People have short attention spans, notes Julie Rada, artistic director of the LIDA Project, and they’re getting shorter. So with its upcoming presentation of the original play Hot+Wax, LIDA is both banking on and betting against just that. “You could come and play nostalgic video games the whole time —…
Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever. Not the best. Not the worst. Just the classiest: Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich and Brian Cox and Richard Dreyfuss) can spruce up any pulp. As far as comic-book adaptations go, though, Red is a little closer to the bright side of…
archiTECHtonica. This is one of several shows put together by CU Art Museum director and curator Lisa Tamiris Becker to herald the opening of the institution’s new building. It’s paired with a show made up of related objects from the permanent collection. Becker invited an international cast of artists who…
Art. Yasmina Reza’s cool, witty, much-celebrated and much-performed play is ostensibly about art, but it’s more about friendship. At the center of the action is an all-white painting, purchased by Serge, a dermatologist, for a huge sum of money. Perhaps he feels a genuine affinity for the piece, perhaps he’s…
Nowhere Boy, English art star Sam Taylor-Wood’s oddly straightforward biopic about the juvenile John Lennon, concludes, as well it should, with the singer’s haunting, incantatory primal scream, “Mother.” But instead of tying a bow on the film’s portrait of familial abandonment, Lennon’s guttural, air-cleaving quaver puts everything that precedes it…
Sugar and spice and everything nice: That’s the siren song of this year’s Pie in the Sky, an annual fundraising event that benefits Project Angel Heart, a local nonprofit that creates — and delivers — nutritious meals to those battling life-threatening illnesses. But you can help sweeten the life of…
Scholars of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar — and modern-day explorers sipping on ayahuasca — are torn over the implications of the date December 21, 2012, the end of a long count “b’ak’tun” in the Mayan calendar. The world is, of course, going to hell in a handbasket (isn’t it…
The Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life events program takes a goth turn this month — just in time for Halloween — with its Being Tim Burton film series. The second installment takes place tonight at 6 p.m. with Ed Wood, Burton’s biopic of the cult filmmaker. “The spark for…
If you’re the type of guy who knows that you really only need two tools — duct tape and imagination — to solve any problem, you’re probably already a longtime fan of Red Green. And if you’re not, tonight’s Denver stop on the Red Green: Wit and Wisdom Tour is…
The Denver Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon and Half Marathon sold out weeks ago, which means you can spare yourself the sweaty pretense of jogging and skip straight to the rock and roll: Thirty local bands will take up their instruments along the route, starting at 6:55 a.m. with Double Down…
MaxFund, Denver’s only no-kill animal shelter, is holding its annual fundraiser tonight, and helping out will be easier — and more fun — than you might expect. Puttin’ on the Max: Viva Paws Vegas! will include various forms of entertainment, including the popular pet parade, says spokeswoman Maya Ellman. “It’s…
Still confused about the whole Gothic Lolita thing? What the hell is up with those kawaii dancing mushrooms and furry Pikachu suits? And why do Japanese ganguro girls look like they dried up and died in a tanning bed? Some of us have a lot of questions about Japanese street…
Fish artist Ray Troll lives, breathes and paints by the law of the sea; one of his T-shirts proclaims “Fish Hard, Die Free,” and that’s sort of how he likes it, way up north in Ketchikan, Alaska. How did Troll become a fish artist? Perhaps he listened to the tidal…
If a screening of oddball arthouse flicks hosted by a Mexican wrestler whose name means “Dog Bone” isn’t in your plans for this eve-ning, then drop what you’re doing, because what possible better plans could you have? The personality behind Hueso de Perro’s Grindhouse is intriguing enough: Tom Cross is…
There simply aren’t enough steampunk fantasy novels about airships and pirates and zombies, which makes the work of Cherie Priest all the more precious. Her latest, Dreadnought, continues to explore the world introduced in her breakthrough novel Boneshaker, an alternate history that’s come to be known as “The Clockwork Century.”…
Genre fiction tends to get a bad rap, at least in the “serious” literary world, and perhaps it’s somewhat deserved: Genre novels often serve as rote exercises in telling the same story over and over again with a couple of different twists. But, as is the case with any type…
Cathy Phelps wants you to know that Denver Men With Heart is not a man-auction. “If somebody needs a handyman, they bid on these men’s services,” she clarifies. “We have flower arrangers, salsa dance teachers, computer repairmen. The men perform these services, and then they donate the fee. “They aren’t…
Because we at Show and Tell are secretly sadists, when it came time to feature some Denver haunted houses for Halloween, we sent out the reporter most terrified of them to do it. This week found Maggie Moody loitering around the parking lot of The Asylum — and chickening out…
It was not a good day to get high. On a Wednesday afternoon, in a flurry of half-assed planning and with a pile of work accumulating on my desk back at the office like snow in a blizzard, I was on my way up to Central City for our All…
One classic argument made by supporters of the legalization of marijuana is that smoking weed never hurt anyone, and that alcohol consumption is the cause of “this many” deaths per year, not to mention domestic violence and other types of abuse. Now, some newbie growers in California have put pot…
Of all the neighborhoods in Denver, Civic Center is probably the one, from a design standpoint, with the most character. From the classical Greco-Roman columns and domes of Civic Center Park to the jutting angles of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building, there’s no neighborhood in Denver with quite Civic…
A few years ago, my daughter used to be all about Grease, 24/7. She watched it all the time and knew all the songs. So how was I to know that in the ensuing years, wherein she became a full-on middle-schooler and teen-in-training, everything had changed? Yet she still inexplicably…
