Any artist would have a hard time interpreting the teeming, surreal, at times shocking prose of Denver author Daniel Grandbois. But the famed Argentine artist Alfredo Benavidez Bedoya entered Grandbois’s new book, The Hermaphrodite (An Hallucinated Memoir), through the side door. Bedoya’s vivid, kinetic, iconographic woodcuts don’t attempt to directly…
When the organizers behind the annual Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair wanted to stir things up for the 2010 edition, they knew just who to call: Dana Cain, event mistress extraordinaire. “I’m bringing the party to Friday night,” Cain says. The Book & Paper Fair has always had a…
It’s time to get CRUNK. For its season finale, the Shadow Theatre Company in Aurora presents Year of the Women, an original play conceived, produced and performed by the young folks of the theater’s CRUNK program, which stands for Creative Resources Uniting Neighborhood Kids. The play is a culmination of…
Bathtub gin, murder and an orgy set the pace for Andrew Lippa’s musical The Wild Party. Based on Joseph Moncure March’s narrative poem of the same name, The Wild Party explores the darker side of the flapper era. Set in a Manhattan apartment in 1928, the crazy evening centers around…
Edge Gallery is one of the city’s longtime artist cooperatives, and as a non-profit institution, it needs to raise money from time to time to offset operating costs. “A lot of co-ops are raising their dues and adding on lots of new members, but we want to keep our month-long…
Japanese art forms are often characterized by their fluid organization and elegant simplicity — and the art of taiko is no exception. A type of choreographed percussion, the form involves the primal, simultaneous drumming of several performers, whose graceful physical flourishes convey an almost ballet-like visual element. “We’ve been doing…
The second Wednesday of each month, there will be blood (and guts and gruesome mutilations and murder) at See You Next Wednesday: Slasher, Splatter and Horror Flicks at Bindery | Space. Hosted by Josh Hartwell, a local theater geek and horror fanatic, the once-a-month series will feature classic films, free…
We’re all fascinated by adventurers and their reasons for taking seemingly insurmountable risks. Journalist Jennifer Jordan’s awe became fixed on the story of wealthy mountaineer Dudley Wolfe — a member of the 1939 American team that attempted to climb the treacherous K2 on the border of China and Pakistan —…
Frequent Flyers Productions is presenting its twelfth annual Aerial Dance Festival in Boulder this weekend, and this year it’s attracting a more dizzying array of aerial acrobats than ever before: Franco Dragone’s production company will be in town for the festival, auditioning new performers for his Le Rêve Show at…
Thanks to successes like Glee and the Broadway production of Green Day’s American Idiot, the musical has made a big comeback in the public consciousness over the past year or so. Across the Universe, however, was ever so slightly ahead of its time; after a tumultuous production and release, the…
Debreceni can speak with authority about the differences between the look of a zombie and the aesthetics of a werewolf. Debreceni, who runs Back Porch FX out of Aurora, has spent the past three decades developing his ability to create illusion on stage and on film. A makeup artist and…
In a move that renewed our faith in humanity today (particularly after we witnessed a dancing man get hit by an ice cream truck), the U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s heinous ban on gay marriage. Since an estimated 80 percent of the people we cover are expected to…
There you are, caught in some sort of zombie outbreak, from a localized incident with a few ghouls shuffling around to a full-blown zombie apocalypse. Your buddy’s sporting an ugly gash on his arm and you’re a little worried. Sure, he says it’s just a cut that occurred when he…
We all feel happy sometimes. Sometimes, we feel so happy we just can’t contain ourselves: We have to dance! It’s just that, if we happen to be that happy anywhere near the street, we might temper our excitement for just a second to look out for any high-velocity projectile that…
Denver theater audiences are famous for the ease with which they award standing ovations — a few friends of the cast rising, then a handful more, finally a largish section center front — while folks further back pick up their belongings and head furtively for the door. That’s not how…
Reports are widely circulating about September’s issue of Vanity Fair, which features a nude Lady Gaga on the cover — and rarely can content compete with nudity, but in this case, the actual interview might be more interesting. Revealing she rarely has sex, the Lady thus spake: “I have this…
Public art has always been vigorously controversial Denver. Whether it’s the blue devil “Mustang” at Denver International Airport, the (naked alien?) Borovsky “Dancers” in front of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Big Blue Bear or “National Velvet” — a sculpture that some say looks like a stack…
Matthew Brown is quite smart and quite thin, pleasantly articulate and a really nice guy with a hip sense of style that’s never obnoxious. His personal style credo is this: “If you don’t feel comfortable wearing it, it’s not you.” Brown and Jaime Jennings, his partner in life and business,…
We don’t know about you, but we like free shit — particularly when that shit is a free show with singers, poetry readings, spoken word performances (including comedy) and dancers from about five different ethnic traditions — and that’s not to mention a sneak preview of Tribe All, Lori Joyce’s…
Summer camp isn’t just for kids anymore: At the YesPleaseMore pop-up shop in the Denver Pavilions, shop co-conspirators Samuel Schimek and Brian Corrigan have set aside the month of August for a weekly series of evening “camps” featuring summery adult diversions like tonight’s Denver Handmade Alliance Crafty Demo Expo…
The Parents Television Council wishes $#*! My Dad Says (oh, what clever typography you use to represent “shit,” CBS) would just go away. So do we — but it’s not because we think, as the PTC seems to, that the series is actually about turds. In a letter sent to…
Earlier today, we told you about our top five favorite ridiculous King Tut tie-ins, one of which was moving Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian death-god, to Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. But we were wrong. Anubis didn’t get moved; Anubis moves when he wants, wherever he wants — and he moves some…
