The fruits of the regional retail union known as the Original Shopping Districts are finally beginning to ripen, as evidenced by tonight’s Ladies Only Sample Tour event, taking place from 4 to 7 p.m. in member districts all over the metro area. A successful, rapidly growing venture in past years,…
The annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, hosted each April by the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, always couches its somber yet necessary message in changing ways: One year, survivors might speak. Another year, people who’ve witnessed genocide in other contexts might relate their experiences. This year, the unique twist…
How a cultural series held together by a slender string of part-mythology — Oscar Wilde’s visit to Colorado to deliver a lecture on the aesthetics movement in 1862 — winds up pulling a Western film series out of its holster is open for debate, but once Fresh City Life’s Chris…
Denver filmmaker Mike Olafson, enamored of the simpler sounds of ’50s and ’60s rock, set out in 2006 to make a short film about the local retro/rockabilly scene. “But then everybody said, ‘You should talk to this person, or you should talk to that person,'” he says, “and it just…
The great responsibility of the photographer to record life is more than evident in the work left behind by Holocaust survivor Henryk Ross, whose Lodz Ghetto Album: Clandestine Photographs of Ghetto Life goes on display today in the Mizel Center for Arts & Culture’s Singer Gallery. Shot on the sly…
Urban hipsters Brian and Melissa Ball don’t have kids of their own yet, but they’ve seen enough to know that parents simply go nuts when it comes to buying stuff for babies, from the day they unwrap their toothless, hairless wee ones from their swaddling clothes. And after Melissa’s sister…
There’ll be more art — way more art — than you can shake a mint Louis XIV walking stick at when you stop by the Gilmore Art Center, 2119 Curtis Street, where the Mile High Bargain Fine Art Fair opens for business today at 11 a.m. Hosted by Gilmore, Gallup…
Ten-year-old ‘tweens seem to leap and claw their way through life. Too old for the Build-A-Bears they dress up and cling to, yet not old enough to rightly embrace their spew of undecipherable longings, they’re members of a truly lost sub-generation, caught in limbo between being “cute” and being “hot.”…
In a gift economy, you contribute out of the goodness of your heart, and in return you get, maybe, a usable dose of positive karma or perhaps a returned favor. It’s a recycling of kindness that makes sense among folks who have the discipline to make it work. Folks like…
It’s the nature of aerial dance to be different in the first place, but Nancy Smith of Boulder’s Frequent Flyers Productions has never had a problem letting her freak flag fly — through the air, literally — during her twenty years of off-the-floor choreographing. So her latest flight of fancy,…
Believe it or not, our dusty little burg’s been flourishing here on the plains for 150 years now, all the while supporting the rise of new buildings and laying more than a few to rest. Accordingly, “150 Years of Denver Architecture” is the theme of this year’s Doors Open Denver…
It’s been a Gee’s Bend spring here in Denver: The Denver Center Theatre Company toasted the multi-generational Alabama quilt-making community with a theatrical stage bow earlier this year, and the Denver Art Museum will continue hosting the exhibit Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt through July 6. But this…
Every poet has a secret life: Denver Poet Laureate Chris Ransick’s is stored in a keg. Aside from fostering his deep love of verse, Ransick has also nursed a twenty-year obsession for home-brewing that’s left him an experienced aficionado with a palate for poetic suds. One of his favorites, a…
That Denver’s Chicano Humanities and Arts Council is celebrating thirty years on the local arts scene is no surprise. Few grassroots non-profit arts organizations have as much wherewithal when it comes to sticking to the plan. Now as entrenched as an ancient tire rut burned into a road paved with…
Plain dumb fearlessness. That’s exactly what you’d expect from a guy who’s spent a good part of his young life globe-trotting between war zones in places like Burma and Rwanda. Doug Fine is all that — adventurer, journalist, comic observer, NPR commentator, Alaskan mountain man — but he now wears…
That Denver’s Chicano Humanities and Arts Council is celebrating thirty years on the local arts scene is no surprise. Few grassroots non-profit arts organizations have as much wherewithal when it comes to sticking to the plan. Now as entrenched as an ancient tire rut burned into a road paved with…
Denver’s poet laureate, Chris Ransick, intends to live up to his title. Under Ransick’s reign, National Poetry Month will no longer lie limply on the local plane; instead, he’s shooting to see a different poetry event scheduled in the area for every day in April — and if he hasn’t…
The at-risk and special-needs children at Centro Integración de Tapalpa A.C. in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, are nurtured to bloom in many ways, but in particular as folk artisans who use recycled materials to create beautiful and whimsical papel malecho (papier-mâché) animals and flowers. Through the sale of their handcrafted bounty,…
If you’ve ever wanted to walk in an icon’s shoes, a new show at Spark Gallery is certain to have your number. Myselfportraits: ode to icons and other absurdities, a series of self-staged and posed photographs featuring artist and Spark member Sally Stockhold as historical and fictional women of note,…
Even the most accomplished guitarists do a double take when they hear Pat Donohue on A Prairie Home Companion, where the versatile finger-style picker has masterfully performed in the shadow of host Garrison Keillor for at least a decade. Donohue can finesse anything acoustic — jazz, blues, folk, you name…
Although he shot thousands of documentary images of Soviet workers, students and wartime battlefields during his long career (and later served as photo editor of the U.S.S.R.’s Life-like picture tabloid Ogonyak), Communist-era photojournalist Semyon Fridlyand remains little known in the West. Until now, that is: The University of Denver, which…
As the international splash of grand-opening shows fades at the new (and still sparkling) Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, director/curator Cydney Payton is getting down to the business of going local by featuring Denver artist Jeff Starr as the venue’s first regional artist-in-residence in the Project Gallery, a hands-on space intended…
