Color Cast

In preparing for its current production of The Joy Luck Club, Vintage Theatre found itself in a bind: In this town’s small theater scene with its even smaller pool of Asian actors, how was the company going to stage a play requiring an all-Asian cast of 21 actors? (See http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2012/04/the_joy_luck_club_runs_through.php)…

Shop & Ride

Though shopping has a reputation for being more of a girl thing, when you add bikes and bars to the mix, it’s likely that more than a few guys can be coerced to tag along. That’s not the motivation behind today’s DIBS Bike Crawl to a trio of trendy hipster…

Where will you find your RiNo rhino during Create Denver Week?

Create Denver Week, which began with a party last night, gets down to some heavy business with tonight’s Urban Encounters and tomorrow’s Create Denver Expo. But you never know — they might be saving the best for last: On Sunday, the whole city is invited to the RiNo Art District…

Costumes, Squared

To say that the work of artist Nick Cave (no, not that Nick Cave) is singular doesn’t quite do it justice, but his soundsuits, for which he is best known, are a sight to see. A dancer, sculptor, weaver and architect of three-dimensional wearable art, Cave fabricates human shells from…

A Wide Canvas

Ken Hamel, the single-handed keeper of Denverarts.org, a website documenting the goings-on of local artists and galleries, might seem like a driven man. You have to wonder how he manages to be in so many places at what seems like the same time, snapping photos and capturing the gist of…

Urban Experience

Create Denver Week is growing by leaps and bounds: What started out several years ago as a folksy expo for creatives has turned into a full-fledged urban-art experience, casting a grown-up light on homegrown arts and culture. Not that the Create Denver Expo that started it all has gone away…

A Date with an Artist

Today’s RiNo Open Studio Tour is a happy dalliance between the River North Arts District and Create Denver; the two happened to rendezvous simply because their dates tend to intersect, and it turns out that a major art-district tour is a nice topper to a full weekend of crowing about…

Kenji Bunch and EarWarp: Modern music for modern people

The EarWarp chamber concert series — which regularly spotlights some of Colorado’s best classical musicians — is still growing, but it helps to have friends like Kenji Bunch, a nationally recognized violist and modern composer, whose work is derived from contemporary folk/roots music, as well as the classical canon. Bunch…

The Cat’s Meow

Last year’s Cat Care Society fundraiser, Tails of the Painted Cats, was so popular, says society director Suellen Scott, that they’re bringing it back. After all, it’s hard to hate the cheerful fiberglass felines that are the focal point, especially after they’ve been decorated by an imaginative circle of cat-loving…

Dancing in the Aisles

Veteran choreographer Danelle Helander of Helander Dance Theater knows how hard producing a show can be. “I was getting frustrated. Every time I’d go to produce a concert, it was so expensive,” she says.”But I also love the idea of doing art in places where people least expect it.” From…

Spenser Lives

Besides having a kick-ass name, Ace Atkins has a lot going for him as the guy bequeathed with the late Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. A former crime reporter (and Pulitzer nominee) and established true-crime author and novelist, Atkins was anointed Parker’s successor by Mrs. Parker herself, not only because…