Kazillionaire, arts donor and fine-art photographer Laura Merage has gotten a step closer to opening what she calls an “art incubator,” dubbed RedLine, by forming a board of directors. The seven-member group includes Merage and two other artists, Lori Bauman and Tom Guiton, and four administrative executives, Sue Renner, Bruce…
George Carlson. Put together by curator Ann Daley, who has shaped and defined the Western collection at the Denver Art Museum, George Carlson: Heart of the West deals with the career of an accomplished neo-traditional artist who looks to the century-old Impressionist style for inspiration. The Carlson exhibit includes nearly…
Craig Conner, proprietor of Pablo’s on 6th, has a theory regarding the meaning of life: “Each consecutive moment represents a much smaller part of your life. If each moment passes more quickly, you should seek greater meaning; your actions should have a thoughtful purpose.” Conner put his theory into practice…
The red carpet, paparazzi, an art show, funny awards, clever advertisements and really great wrap-it-up music: These are things you won’t find anywhere near a typical student film screening at the University of Colorado in Boulder. “Nobody wants to come to the student screenings,” says film student Tony Castle. “If…
Calling all otaku! Anime, manga and other Japanese pop-culture pursuits are the order of the weekend at Anime Wasabi, starting tonight and continuing through Sunday at the Holiday Inn DIA, 15500 East 40th Avenue. Besides rubbing elbows with other devotees of Gundam, Dragonball and the like, there’s plenty to feed…
I once had a stupid dog that almost drowned every morning trying to get at those swimming kibbles in his water bowl. He used to tilt his head, crouch down and then plunge his snout into his water dish — always managing to smash his nose on the bottom. But…
No matter how hard they tried, for a good seven years or so, plenty of Americans couldn’t forget that George W. Bush was president of the United States. But with all the excitement about the ongoing slugfest between Democratic hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over who will challenge presumptive…
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and you’re bored. You already had your fill of green beer over the weekend, when everyone else seemed to be celebrating, but now that the day of green is actually here, there’s no one to pinch and you’d rather not engage in another drinking marathon with…
Bob White got into art by accident. He started a vinyl and CD business in 1998. In the process, he taught himself graphic design, and soon he’d replaced his original concept with a design company that did advertising for small businesses. As he snapped and edited more and more pictures,…
The waters of Chile’s Patagonia region are under threat from hydroelectric dam projects that would mar the pristine beauty of the earth’s most beloved land’s end. Tonight, Global Response — an environmental action and education network based in Boulder — jump-starts its campaign to protect Patagonian rivers and wilderness areas…
There’s something unbelievably catchy about Irish music, whether you’re listening to a sad ballad about a young man never to return from battle or a rowdy, rabble-rousing drinking tune. And since tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, what better way to get in the mood than by attending a concert tonight…
I fell in love with vintage fashion at a young age. Growing up in the ’80s (full of neon) and ’90s (flannel), it was easy to see the beauty of a bias-cut ’30s gown or a voluptuous ’50s dress. Sadly, many vintage finds start to show their age — in…
Cassettes defeated eight-tracks. VHS trumped Beta. And Blu-ray recently overtook HD-DVD — which makes the timing of Disney’s Magical Blu-Ray Tour mighty fortuitous. “Blu-ray has now become the high-definition standard,” Disney Blu-ray spokeswoman Andi Matheny says of the display, which debuts today. “And we’re letting the average person really experience…
While there are plenty of Democrats in Hollywood, there’s nothing democratic about the film industry. The silver screen begins to look more like an iron curtain when one considers that most movie options are pre-ordained by a coterie of producers and executives. So when a few local deciders from the…
The isolated community of Gee’s Bend is tucked away in a U-shaped curve of the Alabama River. Its inhabitants descend from slaves, many of whose relatives literally walked from North Carolina with their slave masters in the 1840s. However, from this history of strife, hatred and isolation grew world-famous quilts…
As part of the ongoing effort to build a lasting peace between the jocks and the nerds, the University of Colorado at Boulder presents the latest in its series of weekend science lessons, this time demonstrating the Physics of Baseball at Mile High. The free lecture, which begins today at…
Storyteller Peninnah Schram and musician Gerard Edery are the two main players in The Minstrel and the Storyteller, An Exotic Journey. “Each of them has their own proficiency, their own expertise and their own magic in their own fields,” notes fellow storyteller Cherie Karo Schwartz, a longtime friend of Schram’s…
Comprising 23 acres of farmland along Sand Creek in Stapleton, the Urban Farm is many a young Denverite’s first exposure to cultivation, animal husbandry and riding horses. What began fifteen years ago as a horsemanship-education program has become a full-service agricultural/environmental education facility that serves thousands of urban youths. Although…
It’s one of the most spectacular wildlife migrations left in our ever more industrialized world, and one of the biggest in the Continental United States. If you’ve never seen thousands of Greater Sandhill Cranes take to the air all at once, swooping and crying out, it’s hard to explain. Among…
Eyes Caught Fire percussionist Joel Brown’s bass drum head reads, “Keep Hope Alive.” For any other band, that might come off as a cheap slogan. But from this Colorado Springs quintet, it’s anything but. The act’s collective voice contains a dark, lustrous majesty that whispers like the spectre of buried…
Even though I don’t like beer (and especially not green beer), St. Patrick’s Day is my favorite holiday. First, because I actually am Irish. Second, because green is my favorite color — and incidentally, with my Irish coloring, I look pretty damn good in it. Third, because who couldn’t use…
To the uninitiated viewer, Austrian director Michael Haneke might best be described as modern cinema’s master of the unkind rewind. In the opening scene of his second theatrical feature, Benny’s Video (1992), we see crude camcorder footage of a farm pig being shot with a cattle gun during a family’s…
