The Denver Art Museum’s monthly after-hours event will sizzle with electricity tonight, energizing its adult audience with interactivity and sparkling lights. The centerpiece of Untitled #56 (Current), notes DAM educational program manager Jaime Kopke, is a collaboration between the musicians of Musica Sacra and DAM Fuse Box artists Annica Cuppetelli…
#76: Sahar Pazirandeh Sahar Pazirandeh left Iran with her family in the late ’80s, when she was nine years old, in the wake of changes that followed the ancient nation’s Islamic revolution. She’d spent her early years in the grip of Iran’s new fundamentalist face; her own mother, a former…
#77: Mark McCoin Experimental musician and multimedia artist Mark McCoin has paid his dues many times over, contributing a free-thinking, collaborative style of creativity to the Front Range scene over three decades. He’s worked with a who’s-who of the local avant-garde, and in the last of those decades, he honed…
This is the second installment in Susan Froyd’s weekly Repertory Cinema Wishlist. To be fair, you can’t really pick just one Robert Altman movie; the iconoclastic director’s prolific career — with its roller coaster of highs and lows, big and little movies, theater adapted to film, and sprawling collections of…
Are the Asylum’s mockbuster movies made in tribute to the films they mock or just to make campy fun of them? Either way, these flicks — Snakes on a Train, Transmorphers, The 18-Year-Old Virgin and more — have inspired cult followings, and it’s no surprise that the posters hyping them…
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art curator Petra Sertic first became aware of the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb when a friend took her there a couple of years ago. Created by Croatian couple Olinka Vitica and Drazen Grubisic;, who, upon splitting up themselves, pondered what happens to personal mementos…
As a photographer, Mark Sink still sees value in old-school techniques: palpable photography committed to a surface in the old-fashioned way, an alchemy of light and magic. His worldview is similar: In a fast-changing world where kids now in art school might never have even put film in a camera,…
Some people think that astrobiologists, who study life elsewhere in the universe, have nothing to do…yet. But nothing could be further from the truth. The search for life on other planets begins with research, the domain of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute, which is, among other things, studying the strange yet familiar…
The makeup of Denver’s national slam poetry teams — Slam Nuba and the Mercury Cafe — has been determined in the past couple of weeks, and now, last but not least, the youth division, Minor Disturbance, will host a Grand Slam tonight to choose its team for this year’s Brave…
One of the best things about Month of Photography, which officially kicks off today (though more than a few related shows quietly opened in February), is its mind-boggling variety. And that includes at least one happy marriage between the arts and business communities along the world’s longest continuous street: Colfax…
Light: It’s the most elemental characteristic of the art of photography. Without it, the magic of photographic imagery could never happen. Curator Conor King took the formative aspect of light in photography and ran with it, building a new group show, titled Phos: Light Today, that opens today at the…
What would you do if a strange couple walked up to your door and asked to peek inside because one of them had supposedly grown up in the house? That’s just one of the questions you’ll still be pondering when The Ding Dongs (or What Is the Penalty in Portugal?)…
Denver performance/movement company Control Group Productions continues its efforts to bring an international slate of touring avant-garde performance groups to town this weekend with the arrival of Lebanon-based Danish choreographer Jens Bjerregaard of Mancopy Danse Kompagni for a week-long residency at work|space. That residency includes a professional dance workshop and…
A galvanizing figure of the new craft movement, Ohio fabric and pattern designer Amy Butler is in Colorado for a Makerie Sewing Retreat at Chautauqua in Boulder. But she’s kicking off her visit with a meet-and-greet tonight at Fancy Tiger Crafts, the craft palace on Broadway run by Jaime Jennings…
#78: Ken Arkind Ken Arkind embodies what’s important in the slam and performance poetry world: A literary poet, dedicated slam coach and microphone virtuoso both here and abroad, he lives and breathes the poet’s life with an educator’s focus. As much as he lives it, he’s also interested in passing…
Since the beginning of time — or at least the beginning of cinema — there have been chick flicks: three-hanky tear-jerkers and, conversely, romantic comedies. In honor of the Sie FilmCenter’s new Hey Girl chick-flick series, debuting April 24 with Dirty Dancing — which might just be the greatest chick…
We gave the Broadway/Baker retail strip the award for Denver’s Best Neighborhood Shopping District two years in a row — in 2012 and 2013 — for so many good reasons: The area is spilling over with hip, modern creative ventures. But some of that contemporary spark flares further south, too,…
#79: Good Thieves Press The grassroots of any art community? That’s easy. Artist cooperatives and the newer model of studio communities like Wazee Union provide both a supportive camaraderie for artists just starting out and a launching pad for adventurous and creative ideas that might fall outside the requirements of…
The Broadway production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities so wowed the crowds that it warranted a Best Play nomination at the 2012 Tony Awards, as well as a bid for the Pulitzer Prize. The story of a household that is rent by upheaval when a daughter comes home…
As a hard-bodied, dedicated rock climber with a reputation for adventuring and writing about it, Steph Davis had no fear of high places. But after a breakup with her climber husband, she found herself left behind without a career, in the company of her dog, Fletch, searching for new meaning…
As the snow melts away, every young fashionista’s thoughts turn to flirty frocks, bare shoulders and fabulous hair. And those are just a few of the things you’ll see showcased at 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend Spring/Summer 2013, which takes over City Hall this weekend. Hometown fashion hero Mondo Guerra…
#80: Keith Garcia For a certain cross-section of local cinemaphiles, Keith Garcia is a beloved figure. The longtime program director for the Denver Film Society and its commercial film venue, the Sie FilmCenter, he knows his medium backwards, forwards and inside out, from the revered classic canon to the outer…
