TUES, 6/10 When you go to the movies, do your eyes get more of a workout than your brain? Luckily, Alexandre Philippe has a cure for what ails you. Philippe, a Lighthouse Foundation and University of Denver screenwriting instructor, is currently presenting a four-movie series called “The Deconstruction of Film”…

FRI, 6/6 One week, one blank, date-stamped canvas and an urban landscape with distinct boundaries: Those were the limitations given to artists who participated in Paint Our Town: Old, New, Now!, a contest and exhibit opening today at the Art Students League of Denver, 200 Grant Street. Based on the…

SAT, 5/24 Interstate 25 is more than just a road in these parts: It’s also a vehicle for moving urban culture in and out of the state. As it bisects Colorado, it transports the ideas of myriad fine artists along a path extending from Cheyenne to Albuquerque. Gallery curator Jina…

SUN, 5/18 As part of the third annual City Park Festival of the Arts today, Denver mayoral hopefuls John Hickenlooper and Don Mares will be the main attraction at a mayoral runoff forum. But their lovefest, at 11 a.m. in the City Park pavilion, could be overshadowed by a stealth…

What could you possibly have in common with that baggy-pantsed, slouching, backward-visor-wearing, straight-up gangsta kid at the bus stop? Nothing? Think again. 14 Faces, written and performed by Denver native Ted Bettridge, examines the human link between the likes of suburbanites and derelicts, the haves and have-nots. “You are about…