As a part-time resident of Colorado’s North Fork Valley three months out of each year, master canner, gardener and author Eugenia Bone knows the lay of the land. The rest of her time is spent in the fast-paced world of New York City, a place where she has become a…
Touted as a “gala for a new generation,” tonight’s Real Rock Star Awards will turn the spotlight on teens who take classes at local music and social-empowerment organization Youth on Record. The nonprofit works with Denver Public Schools and area residential treatment centers, connecting with students ages 16 to 21…
It had been more than two decades between films for Alejandro Jodorowsky, so when the legendary director released The Dance of Reality this year, booking it for the International Film Series was a no-brainer. “His seminal place in the pantheon of art-house directors and good reception at Cannes and such…
“National Public Lands Day is a celebration of our natural resources, from local parks and community gardens to state parks and national monuments,” says Anna Wadhams, NPLD program manager for the National Environmental Education Foundation, noting that thirty sites across Colorado will participate in volunteer projects that involve building and…
Improv veteran Sarah Kirwin thought the time was ripe for an LGBT troupe in Denver, so she hooked up with fellow improv artists Jon Jon Lannen, Michelle Marlowe, Ashley Scroggins and Chris Parente (the KDVR/KWGN celebrity, who also happens to have trained with Chicago’s Second City) to form the Queerbots…
The annual Taste of Iceland tour is best known for promoting the food, drink and music of Iceland, but when the 2014 version comes to town, it will also tout a favorite pastime of certain Denver crafters: yarn bombing — or “yarn storming,” as Icelandic yarn graffitist Linda Björk Eiríksdóttir…
After toiling away for years in the country music scene, Blake Shelton has enjoyed massive mainstream success in recent years, making several appearances on the Billboard pop charts. A stint on NBC’s wildly popular singing competition, The Voice, has helped cement Shelton as a bona-fide crossover star, but both he…
Denver’s filmmaking scene is deeper than most people think. If you look beyond the usual suspects — live-action features and documentaries — you’ll find a thriving animation scene full of undiscovered talent and exciting work. The best of the city’s animated creations will be on display tonight at the second…
“I saw so many great films coming from Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Brazil and Chile that go to Cannes or that go to Sundance and are winning awards. That’s when I realized there’s something going on. There’s a Latin American film renaissance,” says Sie FilmCenter programmer Ernie Quiroz, who three years…
Regional theater companies have been mining the tragic history of the Ludlow Massacre this year to mark the hundredth anniversary of the epic battle in the Colorado coal wars. For Ludlow, 1914, avant-garde performance troupe the LIDA Project joins with Colorado Springs’s Theatreworks to bring a unique mix of performance,…
For Terry Dodd, who’s currently directing A Steady Rain for the Edge Theatre Company, news of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, is resonant. The play “begins and ends with a gunshot,” he says, and places the audience in “a cop car doing ninety down an alley at night in the…
Professional actors take their work seriously; in turn, they hope to have that work respected by their audiences. But once in a while, even the best of the best like to let their hair down and have a little fun. In the case of Miscast — a local tradition that…
“The Moth is a place where people tell true stories on stage with no notes, in front of strangers, and the stories are on a specific theme,” explains director Sarah Austin Jenness. On a very basic level, that’s what you can expect from tonight’s Moth Mainstage: When Worlds Collide event…
When viewers walk into the Black Book Gallery this month, they’ll enter a space where all of the lights have been shut off except for the stark, backlit, magical imagery of husband-and-wife duo Hari Panicker and Deepti Nair. “Our paper-cut lightbox art pieces are intricate hand-cut paper sculptures and dioramas…
Presented by Renegade Brewing and Sexpot Comedy, the inaugural Offensively Delicious will give Denverites the opportunity to kick off the Great American Beer Festival with a laugh. And laugh they will with this lineup, which includes local chuckle merchants Andy Juett, Jordan Doll and Adam Cayton-Holland, along with national comic…
Warm Cookies of the Revolution, Denver’s one and only “civic health club,” is offering an intense training program in advance of the upcoming elections: the Two-Day Civic Workout: Show Us Your Muscles. “People can come to either or both of the days, and they are interrelated,” explains organizer Evan Weissman…
Denver’s Chicano cultural-arts group El Centro Su Teatro is just a year shy of celebrating a silver anniversary as a cohesive center, and while artistic director Tony Garcia is planning new work for that big occasion, he’s decided to celebrate the past first, by bringing back a whole season’s worth…
How does a theater company create a play about a statue missing a conspicuous part of its anatomy? The project began when Buntport Theater member Brian Colonna saw “Landsdowne Hercules” at the Getty Museum and brought up the statue at a pitch meeting. “I saw the statue and was interested…
In 1969, activists at the First National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference wrote the manifesto “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán,” which called on artists to “produce literature and art that is appealing to our people and relates to our revolutionary culture.” By 1974, David Avalos felt the call of the movement…
Painter Jenny Morgan has had a big year. She had a successful first New York City solo at the famed Driscoll Babcock Gallery, and now her work is gracing the cover of Juxtapoz magazine for September — the same month in which she has four exhibitions opening across the country…
A generation ago, in the latter third of the twentieth century, post-modernist deconstructionists were finished with abstraction. It was dead, they said, along with painting itself. But in the intervening decades, two things happened. First, this deconstructionist idea became entrenched in academia, and second, it was proven to be wrong…
It’s been a busy year for R.L. Linden. Before the local eco-beauty company celebrated its first anniversary in August, co-founders Robin King and Lynn Till were so busy with their two-woman operation that they needed room to grow. Originally the two used their own kitchens as the R.L. laboratories and…
