Every year, the Vail Valley Foundation brings some of the best dancers in the world to the Vail Dance Festival, which was showcasing hot moves before So You Think You Can Dance was even a glimmer of an idea in some television executive’s head. This year is no exception: The…
With more than ninety beers on tap from 35-plus breweries, tonight’s fourth annual Summer Brew Fest at Mile High Station is a powerful reminder of how many different kinds of beers there are to choose from, both in Colorado and in other states. And while the event is good practice…
SOS Outreach has grown from the Snowboard Outreach Society into a year-round program serving 5,000 young people in Colorado by introducing them to outdoor experiences like snowboarding, rock climbing and backpacking in the Eagle River Valley. Today they’re inviting the rest of us up to enjoy the view from their…
My father was a geochemist, which meant that every family vacation we took had some sort of geology component to it. Whether we were gazing into a canyon, admiring a waterfall, trekking into a cave, taking a tour of a mine or just stopping to admire the magnificent road cut/outcropping…
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival celebrates its tenth year with cleansing breaths and the Downward Facing Dog. Embracing the theme “Finding ‘Zen’ in 2010,” the festival aims to point attendees toward enlightenment with demonstrations of feng shui, yoga, reflexology, massage, acupuncture, meditation and much more However, “Zen” is just the…
I could use this entire page — and many more — to talk about what a lost opportunity the 2010 Biennial of the Americas turned out to be. I’d start out by exploring the story of the stillborn “In Good We Trust” theme thought up by Bruce Mau, who split…
Colorado Art Survey. Over the years, Kirkland Museum director Hugh Grant has relentlessly sought out and acquired new things for the institution’s permanent collection. In the current exhibit, Colorado Art Survey, he shows off some of these conquests and brings other things out of storage. There are some rarely seen…
Garage Sale Loud: This Is It. Almost every summer, the folks at Heritage Square stage what is essentially a musical review with a thin sustaining plot line and the word “loud” in the title. The conceit is that T.J. Mullin and Annie Dwyer are siblings, and they’re reliving their youth:…
Beer and sausage and mullets and mayhem are the stuff of a young Belgian teen’s upbringing in The Misfortunates, Felix Van Groeningen’s earthy adaptation of Dimitri Verhulst’s popular novel. Thirteen-year-old Gunther Stobbe (Kenneth Vanbaeden) plays little brother to four rowdy, strapping Stobbes — his hooting dad (Koen de Graeve) and…
Inception is a chilling trip into the psyche…of writer-director Christopher Nolan, an Anglo-American action director who shattered the Tomatometer of mass consensus with The Dark Knight. Nolan’s followup offers more muted colors, gift-wrapped themes and GQ leading men with stockbroker comb-backs over the frowns carved in their brows —indicators of…
I’m not sure why director Lynne Collins chose to set her King Lear in the late nineteenth-century American West, since it doesn’t add much of anything to the theme or story. But it does very much fit the persona and acting style of John Hutton, who makes a fine, easy-talking,…
The premise of Steve Martin’s entirely ahistorical Picasso at the Lapin Agile is that Picasso and Einstein met at an artists’ hangout in Montmartre in 1904. The play that results is a meditation on the nature of creativity and the role of science and art in the twentieth century —…
If you’ve already been to the Biennial’s fantastic Objectophilia group show, you know that the all-local YesPleaseMore pop-up shop has an annex there, where you can buy goods made from repurposed items, including paper collages by Objectophilia artist Phil Bender, Horndribble wall lamps, Mukee Design’s jewelry fashioned from recycled skateboards…
It’s been four years since the Foothills Art Center last mounted the North American Sculpture Exhibition, which had previously been a biannual occurrence at the Golden gallery. But after Foothills renovated the main gallery, giving more prominence to the former church’s wall-lining stained-glass windows, FAC curator Michael Chavez thought the…
Each and every one of Denver’s gallery districts boasts its own charms, but the Art District on Santa Fe, with its ten blocks of galleries, businesses and studios, is most likely the busiest. And now, in tandem with the Biennial, the district is hosting an internationally themed Passport to the…
Mash up the best bits of Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist and Aliens, set the whole thing in a claustrophobic old-world apartment building, unfurl it all at a breakneck pace, and you’d be close to the perfect zombie-movie mayhem that is REC 2. This brilliant sequel to REC…
When you ordinarily think of a planetarium, “you think of a place to examine stars,” acknowledges Kirk Johnson, chief curator and vice president of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s research and collections division. “But suddenly, the planetarium becomes about the Earth.” At least, it does at Digital Earth:…
Despite high gas prices, oil spills and politics, America’s love affair with the automobile isn’t going anywhere. And when it comes to preserving and promoting the superhero of all cars, the hot rod, Streamline Hot Rod Car Parts is Denver’s go-to garage. It’s only natural, then, that the shop is…
Dog lovers know that Denver’s a great place for pooches. And Duo Marketing and Zen Dog Pet Boutique are about to make it even better with Duo Dogs, a dog-and-owner socialization event running tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. “I live right in that Platte neighborhood,” says Duo representative Maya…
There are some things in life you just can’t wash right out of your hair, and one of those is the quintessential Broadway musical South Pacific, which, along with such shows as Oklahoma! and West Side Story, pretty much writes the book on what it takes to succeed on the…
Buntport Theater is working overtime this week with three Biennial-related events in three days. Starting tonight at 8 p.m. with The Power of 29, eight presenters will have nine minutes each to explain — with the aid of slides and/or video — what inspired them during their “power year” (aka…
Less than one week ago, most of the budding rock stars at Girls Rock Denver had never picked up an instrument, so prepare to have your mind — and your ears — blown when they bring the noise at today’s Summer Camp Showcase at the Oriental Theater. By the time…
