Last year we reported that Denver author Gregory Hill, a library book-buyer and part-time musician, was a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award; the winners, as determined by public voting, would get a Penguin Group publishing contract and a sweet $15,000 advance. Cut to the chase: Hill, one of…
The work of Miami-based Cuban-American art duo Guerra de la Paz (which translates to “war of peace”) first caught the eye of Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design gallery director Cortney Stell at Art Basel Miami Beach — so much so that she was driven to make a cold…
There’s no fine-art showcase in Colorado more prestigious than this weekend’s 22nd annual Cherry Creek Arts Festival. And even though excelling as an artist there one year precludes you from coming back the following — 2011’s twelve award winners and poster artist were not allowed to participate in 2012, for…
When the Denver Art Museum opens its doors today for Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, it won’t just be the fashionista crowd clamoring to get in, and there’s a reason for that: An astonishing collection of 200 fully accessorized haute couture garments (including forty classic YSL tuxedos for women) documenting…
The latest ploy to get people to enjoy opera? Booze. As the local group Opera on Tap has shown, opera can sound better in a bar — especially if you’re young, drinking beer, and not overwhelmed by an auditorium filled with bejeweled folks in suits and gowns. And not only…
All dressed up and everywhere to go: Now that the Denver Botanic Gardens has unveiled its beautifully reimagined Japanese garden and mounted Kizuna, a summer blockbuster of massive, graceful bamboo installations placed throughout the grounds, it’s ready to celebrate. Tanabata Day, also known as the “star festival,” is a lovely…
The tiny town of Glendale has been doing a bang-up job of celebrating July 4th for years — though its festivities never a actually fell on Independence Day, since that would have competed with other municipalities that shot off their own spectaculars on the holiday proper. And a few years…
The Denver County Fair — version 2.0 — is coming back to the National Western Complex on August 10, just over five weeks from now. We’ve just come from a mind-blowing powwow with DCF masterminds and will soon share all the fair’s new twists and turns. But first, there’s news…
The Arvada Center gallery’s current Faces, Places & Spaces three-show summer extravaganza features a bevy — actually, a real beauty pageant — of artists from Colorado or with Colorado ties, and the result is a refreshing look at this state. The best way to get a feel for many of…
“Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.” — Gerhard Richter If the above is true, you’ll be singing “Hallelujah!” after viewing the documentary Gerhard Richter Painting, a cinematic celebration…
The tiny town of Glendale has been doing a bang-up job of celebrating July 4th for years – though its festivities, which always fall a day before or after Independence Day, never compete with all those municipalities that shoot off their own spectaculars on the holiday proper. The date isn’t…
Are all modern Democrats socialists? Are Republicans all Tea Party fascists who’ve fabricated history to prove their points? Maybe not, but the public perception on both sides of the aisle makes it seem that way, much to the consternation of Brookings Institution political analyst and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne,…
If perusing art from all over Colorado and across the nation is how you’d like to spend the weekend, the Boulder Festival of the Arts has exactly what you’re looking for. One of dozens of juried fine-art showcases produced by Howard Alan Events, the Boulder fest starts this morning and…
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, where movies and beer dwell together in perfect harmony, won’t open its doors at Aspen Grove until early next year, but the much-awaited franchise is already serving that community by hosting a Wednesday-night outdoor film festival at the Littleton mall this summer…
You know that when the Lunar and Planetary Institute holds a conference in Boulder on the Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets, the subject matter is bound to be a bit arcane for the rest of us…
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra was clearly looking for a high-profile name, and it got one: This morning the CSO announced the appointment of Andrew Litton as its Artistic Advisor, bringing the superstar in as something less than a full music director, but more than a guest in the ranks. Litton…
Steamrolling toward the August nationals in Charlotte, North Carolina, the 2012 Slam Nuba slam poetry team (and 2011 national winner) is just back in town after snagging a first-place victory in the Southwest Shootout in Tulsa. The Slam Nuba crew will celebrate tonight, with help from guest poet Tongo Eisen-Martin…
The Westword Music Showcase will pour out the entertainment tomorrow from noon to midnight, with more than 150 acts filling an outdoor mainstage and over a dozen venues in the Golden Triangle…
All the mall’s a stage for today’s Make Music Denver Denver loves its music, whether sounding off in outdoor amphitheatres, concert halls clubs…or the streets. That’s where it will be today, when the Downtown Denver Partnership brings Make Music Denver, our own little slice of today’s global celebration of World…
From the way he’s loading our plates with stuff this spring, it seems Adam Lerner must have had one of those good Jewish mothers: Three shows — Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, Richard Peterson: Artists and Rockers and Guarded, an installation piece by the artist collective…
Twenty years ago, Salida was a sleepy mountain town on the Arkansas river with a few galleries. River rafters knew it; so did artists looking for a scenic but quiet spot to live and work, and it was (and is) a nice riverside stopover while driving through the Rockies. It…
Horseshoe Market kahuna Amy Yetman didn’t quite know what to make of it when the folks at History Colorado contacted her about joining forces for a series of mini-flea markets at historical sites around the state. But it also sounded like a fun way to expand while offering her vendors…
