THURS, 7/8 “Vulgar, raunchy, sacrilegious, disrespectful and pornographic,” are just a few of the epithets that playwright David K. Johnson uses to describe his new musical, Lady Sublime & the Fantesticles. “Hopefully, we are going to shock some people,” he says of the comedy, which opens tonight at 7:30 p.m…
WED, 7/14 More often than not, we Americans get our news in increasingly attention-deficit- disorder-friendly ways. Sound bites, Internet-server headlines and bits of information flashed across the bottom of television screens are the means by which most of us learn what is going on in the world today. A Cliff’s…
FRI, 7/9 The Mars Hill Cafe is not really a cafe, and it doesn’t have much to do with the Red Planet — although the Highland church that hosts it does sit on a hilltop. Instead of the intergalactic eatery its name connotes, Mars Hill is a Friday-evening gathering that…
Robert E. Evans draws on his legacy to create his present. When the distinguished Five Points resident strolls down the street, people stop to say hello. And though he has plenty of friends, Evans says things haven’t always been so easy: “I felt alone a lot in my childhood because…
SAT, 7/3 When Roy Delgado took up the sport of boxing two and a half years ago, it seemed only natural that his father, Henry Delgado, would manage his career. However, it didn’t take long for the former amateur boxer and martial arts fighter to recognize inadequacies in the Denver…
From the moment Revolutionary War patriot Betsy Ross first threaded a running stitch to create Old Glory, many Americans have made a tradition of expressing nationalism through handiwork in times of both joy and loss. That’s why, in the wake of 9/11, the American Quilter’s Society called upon its members…
TUES, 6/29 For better or worse, nineteenth-century composer Richard Wagner regarded himself as the most German of men. Classified as an anarchist, socialist, proto-fascist, nationalist, vegetarian and anti-Semite, among other things, Wagner was a stern man whose name has appeared in connection with almost every major trend in German history…
SAT, 6/26 Polly Letofsky was walking on a “barren highway through a tiny town in northern Australia” when a senior citizen flashed her. As Letofsky tells it, an “eighty-year-old, kind of big woman” hailed her by name and then told her in a heavy Aussie accent that she’d survived a…
THURS, 6/17 Prepare for a wet and wild weekend at the 56th annual FIBArk Whitewater Festival, held on the mighty Arkansas River in Salida. The festivities get rolling today at 5:30 p.m. with the Bryan Dreher Pro Raft Race, followed by an opening party at Riverside Park, featuring live music…
TUES, 6/22 Watch out, Denverites: A new beast has roared into town. The Predator Ridge exhibit, modeled after the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, opens today at the Denver Zoo. The eight-acre display, which comprises fourteen species of mammals, birds and reptiles, will house over fifty animals, including lions, spotted…
The term “striptease” was once a feminist’s four-letter word. But the sass and sauce of the strip have been reclaimed by a younger generation that finds empowerment in the seductive art of burlesque. Among those diving into the rhinestone-encrusted revolution is burlesque betty Michelle Baldwin. The Denver native was originally…
TUES, 6/15 Menopause The Musical ain’t your daughter’s Vagina Monologues. Currently heating up theaters in eleven cities, the saucy show, set in a Bloomingdale’s department store, follows four forty-something women as they bond over their change-of-life experiences and a Bloomie’s black-lace bra. The score includes 26 popular baby-boomer tunes; audience…
THURS, 6/10 These days, you’re as likely to come across George Lopez on ABC as you are on HBO or Univision. His smiling face is everywhere: on stages across the country, on his hit weekly sitcom George Lopez, in films, on late-night talk shows, even on Inside the NFL. The…
FRI, 6/4 Local event engineer Ben Popken might possibly be mad. “For many months, I have been obsessed with the idea of a cardboard party. In my mind, I see a topographical landscape built from cardboard, with cardboard furniture, a cardboard stage and cardboard props. Inhabiting this land, of course,…
FRI, 6/4 The relationship between people and their gardens is an ancient one, primeval as a redwood, humanity’s link to its own natural beginnings. And not only do we love gardens for their beauty, but also for the creativity they inspire. That’s how it is for Boulder artist Cha Cha…
When invited by the City of Broomfield to put on an art exhibit in the building shared by its library and public auditorium, members of the Women’s Caucus for Art made certain the theme fit the environment. As an enhancement for the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library’s summer reading program,…
SUN, 5/23 “Nobody ruins my birthday except me,” states Leo Kottke via e-mail. The musician, you see, turned 56 on the same day planes crashed into the Twin Towers. And with each anniversary since, Kottke continues to thank his lucky stars. “It’s great to be alive,” he writes. “One year…
SAT, 5/22 As Karl Marx said, revolution is not a fixed, static phenomenon; it’s a perpetual and ever-evolving process. So it makes sense that after seven years of showcasing the progressive and subversive at its current location, Revoluciones Collective Art Space is moving. The award-winning gallery was opened in 1997…
THURS, 5/13 Prepare to be uplifted both spiritually and mentally at this weekend’s encore performance of Mary Lou’s Mass by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. The historical piece is based on Music for Peace, which was composed by African-American jazz artist Mary Lou Williams for Pope Paul VII in 1969. The…
THURS, 5/13 Americans have no single governing persona, and that’s as it should be: The Land of the Free has no room for a goose-stepping, nationalistic identity. We’re mongrels. We believe in and are motivated by thousands of unique, different things, all sprouted from hundreds of intermingling and divergent cultures…
MON, 5/10 Local comedian Josh Blue turns his disability into a laughing matter. Blue, who says he “puts the cerebral in cerebral palsy,” uses humor to help audiences overcome preconceived ideas about the disabled. And while he has recently caught the eye of scouts for David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres,…
SAT, 5/8 Teach your pooch to soar through the air at today’s Colorado Disc Dogs Spring Training Seminar, a hands-on workshop that covers such topics as how to throw a Frisbee for your dog and the rules of the game for canines. “We start with the basics — the correct…
