Tonight’s premiere of The Hot L Baltimore was timed perfectly. “We’re all homeless now with the housing crisis,” says director Terry Dodd. “This is environmental theater with a really big, beating heart.” The play, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson in 1973, will be staged in the lobby of…
No one embodies the glitz, the glamour or the glib insanity of Las Vegas like Wayne Newton. “I just think, whether you like him or not, he’s a cultural icon,” says Vonalda Utterback of the Theater Company of Lafayette. “He’s Mr. Las Vegas, by his own admission.” Now Mr. Las…
This weekend’s Welcome Table symposium at the Iliff School of Theology should prove that activism can lead to delicious food and honest creative expression just as easily as it encourages the cessation of such pleasures. The symposium was created by the Veterans of Hope organization, which focuses on collecting oral…
As an artist, Eric Matelski is always looking for new ways to promote his work. After attending classes through Denver Urban Gardens, he came up with the idea to merge two of his passions into a series of garden shows called Art Farm. “It’s pretty cool, because it’s just a…
“Eating before practice helps a lot.” With a mouthful of homemade pizza, drummer Sam Spitzer is explaining the secret of the Hollyfelds’ camaraderie. Before each rehearsal, the quintet sits down to a meal at the Spitzers’ home. What started as carryout has evolved to delicious home-cooked meals, compliments of Spitzer’s…
One of the outstanding educational programs at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, 720-898-7200, www.arvadacenter.org) is in the field of ceramics. The center offers classes and workshops about clay that are geared to either children or adults, and sometimes both. In a few weeks —…
Some rock photographers have it, others don’t, but Lynn Goldsmith is the pinnacle to which they all should aspire. A photographer since childhood and, perhaps more important, a career fan, she has a loving way with the lens that infuses her celebrity prints with surging, active life. That she loves…
You might already know about StoryCorps, a national initiative (featured every Friday on NPR’s Morning Edition) to document everyday history and the unique stories of hundreds — if not thousands — of Americans. But did you know that starting today and continuing through August 8, the StoryCorps MobileBooth (an Airstream…
We’re all embracing it these days, yet there’s more to the local food movement than meets the eye. After all, it’s nice to know that your food has a shortened carbon footprint and all, but did you ever stop to think about where it actually comes from? On Zweck’s Farm,…
Few writers reach the notoriety of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. He was a character and a legend, the founder of gonzo journalism and a living, breathing contradiction — a peace-lover who was also obsessed with firearms, for starters. To take on a biography of Thompson’s life is a task of…
Although textile maven Dianne Denholm’s TACtile Textile Arts Center has been developing for several months, she’s just now beginning to truly flesh out the center as both a meeting place and classroom for fiber artists and their guilds, and a public showcase for their wares. So tonight’s open house will…
Thanks to eighteenth-century astronomer Charles Messier, amateur stargazing can be a marathon experience. Over the course of his life, Messier catalogued 110 deep-sky objects such as nebulae, galaxies and star clusters. “An amateur astronomer would really have to stay up from dusk till dawn to pull off the Messier Marathon,”…
The Project Space at MCA Denver, where artists-in-residence are ensconced, has rapidly become one of the state’s most prominent venues — not just because of the high quality of the offerings here, but also because those offerings are often the work of Colorado artists. Since its launch last year, the…
If you’ve ever felt like a stranger in a strange land, you’ll completely grok Frolics and Frippery, a new exhibit of “intimate objects for the body” created by area artist Janice Jakielski, opening today at Vertigo Art Space. The soft-sculpture objects — cloth goggles, hearing devices and other wearables —…
You would’ve had to have made a very conscientious, hermetic effort for the past few years in order to avoid having any notion of the popularity of a particular made-for-TV movie called High School Musical. Disney continues to milk its unexpected cash cow with countless spinoffs, merchandising and sequels. Now,…
What do soda pop and extreme death rituals of Borneo have to do with each other? Is there any connection between craft beer and Renaissance polyphony? Not on the surface — but then, the Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar has a reputation for delving deep beneath the obvious…
Metal bands that transition from the underground to the overground can suffer painful backlashes. Thus far, though, Mastodon – part of a massive Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival lineup that includes Slipknot, Disturbed, Machine Head, Underoath, Dragonforce, Five Finger Death Punch, The Red Chord, Suicide Silence, 36 Crazy Fists, Airbourne, Black…
“My Lord,” you might be saying, “Ween is still around?” And how, brother. Dismissed for two decades as a joke band, Ween has labored in sorta-obscurity while somehow simultaneously selling out shows and winning die-hard converts. How do they do it? Easy: Ween rules. In fact, the Pennsylvania group is…
The first 10,000 fans at tonight’s Rockies game will get a coupon that lets them buy a hot dog for a measly buckaroo. Hebrew National is gonna hook you up with the cheap eats, and who are you to argue, when rival goods such as brats at Coors Field will…
Reyna Von Vett didn’t have to look far for inspiration for her brand-new show, Leadville or Bust! She lives in Curtis Park, and “got to talking to some of the members of the Curtis Park community. I was chatting with Ken Miller, who lives right around the corner, and we…
Something scary is going on beneath St. Mark’s Coffeehouse. Once a week, a group gathers to pay homage to the darkness in preparation for the spookiest night of the year. “We all love Halloween over there,” explains Gio Toninelo. “We figured we’d do a countdown with a film every week.”…
Tom Petty is perpetually underrated. He debuted too late in pop music’s historical continuum to seem deserving of full classic-rocker status (although he’s certainly earned it by now) and came across like an apprentice rather than a peer when collaborating with Bob Dylan et al. (a result of his modesty,…
