Christine Lavin, a born storyteller and good ol’ gal, is all about the people she entertains. “I get people together, shake things up and leave town,” she said in a 2004 Westword interview, and that’s sure to happen again when she stops over tonight at the Oriental Theater with her…
When Collapse opens tonight at Curious Theatre, it will actually be the second premiere of the new play by continuing Curious collaborator Allison Moore — evidence of the troupe’s ongoing commitment to producing fresh material as part of the National New Play Network’s rolling world-premiere program. The first premiere of…
Artists from the metro area and across the nation will all be represented in Light Supply, a new offering opening today at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, which joins other local museums (the spring exhibit Blink! at the DAM and the MCA’s current show, Another Victory Over the Sun) in…
Usually it’s a literary hodgepodge of writings about the West read by Colorado celebrities — not the glitzy ones, but a round-robin of teachers, historians and politicians. but tonight’s Words to Stir the Soul, an annual tradition curated by the University of Colorado’s Center for the American West, will focus…
Update: Due to technical difficulties at the Giving First website, Colorado Gives Day has been extended until noon tomorrow. Go ahead. Knock yourself out giving! Read on: It’s Colorado Gives Day, and since the stroke of midnight, nearly 1,000 Colorado nonprofits have been collecting donations in just about any charitable…
Lights might be the best part of the holiday season: neighborhoods and business districts all lit up, more lights twinkling on trees and candles aglow in menorahs, kinaras and luminarias. And the enjoyment of those magical lights is a piece of childhood that never leaves us; as they turn off…
The last time we talked to Longmont artist Gamma Acosta, he quietly reminded us that there’s redemption in street art, and many of the kids who come out of the tagging culture, spray cans in hand, have talent that can raise them above the low-rent materials of the street. That…
Update: Make that four ways: We’ve just received this notice from Planned Parenthood’s Monica McCafferty. Due to unpredictable and incremental weather and road conditions, we are canceling this evening’s candlelight vigil at the Capitol in honor of World AIDS Day. We will reschedule the event for a time in 2012…
Leave it to Boulder to become the testing ground for something as antithetical as “bus birding,” but that’s what’s happening, thanks to EcoArts Connections, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and the Regional Transportation District. With help from artist and “re-naturalist” Brian Collier, the collaboration is yielding a…
Erin Algiere, Sandra Fettingis and Kelsey Dalton worked together at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, but that’s not all they had in common: Like many people who labor behind the scenes at museums, they were all artists, aspiring or otherwise. And since they were far from alone in that…
Stuart Alden of Ink Lounge knows the craft-fair routine. With his wife, Nicky, he screenprints and sells unique calendars at various shows and markets, which, he admits, are mostly a woman’s world. “I’m usually one of a handful of guys in there,” he says. “And a lot of the time,…
A few years ago, when actor Gary Culig abandoned his beloved longtime role as Crumpet the Elf in the Bug Theatre’s perennial holiday production of The SantaLand Diaries, he left the local field wide open for a new kind of Crumpet, the sourly wry Macy’s elf based on the true…
Denver’s Vintage Theatre took on a major project when its members decided to take on Avenue Q: The Tony Triple Crown-winning adult musical featuring Muppet-like puppets, made from scratch with big, flappin’ dirty mouths, isn’t cheap to to stage, nor is it your everyday song-and-dance…
Seems like only yesterday that Working with Artists and the then-virtual Colorado Photographic Arts Center announced their impending merger, and indeed it was really only a few months ago. But no sooner did it begin to gather steam in its new guise as the New Colorado Photographic Arts Center when…
Denver’s not generally known for its old-world charm. We’ve gone straight from cowtown to modern city, it seems, and even our perception of “old-fashioned” has been contemporized for an urban audience. At Christmastime, though, there’s at least one tradition here that’s fiercely old-world, and that’s the come-and-go Christkindl Market, which…
When Meghan Throckmorton opened her tiny boutique Rakun, situated in a little house on the far northern edge of the Art District on Santa Fe, on First Friday in June, she knew it was a gamble; six months later, she’s still there, but not without wishing for more of the…
I’ve seen the Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of A Christmas Carol more than once, and as someone who was brought up on a diet of Mr. Magoo, Reginald Owen, that nice thick novel by Charles Dickens and, later, Bill Murray in Scrooged, I never tire of it: Well-played by…
It’s okay to be afraid of opera; lots of people are. But here’s the thing: Opera with a drink (or two, or three) in you is a whole different thing. New Yorker Eve Orenstein of Opera on Tap, which started in Manhattan and is slowly expanding to cities across the…
The late Sam Arnold, patriarch of the Fort Restaurant, started the annual Farolito Lighting tradition many years ago, and it’s never gone away, perhaps because its natural simplicity reminds us of the good side of the holidays. There’s a little noshing on cookies and cocoa in the outdoor courtyard, a…
In tough economic times, there’s safety in numbers for independent boutiques showcasing local artists and designers: That’s the thinking behind Denver Independent Boutiques, a new, small and growing congregation of retail entrepreneurs launched recently by Meghan Throckmorton of Rakun, a Santa Fe Drive boutique with a local focus. It’s an…
You can always expect something a little out of the ordinary from Andrew Novick, whose Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast pop-up store popped open again earlier this fall at the mid-century emporium Mod Livin’. As always, GGPT is swimming with Asian pop imports and Gothic Lolita-wear, but at least for today,…
The new partnership between the dance company Control Group and the LIDA Project theater troupe at the spanking-new Laundry on Lawrence might not make a ripple in the mainstream cultural world, but it does suggest an auspicious team-up on the alternative plane, especially in Denver, where fringe-y performance isn’t the…
