Diana Rupp leaped through a few hoops before she found exactly what it was she wanted out of life. After stints as a stylist and as a fashion writer and editor, the born do-it-yourselfer opened Make Workshop, a DIY crafters’ paradise in New York City: As her website notes, “She…
Brian Smith, the guiding light behind Denver’s Space Creators, a company that, well, creates space, started big when his first redevelopment project, Wazee Union, opened in 2010. Since then, he’s just kept thinking bigger and bigger, with projects including Wazee Union’s sister facility, Walnut Workshop, right across the railroad tracks…
I have an adult niece in San Francisco who’s into theater on the fringe; she’s been a stage manager and a world traveler to various festivals, writes about theater for a Bay area newspaper, and every so often, hosts lives theatrical performances in her living room, sort of like a…
The locally produced teen flick 16-LOVE, directed by Denverite Adam Lipsius and starring Lindsay Shaw (The Howling and Pretty Little Liars) as a kid tennis phenom, premieres today at the Denver FilmCenter with screenings starting at 2 p.m. It’s a high school love story with a hard sports edge; though…
Although the Avenue Theater has moved around and changed hands now and then, it’s still been a fixture on 17th Avenue for 25 long, good years. To kick off its 25th anniversary season, the Avenue will jump into 2012 with its fifth annual Womens’ Performance Series, a showcase for the…
Smartphones changed the way we take and look at pictures almost overnight: The photographs they give us are in-the-moment, often grainy or unfocused, and given up completely to fancy, almost part of a genre all its own. It’s also evolved to the point that images in the smartphone spirit don’t…
Buntport Theater teaming up with Stories on Stage? Not new. Buntport reading flash fiction for Stories on Stage? New. And bound to be outta here almost as fast as it happens. The creative crew from Buntport will focus on stories that are all over in three minutes when the two…
Bulgarian-born and Colorado-based puppet artist Margarita Blush says it was the rediscovery of a childhood book of Japanese folk tales that set her on the trail of creating The Crane Wife, her new puppet-theater work, now showing at the Boulder Public Library. As a result of her find, says Blush,…
Burlesque meets classic rock in the best way possible when the Vinyl Vixens Burlesque Tribute to the Heroines of Rock ‘n Roll opens late tonight for a two-night run at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. And it won’t be any old run-of-the-mill burlesque you’ve seen before. Conceived by local burlesquer Honey Touche…
Boulder’s EcoArts puts on art shows that go heavy on the green, while mixing everything up into something that the community can touch and feel and — hopefully — get, because there’s a message to be found in the midst of all the ecological hullabaloo. The invisible connectedness of things,…
Late last week, the unthinkable happened. Phil Bender — founder of Pirate gallery and the generally accepted godfather of the Denver co-op scene — mysteriously appeared on Facebook. Anyone who knows Phil even the least bit knows that he does not compute: doesn’t trust a computer or a tweet, is…
To misquote Shakespeare, what’s in a dress? What’s in the cut of a particular tailored jacket? If these details were in the imagination of Yves Saint Laurent, the name means everything; one of the classic designers of the twentieth century, YSL earned his fame. He learned the ropes under the…
The point of iWorld, which opened this week at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, is pretty much contained in the title: We do live in an iWorld of our own making, and it’s changing the face of the photographic image with its new level of immediacy — instant gratification, if…
Artists will paint on almost anything for charity: skateboards, vinyl toys, cat statues, guitars — you name it. Now an ever-growing slice of locals are contributing hand-painted bowling pins for the Wish for Wheels Bowling Pin Art Charity Show, a one-night affair on Saturday, January 14, from 8 to 11:30…
Deep in the bowels of the Denver Performing Arts Complex lies the mysterious little Jones Theatre, which sits on the backside of the complex like an afterthought. But what goes on in there? For one, there’s Cult Following, a monthly improv-based (but not exactly) performance serial with this motto: “Theater…
Though we don’t often give it much thought, art has been locked in a love-clutch with science since the first caveman picked up a cinder and used it to draw on a wall. And while a lot of that has to do with things like chemical reactions, makeup of mediums…
The sad-eyed ladies of tattoo artist and painter Sandi Calistro have a compelling way of staring you down, whether they’re inked into the skin or slapped on a wall. Calistro says they’re born from the “heartbreaking experiences” we’ve all been through — which explains why they stay with you for…
You might say curator Petra Sertis of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art went a little bit out on a limb for her fall exhibitions, which feature a trio of very young regional artists whose previous exposure has been primarily underground. “All three of these artists had already caught my…
Some movies are more difficult than others; Wild Strawberries — as well as just about any Ingmar Bergman flick — definitely qualifies. And though this complex film, in which an elderly widower re-evaluates his life through a series of hitchhiker encounters, ends well, it’s also a kind of unfolding psychoanalysis…
In the spirit of Grease, High School Musical, Glee and, well, Bring It On the movie, it was only a matter of time before someone staged a musical about cheerleaders. The feel-good, high-energy tone of the film translates perfectly to Bring It On: The Musical, a show put together by…
Colorado Springs artist Sean O’Meallie and the Business of Art Center put on a once-in-a-lifetime show last October, when they brought the Manitou Chair Project — a 600-chair conga line down the middle of the main drag in Manitou Springs at sunrise — to fruition. We liked it so much…
There are circuses, and then there are circuses. For what that’s worth, Circus Emporium, which brings its roadshow and Museum of Oddities to 3 Kings Tavern tonight, falls into the latter, more overtly gruesome category. Here are a few of our favorite oddities from the sideshow, direct from Coney Island…
