Repertory Cinema Wishlist: Drugstore Cowboy

Matt Dillon’s been all over the board over the years, from his roots as a rough and pretty teen with a James Dean vibe to later comic character roles in films like Singles, The Flamingo Kid and Mr. Wonderful. And somewhere in between, he delivered an unforgettable performance as the…

The Art of Homelessness

We have a tendency to think of the homeless as a “problem,” a social gray area that has people wringing their hands over the lack of solutions. But Not Exactly: Between Home and Where I Find Myself, a comprehensive exhibition opening today at RedLine Gallery, is aimed at looking for…

Walk the Walk

Assemblage artist and activist Jimmy Descant — better known as the Rocketman, for the shiny retro missiles he builds from pieces of old junk — is a fixture in the high-country art colony of Salida who represents the freer side of art-making, politics and living life. That’s a reputation he’d…

People Got to Be Free

Running is the perfect metaphor for independence, when you think about it: It’s the sport of loosening up everything and getting into a rhythm and going as far as you body can take you — like five kilometers, or whatever comes first. That must be why Independence Day week is…

People, Get Ready

In his efforts to rebrand the Aurora Cultural Art District on East Colfax Avenue, ACAD managing director Tracy Weil is hoping to interest both the adjacent community and the metro-area arts community at large in taking a second look at the close-knit district where, he notes, affordable spaces can still…

Let’s Work Together

Editor’s note: The July dates are sold out. Additional performances are scheduled for August 2-3. An unusual collaboration has been brewing between choreographer Candess Giyan of Daughter Cells and Denver artist/gallerist Sabin Aell for more than a year, and it’s been an intense process of personal bonding. The level of…

The Fabric of Life

There’s already a deafening buzz around the Denver Art Museum’s Untitled #58 — Getup: This installment of the monthly last-Friday art soiree will be like the gift wrap around the long-awaited live Soundsuit performance, a ticketed event for which dancers will don the fabulous art-to-wear artworks of Nick Cave, whose…

100 Colorado Creatives: Satya Wimbish

#61: Satya Wimbish The vibe you get from Aurora artist Satya Wimbish is one of industry and, even more so, a great dollop of pure enthusiasm — a lust for life in small-town terms, a love for the people and places she walks by every day in her familiar milieu…

Repertory Cinema Wishlist: L.A. Story

Steve Martin and I go back a long way. I remember Steve from his SNL days, playing the banjo with an arrow through his head, a wild and crazy guy who perfected his idiot role in such movies as The Jerk (1979) and Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982). Yes,…

100 Colorado Creatives: Joe Riche

#62: Joe Riche When Joe Riche hit Denver as a University of Denver MFA candidate in the late ’90s, he was an inventive kid with big ideas, interested in building kinetic and robotic machine-dream sculptures and unwilling to to let the size of those creative visualizations slow him down. He…

Sing It Loud

Sometimes things come full circle in a telling way: The first local production of The Gospel at Colonus, a retelling of Greek mythology’s Oedipus saga reset in a black Pentecostal church with a gospel-music soundtrack, was staged by the long-gone Eulipions, once Denver’s primary African-American theater troupe. That ensemble gave…

Let There Be Light

Boulder-based artist Jen Lewin’s switched-on interactive works have been seen across the nation and on city streets, underfoot and overhead, lighting up parks and imaginations, singing Walt Whitman’s “body electric” to viewers who are compelled to touch and experience a kind of wonder. Whitman’s poetic phrase is the inspiration for…

Bringing the Outside In

Create Denver has a new home in the city-run McNichols Building in Civic Center Park, and to show it off, the group is hosting City Beautiful 2.0: A Modern Interpretation of the Built Environment, a four-part exhibition and experiment in integrating modern environments. It all begins with the City Beautiful…

The Write Stuff

The Lighthouse Lit Fest Book Fair began last year on a whim, says Lighthouse Writers Workshop director Michael Henry of the annual festival’s culminating event. “We thought maybe we could sell some books by partnering with the Tattered Cover and highlight the authors we have teaching here at Lit Fest,…

Arty Party

Create Denver Week is dead. Long live Create Denver — all year long! Last week, while generating buzz for a new event called Come Play in the Park in Civic Center Park, the folks at the city’s Arts & Venues department announced the demise of Create Denver Week, which managed…

Repertory Cinema Wishlist: American Graffiti

I try not to interject my pushy self into these posts, dear readers, but American Graffiti is personal. I’m not sure how many times I’ve seen this movie — in dark theaters, over a big Red Moon pizza at the Cinderella Twin, on television, on video and DVD and probably…

Theater Walk Into Town

Susan Lyles, founder and director of the woman-centric And Toto too Theatre company, confirms it: This Play Crawl thing seems to be working. Entering its third year of entertaining and fundraising along Tennyson Street, the And Toto too Theatre Company Play Crawl will hit the road this evening from 6…