Put together by Cecily Cullen, creative director for the Center for Visual Art, Cross Currents is an ambitious exhibit that showcases contemporary art by Native Americans from across the country. It is a follow-up to Currents, a show Cullen did at the old LoDo CVA in 2009 that was on…
Closing out winter break, getting ready to make good on some of your snowier resolutions, or just looking to get your shred on? There’s snow in the forecast for tomorrow at most Colorado ski areas and plenty of good excuses to get up there and get after it, as if…
From Fellini to fine arts, this first weekend of 2014 is full of inexpensive — even free! — entertainment in Denver. We have comic art, dance parties and more, with each event under $10. Did we miss something cool? Let us know in the comments section and check out the…
Local designer and all-around fashion industry guru Lisa Ramfjord Elstun says a one-stop design and production shop had long been the missing link in Denver’s couture scene. So it was only a matter of time before the Fashion Design Center Denver came to be. “The creation of the FDC was…
Combining aspects of still life with portraiture, the new series by photographer Kristen Hatgi Sink is breathtaking. The artist used eyelash glue to artfully place flowers on her models’ faces, which she then photographed in her kitchen under Vermeer-like lighting to create a surreal group of stunning pieces. Flower Face:…
As far as First Fridays go, tonight’s 2014 kickoff is a little slow, but there are certain things you can count on — and Marie EvB Gibbons’s monthly First Friday hands-on clay mini-shop is one of those. There’s nothing quite like it: It’s a chance to squeeze your hands into…
2013 was a great year for comedy nerds. With so many comedy specials, albums, and formats available, fans can exhaust themselves consuming 2013 comedy and still barely scratch the surface of what’s out there. It was also a year marked by lackluster efforts from great comedians. Thinky Pain, from Marc Maron, is little more than a punched-up episode of his WTF podcast, while on Caligula, Anthony Jeselnik seems like his own schtick is eating him alive. Fortunately, however, 2013 also witnessed strong outings from two of today’s most prolific comics (Louis CK and Aziz Ansari) killer debuts (like Kumail Najiani’s Beta Male) and welcome returns from veterans like Bill Cosby. Netflix has emerged as a player on the comedy distribution market in recent years, producing specials for several comics through their partnership with New Wave Entertainment. While the old guard of HBO and Comedy Central are still turning out great specials each year, self-distribution and new players on the scene have been a boon to fans who today enjoy access to a greater breadth of comic voices than ever before.
Ryan Willard has been working non-stop since he started tattooing ten years ago. He’s is the owner of Marion Street Tattoo (where yours truly got a tattoo a few months ago), which will be celebrating its fourth anniversary in April. Willard plans to spend the year traveling and tattooing across…
What are the hundred things everyone should do in Colorado before they die? We posed this question to our writers and editors, and over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out their answers across our blogs. Check back on January 16 for the full list — and in the…
Any Denverite whose New Year’s resolution was to laugh more has both admirably modest ambitions and a bounty of entertainment options this January. If you didn’t resolve to laugh more, do it retroactively because achievable goals build confidence. With exciting developments from Denver’s two favorite local comedy troupes and visits from luminaries such as Aziz Ansari, Doug Stanhope, and Kumail Najiani –all of whom released hilarious standup specials last year– January has comedy events to suit any and every taste.
You hear a lot of stereotypes about geeks. We get pigeonholed as pasty, overweight, socially awkward virgins pretty often. It’s not uncommon for us to be labeled bookish, fashion-challenged, or even just as losers. What you don’t often hear us stereotyped as is stoners. Well, that’s bullshit. I’ve known a…
#25: Kalina Ross Kalina Ross has a big heart and a knack for making things happen, which might explain why the events she plans always come iced with a frosting of love and community. A former player for Urban Cipher, a group that supports entrepreneurial activities and events for local…
Over the past few years, our view of modern China — at least as culled from news reports — has been that of a country whose economy has grown so fast that the center cannot hold. Put another way: How can the inhabitants of one country possibly buy so many…
Though it’s known as a home to artists, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, scientists and other creative types, Boulder was pretty much a theatrical wasteland in 2006 when husband and wife Stephen Weitz and Rebecca Remaly decided to start the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. By then, Nomad, the Quonset hut that had housed…
Three types of artists hinge on authenticity: punk bands, folk singers, and rappers. Actors, like Oscar Isaac, are by definition phonies. But the star of Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film, Inside Llewyn Davis, gets that pressure to keep it real. In high school, he was a straight-edge punk frontman…
Clark Richert. In the few years it’s been in business, Gildar Gallery has mostly showcased young and up-and-coming artists, but with Dimension and Symmetry: Clark Richert, the intimate space on Broadway has moved to Denver’s big time, as Richert is among the best-known artists in the state. The show comes…
Community returns for season 5 on January 2 with a two-episode block that plants its feet on the study room table and regrounds the characters after a fourth season of viewer discontent and lost purpose. It’s impossible to discuss the season opener without talking about the show’s creator. The sweet,…
House heavyweight Dave Aude’s credentials read like an impressive who’s who of both pop and electronic music. He’s produced tracks for Barenaked Ladies, Korn, Britney Spears, the Pussycat Dolls, Faith No More and Madonna, and back in the ’90s, he formed Lunatic Fringe with Steve Levy, a partnership that eventually…
Sure, improv can be funny, but if you ask Denise Maes of the improv school and performance venue Bovine Metropolis Theater, it’s also redemptive for the people who practice it, and a useful tool in navigating life. “It allows people to learn how to be more collaborative, how to listen…
No matter where you woke up on New Year’s Day — disheveled, hung over and with holes in your memory — it could have been much worse. Don’t believe it? Consider the plight of the protagonist of Open Grave, who wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with absolutely…
If you’re looking for a new place to go on First Friday, consider Wazee Union, where local artist and comic-book creator Daniel Crosier is starting the new year with Off Panel, a show featuring the work of more than two dozen Colorado-based comics creators. “The popularity crosses so much of…
“We are very excited for the premiere of the new season of Downton Abbey, so we thought, what better way to celebrate than a costume ball?” says Rocky Mountain PBS’s Connie Jiang. Taking inspiration from the popular British period drama, the Masterpiece Costume Ball will include everything early-twentieth-century British —…
