Punk invades MCA this Friday: Steven Wolf on West Coast punk

The West Coast punks are pogoing into town this spring at MCA Denver, Gildar Gallery, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and other locations, for a series of shows falling under the aegis of Search & Destroy. So-named for the San Francisco ‘zine or the ’70s), the ring of satellite shows…

Too Much Mousey Business

Lafayette-based artist Lisa Michot wants you to know that it’s Ignacio Mouser, her papier-mache rodent alter-ego, and not Lisa herself, who is an associate member of NEXT Gallery, so take that knowledge and a grain of salt with you when you go to see Ignacio Mouser and Friends, a small…

Trout Fisherman, Revisited

Author Richard Brautigan, whose novels were compact and dreamy, was a conundrum of a man: Embraced by the ’60s counterculture, he didn’t return the favor, and at the end of the era, the fame built on the strength of his novel Trout Fishing in America petered out. On a parallel…

Cold, Hard Cash

“We knew we wanted to do something around Johnny Cash. We knew we wanted to call it Square of Ice,” says Emily Tarquin, the co-curator (with Charlie Miller) of Off-Center@the Jones, and that’s pretty much how ideas begin in the offbeat wing of the Denver Performing Arts Complex, which hosts…

Opera on Tap taps the popular, tonight at Bender’s

The opera singers who regularly let their hair down at Opera on Tap, the up-close-and-personal monthly bar night at Bender’s Tavern, will further reveal their inner selves during tonight’s installment, the Musical Month of March. And though opera is inherently musical, this “musical” refers to what blossoms on Broadway rather…

Tonight at Buntport: The Great Hamantasch/Latke Debate is back

Which is better: the hamantasch or the latke? That simple question is suddenly not so simple when placed in the hands of the Buntport Theater crew and faculty members of the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies, who are preparing to debate the issue — for the third year…

Mona Lucero dishes on YSL and the magic of haute couture

While I think I have taste, I’m just another plebe at the Yves Saint Laurent show, wandering through the DAM, slobbering and snorting smelling salts to keep from fainting at each new discovery. So when it came time to pick favorites, I asked someone with a more sophisticated eye –…

Can’t Buy Me Love

We’ve all roamed around Craigslist at one time or another, looking for couches or jobs or something to do. And after seeing so many friends “dating or at least hooking up through Craiglist,” playwright Sean Paul Mahoney decided that the time was ripe for the free online listing service to…

On the Move

Maybe you had to be there, but one of the most poignant moments of my own excitable high-school years was seeing the Frederick Wiseman cinema verite High School, a documentary filmed in an urban Philadelphia school that plainly exposed the oppressive atmosphere of the place while unfolding slowly and unwaveringly,…

Live, From The Internet!

It’s always a happening when Super Ordinary Gallery throws a show, but in the case of New Gothic, an exhibit of collages by Mario Zoots featuring work most commonly seen in cyberspace, it’s maybe just a little bit more so. Though the DIY renaissance man is also known for video…

Runway Redemption

Mondo got robbed. Pretty much everyone who followed Season 8 of Project Runway agrees: Denver designer and runner-up Mondo Guerra should have taken it all, especially after breaking our hearts with the on-air revelation that in addition to being an incredibly talented, lovable character, he’s HIV-positive. His loss didn’t dampen…

Monday Night Lights

Night skiing has become a regular tradition at the close-to-home Echo Mountain Terrain Park, and it’s available from 4 to 9 p.m. five nights a week. But on Monday nights, competing after dark puts a new spin on the pursuit. Beginning tonight, Echo will host the Under the Lights Race…

Beastly Good

What’s the most definitive Disney film musical? Many would say Beauty and the Beast, which is why it’s no surprise that the prettified fairy-tale-with-music turned into what’s probably the most successful attempt to adapt Disney to the Broadway stage. It’s a downright classic — from its near-perfect Menken and Ashman…

High Anxiety

In an age when film has become a commodity easily bought and traded online, it’s nice to be able to appreciate a classic work as it was meant to be seen — on the silver screen. That’s the real beauty of the Denver FilmCenter’s ongoing Rare Imports Series, which features…

Garden Party

Mondays at the Denver Botanic Gardens are worth savoring. It’s quiet and still, and you just might have the whole place to yourself (unless you’re overrun by a school group, which should be considered an act of God). This time of year, of course, you could be confined to the…