Thursday March 20 Every picture tells a story: LoDo’s Robischon Gallery just seems to roll out one good show after another, making it a regular must-visit on the local gallery circuit. Its latest exhibition, The Marriage of History and Fiction, features works based on historical imagery by Jack Balas along…
Thursday March 13 Campy trip: The title tells it all–20,000 Leagues Beneath the Valley of the Dolls, opening tonight at the Theatre on Broadway, doesn’t take much of anything too seriously. The first original stage concoction of a group calling itself the Kitten With a Whip Club, Dolls is billed…
Thursday March 6 The beat goes on: When John Coltrane changed the face of jazz music with his imaginative modal improvisations, he owed more than a little to the smoothly shifting bedrock off which he played. Coltrane’s classic quartet recordings of the early ’60s were more often than not held…
Thursday February 27 West side, east side: A rich vein of local lore gets the nod today with a Jewish History of Denver Tour offered by the Colorado Historical Society. The traveling lecture, led by Denver resident Marjorie Hornbein, begins with an introductory talk at the Colorado History Museum, 1300…
Thursday February 20 Zoot up: The plain truth is that grownups never outgrow the juvenile yearning to dig around in Mommy and Daddy’s closet and play dress-up. So give in. Step into those old-fashioned puttin’-on-the-Ritz duds, hit the dance floor and give your girl (or guy) a whirl across it…
Thursday February 13 Jane’s addiction: Husband-wife acting duo Linda Manning and Michael Pinney left for the East Coast several years ago after attending CU-Denver’s theater program and performing at Denver’s long-lived Changing Scene. Their literal scene change resulted in a well-received New York City production of Manning’s play Do Something…
Thursday February 6 World party: Musicians from the four corners of Asia are holding a mini harmonic convergence in the area tonight, offering audiences sound bites crossing the gamut from exotic and otherworldly to heart-poundingly physical to aesthetically classic and staid. There’s nothing like freedom of choice. To begin with,…
Thursday January 30 Ai on life: The compelling and beautiful works of award-winning distinguished poet Ai–the author of four published collections and a guest professor and artist at CU-Boulder–cut straight to the point, telling forthright stories of the downtrodden in a parade of cracked, unremitting voices. And accordingly, whether you’re…
Thursday January 23 Eastern parade: Old-style brushwork and ancient Chinese motifs collide–or maybe just blend peacefully–with modern and Western techniques and themes in this year’s Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition Series, an annual show assembled by the Asian Art Coordinating Council, opening today at the Arvada Center for the Arts and…
thursday january 16 The Doctor is in: In music, there are legends and then there are legends — living, breathing, walking, talking, genre-embodying types. Crescent City music man Dr. John, the reigning witch doc of New Orleans-style R&B, falls securely in the latter category, relying on wry, blusey trademark vocals…
Thursday January 9 Western stars: If it’s January, this must be the Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering, celebrating its eighth year of campfire range-rhyming, beginning tonight and continuing through Sunday at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Headlining this year’s laconic long weekend are Colorado’s own…
Thursday January 2 Down and ditty: So it’s the day after the day after. No one ever said you couldn’t continue to inaugurate the fledgling year with something fun–if you’re up to it. If you are, light-on-their-lips pop purveyors They Might Be Giants provide just the ticket for an easy…
Thursday December 26 The gifts that go on being given: We all have to deal with these things we found under the tree–the inevitable twelve hand-knit sweaters, eleven Dr. Seuss ties, ten Tickle Me Elmos, nine pairs of earmuffs, etc. The funny thing is, someone out there might love to…
Thursday December 19 Fair to Midler: What’s glitz without a sense of humor? Double-barreled songstress Bette Midler exudes plenty of both, putting on campish, in-your-face concerts that run a torchy gamut from big, mushy production numbers to out-and-out rock and roll. Take a rest from the holiday rat race; Midler…
Thursday December 12 Brave new girl: Songbirds no longer wear sequined dresses or stand in the shadows in a chorus line somewhere to the left of the strutting lead singer. Modern songstresses write their own smart material, accompany themselves and belt out the songs forthrightly, without apologies. Singer/songwriter/pianist Paula Cole…
Thursday December 5 Shine on: Why do holidays seem to leave us all with that warm, fuzzy feeling? Maybe it’s just a combination of shopping burnout and too many seasonal toasts, although a prevailing sense of tradition is a better, or at least a more heartwarming, guess. Two local traditions–one…
Thursday November 28 Help yourself: Do you consider the calories consumed in your average Thanksgiving feast an on-again, off-again kind of thing? Just remember, tubbo, that kind of timely pound-shedding usually happens only in your dreams. So give thanks: The City of Aurora Recreation Division’s Huff-N-Puff Before You Stuff offers…
Thursday November 21 Her A’s are numbered: The fans are getting anxious–alphabetical mystery novelist Sue Grafton is already up to the M’s. But you’ll have the chance to ask Grafton what happens after Z: The author, whose first book in the popular A-to-Z Kinsey Millhone detective series was inspired by…
Thursday November 14 Food for thought: A cornucopia of local writers–here, there and everywhere–is slated to take part in tonight’s Share Our Strength’s Writers Harvest: The National Reading, an annual large-scale literary benefit to fight hunger across America. In our area, related events are scheduled at the Tattered Cover LoDo…
Thursday November 7 Bearing gifts: Billy Bryan, the first tenant at the Denver Zoo, had a luxuriant, cinnamon fur coat and was named after William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic presidential candidate of a hundred years ago. Billy, it seems, was a bear–one in a long line of popular ursines that…
Thursday October 31 Set for a spell: It’s witching hour, ground zero. So, trolls and ectoplasms, what will be your favorite Halloween haunt tonight? Since there’s no law that says ghosts and goblins can’t be in shape, you might start out at the Halloween Hustle ’96, a 5K twilight sally…
Thursday October 24 Stage cache: The fall theater season at the Plex reaches full gallop with a divergent duo: At the Ricketson Theatre, the Denver Center Theatre Company debuts Molly Sweeney, written by Irish playwright Brian Friel. Set in the fictional town of Ballybeg–also the site of Friel’s past hit,…
