When Tejano director Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi came out in the early ’90s, we’d never seen anything quite like it, though the idea of an edgy, comic Western certainly had precursors, including the piquant Cat Ballou. But El Mariachi, famously — and remarkably — made on a $7,000 budget, is…

Bike culture rolls strong in Colorado, where every sort of cyclist thrives — from leg-shaving, spandex-wearing road racers to evening pleasure cruisers. Whether reliving our childhoods or taking it a little bit too seriously, we seem to love everything on two wheels in these parts, so it follows that we…

Johnny Cash, with his craggy features and long, black coat, cut a majestic figure in the annals of American music, but his earthy baritone and his songs — stark, sometimes outspoken and always well-wrought — were his real legacy. It’s those songs, nearly three dozen of them, that make up…

At Access Gallery, the most visible wing of VSA Colorado, one expects to see work created by people with disabilities: The nonprofit organization primarily offers services and programs for the developmentally disabled, with the idea of giving them better access to the world at large. But Outside In, a new…

Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s Wednesday-night performance hodgepodge curated by Corey Elbin, is still showing signs of life after Elbin’s departure, thanks to the Gorinto community, which is pulling together to curate shows individually. Tonight, longtime metro-area musician/multimedia artist Mark McCoin will serve up Automatica, a culminating performance by students in…

Say you like to ride your bike. And you like to eat, right? Vegetarian? All the better. You’ll feel right at home taking advantage of the BikeDenver fundraiser at WaterCourse Foods, where a percentage of every meal ticket today will go to the bicycle-advocacy group. And it’s no accident that…

Emily K. Harrison of Square Product Theatre can hardly stop laughing long enough to talk about 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, a comedy she says is “ridiculous, but still completely believable in a way that makes you think this could actually be happening.” Though it was originally developed by Chicago’s…

When a dance troupe like Control Group — an independent organization known for its avant-garde movement and theater — takes on classical romanticism, don’t expect whatever you were expecting. That’s because Control Group mastermind Patrick Mueller has a habit of turning things evocative in ways one can’t anticipate. And Salon…

What was once a gaping hole in the ground has become a handsome building, at least on the outside, and that bodes well for the new History Colorado Center, which opens to the public today. Once inside, the history museum’s long-waiting constituents will also find handsome innards, along with updated…

It’s a sad day, but not as sad as it could have been for the fanatical keepers of the O scale Colorado Midland Railroad and the smaller HO scale Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad, who’ve been tending to their train setups in the basement of Union Station for almost…

Last year it was a wine tasting, but this year, in conjunction with the Denver Art Museum’s Yves Saint Laurent extravaganza, the Museo de las Americas is hoping to lure a younger demographic into the galleries with Fashion of the Americas, a fashion show fundraiser featuring a diverse quintet of…

“stupid america, hear that chicano / shouting curses on the street / he is a poet / without paper and pencil / and since he cannot write/he will explode.” — Lalo Delgado Given what’s going on in Tucson, Arizona, these days, this kind of poem is coming back into style…

Last time out, the Denver Public Library’s Frock Out fashion fete went a little wacky, with a side-show theme that rocked the Denver Central Library’s Schlessman Hall with drag queens, freaks and roller derby girls. But this year, which also happens to mark the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of…