Even though it’s not that nippy, the skate must go on at Belmar today, where the shopping center rink will open for the season with a toy drive for Cops Fighting Cancer. Bring a new toy to donate, and you’ll hit the ice for free; without a contribution, skate for…
It’s a busy Third Friday in D-town, particularly at the Laundry on Lawrence, where eleven artists came together in “an exploration of soft materials.” Not surprisingly, the concept takes many directions in a variety of mediums, with both individual and collaborative results. See also: – Artist Theresa Anderson explains how…
Has the calm before the edible storm that is Thanksgiving got you down in the dumps? Revolution Circus, a huge compendium of bands, freaks, sideshow acts, burlesque girls, body painters, acrobats, tatto artists, belly dancers, hoopers and other circusy things will take over City Hall for a many-leveled, single night…
If you like the idea and the music of The Nutcracker but find the ballet tediously overwrought, Spark Theater is throwing a show for you: The world-premiere play Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, written by Spark artistic director Michael Emmitt, opens there today at 2 p.m. Emmitt says he was looking for some…
Those familiar with Sustainability Park, near RedLine Gallery at 24th and Lawrence streets, might recognize the circHouse “better” yurt on display there, designed by architect Ed Ryan as an alternative temporary shelter. Denver artist Viviane Le Courtois uses it as a studio, sometimes inviting friends to help her prepare elements…
Every generation of artists has its hangout, and from 1984 until 1999, that place in Denver was the topsy-turvy City Spirit Cafe, on Blake Street in early LoDo. It was as much a work of art itself as it was a place for artists — and anyone, really — to…
In this age of designer toys and Hello Kitty decor, art and playtime have already crossed over into shared territory. And Havu Gallery’s Toy Stories exhibit in the summer of 2011 took the concept to a higher level, using toy-like elements to appeal to an adult sensibility. The holiday season…
PechaKucha, the grownup show-and-tell series revived in Denver earlier this year, tonight will focus on a subject to which everyone can relate. All Things Edible will bring together an eclectic — with a capital “E” — group of experts together at Buntport Theater to share their viewpoints on the subject…
GlobalWalker Polly Letofsky started dreaming about walking around the world when she was twelve years old. Remarkably, the young girl’s dream became the grown woman’s reality in 1999, when Letofsky embarked on what became a five-year, 14,000-mile, 22-country voyage-by-foot, with the initial goal of spreading awareness about breast cancer. Years…
It started a few years ago with a slight buzz, but the concept of buying local has become a resonant holiday-season mantra for urban forward-thinkers. In its wake, handmade holiday markets are thriving, all packed to the rafters with the work of regional crafters, jewelers and artisans. A slew of…
Denver’s private Dikeou Collection has a permanent gallery space in a downtown Denver office building that’s a little hard to find, unless you know your way around the corporate world. As a remedy, the gallery’s Devon Dikeou also curates a more accessible ground-floor pop-up space in the Golden Triangle, which…
Denver Arts Week unlocks one of the city’s most precious secrets: Almost all of the events and places falling under its diverse cultural banner are actually available to the public nearly 365 days a year, give or take an hour or a day. First Friday gallery walks and dozens of…
If Lighthouse Writers had tried to snag smoking-hot author Junot Díaz for a Denver appearance in the last year, it probably wouldn’t have happened, notes Lighthouse program director Andrea Dupree. But thanks to a an inside contact and discussions that literally began years ago, Díaz — a Pulitzer Prize-winner and…
The RiNo art-studio community Wazee Union is a little like the proverbial beehive of activity all the time, with art being made in its studio cells and artists communing in its labyrinthine hallways day and night. But tonight’s Second Saturday building takeover, Rock Paper Projector, will raise the buzz to…
It’s never too early to start holiday shopping, and for those seeking handmade or unusual gifts, the first wave of sales begins this weekend, with many time-honored annual gift events rubbing elbows with a few fresh ones. One of the latter, the Paris Holiday Market Trunk Show, is actually in…
The Tupperware will be real, all real, when the participatory tour-de-force Dixie’s Tupperware Party returns to the Garner Galleria Theatre tonight for another hi-larious repeat run, just in time for the holidays. And like the contents kept in Tupperware, Dixie Longate, the larger-than-life, big-haired, trailer-trash star who struts out on…
In the midst of a modern DIY craft revolution, more people are resolving to make their holiday gifts, rather than dropping big bucks on impersonal gifts from the mall. And besides, it’s fun to really get your hands into the holidays — and even more fun to do it in…
When Samuel Schimek of the all-local I Heart Denver store in the Denver Pavilions sets out to do something, it more often than not seems to have a built-in public-service component. That’s definitely true of his first I Heart Denver webisode, which he personally wrote, directed and funded, with help…
Denver’s Dangerous Theatre lives up to its name, staging edgy and sometimes kinky theater of the sort we don’t often see in this town. And the current show, Jonathan Vick’s murky psychodrama Comfort in the Arms of the Damned, offers proof of that. But DDT’s guiding force, Winnie Wenglewick, wants…
While the thriving arts districts within Denver city limits will be rocking tonight as Denver Arts Week kicks off with Know Your Arts First Friday, one of the newest kids on the block, the 40 West Arts District, will be touting the local artists of…Lakewood, our suburban neighbor to the…
Pirate gallery’s annual Día de los Muertos celebration has been bringing family altars and candlelight processions to downtown and northside streets for close to thirty years. It’s one of several Day of the Dead celebrations taking place in Denver this weekend, which will merge Dead events with the very lively…
The Denver Zoo has been in the spotlight a lot lately, with news of the death of beloved elephant Mimi and the September miracle birth of baby tapir Dumadi, who required a mouth-to-snout kickstart from a quick-thinking keeper. And the state-of-the-art Toyota Elephant Passage exhibit, which opened in June, is…
