Everyone loves to eat, right? From salt-and-vinegar potato chips to milk chocolate, steaks to shrimp, crab legs to McNuggets — I’ll eat (and love) almost anything. Just thinking about the newest round of Taste Test at the Lab at Belmar (and the last ever at the Lakewood location)made me hungry…
Need an excuse to get up to the mountains? Try Keystone’s first-ever Winter Culinary Festival, featuring tastings, classes and seminars beginning today and continuing through Sunday. Highlights include a martini tasting, an ice carving demonstration, a culinary-trends seminar and a chocolate class. The festival is headlined by the Grand Tasting…
Every quaint little mountain town needs a festival. Nederland has one — but the town doesn’t celebrate mining heritage, flowers, fruit, beer or mushrooms. Instead, as the Northern Hemisphere begins to tilt back toward the sun, as the days lengthen and spring stirs in the air, Nederland throws its annual…
All things zombie need not be flesh-eating, blood-crusted horrors of the night. Well, okay, maybe all zombies do need some awful accoutrements in order to appear authentic — but that doesn’t mean zombies can’t be sexy. Need some proof? Then head to Bender’s Tavern, 314 East 13th Avenue, for tonight’s…
Gallic dancer/choreographer Marie-Jose Payannet of Danse Etoile Ballet proves that egalitarianism is a French notion. Her concept behind the Broomfield-based troupe’s performances this weekend at the Dairy Center for the Arts is to show off a little of everything ballet is and can be, from elegantly classical to thoroughly modern…
At 29, the Game (aka Jayceon Terrell Taylor) is a battle-scarred vet. After getting shot five times in 2001, he recuperated by studying the styles of rap’s finest and coming up with a West Coast meets East Coast flow that attracted the attention of Dr. Dre, who produced his 2005…
We’re lucky to have a theater company like Curious around. Artistic director Chip Walton is also president of the National New Play Network, which sponsors the Continued Life Project, through which an emerging playwright develops a new work with at least three different creative teams and communities, giving the play…
If you feel better knowing you’ve burned a few calories before you indulge in a five-course meal, then the Grand Huts Progressive Dinner is just your thing. It requires a workout not only before the dinner, but between courses, as well. Hungry participants don cross-country skis or snowshoes at the…
“MATTER: Disregarding the barriers between design and art since 1999.” That’s the motto of MATTER, the fast-forward local design studio masterminded by Rick Griffith, and it describes perfectly the show Griffith has hung in the fourth-floor Jury Selection Room at the Denver City and County Building as part of the…
For those of us whose hearts belong to the arts, it was discouraging to see Republican opponents of the economic stimulus package — signed into law by President Barack Obama last week in Denver — use the paltry $50 million increase in the budget for the National Endowment for the…
Ary Stillman. Singer gallery director Simon Zalkind is a brilliant curator who has made the humble Mizel Arts & Culture Center an important destination for art lovers. Being a Jewish institution, the Singer often features shows devoted to the efforts of Jewish artists, and that’s the case with Ary Stillman:…
As You Like It. It doesn’t get more minimal than this: As You Like It performed by six people on a stage where the set consists of little besides a large rock, swaths of fabric and a wooden swing; echoing footsteps announce an actor’s entry minutes before he actually appears;…
Paragon Theatre’s production of Love Song represents the best kind of marriage between a script and a theater company: The play provides fascinating, quirky roles that make actors look good, and where it has flaws, the production counters them. This is the story of Beane, a sad, lonely, crazy man…
Numerous reviews of Donkey Punch, an alternately glossy and loony thriller that debuts at Starz FilmCenter this week, have argued that the opening portions of the film, in which a trio of British party girls vacationing in Spain hook up with a group of randy young sailors on a lavish…
If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray’s Two Lovers, was twelve years old, the movie might make a touching, if not noticeably fresh, romantic drama for tweens. Not that adults don’t nurse unhealthy crushes and regress madly under the pressure of hopeless infatuation, which may be…
Numerous reviews of Donkey Punch, an alternately glossy and loony thriller that debuts at Starz FilmCenter this week, have argued that the opening portions of the film, in which a trio of British party girls vacationing in Spain hook up with a group of randy young sailors on a lavish…
Spark Gallery is the granddaddy of artist cooperatives in Denver, and that means it’s also the godmother of the city’s contemporary art scene. This position has been bolstered over the years by the high quality of its members, who reflect the full range of artistic experience, from younger artists to…
Choreographer/dancer David Dorfman of David Dorfman Dance says his figurative, representational style moves in and out of favor, and right now, riding a wave of Obama-inspired national hope, it seems to be making a comeback, along with the ’60s-based ideas of community participation and taking action toward change. The time,…
It’s hard to believe that The General, now considered to be silent-film comic Buster Keaton’s finest effort, was a flop in its day. Defined throughout by the clever train chase that propels the choreographed flick’s plot, it’s also the unconditionally perfect showcase for Keaton’s imperturbable, stoic style of comedy, which…
“It’s just another one of those silly things we decided to do on a whim. We don’t know anything about musicals, just like none of us knew how to ice skate before we made Kafka on Ice. But we’re all really the jump-in-with-two-feet kind of people.” Buntport Theater troupe member…
Times are tough all around, but no one wants to hear about another independent theater company biting the dust. And though we all know that folks in the arts are among the first to suffer when wallets are thin, it’s no less shocking to hear that Boulder’s brave little Theatre13…
In 1997, the Colorado Ballet took a chance on an up-and-coming young choreographer. Christopher Wheeldon was still a dancer with the New York City Ballet when he was invited to Colorado to choreograph a dance rendition of the Shakespearean classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Today Wheeldon is world-renowned, and the…
