A crush of holiday markets will divide and multiply over the next two weeks, giving proof to the notion that Colorado is a hotbed of talented crafters, artists and creatives. Only a bona fide Scrooge couldn’t find a place to shop on the list below. And you’re likely to want…
Joel Haertling is one of Boulder’s more unusual fixtures: a globetrotting advocate for experimental film and music, over the years he’s worked with Stan Brakhage and toyed with noise as Architects Office, all while curating the Boulder Public Library’s free film series. See also: – Architect’s Office is a one-man…
Film Festival Flix, a ten-city monthly indie-film tour that added Denver to its route last September, has been slowly growing an audience, says spokeswoman Nancy Oberman, whose son Benjamin came up with the concept: a film series for folks who are flustered by the sheer weight of the typical film-festival…
Hinterland sometimes throws intriguing shows that pair the works of two artists; for the latest, the gallery’s Sabin Aell juxtaposes large-scale, slow-exposure camera obscura cityscapes by Bailey Russel with detailed ink works on paper by his friend Mark Ritchie, who’s influenced by more delicate Islamic and Byzantine vistas. At first…
Bikes are taken seriously in Denver and Boulder, and just as Denver’s Viva Streets! drew thousands of pedalers to West 23rd Avenue for a day of open, traffic-free riding and strolling in August, the Boulder Green Streets Ciclovìa in Boulder did much the same a month later in an area…
The gods couldn’t quite conjure up any snow to dash through, but tonight in Sunnyside, you can still go on a horse-drawn ride, bells a’jingling, and laughing all the way. Ernie’s Bar & Pizza will host the fourth annual Sunnyside Sleigh Ride from 5 to 8 p.m., inviting neighborhood families…
You don’t have to wait until Colorado Gives Day to donate to your favorite nonprofit — but the December 4 event is a handy way to remember to do it before the end of the year, during what we like to think of as the season of giving. If you…
The classic Nutcracker ballet has been turned inside out and stretched backwards and forwards and every which way in an attempt to loosen up the Sugar Plum Fairy and her entourage. In Boulder, aerial dance queen Nancy Smith and her high-flying Frequent Flyers began by replacing the plum princess with…
It’s no easy task to open a planetary cultural dialogue in landlocked Denver, a place where members of an already strong arts community are fiercely, and perhaps rightly, protective of their own. But Patrick Mueller of the dance and movement ensemble Control Group Productions thinks a more continental mindset might…
Confused about what and how and even why you should gift your loved ones this holiday season? Clear up that confusion by buying local, giving gifts from the heart or gifting experiences instead of gadgets. Or do all three at once, with the Colorado Theatre Guild’s annual Theatre Night Out…
“It’s a night of giving and cannibalism.” That’s how Brad McHargue of Mile High Cinema, winner of the 2012 Westword Denver Web Award for best movie blog, likes to describe tonight’s Ravenous Food Drive and Raffle, which pairs a screening of the underrated cannibal flick Ravenous with a food drive…
Jewelry maker Melissa Borrell went big — really big — for her current show, tessellate, at PlatteForum Gallery, where the artist worked with youth for several weeks while completing her own installation (see more about the show at showandtelldenver.com). But her residency isn’t quite over: Tonight she’ll change directions a…
Now in its fifth official year, Fancy Tiger’s Holiday Handmade craft show has grown ever grander, having made itself comfortably at home at the ornate, balconied Sherman Street Event Center for the past three. A picture-perfect showcase for the metro area’s accomplished crafters, the carefully juried show is a delight…
In town for just a short time from his native “cheese gulag” in Wisconsin, former Denverite Bill Amundson will leave a mark nonetheless: Tonight the artist/raconteur is the featured speaker at the Denver Art Museum’s Logan Lecture series (see the DAM website for details and tickets). And on Friday, Amundson…
When worldwide walker and Coloradan Polly Letofsky decided to take a hike, she covered 14,000 or so miles, with the goal of spreading awareness about breast cancer. Sometimes the challenges and hardships of the journey might have taken her off course philosophically, but now that she’s been back a while…
Denver playwright and director Terry Dodd, who made a strong showing last spring at the Aurora Fox with his Amateur Night at the Big Heart, knows his way around a script — as well as the stage in general. Tonight, he’ll embark on a new journey with a staged reading…
Denver’s not the only buy-local shopper’s Valhalla to have big plans for tomorrow’s national AMEX-sponsored Small Business Saturday. Downtown Boulder is spreading the love to loyal gift-hunters, and more than forty businesses on the Pearl Street Mall and environs will participate by offering discounts, open houses, free good cheer and…
Since longtime Denver artist Bill Amundson returned to his home town of Stoughton, Wisconsin, two years ago — something he refers to as his “exile here in the cheese gulag” — he’s had plenty of time to work, an essential step in rendering the large, highly detailed pencil drawings he’s…
For some Denver families, the day after Thanksgiving means hitting the malls (or your local boutique) for holiday gifts and deals, or maybe catching a movie. But others head religiously to the Rocky Mountain Auto Show, a three-day, hot-metal extravaganza showcasing the cherriest hot rods, customized sports cars, detailed motorcycles…
Susan Meyer might be one of Denver’s most unique artists, yet she hasn’t had a full exhibition since 2004, when her installation Malfunction Junction — a room-sized roller-coaster track ablaze with synchronized lighting that crashed from the heights into another, flatter dimension — blew more than a few minds at…
We’re not going to reiterate the horrors of Black Friday here.There’s a reason why it’s called “black,” and that is because it sucks, for all the wrong, fucked-up, uncheerful reasons. So we’ll just say this: Start loving your neighbor, and your neighborhhood, by shopping local instead. It’s so easy to…
Charming author, cultural philosopher, satirist and NPR commentator David Sedaris talks pretty to sellout audiences year after year in Denver, filling auditoriums with unabashed cultists who simply love the little, wise man to death. Early next year, he’s trying something different: Sedaris will play Denver for a series of eight…
