Need an excuse to get hands-on with your Valentine? The Valentine’s Couples Thai Yoga Massage Workshop at the Yoga Mat is just what the massage therapist ordered! Thai yoga massage is also known as “lazy-man’s massage” because the massage recipient is completely limp while the practitioner moves his or her…
Independent businesses unite in the name of love tonight with a benefit soiree for Denver CASA, a nonprofit supporting abused and neglected children. Hosted by The Scout Guide and mid-century-modern home-furnishings store Mod Livin’, Modern Love is an affection-themed showcase of special-edition prints from local artists Josh Wills, Michael Lindau,…
For a certain subset of people, skateboarding is more than a hobby; it’s a way of life. When photographer Matt Alberts was looking for a worthy subject for an art project using an archaic, labor-intensive photographic technique known as the wet collodion process, he found that these “lifers” made a…
As Center for Visual Arts director and curator Cecily Cullen notes, today’s Native American artists don’t live in the past. And in pulling work together for Cross Currents, the second half of a two-part exhibition series Cullen started in 2009, she specifically looked for artists who respectfully nod to the…
Just in time to add some romance to Valentine’s Day week, actress Liv Ullman tells the story of how she and Swedish director Ingmar Bergman met, fell in love and made eleven films together in Liv & Ingmar, a documentary that screens at the Sie FilmCenter today. “They ended up…
Shopping for your Valentine can be a cliché-ridden task, but there’s a way to do it without browsing through the ugly ties or skimpy lingerie that your partner — of either gender — will never wear. At the Perfect Petal’s Love Me Sweet Soiree — a swanky two-part shopping evening…
Two orphaned brothers lead a dreary, grimy existence together in a Philadelphia slum, uneducated in societal rules and living off the most basic of provisions — and whatever the older brother can steal. When they decided to kidnap a Chicago mobster who is, coincidentally, also an orphan, things start to…
Musician and ethnomusicologist Stephen Wade first listened to the Library of Congress Field Recordings — gathered by John and Alan Lomax, starting in the 1930s — at the urging of an instructor who was teaching him to play the five-string banjo. Curious about the songs on the recordings and how…
One of Denver’s burlesque powerhouses is marking an anniversary, but the whole scene will be celebrating at Follies Voudou Burlesque Showcase this evening. “It’s my fourth year in burlesque and my second year hosting a burlesque show,” says organizer Frenchie Renard, who’s been alternating all-burlesque shows with a variety show…
Throughout its nearly three-year run, GroundSwell Gallery has encouraged artists to embark on solo projects that might not otherwise grace gallery walls. Starting tonight, it’s design-oriented creative Andrew Hoffman’s chance to stretch with Watershed, the result of a year-long experiment for which he painted all of the included works simultaneously,…
Musician and ethnomusicologist Stephen Wade first listened to the Library of Congress Field Recordings — gathered by John and Alan Lomax, starting in the 1930s — at the urging of an instructor who was teaching him to play the five-string banjo. Curious about the songs on the recordings and how…
What’s Valentine’s Day without a good drag show? Nuclia Waste and her Demented Divas — Marion McKuzins, Portia Potty and Gabbriella Butts’in — will provide the answer to that question tonight at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret…neon costumes, platform shoes, flouncy skirts, green wigs, glittery beards and all. The veteran troupe returns…
Rebecca Remaly, who founded Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company with her husband, Stephen Weitz, hadn’t directed a play since the birth of their son, Jamison, over eighteen months ago. But when she read Sharr White’s Annapurna, she knew she had to get back in the game. White, whose The Other Place…
In what might be one of the most unlikely scenarios in modern theater, a Jewish plantation owner returns to his ravaged property after the Civil War ends, only to sit down for a Passover seder with two of his former slaves in Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man, which opens tonight…
Ubiquitous as it already is, the Internet is only beginning to make a major impact on the art world. An exhibit opening tonight at Counterpath features two works by digital video artist Conor McGarrigle, who explores the art inherent to the Net in unique and intriguing ways. The first, the…
Plays that get life pumped into them early on through public readings at the Denver Center Theatre Company’s annual New Play Summit tend to pop a little louder when they finally make it to the stage, and this transformation to full realization has been especially challenging for director Mike Donahue…
Four strong shows drive full throttle into 2014 at the Rocky Mountain College of Arts + Design’s Philip J. Steele, Rude and Alumni galleries today with receptions honoring a quartet of artists both national and homegrown. In particular, Denver’s Donald Fodness kicks off the year with another of his confoundingly…
Michael Paglia visits RedLine in this week’s review, taking in The Transit of Venus: Four Decades, Front Range Women in the Visual Arts. The group show focuses on pieces from the group that was formed in the mid ’70s. Continue reading for photos from all three exhibits. See also: The…
Game on! This summer two blocks of downtown Denver will be transformed into a massive, immersive street arcade. Brian Corrigan, the brains behind OhHeckYeah, has been working on the project for a couple of years, and this morning it took a big step forward when he teamed up with the…
Malls are places that bring together a plurality of people, all seeking something different. This week we spotted aspiring fashion designer Jessie Maynard at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, rocking an Alice in Wonderland-themed look. Keeping reading to learn about her favorite film, her style icons and her style mantra…
It’s February 8, 1937. An African American Pullman porter is checking the ticket of a white passenger, who’s eating oysters and sipping champagne. The porter then steps into the adjacent car and checks the tickets of the African-American passengers who are eating bread and cheese. The Chicago-bound train in this…
Portland and Austin may claim to be the weirdest cities in the country, but Denver has its own brand of weird. Giving the “Keep Portland Weird” slogan a twist, Aaron Petitjohn captures the Denver attitude with his “Keep Denver Beard” T-shirts and other Colorado-centric designs. See also: Adam Sikorski’s Coloradical…
