In with the new, out with the old, in with the new: The New Media Salon at Plus Gallery’s temporary space at 1490 Delgany Street, in the shadow of MCA/Denver, is a metaphorical hello/goodbye to the neighborhood that Plus gallerist Ivar Zeile has called an interim home while the gallery’s…
Atomic Elroy (aka Tom McElroy), a fixture in the Colorado Springs art community, isn’t an easy person to explain. A one-man artistic mover and shaker, he puts you in mind of a Phil Bender, but…a Phil Bender in Colorado Springs, home of Focus on the Family, NORAD, Fort Carson, the…
Provide-n-ce Gallery, 4325 West 41st Avenue, might look like little more than a hole-in-the-wall around the corner from Tennyson Street, but the cooperative space carries the weight of the world on its shoulders. An ongoing project of Sister Sen Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee with a daunting past made right after…
Our collective imagination is full of strange things like Bigfoot and flying saucers and Batboy — the stuff of MonsterQuest and really bad tabloids. Watching the History Channel last week, I learned that the Bermuda Triangle mystery may actually be the result of a small black hole. Crazy, huh? And…
Sure, terrorism, climate change and economic collapse are pretty scary, but today’s worst-case scenarios have nothing on the nightmares of yesteryear. Take, for example, A Boy and His Dog, a 1975 Hugo Award-winning film based on a Harlan Ellison novella. In a world ravaged by nuclear war, a boy named…
Shocking but true: Eden’s title is meant ironically. Director Declan Recks’s film, which opens on Friday, February 6, at the Starz FilmCenter, focuses on Billy (Aidan Kelly) and Breda (Eileen Walsh), a working-class Irish couple whose relationship is frequently described by their friends as ideal even though no evidence of…
Menopause the Musical and Hats! are for women at the end of their childbearing years; and Girls Only — The Secret Comedy of Women celebrates a female’s childhood and teenage years. But what about everyone who falls between the onset of menarche and menopause? “We were right in between maturity…
If you’re missing the festivals of summer, head down to the I Love Music Festival (formerly known as the NoDo Record Swap), featuring sixty bands — including Space in Time, Pink Hawks and Oblio Duo — playing twenty-minute sets in every genre from thrash to blues to gypsy folk. “We’re…
Remember hunting through those musty used comic-book stores, or watching Batman and Robin walking up the side of a building, or strapping on a cape and skinning your bony elbows after leaping off the couch? From Heath Ledger’s posthumously grinning sociopath to Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier…
Haul out your vintage hankies. Today at 1:30 p.m., the Hiwan Homestead Museum will host a Valentine’s Dessert Tea, where expert Katie Dix will discuss the significance of handkerchiefs through history, and how these inherited keepsakes can tell stories from our grandmothers, great aunts and beyond. She’ll also delve into…
With an imposing array of guitar gear, including at least one full stack and a variety of pedals, many obviously modified, Warren Bedell, former frontman of the well-regarded Zombie Zombie, looks like he might be the lead player in a Sleep tribute band. As Spellcaster (due at Rhinoceropolis on Sunday,…
If I ever get lost in an avalanche, I hope I’m lucky enough to have a Beacon Bowl champion looking for me. Now in its seventh year, this annual competition — in conjunction with Avalanche Awareness Day — lets ski patrollers from nearby ski areas test their search-and-rescue skills in…
“There’s a pretty strong grassroots ukulele community around Colorado and around the country,” notes Michael Schenkelberg of the Swallow Hill Music Association. That explains why last year’s inaugural Denver UkeFest was such a sweet success — and why Swallow Hill is bringing it back for a new year. “Even for…
Birthdays, Valentine’s Day, good times and bad: Any excuse for chocolate is a good enough excuse for me. Fortunately, Julie Pech, Colorado’s chocolate therapist, says that enjoying chocolate every single day is beneficial to your health. At today’s eighth annual Chocolate Affair in Olde Town Arvada, you can listen to…
Clubbers, beware! Something wicked this way comes — an alien hybrid built out of the DNA of hip-hop, electro, jungle and glitch, fused together via DSP wizardry and masterful laptop skills. With bowel-rupturing sub-bass, teeth-rattling beats and mind-bending cuts, edits and processing, it’s the aural equivalent of an industrial-strength cleanser:…
Rex Fuller of Opera Colorado loves Brandi Shigley and Fashion Denver. He also loves the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life. Serendipity — and a really cool opera — brought all three together to collaborate on Zandra Rhodes’s Fashion of Desire, an introductory event at the library that highlights local…
From its opening-night film, Noodle, the story of an abandoned Chinese boy who falls into the lap of a widowed El Al stewardess, to the closing-night offering, Lemon Tree, about a Palestinian widow who fights to save her lemon grove from destruction by Israeli security forces on the West Bank,…
Hey, Sugar: Valentine’s Day, nine days and counting. What will YOU be presenting your friends with when the celebration of love draws nigh? You’re DIY, but not in that lace-and-cupids kind of way, and you’re on a budget that precludes buying long-stemmed roses and diamonds and shit. But you don’t…
I’m a total map freak, and I suppose that’s been true since the very first time I ever spun my family’s old globe of the world and let my chubby little finger fall on some far-flung nation. Later, my mother the hiker began bringing home those topographical state forest maps…
There’s a major changing of the guard in the art world right now in Colorado. The biggest news came this past fall, when Cydney Payton, the powerhouse director of MCA Denver, announced her departure. Then, two Western art curators at the Denver Art Museum — Ann Daley and Peter Hassrick…
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…
Doubt. Set in 1964, when the second Vatican Council was convening, John Patrick Shanley’s play follows a priest who may have molested a twelve-year-old boy — who just happens to be the sole black kid in the predominantly Irish and Italian school where the priest teaches — and the nun…
