The current show at Ironton Studios and Gallery (3636 Chestnut Place, www.irontonstudios.com) is Soft Descriptions, which is filled with installations, most of which are text-based. Emerging Denver artist Marc Willhite doesn’t explicitly explain what he means when he uses specific words in specific pieces, but he does want the viewer…
2011: Year in Preview. Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, has employed a clever way to create an automatic group show by putting together examples of work by all of the artists who will be featured in duets this year. The show looks good, but what’s really neat is…
Circle Mirror Transformation. At a small-town community center, four people are participating in an acting workshop run by Marty, who combines a little knowledge of theater with quite a bit of new-agey yearning. The participants are Marty’s husband, one-time hippie James; sexy Theresa, who spent time in New York and…
Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León’s directorial debut, Undertow, is sublime. Set in a small, picturesque Peruvian fishing village, it’s less a coming-out tale than a magic realism-infused coming-of-consciousness love story. Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a happily married fisherman and soon-to-be father, insists he’s not “that way,” despite being head over heels in love…
In 1952, Manoel de Oliveira sketched a fable of impossible longing that became, finally, The Strange Case of Angelica. Though the automobile models in de Oliveira’s 2010 film are modern, many plot details remain of the period of its writing: On a torrentially rainy night, the Portas estate sends a…
There’s a lot going on in The Catch, a world premiere that grew out of a reading at last year’s New Play Festival. Ken Weitzman’s script presents a swirl of ideas — some of them fairly obvious, but all explored in interesting ways. Preeminent among them is the well-worn concept…
How perfect that Buntport is reviving Kafka on Ice — first produced in 2004, and one of my favorite of the company’s many inventive works — as part of a citywide celebration of all things Czech. First, because Franz Kafka is the Czech author best known in this country, with…
By now, the facepalm-inducing silliness of Kim Kardashian’s tearful protest on Sunday’s episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York at being shown in the nude in the October issue of W magazine has been extensively remarked upon. For one thing, she posed nude for the magazine, so it’s hard…
There’s a storm in the midwest that’s causing everyone to roll out their stupid snow puns again (Snowpocalypse Now!) and here in Denver we’re getting into the negative double digits — a big day for Netflix Instant, the movie rental option that doesn’t require pants, much less a jacket and…
Well, now I guess I’ve seen everything. I’ve been through wars, natural disasters, the inexplicable career of Jimmy Fallon and two or three great depressions, but I never thought I’d see the day when everybody stopped the presses on account of a little cold weather. Why, today’s kids are so…
The beginning of February is the perfect time of year to release media of all shapes and sizes for a number of reasons. Namely, it’s because half of the country is bound to be snowed in and with nothing to do at some point during the month. There is nothing…
Sometimes failure is more successful than success. Consider the case of a then-unknown Evel Knievel’s attempted 1967 motorcycle jump over the fountain at Cesar’s Palace: He botched it, breaking an absurd amount of bones and ending up in a 29-day coma as a result — but in what was arguably…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty,” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. You may…
Snow day! Denver Public Schools and others around the region are closed today “due to severe weather conditions and below-freezing temperatures,” and Loveland Ski area has just the thing to keep all those rugrats from going stir crazy: They’re slashing adult ticket prices from $59 to $30, and kids’ tickets…
It’ll be a substantially less gay old time than previously anticipated at the Curious Theatre tomorrow: OUT @ Curious, the theater company’s tribute to the more festive segment of its audience that we told you about in the Night+Day section of this week’s print edition (still on the racks), has…
When a product comes along that is so unique, so one-of-a-kind, so different than the rest of the products out there, it needs to be researched. Beardski is one of those products. Competing with the viral “BeardHead” brand of crocheted face masks, Beardski brings a new option to the table…
It’s hard to understand the magnitude of Geek Bowl unless you go. The numbers are readily available: 129 teams, 64 questions, $7,000 in prize money. But none of that gets you to what this thing is like. There’s a temptation to imagine a boozier Knowledge Bowl, an almost standardized-testing type…
Improv is based on inclusiveness; competition implies exclusivity. It’s pretty safe to assume, then, that the two can’t mix, isn’t it? It is not. Bovine Metropolis successfully combines the uncombinable in Denver’s Next Improv Star, a competition that aims to find the city’s funniest improviser via the tried-and-true performance-then-expulsion technique…
I have to admit I wasn’t quite in sync with Friday night’s Untitled theme at the Denver Art Museum: Pledge. Pledge? It had something to do, they told me, with artists making creative pledges to accomplish certain things and how to keep museum installations well dusted; people, they said, could…
We sifted through a mess of 893 snow sports brands representing at the SIA Snow Show to find the Colorado companies we love most, then asked them to show off their best boards for the 2011/2012 season. Click through for a fast-forward look at the boards locavores will be craving…
More than once during the Buntport Theater’s Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. “It’s inappropriate!” he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another character offers…
When push comes to shove, February is and pretty much always will be Black History Month — that’s the only one they teach you about in school, anyway, mostly by telling you about Martin Luther King, Jr., the least threatening to white people of the civil rights leaders. Which is…
