The folks at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema think 1984 was a very good year, and for that reason, the Littleton outpost will be screening favorite films from thirty years ago throughout April. Tonight’s flick is Miloš Forman’s Amadeus, one of the best classical-music biopics ever made. With a script by…
Urban walls are the favored medium of Longmont street artist Gamma Acosta, ideal for creating murals that make you look twice — such as his now-famous Peyton Manning image on the side of the Monkey Barrel. “I like making murals outside, where the artwork can reach people,” he explains. “The…
Anthony Garcia Sr. started the Birdseed Collective four years ago with the goal of building community by showcasing young and struggling artists while also bringing art classes and other programs to the at-risk youth of Globeville through the Street Kidz community center. And in a way, he can now measure…
Colorado is home to a whole community of assemblage artists, some working with nuts and bolts straight out of the dumpster and others using more rarefied detritus they’ve collected over years. But it doesn’t really matter what goes into putting this kind of art together — the final transformation is…
#92: Lonza Dennis If there’s a fashion show in town, Denver fashion blogger Lonza Dennis is there, camera in hand, ready to cheerlead for local designers with her online First Class Fashionista “blogazine.” Whether covering the beat or promoting her own charity fundraiser, Paint the Runway, the hard-working Dennis goes…
It was a slithery scene over the weekend at the Repticon expo, where folks had a chance to get all touchy-feely with snakes, lizards, scorpions, tarantulas and other scaly, hairy, scary creatures on display at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds. Brave photographer Brandon Marshall brought back these shots from the creepy-crawly…
The centuries-old culture of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, built on a bedrock of religion, yields an equally old subculture of santeros and santeras — carvers of religious figures, retablos and crosses. And each year, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council gives over its walls to the best of…
#93: Becky Wareing-Steele Becky Wareing-Steele lives in a world of miniatures, where tiny figures and creatures go about their lives inside tiny bottles and jars and whimsical lockets, and even among the jagged crystals of cracked-open geodes. Her crafting career started with a button-making machine and worked its way into…
China’s changing representation of women is still a relatively new thing, and maybe one that hasn’t made a wave all the way around the globe yet, but if you ask Julie Segraves, director of the Asian Art Coordinating Council in Denver, it takes a young woman to translate that shift…
You’d think a play titled William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead: A True and Accurate Account of the 1599 Zombie Plague could only be a campy romp on stage, but Vonalda Utterback of the Theater Company of Lafayette says the group is playing it straight. The action, which all takes…
Mark Lunning’s Open Press Ltd. has quietly been spreading the gospel of printmaking in the Baker neighborhood for 25 years, which is pretty remarkable in an environment where galleries and studios can come and go in the blink of an eye. During that quarter-century of overseeing pull after pull of…
The Czech Republic’s ranking as cinema hothouse is longstanding, particularly since the rise of Milo Forman, Jiří Menzel and the rest of the Czech New Wave in the 1960s, and again during the resurgence of Czechoslovakia’s blacklisted artists and filmmakers following the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Czech That Film, a…
Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver always has another project down his inkwell, and one of the latest — a collaboration with vegetarian restaurateur and author Dan Landes — will make its debut tonight with a two-part celebration at City, O’ City and upstairs performance venue Deer Pile. Van Sciver, a Westword…
For a compact town, Boulder has a lot of artists per capita, but somehow, they seem to be slipping under the radar. The folks behind this year’s inaugural Boulder Arts Week, including the Boulder Arts Commission, the Boulder County Arts Alliance and other like-minded agencies, venues and organizations, expect that…
A lot of artists and gallerists — including some folks who are both — are looking to Denver to go global as an art town. And though it’s hard to keep a balance between our city’s local cultural flavor and the rush of world trends in art, some of them…
With hair genius and photo-shoot stylist Charlie Price behind the scenes at the upcoming 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, there’s little doubt that the three-night event at City Hall, featuring national and local fashion shows as well as a hair show, will look good all weekend long. But the addition…
#94: Stephanie Ohnmacht Stephanie Ohnmacht has been sewing since she was seven; as a youngster involved in 4-H, she raised sheep and used her prize money to buy fabric. By the time she was twelve, she was already a self-made businesswoman, who had moved on to winning ribbons for the…
The neo-Victorian look was hot over the weekend at AnomalyCon, where steampunk aficionados gathered for elegant, hardware-laden cosplay and camaraderie and all things con, as well as live music by Clockwork Flamingo and Keldari Station. Photographer Danielle Lirette caught the people of AnomalyCon in full dress, from another century. See…
When artists Adam Milner and Jeromie Dorrance decided to open an exhibit space in what’s essentially their living room, they did so in a spirit that’s both DIY and not DIY, by putting together a well-crafted show that covers a national gamut of contemporary work by five colleagues in the…
#95: Tyler Beard The collage work of Kansas native Tyler Beard features textures, landscape and hard angles meeting in zen simplicity and sometimes flying off into sculptural planes. The results are interesting enough to have ended up in the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA Denver and Aspen’s Anderson Ranch,…
If you’re a fool for musicals, especially ones about Colorado mythology, this is your lucky April Fools Day. Fresh City Life’s series Sing Out, Sister: Broadway Musicals Through a Hollywood Lens features a screening of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which tells the tale of the Molly Brown House matron, Margaret…
When Women’s History Month rolled around, Slam Nuba’s Jovan Mays — who also happens to be the newly appointed Poet Laureate of Aurora — wanted to make sure his slam-poetry community knew about it. For one evening in March, he’s pulled together the most stellar lineup of his sisters in…
