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)…
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…
It’s Colorado Rides Electric Day — who knew? Designed to ride shotgun to the World Renewable Energy Forum now at the Colorado Convention Center, the celebration includes a two-day Electric Avenue electric car expo that’s free and open to the public from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Representatives of charging…
It’s Tuesday, not exactly the day of the week when you expect a downtown parade, especially one that’s just for the hell of it, put on seemingly for no reason except to spread some fun. But that’s what you’ll get this lunch hour, when the award-winning Montbello Drumline marches down…
It was quieter in RiNo yesterday than you’d expect, considering there was a studio tour and a RiNo hunt going on for the last day of Create Denver. But it was nonetheless a perfect day to explore, and whether or not you discovered one of the 100 numbered ceramic rhinos…
You’ve heard of running away from home. But author Jennifer Wilson, after losing her savings to the stock-market crash, gathered up her family in Des Moines and ran away to home, or at least that’s the way she characterizes it in her memoir/travelogue Running Away to Home…
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…
Edward Weston holds an upper berth in the pantheon of modern American photography, and it’s easy to see why. A solid Modernist who began working in the early twentieth century, Weston — who was also a great technician in the darkroom — breathed life into inanimate objects and places, turning…
One of TACtile Textile Arts Center’s most colorful exhibits is back: World Threads III: Preserving Textile Traditions, featuring — as in the past — a beautiful global palette of fiber-arts handiwork to both look at and to buy. Even more beautiful is the humanitarian purpose behind the show — to…
If you lean toward the campy, low-budget cinematic underground of John Waters and Andy Warhol, you’d do well to familiarize yourself with Mike and George Kuchar, twin brothers who rose through the ranks of avant garde filmmaking in the ’60s and ’70s by making such classics as Thundercrack, Sins of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s one of those eternal questions: Which was better, the movie or the book? You may find the answer tonight, when Cinema in the Stacks, a monthly literary film series hosted by the Aurora Central Library, kicks off for the summer. For the most part, perhaps because the library is…
There are a few places where women without hats would seem dangerously close to naked: a Baptist church, the Kentucky Derby and Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee celebration. And for a hat to appear in conjunction with the latter — the Queen, in her sixtieth year of Queendom, is known for…
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…
When Kizuna: West Meets East, a site-specific installation of monumental works in bamboo, opens tomorrow at the Denver Botanic Gardens, it will only be the next step in a process that began in earnest in early April, when the artists arrived at the DBG not just to install, but in…
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…
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…
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…
The trees talk to Denver artist Corrina Espinosa, whose work often starts with a piece of wood; a carver with a deep soul, she’s made art out of stumps and branches, and whole trees shaded her Metro State College of Denver senior thesis exhibition, Hybrid Zoetic. The finished pieces sometimes…
