Meet the Lich King of World of Warcraft in the flesh – or the guy who voices him, anyway – at Nan Desu Kan, the area’s premier convention for fans of anime and manga. The voice behind the world’s best-known undead noble – aka Michael McConnohie – as well as…
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, which, like its Platte Valley counterpart, PlatteForum, pairs at-risk youth with local artist/mentors to collaborate on special projects, often takes the practical bent when planning its artistic partnerships. Such is the case with Designs for Life, a new exhibit opening September 11 with a reception from…
Maruca Salazar, the newly installed director of Museo de las Américas, is full of praise for Mexico’s El Colectivo Malagua, four young artists from Puerto Vallarta who create graphic works as a group, from a grassrootsy, culture-driven perspective. Their latest project, La Malagua, features a modernized take on the traditional,…
Back in May, as my family drove through downtown Denver, we spotted an unusual sight: a tipsy gaggle of bicyclists coming down the street that made me smile and wave. These bikers wore no sleek paraphernalia made of super-wicking mystery fabrics, nor were they mohawked, pierced, lean and mean. They…
Cute, quirky and unmistakably unique, Kirsten Schaal has a face you don’t forget. Of course, it also helps that the ubiquitous actor and comedian has appeared in dozens of TV shows, films and commercials—though she’s best known as the Senior Women’s Issues Commentator on The Daily Show and as Mel,…
The symbiotic interplay between seemingly antithetical forces of nature – trees and wildfires – forms the underlying theme in artist Anna Kaye’s fastidiously detailed drawings in charcoal, graphite and watercolor, which offer a near-photographic view of a forest in ruins, coming back to life. Both eerie and inspirational, the works…
Last night, I ate at the Washington Park Grille, an old standby where you maybe have to watch what you order, but where it’s always pleasant, kinda like Cheers with Italian-ish food. Like a slew of Denver eateries, WPG has a special Harvest Week menu, served either as a pricey…
What artist wouldn’t want to see his work up in lights on a 26-by-70-foot billboard for all to see? Not too many. Local draftsman Bill Amundson is the latest artist to be commissioned by the Denver Theatre District to create a billboard-sized piece for display in the downtown area. He’ll…
Very rarely is it possible to start out on the wrong foot and yet wind up hitting a successful stride. But somehow, in the case of the History Colorado Center, getting it wrong at first hasn’t precluded the possibility of getting it right later. In 2005, a state building committee…
The tight-looking duet James Dormer & Paul Flippen, at Translations Gallery (1743 Wazee Street, 303-629-0713, www.translationsgallery.com), features two artists on the faculty of Colorado State University. Though both work on paper, their approaches are quite different: Dormer is a classic modernist, while Flippen delves into postmodernism. Neither is particularly well…
Big-Lots. This show comprises some very big abstract paintings by Wendi Harford that are strong and artistically ambitious. Harford earned a BFA at the University of Denver in the 1970s, where she studied with the late Beverly Rosen, and there are subtle references to her mentor’s influences throughout the show,…
Annie. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre is at the top of its form; it has to be. How else could the company make Annie — its mandatory summer family show — anything but a smirking sentimental bore? As everyone knows by now, the story of Annie concerns a little red-haired girl’s rough…
Early in The Windmill Movie, filmmaker Richard P. Rogers, whose never-completed autobiographical project was knitted together by former student Alexander Olch after his 2001 death, wonders if chronicling his life using footage shot over decades qualifies as “a kind of jerking off.” Attendees are likely to be divided over this…
Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of 1999. The two movies were always intended as bookends, with Extract countering the earlier film’s woe-is-me tale of the put-upon prole with its fucked-am-I…
Here’s an event that’s certain to be up your alley — as long as you’re a fan of local musicians (particularly local musicians who’ve broken out nationally) or a supporter of children’s issues or a celebrity hound. And that basically covers just about everyone. Tonight from 6 to 11 p.m.,…
When we were children, all good stories ended with the sentence “And they lived happily ever after.” Sadly, that happily-ever-after is becoming increasingly difficult to find in the modern age, which is where organizations like Weld County’s Building Healthy Marriages comes in. The non-profit group provides free relationship-education seminars to…
When Fancy Tiger co-owners Matthew Brown and Jaime Jennings called their ongoing First Friday event Denver Made, they meant it. The monthly art-and-fashion party has become an essential part of South Broadway’s burgeoning First Friday celebration — and, as the name implies, it’s obsessed with promoting Denver artists and Denver…
Last spring, Jeffrey Nickelson — who founded Shadow Theater Company with a $500 donation from news anchor Reynalda Muse and kept it alive for more than a decade — unveiled the theater’s beautiful new home in Aurora. But a few months later, citing fatigue, Nickelson announced his resignation. Anxious speculation…
Competition is supposed to be the engine of business — but for Nina and Ron Else, owners of the Broadway Book Mall, cooperation comes first. Formerly part of the recently dissolved Denver Book Mall (which occupied the storefront at 32 Broadway for many years), the couple’s Who Else! Books is…
“The first time I saw The Big Lebowski, I didn’t have a very strong reaction,” admits Will Russell, one of the self-styled Founding Dudes of the ever-expanding Lebowski Fest. “I ended up seeing it a couple more times, though, and on the third viewing, I fell in love. I wondered…
It’s time for the Time Warp Comics 25 Year Anniversary, and owner Wayne Winsett is throwing a month-long party to celebrate. The festivities get started in earnest today with a signing by Fort Collins-based artist Nick Runge, who’s working on a new Ghostbusters title and doing covers for Joss Whedon’s…
As an adjunct to the Space — Not Space exhibit at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Italian artist Marco Nereo Rotelli and Sioux poet Darren Grine are collaborating on a performance piece titled Poetic Crossings: Empowerment. “Marco is into this empowerment idea and wanted to work with…
