The Avengers: Age of Ultron release date is now just a touch over two weeks away, and the hype is building to a fever pitch. By this I mean that nearly every surprise, reveal and “good part” of the movie has been spoiled. Not by reckless, craven fanboys in league…
Editor’s note: Indie Design Blogger Jeanne Connolly loves to see how creative people put their houses together. In this series, she’ll be sharing some of her favorite homes, by taking us inside the unique private spaces of metro Denver and beyond. Prepare to have Artist, Marie M. Vlasic and Musician/Composer,…
For his first endeavor as a playwright, poet, actor and activist, Bobby LeFebre wanted to tackle a sensitive subject that hit close to home: the changing face of the Denver neighborhood in which he grew up. In Northside, LeFebre explores the complex issues facing new and old residents in a…
A clothesline on which tops and bras are hung spans the stage. Other than that, the set consists of four shrouded forms that are eventually unshrouded to reveal four middle-aged people sitting in boxes — if you consider Buntport Theater Company’s Brian Colonna, Erin Rollman, Hannah Duggan and Erik Edborg…
In 1965, hot on the heels of the emergence of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and the new wave of pop art, a lively group of artists assembled in Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center like a brushed and stained version of the Avengers. They called themselves the Hairy Who and…
More than a decade ago, while he was at Houston’s FotoFest, photographer Mark Sink decided that he wanted to do something similar here. So in 2004, he created Denver’s Month of Photography, a series of exhibits and events that runs from mid-March through April. Initially an annual, it’s now a…
Fourteen-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is one busy kid, what with having to save the world and all. As youth spokesman for Earth Guardians, a worldwide environmental nonprofit founded by his mother, Tamara Roske-Martinez, the eco-savant speaks at TED talks, writes and delivers raps against fracking, choreographs hip-hop dances and travels the…
Denver street art never sleeps, but it does hibernate during the winter. Now that spring is here, you can see new murals all over town — just in time for the International Art Materials Association convention at the Colorado Convention Center that opens today and runs through April 17. Some…
In Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, the Zellner Brothers — David and Nathan — offer a haunting meditation on the relationship between truth and fiction, and between desire and belief. Based on an urban legend about a Japanese woman who died looking for the cash hidden at the end of the…
A rock musical with a biblical theme? It’s been done, of course. But The 12, a world premiere at the Denver Center Theatre, takes a very different approach from that of Jesus Christ Superstar or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It explores the emotional reactions of the disciples who…
When I first stumbled across the TEDxRino website, I was confused — or maybe annoyed is a more realistic way to describe it. A friend had posted a video on Facebook that was essentially a slick commercial for the RiNo area in north Denver, starring a bunch of artists and…
Over the weekend, Love Gallery hosted the three-venue Birdseed Collective’s annual 100 X 100 benefit show, featuring a hundred artists and traditionally held on the hundredth day of the year. Along with walls splashed with art, the event showcased Denver celebrity Andrew Novick’s Fukuoka-style pop-up ramen shop and a hair…
After a long winter’s wait, it’s finally warm enough to put on the roof! The adhesives used to hold down the EPDM roofing require a period of 48 hours above 50 degrees, and we’re getting there, slowly. Of course, the winter was tough on the exposed plywood, and due to…
Few performers have careers as varied as that of Marlon Wayans. An actor with a filmography that veers wildly from genre to genre, including outliers like the heart-wrenching Requiem for a Dream, he specializes in ribald horror parodies and high-concept comedies that require elaborate special effects make-up, like White Chicks and Little…
The Art Directors’ Club of Denver threw its eleventh annual Paper Fashion Show Friday night at the Bindery on Blake, on a runway crowded with the ingenious and sassy cut-and-paste concoctions of fifty local design teams. There were no guidelines, other than a requirement that each outfit should be 90…
Chow down in the name of art: On Wednesday, April 15, ArtPlant will host a French fry-eating contest at the Articulated Wall — or is that the French Fry Stack? — in the Denver Design District off South Broadway. The contest will be documented in video and photos as material…
Even if you think you don’t know the photographs of Sebastião Salgado, you’ve probably seen them. In one of his most famous pictures, taken in the mid-1980s in Mali, a woman whose face is half-hidden by a dark, rough-textured cotton veil, her bearing as elegant as anything you’d see in…
Victor Levin’s 5 to 7 is a romantic drama about a young writer in Manhattan that could be a superhero flick if its leading man wore tights. It’s as much a triumph of boyish wish fulfillment as Peter Parker swinging on skyscrapers. Brian (Anton Yelchin) is one of those suffering…
The sequence that opens True Story tells you plenty about what you’re in for: A rumpled teddy bear drifts down from our vantage point like a puffy brown snowflake, landing with slow-motion deliberateness on the form of a PJ-clad toddler curled up in a suitcase, seemingly asleep. She’s like an…
At the State of Downtown 2015 breakfast briefing last month, the Denver Partnership rolled out a roster of impressive statistics, including the fact that Denver has seen the country’s “largest increase in residents with college degrees,” according to 2014 U.S. Census stats and has the “best commercial real estate market…
As a character, Games of Thrones stable boy (and friend of Bran Stark) Hodor doesn’t have much to say, except for his own name. Turns out it’s not even his real name, though everyone thinks it is. But in real life, hulking Kristian Nairn, the actor who plays him, does…
On the Ides of March forty years ago, Marilyn Megenity opened the forerunner to the Mercury Cafe in Indian Hills. In the fifteen years after that, her cafe/cultural gathering place changed names a couple of times and addresses many more. Since 1990, it’s been at home at 2199 California Street, where Megenity…
