Most of us get to take a break from the typical Monday due to the celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With that extended weekend, make it a point to pack in as much as possible. This weekend, you’ll find free beer to be had, specific karaoke to be…
As a Chicano artist in the 1970s, Jerry Jaramillo was shut out of many studios and galleries. So, in 1978, he co-founded the Chicano Humanities & Arts Council as a way to give Chicano artists a chance to be seen. “It was really hard for Latino artists to find a…
#41: Aaron “Ukulele Loki” Johnson Aaron Johnson, aka Ukulele Loki, blithely changes hats every day: A musician, emcee extraordinaire, activist, lapsed public-school teacher, Denver County Fair freak-show host and radio host for Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir (as well as a co-founder of Boulder’s Radio 1190), Johnson moves and shakes to…
It is safe to say that few, if any, directors in the history of geek film can boast a pair of back-to-back classics to rival Ridley Scott’s Alien and Blade Runner. Released just three years apart, both are near-perfect visions of science-fiction greatness the likes of which the world had…
Collage artist Peter Yumi hasn’t exactly been in hiding the last five years, though he’s rarely shown any work in galleries during that time. But he has been busy in the studio and sharing work with other artists on the Internet, and in 2015, he’ll be back on gallery walls,…
Jesus talked a lot about loving the underdog, the meek, the oppressed and the poor. He argued God is love and told his disciple to turn the other cheek. Jesus’s life ended in violence and bloodshed from which he could have liberated himself, but he chose not to fight –…
Anyone who loves Michael Mann movies — or even just the idea of Michael Mann movies — accepts that film style is a language and something more, a way of thinking, feeling and looking that goes beyond basic plotting, dialogue or character motivation. I can tell you pretty much everything…
In Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) — an astoundingly talented marksman credited with over 160 confirmed kills in Iraq — runs into a fellow veteran at a mechanic’s shop between deployments. The soldier shows Kyle an artificial leg and thanks him for saving his life…
Forget its generic title, its breakup setup and its indie-standard Brooklyn walk-and-talks: Writer/director Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior is the freshest comedy of life and love since Obvious Child. Hilarious and heartbroken, Akhavan stars as Shirin, a bisexual Iranian-American video artist just bounced from her lover’s Gowanus apartment. (Relish the memory…
Brilliant.If you have any interest in modernism or fine craft — even if you aren’t particularly interested in jewelry — you’ll find something to marvel over at the Denver Art Museum’s winter blockbuster Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century. The show is a visual marathon, with so many things included…
Fiddler on the Roof.This production of Fiddler on the Roofdoes full justice to Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s brilliant songs, tells the evocative story with clarity and feeling, and also — uniquely — sounds the musical’s deeper, darker chords. The action is set in a rural Russian Jewish community whose…
Emerson argued that each flourish and tendril of a work of art has its exact corollary in the mind of the artist, that creative expression is always, in its way, a sort of autobiography: Want to know the person? Look at her works. But Ralph Waldo never lived to see…
Here’s the pipsqueak who has hauled himself up into a sharp-dressed leading man. Here’s the comic who’s boundlessly inventive in his swearing but also suave and commanding in pursuit of love, the motormouth horndog who yawps about like a puppy on fire but can melt your mother’s heart with his…
Things are already shaking for Sexpot Comedy in 2015, with a new video series ready to premiere, a slate of shows both big and small in the works, and a move toward having more of those shows at 3 Kings Tavern. But first, the minds behind Sexpot decided it was…
The future and the past collide in this unique performance. Featuring a concert of ancient instruments by Gong Synergy, and a multi-sensory future light art exhibition. Sat., Jan. 17, 8-11 p.m., 2015…
Standup comedian, writer and actor Demetri Martin first caught the national eye in his “Trendspotting” segments, which aired during the heyday of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. A veteran of the New York standup circuit, Martin demonstrated his unique sensibility and facility with droll one-liners early on in his…
Steamboat’s annual Cowboy Downhill race is now officially over the hill, celebrating its 41st year starting today at 5 p.m. with hot air balloons lighting up the base of the ski area, night skiing, and a raucous party at Bear River Bar & Grill featuring music by Banks & Shane…
In 1980, fresh filmmaker Charlie Ahearn was approached by graffiti artist Fred Braithwaite to see if he wanted to make a movie about the hip-hop scene in New York City through the music, dance and art that was erupting from every corner of the metropolis. Ahearn jumped at the chance…
In these parts, we don’t just call this a holiday: The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade — so named by former Denver First Lady Wilma Webb to mark it as a cross between a political march and a celebratory parade — is known for being one of the…
Before Erin Ries could invite any artists or performers to the Telluride Fire Festival, there was one small but very important bit of red tape to work through: applying for a special exemption to the mountain town’s burn ordinance. “These are artists who normally don’t get to showcase their fire…
The mechanics of defining what is and isn’t art has tendered an ongoing debate since the discovery of drawings in caveman dwellings. How much do we as humans have to manipulate something before it becomes ours artistically? Levitated Mass, a new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Doug Pray (Surfwise, Art &…
Michael Soluri’s book Infinite Worlds: The People and Places of Space Exploration is full of gorgeous imagery that is only possible when a fine-art photographer is allowed unprecedented access to a NASA mission to repair the Hubble space telescope. In other words, his book is unique. “My goal was to…
