The traveling poster party ARTCRANK started in 2007 in Minneapolis and has grown to include several cities across the nation and even overseas locations like London and Paris. But Denver was the first city of that expansion, back in 2009, when founder Charles Youel, who’d been looking for a way…
Should grownups be spending their time reading young-adult novels, at the risk of missing the supposed riches of fiction written for actual grownups? A recent essay on Slate groused about the legions of adults who long ago graduated from the twelfth grade but still devour YA fiction at the expense…
Maybe you think you know what Woody Allen did or didn’t do in that summer house all those years ago. Maybe you look at his history — shacking up with a Stuyvesant high-school girl in the late ’70s; marrying his longtime partner’s adopted daughter in the ’90s — and simply…
Sin City, population unknown but dropping every minute, is a gorgeous place, but you wouldn’t want to live there. Even the shadows and broken glass are beautiful in this black-and-white world. Only the women — all gorgeous — give the streets a pop of color. That is, only the women…
Every other year or so, someone comes down the indie-movie pike with an idea for an unconventional zombie movie — as opposed to the workaday ones, where the dead simply return to life and chew on limbs and stuff. Life After Beth, the debut film from writer-director Jeff Baena, strives…
Paleontologists are part discoverers, part detectives. After the digging, the more difficult work lies in extrapolating meaning from the remains. Todd Douglas Miller’s Dinosaur 13 does half the job, excavating the ribs and joints of a story of how a team of paleontologists, led by Peter Larson, made an enormous…
Mack & Mabel purports to tell the story of the confused and conflicted love between Mack Sennett, impresario of the early comic silent movies, and Mabel Normand, the young woman he discovered and made a star. I’d read that the musical has a brilliant score and a piss-poor book, and…
Michael Paglia has been writing about the art scene in Denver and Front Range for twenty years, following the latest shows, trends and news at museums and galleries. Read his latest review, of Beyond Pop: A Tom Wesselmann Retrospective, now posted on Show and Tell…
Angela Beloian and Roger Hubbard. For In Technicolor, her new exhibit at Walker Fine Art, Boulder artist Angela Beloian created a body of retro ’60s and ’70s paintings and screen prints based on “sketches” done using an iPhone. The works refer to minimalism, abstract surrealism and psychedelic art using just…
On Golden Pond. As this play opens, Norman and Ethel Thayer are moving back into their summer house in Maine. Every summer for 48 years, he’s come here to fish and she to putter around, read, gather strawberries. This, their last visit, represents a slow, gentle fading. There’s just a…
According to inspirational sports movies, winning demands you train hard, play with heart, be a team, and not care about winning. So it goes in the sturdy, crowd-pleasing When the Game Stands Tall, a profile in saintliness puffed up from a true story: the Northern California Catholic school whose football…
Last year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival opened with high hopes…until hundred-year-strength flooding on Boulder Creek ravaged the proceedings (along with the rest of the town). Although the Fringe has now had a year to dry off, it can’t bring back money in the bank — and with a full program…
After a smashing inaugural year, the High Plains Comedy Festival rides again this summer with a kickoff party today from 4 to 8 p.m. at Illegal Pete’s, 270 South Broadway, followed by a two-day lineup overstuffed with headliners Kumail Nanjiani, T.J. Miller and Pete Holmes, as well as national crushers…
Almost as old as the city itself, Loveland’s Old Fashioned Corn Roast Festival began in 1894 as a way for farmers to celebrate the area’s booming agricultural industry. Though the annual gathering of cob lovers was taken over by the Loveland Chamber of Commerce in the 1980s, not much has…
It was a simple walk around his own neighborhood — and the beauty of a Denver Urban Gardens project there — that inspired Eric Matelski’s vision for Art Farm. The artist saw the garden as a perfect spot for an art show, so he connected with DUG, and the event…
Now and again, Time Lords need to regenerate. That means a new form, complete with a new set of quirks and, in practical terms, a new actor as the good Doctor. That time has come around again, and the Doctor Who Series 8 Premiere will feature Peter Capaldi as the…
The USA Pro Challenge is billed as “America’s Race,” and Pat McQuaid, former president of competitive cycling’s global governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale, has called it the “best race in American history” — but, really, it might just as well be called the Tour de Colorado. The fourth installment…
Before 1999, Michael Taggart didn’t really understand the meaning of his middle name, Bliss. That year, he moved to Austin, where he’d secured studio space but not a place to live — until Gary Peden, manager of the arts organization ArtPlex, offered the multi-talented dreamer a place to crash. “It…
As one of the founders of the Denver County Fair, event maven Dana Cain is practically a household name in this city — but her first dalliance with local fame came with her first big success: the Denver Modernism Show, which in its ninth year might still be her favorite…
“Sometimes it feels like you’re working in a vacuum; its nice to have a camaraderie with other artists to inspire you and make your work better,” says Sigri Strand, one of a handful of artists featured in Moonlight Drive: Domestic Astronauts. A photographer and member of Pirate Contemporary Art, Strand…
Neil Simon’s ever-sparring roommates, Oscar and Felix, are back in this always-welcome saga that also made a splash on the big screen and the boob tube. The Miners Alley production of The Odd Couple brings James O’Hagan-Murphy and Len Matheo together as the mismatched cronies; the laughs are sure and…
After years of avoiding the spotlight in the aftermath of his hit sketch show, Chappelle’s Show, Dave Chappelle has exploded back on the standup scene and is turning Denver into one of his regular stops. Less reclusive now, Chappelle was just here in May for a week of sold-out shows…
