DIVAS for Change is what happens when a small group of professional women in Boulder decide to throw fun, philanthropic parties that benefit less-fortunate women. The Roaring 1920s Cocktail Benefit, says member Kate Linehan, is what happens when these divas decide to “do a twist on the traditional kind of…
Chip Walton knows what you’re thinking. As director of the dark comedy Mall-Mart: The Musical — which follows the story of a businessman named Walt Sampson, who revolutionizes retail sales after World War II by selling more for less — he understands that audiences might come expecting a lefty commentary…
You might recognize Buddha Bomb’s name from fliers for Gypsie Nation, the weekly trans-dance night at the Avalon Ballroom in Boulder. You might also recognize Buddha Bomb’s voice from his regular appearances as a producer on KGNU Community Radio’s Electronic Air techno show. But you probably wouldn’t recognize the 55-year-old…
In its continuing effort to bring arts experiences to underserved Denver youngsters on a grassroots level, the United Artists’ Coalition for Kids — a conglomeration of artist volunteers — always has a lot of pins to juggle. The latest, a new gallery space that opened at 948 West Eighth Avenue,…
When I was twelve, Escape From New York was the coolest movie ever. Snake Plissken was my hero, my idol. He was tough, tattooed, fearless and had an awesome action mullet. He got shot in the leg and, hours later, managed to kill a dude three times his size in…
It wasn’t a long trip from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory to the University of Colorado’s Fiske Planetarium. But it might have been a strange one — particularly for anyone who happened to catch a glimpse of the traveler, the exhibit Science on a Sphere…
This election season, the pledge to fight graffiti is the one common campaign promise among candidates vying for various Denver City Council seats. To voting constituents, the unwanted scribblings are nothing more than garbled representations of anarchy and confusion covering neighborhoods from sidewalk to roof. But for the diverse street…
It’s no secret that when legislators are looking to trim education expenses, arts programs often receive the first — and worst — lopping. “There have been a great deal of programs at the Denver School of the Arts that have seen a shortfall due to statewide budget cuts,” says DSA…
There’s something about Benjamin Franklin that never seems to make it into school textbooks. Although there’s extensive coverage of his experiments with electricity and his landmark diplomacy, those accounts always seem to leave out Franklin’s reputation as a bit of a colonial bad boy. In the spirit of full disclosure…
In the entire Peel and Play Presentations universe, no man is luckier than Bob. That’s because during every learn-to-strip-dance workshop — whether it’s a drunken bachelorette party or an intimate private consultation — Naomi Tepper uses Bob as a sort of stand-in prop to teach women all the moves necessary…
As an art curator working under the aegis of a Jewish cultural institution, Simon Zalkind sees a lot of Holocaust-related art. But much of what comes his way just doesn’t ring true: “The majority of what I see is not convincing either as art or history or as a commemoration…
One thing’s for certain: You can pretty much count on the creative beehive that is Buntport Theater to turn everything you know and believe completely upside down on stage in the course of a single performance. This year’s season opener, Vote for Uncle Marty, does it again when the lead…
The book: a bound collection of printed text; a centuries-old means of visually communicating stories and ideas; and a refuge on those all-too-frequent Saturday nights when hopping around to different bars watching the same people shake their humps, their humps, their lovely lady lumps just makes you want to go…
At the new Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, everything comes in fives: five gallery spaces inspired by the five elements of Chinese philosophy, redefined by the museum’s own principles of art, architecture, light, nature and human experience. And, as you might expect, when the MCA opens the doors of its sweet,…
Artist/curator Devon Dikeou occupies a rare place in the art world — a vantage point from which she views the culture from both sides. After first creating the art journal zingmagazine, in which several pages of each issue are set aside for artists to use as they please, she went…
When you think of hip-hop, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t the GLBT community — unless, of course, you’re focusing on the genre’s heterosexist tendencies to ridicule and vilify the queer lifestyle. It’s really a shame that mainstream hip-hop consists of mindless ditties by “artists” like Nelly…
Now that the Six Flags no longer unfurl over the place, it’s back to basics for Elitch Gardens, which reclaims its unadorned moniker of old when the thrill park opens today at 10 a.m. for its 117th season. Any citizen whose local memory stretches back beyond the past ten years…
Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz aged 49 years from the day his comic strip, Peanuts, first ran in 1950 to the last edition in 2000. But for most of his characters, only about two years ever passed. What would happen if Charlie Brown and his crew were no longer impervious to…
“Cool, crazy and hot.” More than fifty years ago, that’s what legendary Five Points DJ Leroy Smith promised his show would be — and the neighborhood will once again be cool, crazy and hot today, when the fifth annual 5 Points Jazz festival takes over Welton Street starting at 11…
All this weekend, the University of Colorado at Boulder campus will be brimming with lust, gluttony and greed. Thankfully for the school’s public-relations team, none of it will involve the football team. The culprit is the eighth annual, free-to-the-public CU Fringe Festival, taking place in the school’s Theatre and Dance…
Every year, the fundraising phenoms at the Junior Symphony Guild raise another landmark or undiscovered gem of houseflesh up from its bare bones into a knockout showplace, all in the space of a few months. And then it’s your turn to walk its halls, oohing and aahing over all the…
We’re number one! Today is the thirteenth annual Dining Out for Life benefit for Project Angel Heart, and Colorado’s edition is the “strongest in the country, bigger and better than ever,” according to executive director Erin Pulling. “There are a record 362 restaurants participating in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs.”…
