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…
There are big openings of shows at the Denver Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art that explore international and Californian phenomena — but don’t miss the exhibit opening tonight at Robischon Gallery that touts imagery from right in our own back yard…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
That Minnesota slam poet Sierra DeMulder commands an audience is a given: The high-ranked word-slinger helped the St. Paul Poetry Slam Team take the nationals two years in a row, and that’s the top line on a list of kudos she’s received over the last few years. The author of…
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 –…
Will Mondo get robbed again, or will he finally triumph? That’s still the big question on the minds of loyal fashionistas across the very universe. But either way, we already know that Mondo Guerra has a bright future ahead of him…
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…
For this spring’s Logan Lecture series at the Denver Art Museum, Modern & Contemporary curator Gwen Chanzit chose to focus on five artists whose primary concern is for the materials they work with. Postminimalist artist Richard Tuttle, whose sculptural works weave in and out of various mediums and techniques while…
If social media is the communication tool of the future, the Denver Public Library doesn’t want to be left in the dust, and that’s why the library will launch its ambitious Creating Your Community (CYC) social archive — a participatory opportunity for people to share stories of their Colorado heritage…
Spring has sprung early in Denver, bringing with it crocuses, daffodils and March Madness. And if all of that puts you in a mood to shoot a few hoops in the Mile High sunshine, you’re in luck: The freshly painted Southwest Court at Skyline Park opened for business last Friday…
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,…
The Lobby is only one of the venues that have relied on Denver art curator and 2010 Westword MasterMind Eric Matelski to organize a rotating series of art shows for their walls over the years — the Lobby is the only venue he’s curated its doors first opened to the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
