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, 11/28 Break away from the shopping madness and glide into the holiday spirit at the Comfort Dental Ice Rink, opening today from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Fillmore Plaza, Second Avenue and Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek North. The University of Denver skating team will be on hand…
SUN, 11/30 In the Jewish tradition, books are central to life: The urge to study the world is ingrained among families, generation to generation, and a well-stocked bookshelf provides the impetus to learn in many Jewish homes. But while the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture’s annual Leah Cohen Festival…
SAT, 11/22 Nothing quite says “thankful” like pitching a little poultry at a couple of placid pilgrims. Copper Mountain’s Turkey Bowling hits the slopes today and on Thanksgiving Day to scratch up a little chicken feed for charity by encouraging mountain moguls to fling frozen turkeys down an icy lane…
SAT, 11/22 A group of women frustrated with the local lesbian dating scene are reviving the flower-speckled 1960s game show The Dating Game, with a twist. The MissKiss Game Show, premiering tonight in Boulder and hosted by comedienne Edith Weiss, will feature four single gay women — one MissKiss and…
Better not cry. Tonight I saw a woman shake and slap her sobbing daughter, yelling, “Goddamn it, Rachel, get on that man’s lap and smile, or I’ll give you something to cry about.” Meet “Crumpet,” a thirty-something jaded mall imp clad in striped tights and a worn green polyester smock…
FRI, 11/14 When does an independent film become a work of art? The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE) poses that question to nearly fifty featured directors who carve and sculpt in celluloid. The result is a sort of dadaesque feast for the eyes in which said filmmakers manipulate their avant-garde…
Lila Downs knows no boundaries. A striking beauty with powerhouse vocals that sound as though she swallowed an entire orchestra (heavy on the oboe), Downs has been recognized across the globe both for her extraordinary singing and for her talented storytelling through song. An entirely new and younger audience in…
SAT, 11/1 If there’s a giant squid hurling gutter balls next to a harlot in pasties, hot pants and yucky brown rented shoes, then Beats & Bowling must be twinkling its toes again. The competition, which rolls its fifth installment tonight, assembles costumed and themed teams of music-industry enthusiasts who…
Want to get in touch with your inner Little Red Riding Hood or let loose the Gandalf trapped inside your routine self?Don’t wait around for a fairy godmother to help. Instead, check out some of the dozens of costume stores in the Denver area. And while this isn’t a complete…
FRI, 10/24 Pour on the liquid latex and give that corset an extra tug, because the 4th Annual Victorian and Fetish Ball will cast its sexy spell tonight. The masquerade tease will harness the talents of four professional dominatrixes, unleash an exhibition of the sensual art of Japanese bondage and…
SAT, 10/18 Like most local gallery-goers, you’re probably going to find yourself fighting the crowds at the Denver Art Museum to see El Greco to Picasso from the Phillips Collection at some point during the coming weeks. All well and good: We don’t always have such a wonderful opportunity to…
‘Tis the season when jack-o-lanterns glow, skeletons rattle and houses morph into terror dens that crank out fear for fun. Here are the venues that the werewolves of Westword found to be the most fang-tastic: Das Meyer Fine Pastry Chalet, 13251 West 64th Avenue in Arvada, has traded its rolling…
SAT, 10/11 Why would a stock-car designer ever concern himself with a bustle? What in the world would a welder know about hemlines? The answers reveal themselves tonight at Body Packaging III: Identity Crisis, presented by the Pikes Peak Arts Council and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The avant-garde…
SUN, 10/12 Kite-maker Jane Parker-Ambrose was really too busy to take on another project, but in 1985, after sailing one of her custom flyers in Red Square with the Soviet Women’s Peace Community, Parker-Ambrose was moved to use her kites for an even higher purpose. “The kite has its own…
After ducking a little local controversy, the two-man Puppetry of the Penis is yanking in the Colorado crowds. Lincoln Davies and new-kid-on-the-jock Jef Benjamin are exposing their talents in the name of art. Once you get used to the terror of seeing two naked men and a seventeen-by-fourteen-foot Godzilla-sized phallus…
WED, 10/8 Tina Basich, one of the world’s first professional female snowboarders, chronicles her pioneering life in Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer. Basich, whose unconventional family once lived in a tepee on the front lawn, became a pro boarder at seventeen “because it was…
WED, 10/8 Captain Jack Sparrow may still be sailing the seven seas in search of lost fortune, but plenty of bona fide booty can be found at tonight’s Erotica Aquatica Fashion Show at the Boulder Theater. Designers and boutiques including Buffalo Exchange, Tricia Russell, Common Era, Fascinations and the Ritz…
THURS, 9/25 The organizers of Denver’s 22nd annual Great American Beer Festival know what you want: “Three days. 320 breweries. 1,400 Beers. 144,000 square feet of total beer heaven.” That’s what the banners say. That’s what’s repeated over and over again on the Web sites. And other than, maybe, a…
The naked guys call their performance “the ancient Australian art of genital origami”; a Denver law firm declares that the show is protected by the First Amendment; and at first, the city didn’t know what to make of such a public display. But on Tuesday, September 30, a Puppetry of…
FRI, 9/19 You don’t have to be American to know about the Pony Express, but it’s a saga that Americans, particularly Westerners, all grew up with: Nary an oater has flashed upon the silver screen in the past hundred years without making some reference to the mid-nineteenth-century version of express…
SAT, 9/20 They will not go quietly, these little critters. Instead, Boulder’s prairie dogs — creatures with names such as Viktor the Victim and Prairie Home Protection — will hold their polyether-resin heads high at a final celebration tonight at 7 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall, 1543 Pearl Street…
