Celebrate our nation’s independence by partying with a bunch of independent local businesses at the second annual East Colfax Super Block Party. The free festivities include music, art and a cupcake-eating contest sponsored by the Shoppe, but the highlight may well be the DIY Craft Fair. There you’ll find more…
For Taman Vanscoy, art simply imitates life. After winning third place at last year’s Cherry Creek Arts Festival and receiving an automatic invite to exhibit work again this year (not to mention at a full schedule of other art fairs from San Diego to Chicago over the next few months),…
If you like your science fiction smart, well written and more concerned with the nuances of humanity than ray guns and bug-eyed monsters, you’re probably already a fan of Serenity, showing tonight in the Ubisububi room in the basement of the Thin Man, 2015 East 17th Avenue. The 2005 film,…
The Auraria campus shifts into low gear during the summer, but that doesn’t mean the Emmanuel Gallery (Lawrence Street Mall, 303-556-8337, www.emmanuelgallery.org) shuts down. On the contrary, Emmanuel uses the summer to stretch its wings, mounting ambitious shows. A perfect example is the current offering, Steve Wilson. This handsome if…
Damien Hirst. You’d have to be living under a rock — or have absolutely no interest in contemporary art — not to know that Damien Hirst is a superstar, and that everything he makes is worth millions of dollars apiece. The tight solo at MCA Denver (formerly known as the…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
Revanche defied both the odds and the standard formula in earning Austria a richly deserved Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Director Götz Spielmann’s latest deals with crime, a subject typically seen as insufficiently important for such an honor. Moreover, the main characters — a rough-hewn ex-con (Johannes Krisch), a…
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? Okay, maybe my personal enjoyment was helped along by the fact that I shared my table…
Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald’s parents didn’t just plan for her — they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare parts and infusions for her leukemia-sick older sister, Kate. From a 2004 Jodi Picoult bestseller, My Sister’s Keeper mashes Death Be Not Proud with Irreconcilable Differences. When Kate…
This year’s spring rains have brought with them masses of flowers, sprouting up seemingly everywhere, even in sidewalk cracks. It’s quite a change from our normally parched environment, in which the blooms start to fade by early summer. More flowers are blooming in town right now, if only metaphorically, in…
Revanche defied both the odds and the standard formula in earning Austria a richly deserved Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Director Götz Spielmann’s latest deals with crime, a subject typically seen as insufficiently important for such an honor. Moreover, the main characters — a rough-hewn ex-con (Johannes Krisch), a…
The music industry may be ailing, but concert posters remain a healthy art form, with exciting, diverse artists working to create beautiful and eye-catching promotional illustration. Ink Lounge Gallery is bringing two of the best to town to talk about a new exhibit titled Made in the Midwest: Prints by…
Some performers can keep an audience in stitches but can’t keep a tune. It’s tough to find a balance between comedic and musical talent; a singer with a beautiful voice might not have a great sense of humor, and a great comedian might not be melodically gifted. That’s why the…
The town’s recent Top Chef contestants have been very in demand in this celebrity-starved city, and tonight, Melissa Harrison (formerly of Centro, now of Happy Noodle House) will join with L.A. Top Chef contender Alex Eusebio (a Denver native who worked at Aix and Cuba Cuba) to take on fellow…
As the father of a musically inclined young woman, I can say there just aren’t enough role models and opportunities to help encourage her to seize the day, rock-and-roll style. But now Girls Rock Denver is out to change that. “Girls Rock Denver is basically the first non-profit rock-and-roll day…
Explaining FOUND Magazine’s Denim and Diamonds Tour is kind of like describing a flea market to someone who’s never been shopping before. It all starts with Davy Rothbart, who collects love letters, to-do lists, birthday cards, Post-It notes, photos, doodles, impromptu poems and other objects; today people from all over…
The repercussions of obsessive collector Andrew Novick’s exhibition at the now-defunct Lab in Belmar still reverberate. One unexpected upshot of the whole fantabulous show was that it led to Novick and artists Viviane Le Courtois and Sabin Aell realizing that, in addition to sharing a love of travel and collecting…
Actor/director Ami Dayan was born in Israel, lives and works in Boulder, and has taken some of his theater pieces to New York, where they’ve received serious attention and critical praise. These include The Tale of a Tiger, Dayan’s interpretation of a one-act by Italian Nobel-winner Dario Fo; The Man…
Every year, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit receives hundreds of submissions from playwrights across the nation. Stephen Lavezza and Gabriella Cavallero, who’ve both done time with the DCTC, know that their Modern Muse Theatre doesn’t have the same resources as that powerhouse of an arts organization. In…
While searching for a program on self-portraiture to complement the Mizel Museum’s current exhibit My Self: Original Self Portraits, curator Georgina Kolber turned to that ubiquitous online medium: the blog. “Blogging certainly seems to be the new thing, especially microblogging with Facebook status updates and Twitter. How are blogs changing…
When Denver’s annual PrideFest, “Worldwide Pride…Connect the Dots,” gets under way this weekend in Civic Center Park, it will continue to provide programming as diverse as its constituency, with the usual mix of tried-and-true activities — among them, the family field day and kids’ parade, Volleypalooza in Congress Park, the…
Dick Kreck is sitting beside the shrine to Frank Sinatra in Gaetano’s, the restaurant at 3760 Tejon Street that the Smaldone family ran for almost sixty years, from 1947 until the Wynkoop Family of Restaurants bought the joint in 2005. The restaurant wasn’t the Smaldones’ only business venture, of course…
