Arts & Culture

Show and Tell is taking today off — as you no doubt are. But the fun won’t stop after you’re done feasting. When you’re not chatting with your relatives or sneaking off to party in the woods with your old high school buddies, there’s plenty to do around town this…

Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that you can always come home to and expect everything to be pretty much the same: the Macy’s parade, the football, the turkey, the stuffing, the pumpkin pie. The faces around the table might change from year to year, but the sentiments do not:…

There’s no better way to celebrate the holiday season than by touring a city aglow with shimmering lights, and the Grand Illumination, which takes place at multiple venues downtown, is Denver’s biggest synchronized lighting event. Beginning tonight at 6 p.m, the city will switch on more than 200,000 lights at…

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, and there will be ceremonies and programs for much of the day at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado, just outside of Eads. Monument Hill will be closed to the public in the morning while tribal…

Forget about Santa for a moment: Tonight’s Downtown Littleton Elf Crawl is focused on the unsung heroes of Christmas, Santa’s little helpers. The inaugural event includes ten different stores within walking distance of each other; anyone who registers gets three tickets that can be used at any of those establishments…

For anyone looking to stuff stockings with affordable handmade jewelry and pet treats, the second annual Small Business Saturday Artisan’s Market at Wazee Union has got you covered. More than forty local small businesses and artisans will come together in the heart of the River North Art District to sell…

Experimental filmmaker Vincent Grenier’s work resists the idea of pristine, untarnished nature — something that, in any case, is difficult to find. “Nature has been almost totally mediated by human interventions,” Grenier notes. “All the forests in the Northeast, for example, are young forests, as the area was completely deforested…

There are lots of ways to spend the Thanksgiving weekend in Denver, but many families end up at the annual Rocky Mountain Auto Show, which kicks off the official holiday season with a welcome distraction from Black Friday shoppers and fleeing skiers. Billed as the “Crème de la Chrome of…

In conjunction with Defaced, its exhibition on contemporary Romanian painters, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art sought to connect visitors with Colorado’s own vibrant Romanian community. The result is today’s celebration of Great Union Day, a Romanian holiday marking both the unification of Romanian provinces after Soviet occupation and the…

It took sixteen years for John Cougar Mellencamp, Stephen King and T Bone Burnett to launch Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, which lead actress Gina Gershon describes as “a Southern, rock, gothic, supernatural ghost story.” The musical follows Joe McCandless, whose older brothers, fighting over a woman, killed themselves and…

The end of a relationship is never fun, but Andrzej Zulawski’s film Possession takes the concept of “bad breakup” to some very strange places. “One partner is moving on with their life; the other partner can’t accept that and demands to know why,” says Theresa Mercado, host of the Cruel…

Waddie Mitchell grew up in the rarefied atmosphere of the Nevada ranchlands near Elko and spent years wrangling — and sitting around many a campfire, listening to stories — before finally hanging up his boots to become a bona fide cowboy poet in the ’80s. That’s when he helped found…

After cats and dogs, which cute animal rules the Internet? We’re willing to bet on pandas, especially the wee, roly-poly bamboo-gobbling denizens of China’s Wolong Conservation and Research Center in Sichuan Province, where young pandas are raised and prepared for release into the wild. There’s nothing cuter than baby pandas,…

Even if you were just at the Denver Botanic Gardens to catch the final days of the Chihuly exhibit, there’s no reason to skip your trip to the Blossoms of Light display, which opens tonight, because it really does get better each year as the DBG adds more and more…