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 —…
The greatest film directors all bleed a little of themselves into their work; it’s why the movies they make strike deeper chords with us as viewers. And although Federico Fellini’s Amarcord takes license with the facts, it’s one of the most touching films ever: Sweet, poignant, satirical, fantastic and surreal…
The popular television series MythBusters is known for its hosts’ love of explosions. But the show is about more than just dangerous experiments; it’s about questioning everything and using science to find the truth. That’s what you’ll have a chance to do at MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition, a hands-on exploration…
The range of personalities that created (and lived in) the residences showcased in Denver’s Historic Homes, a new book documenting some of the most notable and influential homes in the city, are as diverse as Denver history. Author Amy Zimmer, who also wrote Denver’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood, used historic images…
Aspen-based artist Pamela Joseph has found success internationally in a variety of mediums, but a project near and dear to her heart will stick close to home when Pamela Joseph’s Sideshow of the Absurd opens today at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Joseph’s been adding to and exhibiting the…
While past summer/fall outdoor exhibitions at the Denver Botanic Gardens have taken us to South Africa and the bamboo forests of Japan, this year’s sculptural blockbuster is sticking closer to home. Catalyst: Colorado Sculpture, which opened to the public on May 4, is strictly an in-state showcase, featuring works by…
The presents have been opened, the wrapping paper discarded and ribbons repurposed, and now you have just one last item to get rid of before you can get on with your new year: the Christmas tree. And there’s a better place for this now-unwanted indoor greenery than the dump. “Last…
When the Bike Art exhibit debuted last year at Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts, it was an instant hit — not surprising for the cycling-happy town nested beneath the Flatirons. But Dairy Center gallery curator Mary Horrocks says it wasn’t just Boulder that appreciated the bike-inspired mega-show. “Here in…
The curtains of square product theatre’s new production, Gidion’s Knot, open on a tragic parent-teacher conference: A mourning mother is visiting her son’s fifth-grade teacher to discover why the boy committed suicide over the weekend. The somber, two-woman play is full of secrets that need to be uncovered, and it…
