No joke, Annette Roman’s father was a Holocaust survivor and her mother once belonged to the Hitler Youth. It’s a tricky tightwire to balance, but Roman puts it all into perspective in her solo performance, Hitler’s Li’l Abomination, currently showing at the Boulder Fringe Festival. And though she worries that…
In the local skateboarding world, CLFX is code for one of the home teams at 303 Boards. But on the existential plane, CLFX is the place where we live, eat, shop. drink and party — a damn good reason to want to snap up one of these brand new CLFX…
As the Fringe slides into the weekend, openings include two shows we’ve already highlighted in print — an adapted Irish mystery, The Third Policeman, 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Dairy Center and Kelsey Huff’s solo2 show HUFFS, 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Dairy — and a whole lot more…
Wassup at the 2011 Fringe? Well, last night’s opening night party-down is a thing of the past, and it’s on to the performances, which as always swing from music to dance to theater to all sorts of places in-between. Two shows we’ve already highlighted in Night & Day — Carolann…
Last fall, Boulder dancer Mary Wohl Haan took to the Pearl Street Mall at noon every day for a month of ten-minute solo performances, which she documented on her website. All in all, the project had its ups and downs, but none of the latter could keep her from wanting…
Jose Mercado has been a man with a mission when it comes to turning inner-city kids into accomplished thespians for years now, and his ardor for what seems an impossible task never seems to diminish. It’s just that he’s so good at it. Mercado came from his own barrio roots;…
The town of Bessemer, which immediately surrounded Pueblo’s storied reason-to-be, the mighty Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, was incorporated in 1886, 125 years ago. It was home to hard-working immigrants from around the world — Italians, Eastern Europeans, Germans, Asians and others — who moved to the area to work…
For some of us in this errant world, it’s hard to choose between a best friend and a best guitar, and if you fall in that hardscrabble category, you’ll want to be up at Copper Mountain this weekend for the annual Guitar Town festival, which features big names doing axe…
How do you make these dog days pass by faster? At the East Colfax retro/modern-design emporium Mod Livin’, they’re literally putting the dogs on the block by bringing back the time-honored Best in Show Puppy Auction, featuring two sizes of Eero Aarnio white plastic puppies, all done up in style…
Theater seasons are revving up all over town, and as always they cover the gamut: serious, classic, thoughtful, imaginative, pandering, comic, adventurous, silly or just plain fun. On our random list of upcoming auditions, there’s something for everyone. Get out your head shots, confidence and chops, actors. And a sense…
We unequivocally love the Berkeley district’s Horseshoe Market for a myriad of reasons, but mostly it’s a matter of the spirit of the thing, which is old and modern all at the same time: Its mix of vintage wares, unique handmades and trendy food and drink on wheels fits the…
Denver artist Marie Vlasic is no Shrinking Marie, and it shows in her striking work: full frontal, super-real portraits that don’t shy away from anything, make your jaw drop and sing the body electric. That considered, Vlasic is also an aficionado of the Burning Man experience and thinks everyone should…
What can you expect in the Denver County’s Fair’s landmark Arts Pavilion? Not even pavilion manager (and official fair poster artist) Mark Penner-Howell knows for certain at this juncture, at least as far as the big juried show is concerned, but there are at least 400 entries to pick through…
The Victorians — despite their tendency to straitjacket themselves into whalebone corsets, waistcoats, petticoats, fancy hats and stiffly starched, high-collared blouses — perversely also loved to commune with nature in all its glory, high and low. It’s perfectly natural, then, for the Colorado Steampunks to lend their presence to the…
We love pop-up shops. Just as we love this weekend’s Vintage Renewal Pop+Up Eco-Boutique, which opens tonight at Hinterland, we’re also nuts about such past and coming temporary outlets as Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast, Yespleasemore and I ♥ Denver, and next weekend’s Denver Handmade Alliance Pop-Up Shop at the Denver…
Mythica von Griffyn has a long history in the haunted house business, where she first started working when she was only fourteen, and she’s also known as a multi-talented poet, chalk artist and body painter. That considered, Mythica is a match made in heaven as the Freak Show manager for…
Summertime and the living is easy…not. Here are five ways for local artists to stay busy during the dog days. Because — wink, wink — we know you’re all lying around the pool sipping lemonade all summer long…
If you know retro — and particularly mid-century — you know retro geek Charles Phoenix, a child of the endless car lots and fast food restaurants of Southern California who is famous across the nation for his mid-mod slide shows and modernist expertise. And you might even know about his…
Artists are a peculiar bunch. They have, shall we say, proclivities. As much as they make art, which they thankfully do, they also like to collect all manner of attic-leavings and dumpster-junk and weird objects and other things. Sometimes they have to sell them, perhaps to make room for more,…
Some might note how far the mighty have fallen when Graham Parker must play the Lion’s Lair, as he will tomorrow night (and it’s not the first time), but in this case, it’s actually the perfect place for Parker to perform: grungy, low-rent, patently sharp-edged and designed for drunken debauchery…
Film producer Chris Graves, who also runs Bardo Coffee House on South Broadway, first thought up the idea for his new Denver-based sitcom pilot, 13th and Pearl, fifteen years ago. “I used to hang out around 13th and Pearl back in the day, in the mid-90s, and I thought it…
Colorado Creatives #95: Dr. David Grinspoon Science? Art? Bona fide space-nerd superstar Dr. David Grinspoon likes it both ways. By day an author and the mild-mannered curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Grinspoon is also a musician and confirmed Dead Head, travels the country lecturing…
