Dana Cain makes no secret of her blossoming identity as a collector of works by local artists, and is always looking for ways to share her fervor: Her latest, the Art Collectors Summit series, debuts this evening during the Art District in Santa Fe’s Third Friday event, offering gallery-goers a…
When the exhibit Warhol in Colorado debuts tonight at DU’s Myhren Gallery, one of the show’s major components will include photos taken of Warhol by Colorado photographers in the early ’80s, when the pop artist visited Fort Collins amid much hoopla for a major exhibition of his works, assembled by…
Fresh from the movie news wire comes the announcement that Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman in the third entry to Chris Nolan’s gritty Batman series, inexplicably titled The Dark Knight Rises (probably because these movies make everyone involved a lot of dough). The character was introduced in the first official…
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if that’s the case, everyone involved in coming up with the cover image for Westword’s recent feature on local type and design maestro Rick Griffith — and the list includes photographer Eric Magnussen, Westword Art Director Jay Vollmar and Griffith…
The Winter Wildlands Alliance brings its Backcountry Film Festival tour to Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering (633 South Broadway) tonight at 8 p.m…
Like so many good ideas, David Dalton’s idea for the MockSides Ultimate Filmmaker Challenge essentially sprang from thrift: Dalton had a bunch of stuff lying around and wanted to think up something to do with it. Specifically, he had scripts. Lots of scripts. Now he wants you to take one…
“Sculpture is an art of the open air.” Henry Moore, one of the great sculptors of the last century, said it himself: “I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.” If only…
Museo de las Américas, which always gets more involved with its art than just hanging it on the wall, is getting even more in-depth than usual with From the Earth. For its latest offering, the Museo brings together ten Native American artists from different disciplines for a collective exhibit accompanied…
Of all the great female jazz singers of the mid-twentieth century, Nina Simone was perhaps the most distinctive, enigmatic, occasionally bewildering. And so it makes sense that An Evening With Nina, Shadow Theatre Company’s new musical about her life, would be similarly hard to describe. It’s a sort-of-musical about a…
Appreciation for Denver artist Mark Penner-Howell’s clever paintings, which expertly mix pop images with ironic underlying themes in a colorful palette and humorous tone, has been gaining momentum over the past few years, but with his latest show — The New Normal, which opens tonight at Space Gallery — he’s…
“In January, the whole town goes Western a little bit,” notes Reyna Von Vett — whose alter ego, Cora Vette, emcees, sings and generally acts as madam for the BurlyCute burlesque troupe. “So we thought, ‘Why fight it?’” Hence the latest BurlyCute offering, Too Sexy for the Stock Show, which…
Even though he legendarily fired off the screenplay in just over a week, it’s possible to make a case that Night on Earth was writer, director and general auteur Jim Jarmusch’s definitive film — or if not definitive, then perhaps the purest. His later films might have enjoyed bigger budgets,…
If words generally speak to the head and colors generally speak to the heart, there should be plenty for a body to absorb at The Dance of Color and Words, a new exhibit at the Niza Knoll Gallery that features three painters — Rosanne Sterne, Irina Kopelvich and Marsue Todd…
The official Mysticon T-shirts bear this slogan: “Faeries and pirates and vampires, oh my!” That pretty much sums up the three-day celebration of all things faerie and fae. “This is the first three-day big con we’ve done,” explains Charles Cagiao. “We’ve been doing one- and two-day shows, faerie festivals, but…
The allure of a shiny pedal or guitar is hard for most musicians to fend off, but with every purchase of a new piece of equipment, an old piece gets stuck in the closet to collect dust. Now it’s time to brush off that obsolete gear, load it up and…
What if Romeo and Juliet lived in a trailer park and the Montagues and the Capulets were — wait a beat — competing meth rings? Don’t groan: When Paul Cross and his student/teacher improv team from the Yes! Lab put their twist to the traditional tragedy this weekend, it just…
Liz Masterson is back in the saddle, rounding up a posse of cowboy poets and singers for the 22nd incarnation of the Colorado Cowboy Gathering, which will ride into town today. But you’d understand if Masterson was a little saddle sore: In July, she learned that the Arvada Center, home…
The Sellars Project Space has built a reputation for featuring some of Denver’s most interesting artists, and Brian Comber: New Works continues that tradition. Comber, who has exhibited in town since the 1980s, is known as both a painter and a printmaker. For this show, he’s created a body of…
“I worked in front of the train station near the Oprah studios, and I’d see these woman come out of there like they just saw Jesus,” explains Charly “City Mouse” Fasano, whose newest collection of audio poems, The Oprah EP, will be released tonight. This is the twelfth cassette from…
In the grand tradition of the kung fu flick, Bruce Lee is undisputed king. As much legend as movie star, Lee could knock a man down with a one-inch punch, almost single-handedly introduced martial arts to the American film audience and once cinematically kicked the ass of Chuck Norris, which…
Perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has made a big splash with the scents she concocts at her Essence Studio in Boulder under the brand “DSH” (www.dshperfumes.com). Her latest coup is starring in her own performance piece, Sense, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, where she’ll show off her scent-making skills…
No, that’s not a new skyscraper going up in Civic Center Park. This week is officially Mile High Snow Week, with the SnowSports Industries America Snow Show taking over the Colorado Convention Center — but even at 5,280 feet, Denver is still 100 feet shy of the ramp requirements for…
