FRI, 4/29 Need to brush up on your Klingon? Have a hankerin’ to gorge on Gagh? Then don your best Starfleet dress uniform, strap on your Jedi Knight light saber, and beam yourself up to the Marriott Denver Tech Center, 4900 South Syracuse Street, for this weekend’s Starfest 2005. KathE…
THURS, 4/21 Dale Chihuly looks like a man of the earth, with his dashing eye patch, wild hair and blue-collar demeanor, so it’s not always easy to connect him with the torrid, delicate hand-blown fantasy worlds he creates from sand and fire. Chihuly could be called the swashbuckler of glass,…
FRI, 4/15 The seventeen-year- old Frequent Flyers aerial dance troupe will go bottoms-up tonight in Dairy Air, its spring production. “Everyone has some sort of desire to experience flight,” says the company’s artistic director, Nancy E. Smith. “This show continues the tradition, giving these amazing dancers a chance to flex…
A kid’s world stretched as far as you could safely pedal your Schwinn when I was growing up in southeast Denver. Within my own constellation was the Virginia Village Creamery, where all the neighborhood kids went in gaggles to stock up on penny candy, choosing from open jars of jawbreakers,…
FRI, 4/8 Japanese painter Yumiko Kayukawa has earned a global reputation for fusing balance, harmony and…’ 80s butt rock. Inspired by a deep childhood connection with nature and her passion for bands like Cheap Trick and Motley Crüe, Kayukawa mixes lotus blossoms, kanji (Japanese calligraphy), quirky animals and a post-punk…
THURS, 3/31 Imagine, if you will, a sardonic tale of a maniacal cowboy prospector who, with the help of a greedy group of financiers, senators and businessmen, conspires to overturn an entire village in his crazed obsession for oil. Sound familiar? Well, believe it or not, there’s not a single…
THURS, 3/31 The Yard Dogs Traveling Road Show is rolling back into town, ready to prove that a Yard Dog can, indeed, learn new tricks. “Nail your hat to your head and hide the wine,” says the carny’s barker, Eddy Joe Cotton. “Did I mention the Œdancing girls, dancing girls,…
“And this is the Black Lung,” said Mrs. Carlson, brushing that same invisible strand of hair from her face. We were in sixth-grade science class, had just finished the filmstrip series Happy Hormones and You and were headed toward the dreaded book-on-cassette Ann Landers Talks Teen. But first we had…
MON, 3/28 “‘Inchworm,’ 1998 — computers, aluminum, software, electronics, motors, 6 feet, autonomously mobile.” “‘I Like To Watch,’ 2000 — steel, aluminum, wood, electronics, motors, 9 x 8 x 8 feet, operating envelope.” Looking over the descriptions of some of Alan Rath’s “Robots” sculptures, it’s hard to tell whether you’re…
FRI, 3/25 You think you really know a place; then you get an aerial view of it, and your understanding increases tenfold. I’ve always considered myself an expert on Denver, but on a recent flight from Denver International Aiport, the plane took off toward the east and then looped back…
Not everything to come out of this here cattle town is a shoot-’em-up or a spaghetti Western. Denverite Richard Groskopf and Los Angles-based Mile High native Melissa Fouch plan to reveal the region’s wilder side at the opening reception for Denco Connected: The West Coast to the Rockies on Saturday,…
FRI, 3/18 Charles Dickens once said that “home is a name, a word,” but for the students at P.S.1, the concept of “home” can also be expressed in images. For the past month, more than a dozen students from the charter school have been working with digital storytellers Daniel Weinshenker,…
Most mothers of small children know the score: They shyly finger the racks at Oilily or April Cornell, purposely ignoring the price tags and, well, dreaming. Because unless they’ve got hundreds of bucks to throw away on a gorgeous ensemble their kid will outgrow next month, they know they’ve got…
THUR, 3/10 New Yorker Chakaia Booker is making tracks across the contemporary art scene. The mixed-media artist conveys her images of struggle by twisting and contorting raw materials like wood, fiber and metal, but her signature works are created through manipulations of used, mangled tires. She weaves the discarded rubber…
THURS, 3/10 Fionn mac Cumhail, better known as Finn MacCool, was set the task of cooking a salmon one day by his tutor, the Druid Finegas, who had caught the fish after it ate nuts fallen from the hazel tree. According to ancient teachings, salmon that ate these nuts possessed…
THURS, 2/24 Cheech Marin chucks Chong and the bongs tonight for a bit of culture. As the owner of one of the largest collections of Chicano art in the country, Marin is in town to participate in Leaving Aztlán: Rethinking Contemporary Latino and Chicano Art at Metropolitan State College of…
MON, 2/28 Were I to make a film focusing on an item of food, I would tell the tale of a single green pepper. Our story would begin with a crane shot of a slow descent from above a windswept treeline to a northern California field, where hundreds of laborers…
FRI, 2/18 Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails. That’s what little boys are made of, right? Find out at Will Boys Be Boys?, a mixed-media show at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver that probes the arena of modern boyology. The national touring exhibition, which was curated by the Whitney Museum…
Right off York Street and 14th Avenue, there’s a portal to the Old World. I had to make it down some narrow stairs and through a maze of hallways, but when I finally found Izba Spa, I was transported directly to St. Petersburg. Intricate hand-carved woodwork covered peeling paint, Slavic…
SAT, 2/12 The president and Martha Stewart are engaged in an executive laissez affair — or so it goes in performance artist Karen Finley’s newest work George & Martha, which opens tonight at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th Street in Boulder. The two-character satire, co-starring Finley and…
WED, 2/16 “I was always dreaming about very powerful people,” Arnold Schwarzenegger says in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron. “Dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered.” It…
Face facts, gentlemen: Most women don’t want Victoria’s Secret for Valentine’s Day. Skimpy lingerie is what they, ideally, give to you. And everyone knows that too much chocolate makes a girl fat and pimply. So what do the ladies want? Women, you’ll learn, love the kinds of trinkets they won’t…
