2 Reports of the Native American sport lacrosse date as far back as the 1630s, when Jesuit missionaries documented the indigenous peoples of this continent engaging in competition using curved sticks with webbed pockets and a small deerskin ball. The game was rooted in legend and surrounded by ceremony;…
FRI, 12/26 For many holiday revelers, December 26 marks the first uneventful day after a long string of yuletide festivities. For those who celebrate Kwanzaa, however, it’s the beginning of a week-long celebration of family, community and culture. Started in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, chairman of the University of California…
For most people, the winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year, a gloomy occasion when the sun goes down early and total darkness ensues. For others, the winter solstice marks the longest night of the year, a cause for raucous celebration and fanfare.The people behind the 18th Annual…
THURS, 12/11 If you’ve ever wondered how the simple pressing of a button on the remote control can summon legions of different characters for your personal entertainment, you are not alone. “We all know that televisions are complicated pieces of machinery,” write the producers of Idiot Box, an evening of…
THURS, 12/11 You’ll find an odd mixture of high and low culture in LoDo and its environs these days. Essentially, there are galleries and there are clubs, diametrically opposed venues with clienteles that rarely clink glasses, let alone even meet, other than to pass in the night once a month…
WED, 12/10 In the Simpsons episode “How I Spent My Strummer Vacation,” Homer attends a Rock-and-Roll Fantasy camp to be trained in the ways of rock. Brian Setzer makes a memorable guest appearance. Weighing in as the Professor of Slide Guitar, the rockabilly guitar legend is referred to as “Brian…
FRI, 11/28 As the Christmas season fast approaches, one cannot help but cringe at the inevitable onslaught of typical holiday productions. Buried neck-deep in Yuletide cheer, it’s nearly impossible to muster enthusiasm for yet another production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Are audiences supposed to coo again and feel…
FRI, 10/24 According to Boulder activist group Vox Feminista, it’s time to declare war. The target? White supremacy. And the battle starts with tonight’s premiere of White Lies.”We are a group of mostly white women who live in Boulder, which is predominantly white,” explains Joy Boston, founder of the fourteen-year-old…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Guy walks into a bar and orders the cheapest domestic draft available. Bartender pours the man a beer before setting it down on the counter along with a small plastic coin with a bar logo on it. “The chip,” the barkeep explains, “is…
THURS, 10/9 Lewis Black and Dave Attell seem about as hard to contact these days as folks on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Still, even in the middle of a fifty-plus-city tour, Attell manages to find time to expound on the joys of hitting the road for Comedy Central Live Starring…
