Thursday October 17 Around the world in eight days: An armchair traveler’s best friend might well be the Denver International Film Festival, an annual fete featuring the best–old and new–of films from around the world. This year’s star-studded event kicks off tonight at the Continental Theatre, I-25 and Hampden Ave.,…
Thursday October 10 Guessing games: Wise men or wise-asses? It’s the question we all must ask ourselves when Washington’s foremost analysts go at it on CNN’s often-vitriolic Capital Gang and other political panel shows of its ilk. Two Gang members–Mark Shields and Robert Novak–are taking their banter on the road…
Thursday October 3 World party: Visitors to Denver’s sprawling Auraria campus are greeted by the picture of multiculturalism, as students from all walks of life crisscross its urban quads. Apropos to the wonderfully motley quality of the higher-education complex, a World Friendship Festival, held today from 10 to 2 at…
Thursday September 26 The patter of little poets: When Crofton-Ebert Elementary School students put pen to paper, out came a fantastic pastiche of funny, sweet and imaginative poetry, collected in the book When Elephants Smash the School. Toads in the Garden, an ongoing Thursday night poetry series on the Auraria…
Thursday September 19 A good sign: Novelist Larry Brown–one of our finest fiction writers, if not the most well-known–tells powerful, straightforward stories wrung artfully from the pith and bedrock of human experience. His sixth novel, Father & Son, a good-versus-evil parable set in small-town Mississippi, is now being touted as…
Thursday September 12 Go west, young woman: Though ground has yet to be broken for the Women of the West Museum, a national institution-in-planning for Boulder, those administering the project are ready to begin sharing some of it with the public right now. Their Women in the American West Lecture…
Thursday September 5 Put this in your bagpipe and smoke it: Celts from everywhere will be flipping their kilts for the Longs Peak Scottish Highland Festival in Estes Park, a four-day extravaganza of all things Celtic. Live music, a jousting tournament, a dog show and a dance competition are just…
Thursday August 29 His and Hersh: The personal and idiosyncratic visions of Kristin Hersh lie in a brilliant heap at the high end of the alternative music spectrum. Whether on her own or with Throwing Muses, as she is this evening at the Bluebird Theater, Hersh intertwines folk, punk and…
Thursday August 15 Kitty got your tongue? You’ll be smiling like a Cheshire cat at Cajun’s Comedy Night, an evening of funny stuff at the Holiday Inn North, 4849 Bannock St., that benefits the Cat Care Society’s cageless, no-kill shelter for cast-off felines. Featuring comic Kevin Fitzgerald–who, in his other…
Thursday August 8 Lunar tunes: A little bit of music and magic will intertwine under the stars when Denver’s enduring Chicano/Latino theater group, El Centro Su Teatro, presents local playwright Anthony Garcia’s Return of the Barrio Moon for three nights at the Greek Amphitheater in Civic Center Park, Broadway and…
Thursday August 1 Them’s fightin’ words: At the Bug, Denver’s peerless, hole-in-the-wall avant-garde film and performance center, the talk is anything but idle. Instead, Adversity and Diversity: The Bug History Talks, a new lecture series that debuts this evening, will provide provocative fuel for serious thinkers. CU-Boulder instructor and archivist…
Thursday July 25 Show some retrospect: Celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities can look back on a job well done. Along with its stellar track record of music, dance and stage performances, the center also enjoys continued excellence as a fine-art venue…
Thursday July 18 Forever blue: Like endless summers, the ten commandments of love and all that kind of teenage hokum, some things should never change. And if anyone oughta be held responsible for preserving that timeless pop pastiche, it’s Chris Isaak, who, with his chiseled pout, vintage axes, sparkly duds…
Thursday July 11 High notes: The area’s outdoor concert series season is hitting its summer peak, but few of the venues afford more striking surroundings for a better price than Classics by the Cliff, which features the Littleton String Quartet, with friends, tonight in the Visitor Center courtyard at Roxborough…
Thursday July 4 Go Fourth: You won’t have to look far today to find a bang-up time, but our advice is to simply look up: That’s where the real fireworks happen. The former Stapleton Airport will be Pyrotechnics Central when it hosts the Sky Art Festival ’96, a combined two-day…
Thursday June 20 Main squeezebox: Her last novel, The Shipping News, ran away with all the most impressive distinctions, including a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, catapulting E. Annie Proulx into the literary limelight. Now her latest, Accordion Crimes, continues in form, following a green accordion built in…
Thursday June 13 Let’s go Dutch: Windmills, wooden shoes and tulips are just some of the attractions at the Bethesda Dutch Festival, an annual event starting today on the Bethesda Hospital grounds, 4400 E. Iliff Ave. Featuring a picturesque Dutch village with shops and costumed denizens, dancers, old world food…
Thursday June 6 Sip away: Swilling’s not your style? The Winer’s Club, a unique society at the Hotel Boulderado’s Teddy Roosevelt American Grille, caters to the sophisticated palate by offering points for every glass of vino you imbibe (accumulated points are good for restaurant gift certificates and the like). How…
Thursday May 30 New dimensions: What constitutes a finished work of art? The Completed Image: An Exhibition of Drawings, opening today at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, makes a case for the drawing, a medium often relegated to the stature of a preliminary sketch or study. For…
Thursday May 23 The write stuff: So much for the theory that all critics are frustrated artists–modern Latino literature connoisseurs and scholars Graciela Limon and Bruce-Novoa both switched gracefully from criticism to fiction and poetry and back again, each winning acclaim for their efforts from other critics. The pair will…
Thursday May 16 An isle seat: The Haitian experience is brought to life by the stunning poeticism and unshakably truthful voice of author Edwidge Danticat, whose vivid, considerable storytelling skills shape the nine short stories in Krik? Krak!, her recent short-fiction collection distinguished in the industry by a National Book…
Thursday May 9 Gorgeous George: Who can resist the jazz- and Tin Pan Alley-inspired orchestral strains of George Gershwin’s all-American compositions? Not you. The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, with guest vocalist Marilyn VerPlanck and conductor Newton Wayland, will celebrate Gershwin’s music in a pops presentation beginning at 7:30 tonight (and repeated…
