Art Trading Cards (ATC) are miniature works of art on 2.5-inch-by-3.5-inch pieces of card paper and traded like baseball cards. The minis are created using a variety of mediums – drawing, painting, dotting, collage, photography, calligraphy – carried out in everything from pencil and crayon to inks and watercolor. Each…
It’s Mother’s Day, which means most children will be showing their love via a bouquet of flowers and a nice brunch somewhere — complete with clean faces, combed hair and tucked-in shirts. But why not go a step further and take Mom to the ballet afterward? The Boulder Ballet is…
Have you declared your independence? If not, this is the week to do it. From May 11 through May 17, hundreds of microbreweries around the country will celebrate American Craft Beer Week with brewery tours, special keg tappings, food pairings, patio pourings and other events. In addition, the industry’s main…
Just like that Mexican flu took DNA from pigs, birds and people and cooked it up into a wholly new and highly infectious mix, San Francisco’s Lazer Sword has swiped bits and pieces from hip-hop, electro, drum and bass (and pretty much anything else the band could lay its hands…
It’s important to Deryn Goodwin, a grad student in the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado Denver, that the space she works in actually meets and exceeds the environmental standards she studies every day — but that’s not the case in the old “dinosaur of a…
When the words “Cinco de Mayo” fall on your ears, you might reflexively start salivating for a beer that ends in a vowel. And while I don’t blame anyone for wanting a cold one, there’s also apparently a rich cultural heritage attached to the holiday. Cue the 2009 Cinco de…
It’s official. You can finally tell your parents they were wrong when they said that comic books were a waste of time and money. Why? Because all those afternoons spent in musty comic-book stores and reading X-Men in the basement will pay off tonight when Geeks Who Drink present The…
Bollywood meets baseball tonight in a flurry of elaborate costumes and choreography at the Colorado Rockies International Night “They really wanted to make this year’s international day a bigger spectacle than in the past,” explains Renu Kansal of the Bollywood West dance studio. “They wanted something upbeat, high-energy, youthful and…
Expect something special when Joel McHale, star of E!’s The Soup, hits the stage of the Paramount Theatre tonight. “I come out wearing the largest codpiece in North America…because I want to impress the ladies,” he says. “Then I talk about Ryan Seacrest for two hours.” With a little prodding,…
“We are focusing on design this entire year at DAVA,” explains Viviane Le Courtois, program manager for Downtown Aurora Visual Arts. That explains why the upcoming Fashion Forward show — a collaboration between DAVA youth and local fashion mavens such as Mona Lucero — is heavy on the elements of…
As the owner of the Downtowner Media publishing company, Danial Griggs dabbles in film, comedy and music – and he sees a lot of ways that all three can work together. So when it became clear to him that his Downtowner Film Festival had outgrown its home in a Littleton…
You haven’t really experienced skateboarding until you’ve seen downhill skateboarding, a breakneck extreme sport requiring special longboards that are built more for speed than fancy skateboard tricks. And it takes a special kind of athlete to pilot one – in particular, one who’s addicted to adrenaline and probably has some…
One supposes it would be tough to hold down an artist as diverse in style as Peter Coffin, an internationally known master of multi-media whose work plays out in every form, from video to sculpture. But the Aspen Art Museum did: Coffin served as the museum’s second Jane and Marc…
When’s the last time you had a laugh-out-loud good time in an art museum? Like, never? That will all change when a show that brings out the Three Stooges in all of us opens tonight in the Project Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. Denver artist Jim Green’s sound-art…
No less than an all-out love affair between British comedy and the Great White Way, Monty Python’s Spamalot pairs a plot blatantly (and with blessings) stolen by Eric Idle and Mike Nichols from the screenplay for Monty Python and the Holy Grail with music and lyrics by Idle and John…
For decades, Denver artist Roland Bernier has used words written out in printed letters as the principal forms in his paintings, works on paper, sculptures and installations. A workaholic, Bernier has relentlessly found new ways to employ words, such as in collages made from photocopied magazines and comic books, with…
Curiouser. Singer Gallery director Simon Zalkind is one of the top curators in town, and one of the secrets to his success is presenting artists whose efforts are worthwhile but who for some reason rarely exhibit their work. That’s what’s happening now with the unusual show Curiouser: A Dozen Years…
Eccentricities of a Nightingale. It’s fascinating to observe the different acting styles on stage in this production, and to think about the ways they work with Tennessee Williams’s characters and dialogue. Brian Landis Folkins subsumes his personality to the role he’s playing. Minute by minute, the outlines of the character…
Among the most pleasurable entries in director Orson Welles’s filmography are those projects that find him trying to wedge his eccentricities into a standard genre template and failing to do so with fascinating results. The Lady From Shanghai, a late-’40s noir elaboration being screened on Tuesday, May 5, as part…
Morisot Reclining tells two love stories — both involving great artists of the impressionist period, neither of them consummated. Edouard Manet had a decades-long friendship with Berthe Morisot, who eventually married his brother, and there is great warmth and intensity in the paintings he did of her. Edgar Degas, arrogant…
Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, another backward and backward-looking child-is-father-to-the-man rom-com, with Matthew McConaughey, who, eighteen years Efron’s senior and slightly butcher, has just a few more years of prettiness…
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the saggiest, most cliched genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting and visual beauty. Though on paper its premise could have easily elicited groans, Half Nelson — their 2006 feature debut (that Fleck directed and the two co-wrote) about a white…
