When we think of the art of Taos, the first image we usually conjure up is the landscape, colored in the tones of the mountain Southwest. Yet that’s not what all Taos art turns out to be, especially in contemporary times, as artists continue to flock to northern New Mexico…
Andrew Novick — Warlock Pincher, collector, Asian-pop aficionado, character-about-town — is into things, and one of those things is food. Already famous for his annual Peeps barbecue, he has of late gained a reputation for outrageous food events and edibles, such as the Denver County Fair’s out-of-control, one-with-everything pancake breakfast,…
We’ve seen a lot of punk this spring since MCA Denver and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center rolled out their double-barreled Search & Destroy series of exhibits and events referencing the West Coast Punk ethos. But tonight’s Appropriate Punk at Hinterland will swing that exploration into an unknown, multi-disciplinary territory…
When you’re a writer on the level of Evergreen native (and longtime L.A. denizen) Daniel Pyne, who’s sharpened his pen writing scripts for everything from Miami Vice to The Manchurian Candidate, infusing a story about brotherly bonds with a big shot of suspense and an action-packed denouement doesn’t ruffle a…
The Capitol Hill People’s Fair customarily kicks off the summer at Civic Center Park, making it one of those tried-and-true traditions that you almost don’t want to see change. You go for the walloping local entertainment roster on multiple stages and the quality craft vendors; you bring the kids so…
Fashion Denver’s Brandi Shigley has made the professional transition from retailer to full-time fashion consultant, but she hasn’t dropped the curtain on her seasonal, signature fashion markets, where local designers show off their stuff at vendor tables and in mini runway shows. But that doesn’t mean she can’t shake things…
Out with the dinosaurs, in with tornadoes: It’s time for the periodic changing of the guard at the IMAX 3-D theater at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Replacing DinoMax, Born to Be Wild and Under the Sea are the 3-D, large-screen mindbenders Tornado Alley and Flying Monsters (okay,…
Curious Theatre Company cracked open a whole new fascination for troubled color-field artist Mark Rothko with its production of the engaging play Red, in which the painter and his assistant discuss the meaning of life and art while painting a fresh canvas onstage. And just as the play offers a…
Late last year, spurred by a seeming disconnect among many factions of the local fashion world, style mavens Kathy Bacon and Mona Lucero put their heads together with Ginger White Brunetti of Create Denver and Stephanie Blake of Blake Communications to investigate the concept of a unified fashion board or…
We’re used to gallery shows that look pretty much the same when they end as when they began. But Residue Denver, opening tonight at Edge Gallery, isn’t designed to remain static. Though the juried group show will begin with a variety of sculptural objects scattered around the space, five or…
To call Free School Denver “grassroots” is almost too mild: Like a relic of the ’60s, DFS has no hierarchies. Formed in that nascent spirit of community education, the school offers all classes for free, and anyone can attend or teach one. Sessions tend to go down in private homes…
Penelope Houston first made waves in the late ’70s as the frontwoman of the San Francisco punk band the Avengers (which reached its apex opening for the Sex Pistols at Winterland, at what was to be the seminal English punk band’s last gig), but after that two-year experiment, she spent…
The opera Brundibar has a terrible yet inspirational past: Written in 1938 by Jewish composer Hans Krasa and librettist Adolf Hoffmeister, it was famously performed by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp with a limited orchestra in 1943. On the surface a fairy tale about a brother and sister who…
There’s something different about the little neighborhood street festivals of summer: A communal block-party feel that connects people without overwhelming them. The Old South Gaylord Memorial Day Weekend Festival, going strong now for more than thirty years, represents all that and more, though what makes it work is really no…
It’s a brave proposition to start a new theater troupe, but Wit Theatre Company, an ensemble of eight that formed just a few months ago, is ready to put on its first show. Make that almost ready…
The hoopla at the Denver Art Museum this summer is mostly focused on fashion and Yves St. Laurent. But another small show, Abstract Angus, featuring works by contemporary Western painter Theodore Waddell, opened at the DAM over the weekend, offering museum-goers a completely different artistic point of view. The show…
Definite trend: Drink and Draw, Cocktails and Canvases. No matter what you call the combo, it translates to knock back a few back while making art. And tonight at PlatteForum, the award-winning, innovative community art center that pairs underserved youth with artist-mentors, that’s just what you’re invited to do…
Jacquie Van Horne believes that artists who are mothers, too, need to stick together, because — as she writes on her Facebook page — “Motherhood is not the time to put the paintbrush down.” That’s why she created Artistic Mamas, which is as much a celebration of mothers who paint…
Faced with the postponement of two screenings of the highly anticipated film The Beatles: The Lost Concert, Boedecker Theater manager Glenn Webb didn’t cry in his kidney pie. Instead, he secured a replacement reel: Paul McCartney Is Really Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison, a comic mockumentary corroborating the…
It’s not unusual to place some sort of significance on a piece of jewelry, which might be an heirloom, keepsake or memento — or all three. But for former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served under President Bill Clinton, her baubles — some priceless and some paste –…
Olympic weightlifter Cheryl Haworth is a rare commodity: a woman who lifts weights in the international arena. She’s the top-ranking lifter of any gender in the United States, tips the scales at more than 300 pounds and boasts a twelve-generation American lineage. Her greatest moment was winning the bronze at…
Jackson Galaxy has what he calls “cat mojo,” and it fits his image like the cat’s meow: The bald-headed, tattooed, goateed pet whisperer looks a little scary, but if you watch his Animal Planet show, My Cat From Hell, you’ll see that he’s really rather sweet, and certainly down-to-earth when…
