There’s a real symbiosis between fashion and culture, so much so that it’s sometimes hard to determine where one starts and the other drops off. But what happens when you throw photography into the mix, as intrinsic as it is to both sides of the spectrum? That’s the road explored…

Gallerist David B. Smith says he’s shown work by Brazilian artist Bruno Novelli, aka Bruno 9li (nove is “nine” in Portuguese), in the past, but Materia Radiante, which opens today at Smith’s eponymous gallery, is the artist’s first full solo in Denver. And what a solo it is: Inspired by…

Boulder author Margaret Coel has been mining the lore of her fictional Wind River Reservation mysteries for nearly twenty years – and almost as many books. Propelled by the camaraderie between her gumshoe protagonists – Jesuit priest Father John O’Malley and Arapaho Indian attorney Vicky Holden – the series does…

There’s one thing we can almost all agree on, and that’s the joy of food, be it locally sourced and perfectly plated or just slapped, straight from the grill, on a paper plate. And that explains the continuing success of A Taste of Colorado, now in its 31st year of…

It’s getting to the point where even Patrick Mueller, the artistic director of Denver’s adventurous boundary-breaking Control Group Productions dance company, is at a loss for words trying to explain his latest venture. But that’s what working on the edge is all about, and perma|COUTURE, episode 1, another entry in…

Adored and reviled, and sometimes simply made fun of, John McEnroe’s “National Velvet,” the drippy, piled-up sculpture installed at the foot of the Central Platte Valley’s Highland Pedestrian Bridge, is nothing if not attention-grabbing — in all its light-up-at-night, bulbous, blood-red splendor. But love it or leave it, Denver Public…

Matt Sesow lost his dominant arm in an accident as a child, but that didn’t stop the now-famous self-taught outsider artist from expressing himself. He picked up a paintbrush nearly twenty years ago, learned to wield it with his other arm, and has been painting ever since, often basing his…

The city’s slowly jelling Imagine 2020 cultural plan might feel difficult to unravel to us laymen, but as Arts & Venues deputy director Ginger White notes, its real challenge is in finding ways to engage both the creative community and the general community at large with limited resources. But because…

After hitting the ball out of the park twice in fascinating form with This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession and The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, Renaissance man Daniel Levitin — a musician, neuroscientist, behavioral psychologist and author…

For anyone who fell in love with the history of ancient Mayan culture as a kid, half the attraction was in learning about its discovery by archaeologists in the 19th century. That’s one reason why Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed, opening today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, sets…

As one of the founders of the Denver County Fair, event maven Dana Cain is practically a household name in this city — but her first dalliance with local fame came with her first big success: the Denver Modernism Show, which in its ninth year might still be her favorite…

Last year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival opened with high hopes…until hundred-year-strength flooding on Boulder Creek ravaged the proceedings (along with the rest of the town). Although the Fringe has now had a year to dry off, it can’t bring back money in the bank — and with a full program…