The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver opened its brand-new David Adjaye-designed building at the corner of 15th and Delgany streets less than two months ago. I love the building and the fact that the upstart institution managed to construct a high-style facility by an internationally famous architect, and I focused on…
American Art Invitational. Art, like politics, can be divided into liberal and conservative camps, with contemporary art representing the left and traditional art the right. But unlike politics, where the baton can pass back and forth between the two opposites, the art world has been run decisively by the liberals…
The idea for a quartet of solo shows at Sandy Carson Gallery (760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585, www.sandycarsongallery.com) began when owner Sandy Carson decided she wanted to mount an exhibit devoted to Toronto hotshot Tony Scherman, one of the foremost encaustic painters anywhere. Encaustic, by the way, is a wax-based…
If you’re anything like me — thousands of miles away from your family, with no money for airfare and a girlfriend who flies home every Christmas — then you’re likely to get a little bitter around the holidays, with only your dog and reruns of A Christmas Story to keep…
The world is full of holiday-season art shows that fall before Christmas, not on the day after. But at South Broadway Christian Church, 23 Lincoln Street, they decided to do things a little differently. Based on the success of an Easter Stations of the Cross exhibit staged there for Easter…
Tonight is the winter solstice, the longest night of the year and a traditional time of celebration for almost every culture on the planet. Denverites can mark the imminent return of seeing the sun for more than a couple hours a day at the Dark Night Mysteries Solstice Celebration, tonight…
Embrace the ephemeral nature of beauty over the next three days during the Downtown Denver Partnership’s Ice Sculpting in Skyline Park. Meet in front of the holiday tree in Skyline Park, 1825 Arapahoe Street, at 10:30 a.m. today through Saturday to watch one of the most fleeting of all art…
Although there seem to be Santa Clauses everywhere at this time of year, they’re seldom accompanied by the Grinch and Cindy Lou Who. Today, however, all three take part in Movies With Santa, presented by the Shops at Northfield Stapleton, 8340 Northfield Boulevard. According to marketing director Joyce Rocha-Brown, the…
The title of Á Colorado en una Noche de Navidad (To Colorado on a Christmas Night), a musical-theater piece by El Centro Su Teatro that debuts tonight, is drawn from a new version of singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa’s “From Texas for a Christmas Night” — and writer/director Anthony J. Garcia, who…
“It’s like storytime for grownups,” says Debbie Knapp, a performer for Colorado Homegrown Tales — a dramatic-reading series highlighting stories by local authors. “It’s a nice way to take a break from the holiday mayhem, harking back to the tradition of getting everyone together for the holidays and telling funny…
I grew up in Evergreen, so for me, it doesn’t feel like the holidays until I’ve taken a spin around Evergreen Lake on my ice skates. Luckily for me, I can still squeeze in a quick dose of wintertime exercise before I unwrap my presents this morning, because the lake…
Imagine for a moment that you are Mary, and you’re roundly pregnant with your first child — about to pop, as they say — and you and your husband are seeking shelter for the night in a strange town. But there are hundreds of others who need shelter, who have…
Since the lunar perigree (commonly known as the full moon) doesn’t technically come to fruition until tomorrow morning at 3:12, tonight’s Full Moon Ski and Skate won’t take place beneath a completely, 100 percent, no-holds-barred full moon — but the sky will still be bright enough to light the way…
Chocolate fiends and those with sweet teeth, take note: Keystone chef Ned Archibald’s Chocolate Village, which he (along with his helpers) installs every year in the lobby of Keystone Lodge, might look like a Wonka-esque wonderland filled with delicious delicacies — but seeing as how Archibald recycles the village each…
Sometimes you just can’t find the right thing for the right person, and as the Christmas shopping days continue to dwindle, you wring your hands in despair. Or maybe you’ve been lazy. Whatever the case, you’d better look sharp: Santa lands in a mere five days, and you don’t want…
It takes rare ability to tell a children’s story that conveys the grace and significance of childhood without straying into the affectedly saccharine, oversimplified realm of cartoons and morality tales, but Albert Lamorisse managed to do it twice, both times winning the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or for the effort…
Just when you thought you had a week off from the festivities, Kwanzaa is here! Now, you might be one of those who puts this holiday in the festivus-for-the-rest-of-us category, or maybe you believe that anything founded in the 1960s just isn’t real. You might also think the founder is…
Would you rather share the holiday season with the cinematic likes of Francis Ford Coppola, or your overcritical in-laws? If all you want for Christmas is a sneak peek into the jet-set world of Oscar nomination, then Aspen is the place to be today through January 2, when the Aspen…
‘Tis the season for Seasonal Affective Disorder, and I am SAD. Perhaps we all are, at least a little bit. I’m not saying I start writing my will and planning my memorial service every time the sun goes away, but I do get a little blue coming home every night…
It’s hard to miss the City and County Building this time of year. The Downtown Denver Partnership touts it as one of the largest holiday lighting displays in the world, with floodlights and nearly a million smaller lights. It’s a colorful, chaotic sight to behold — and an official nightmare…
The Writers’ Strike of 2007 looks to be going into 2008 as well; but late-night programming won’t be following it anymore. NBC has announced that on January 2, both Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O’Brien will return with new episodes. It’s being reported that David…
Where I walk into Tattered Cover and randomly select five books from the new release racks to read a random page for 45 seconds and rate the book accordingly. Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers By Michael A. Banks Page 35 Doesn’t it seem outmoded to…
