#68: Charlie Boots Who is Charlie Boots? Yesterday you might not have known his name, but today Boots is ready for his closeup. The young artist will make his public debut this weekend as the first-ever visual-arts fellow of the Powerhaüs Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Program at Powerhaüs Studio, a three-month studio…
“Have you ever thought about Mars…like, ever?” That’s just one of the many spacey questions routinely asked of the public by Julia DeMarines, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science astrobiologist who hosts the monthly science-outreach program Space in Your Face at Deer Pile, which targets a younger, hipper adult…
Two major holiday-weekend arts fests open today in downtown Denver, and while there could be some competition for crowds (and their wallets), organizers of both events insist that they’ll complement each other — and give viewers a bigger, bolder taste of (mostly) contemporary Colorado art. The Downtown Denver Arts Festival…
Despite the beefed-up security in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the BolderBoulder will move forward today, as it has every Memorial Day since 1979. The first waves of Boulder’s storied 10K run start at 7 a.m. at 30th and Walnut streets, setting in motion a spectacle that includes…
EatDenver, a group of independent restaurateurs who collaborate on a variety of food-related charitable initiatives, is the force behind the Big Eat, an annual pig-out celebrating the local dining scene. Now in its third year, the Big Eat has made a big move — to Sustainability Park, at 2500 Arapahoe…
Artist Colin Livingston’s conceptual diptychs — which are steeped in our sterile commercial culture to the point that it’s hard to say if he’s embracing or lamenting the fall of civilization — might not always be easy to understand. But most people who see them know they’re supposed to laugh,…
So. What’s the deal with religion? Do we have it? Do we need it? Are we slaves to it? What’s moral, and what’s immoral? When Warm Cookies of the Revolution’s bastard child, Sunday School for Atheists, is called to order, everything is fair game. That’s right: Evan Weissman’s civic health…
#69: Bruce Price A painter who started out as a musician, Bruce Price learned from his mentor, the pattern painter Clark Richert, at the Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design, and eventually stretched and bent those lessons into something that suited him better. The resulting work, abstractions expressed in…
The first film by Martin Scorcese that truly wore his mark, Mean Streets is a small and personal tour de force, held together by a killer jukebox score and the explosive on-screen meeting of Robert De Niro (as the ne’er-do-well gambler, Johnny Boy) and Harvey Keitel (as Charlie, a conflicted…
Spun: Adventures in Textiles, this summer’s huge, campus-wide aggregation of exhibitions devoted to the textile arts at the Denver Art Museum, is definitely going to require more than one visit to absorb. In fact, DAM curators — every single one of them had a hand in putting the shows together…
Materialized, a group show featuring abstract works utilizing unusual materials, opens today at Robischon Gallery; it’s a continuation of the gallery’s Material Abstraction, which introduced the whole idea last summer. All photos courtesy of Robischon Gallery. See also: – Material Abstraction at Robischon is more than just medium – Best…
Denver Urban Gardens outgrew its office a long time ago; much like a root ball squeezing its way out of a clay pot, DUG was confined and finding it more and more difficult to get things done in a packed space where desk-sharing is the norm. But that will change…
Community theater puts on hokey “interactive show” about “being in a karaoke bar.” That’s exactly what Sean Mahoney and Michael Emmitt of the new Horse & Cart production company did not have in mind for The Singing Room, an original script they’ll reveal to the public tonight in the basement…
RedLine resident artist Justin Beard laments the lack of performance art in Denver. “Back in 2000, when I first moved here, it seemed like there was a lot going on, with things like Mr. Pacman and Little Fyodor. I was blown away by it, but then it sort of faded…
Ben Roy has some catching up to do: While his mates in the Grawlix — Andrew Orvedahl and Adam Cayton-Holland — are both promoting brand-new solo CDs, Roy is still recording his followup to last year’s I Got Demons. Tonight at 8 p.m., he’ll perform at the second of three…
#70: Mare Trevathan Mare Trevathan gets around. The theatrical jill-of-all-trades works her chosen field from every angle: as an actor, director, teacher, talking-book reader, collaborator and public-relations expert, going from one spotlight to another as the muse moves her. Trevathan is not only a familiar face on some of the…
If you’ve been keeping up with the reports, you already know that Grawlix comedy partners Adam Cayton-Holland and Andrew Orvedahl have been extra-busy for the last six months: In addition to Cayton-Holland’s Conan appearance in January and the more recent release of the Grawlix’s Amazon pilot for Those Who Can’t,…
You really don’t have to celebrate Mother’s Day like everyone else. Modern moms are an independent bunch, and they may not want to spend their big day knitting by the hearth or enjoying whatever stereotypical pastime they’re supposed to prefer. Moms just aren’t like that anymore. Following are five places…
#71: Lauri Lynnxe Murphy In Denver’s close-knit arts community, everyone knows Lauri Lynnxe Murphy. Even when she’s gone, as she was for a couple of years while she was earning a graduate degree in Ohio, she remains a force here. Murphy sometimes shrugs it off, asking, “Why me?” But while…
Local sculptor Yoshitomo Saito’s new bronze installation, Bemsha Swing in Denver, refers to the Thelonious Monk composition “Bemsha Swing,” in a funny way: via his own mystification at reading the drily notated Wikipedia description of the jazz standard. “Because of my inability to comprehend this Wikipedia explanation for my favorite…
You might never have given a second thought to the culture of trees growing on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, but veteran groundsman Alan Nelson, who’s been caring for them for years, thinks they’re more than just trees. That’s why every spring and fall, he takes a break…
“I’m not gonna lie about it,” Buntport Theater’s Brian Colonna says of his autobiographical play, A Knight to Remember: My Quest to Gallantly Recapture the Past. “I’ll just come out and say the conceit is that the other members of Buntport thought it was a bad idea, so they wouldn’t…
