#51: Winnie Wenglewick Winnie Wenglewick of Denver’s Dangerous Theatre is a theatrical Jill-of-all-trades who came by her profession through the back door: ten years of volunteering with a Florida fringe festival. With no formal training, she’s turned Dangerous into a working, if struggling, entity. A lady who does as she…
A raft of satellite art shows will accompany this week’s 2013 Biennial of the Americas and its major Draft Urbanism exhibitions; to meet the challenge of addressing Biennial topics, RedLine Gallery teamed up with Mile High Connects and curator Cortney Lane Stell (who also curated First Draft, the 2013 BotA’s…
We’ve all heard the classic children’s tale of Peter Pan, the flying boy who wouldn’t grow up, but how did he get that way? That story is brought to light in Peter and the Starcatcher, the Broadway musical inspired by the kids’ bestseller by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. As…
For its dead-of-summer August show, Sync Gallery, a 21-member collective in the Art District on Santa Fe, will present a fresh juxtaposition of wood-and-metal sculpture and surrealistic oil paintings in Unexpected and Impulse, a pair of shows by members Gary Manuel and Jen Zielinski, respectively. Manuel, notes Sync member and…
Colorado’s chefs are called on so often to help with charitable projects, it’s amazing that they’re ever in their own kitchens. But the fundraising formula is surefire: People love food orgies, especially when the fare is prepared by top toques. So when the Colorado chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation…
Denver attorney, author and well-regarded politico Adrian Miller has led not only a colorful life, but a delicious one: His gigs include moonlighting as a certified barbecue judge. Also a member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an organization dedicated to the preservation and historical documentation of Southern-style cooking, the culinary…
Hip-swiveler Elvis Presley was no stranger to Hollywood’s sound stages: He made more than thirty movies during his career, which helped keep his heartthrob status ablaze for a decade and a half, beginning in the late ’50s. Early on, Elvis had to combat criticism from prudish detractors for his oversexed…
The first Denver Poets Day went down back in 1976 as a tribute to Neal Cassady that featured Allen Ginsberg at the mic. Since then, the event has recurred sporadically, drawing many of the region’s best and most revered poets to the stage, from Anne Waldman and the late Thomas…
Winnie Wenglewick, the one-woman band behind Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, isn’t your typical live-theater auteur. Possessing inimitable verve as well as a cosmetology license, she got hooked on the stage long ago in Florida, where she volunteered with an Orlando comedy troupe — a gig that segued into a ten-year stint…
#52: Michelle Baldwin Seems like burlesque shows are a dime a dance these days in Denver. But back in the twentieth century, real vintage burlesque had pretty much died out here, along with the Curtis Street girly shows of a bygone era, after changing times and urban renewal wiped away…
The influence of Sid Caesar’s early television variety series Your Show of Shows runs deep, and the 1982 comedy My Favorite Year, inspired by an actual appearance on the show by the charming but washed-up actor Errol Flynn, plays like an inside joke. As with TV’s The Dick Van Dyke…
In the thirty-plus years that Pirate Contemporary Art has been part of the Denver arts landscape, dozens of member artists have marched in and out of the trail-blazing cooperative’s doors. Every once in a while, they come back. See also: – My first art purchase: a Louis Recchia piece from…
#53: Rebecca Vaughan Denver installation artist Rebecca Vaughan is right at the center of Denver’s art community: As a highly credentialed departing RedLine resident and continuing chair of Fine Arts and head of Sculpture at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, she’s working alongside longtime professionals and the…
When Longmont Museum curator Erik Mason brought up the idea of mounting a summer LEGO art exhibit with his co-workers, “you could just see the eyes lighting up around the room,” he recalls. Memories of growing up with the mid-century building blocks made it an easy decision — after all,…
Germinal Stage Denver is leaving the building: Late last year, Germinal Stage founder Ed Baierlein announced that after 26 years in the now-crumbling north Denver theater at 44th and Alcott, he was selling the property and the forty-year-old company would vacate the space after one last golden season. Not that…
Denver’s healthy salsa-dancing community comes out to dance every Wednesday night at Salsa Central’s weekly event at the Denver Turnverein, and everyone’s always welcome. But once a year, just for fun — and also in hopes of drawing in newcomers — they move it all outdoors, to Cheesman Park. For…
Not every fast-casual restaurant chain would go out on a limb to host a street festival on the scale of today’s Chipotle Cultivate Festival in City Park, but Chipotle, which opened its first store in Denver twenty years ago, has always been at the forefront of the movement to make…
From Yves Saint Laurent’s couture homages to Mondrian, Matisse and Braque to Yayoi Kusama’s dotty collection and shop environments for Louis Vuitton, high fashion and fine art have long been entangled. It’s a mutual admiration club you can wear on your body — if you can afford it — that…
Denver’s two premier adult slam-poetry teams — Slam Nuba and the Mercury Cafe, both national winners in years past — have started their weeklong journey toward possible glory in Boston, where the 2013 National Poetry Slam is under way. But here in town, their youthful counterpart, Minor Disturbance, is already…
Editor’s note: Artist Charlie Boots is part of the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his residency, he and his fashion-designing counterpart will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they learn the ropes from studio mentors Mona Lucero, Lauri…
Germinal Stage Denver is leaving the building: Late last year, Germinal Stage founder Ed Baierlein announced that after 26 years in the now-crumbling north Denver theater at 44th and Alcott, he was selling the property and the forty-year-old company would vacate the space after one last golden season. See also:…
#54: Laura Shill Laura Shill calls her work “a collision of collecting, costuming, performance, installation and photography,” and as you might expect, it’s always intriguing: The many-faceted artist, currently a studio resident at RedLine, is known of late for labor-intensive stuffed fiber installations that envelope and shelter the viewer with…
