If the ’60s were “the dawning of the age of Aquarius,” what does that make the 2010s? While we’re still figuring that out, the Town Hall Arts Center is bringing Hair, the classic hippie musical that’s a trans-generational story of love, dope and anti-war protests, to Denver. “If you really…
Curious Theatre artistic director Chip Walton first saw the Tony Award-sweeping hit God of Carnage — starring Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels, James Gandolfini and Hope Davis — on Broadway a few years ago, and was immediately inspired by its sharp satire. Think of it as a contemporary Who’s Afraid…
“This is the only time I will ever promote drinking and driving,” says Ben Lochridge, a bartender at Park House, which will kick off its first Mario Kart 64 Tournament tonight on a big-screen TV. Combatants will battle for various prizes, including bar tabs and bragging rights. “Mario Kart is…
Debates of generations past were often stuffy, sober affairs for uptight balding men who smoked pipes, but over the past few years, the word sport has found new life in the form of bizarre comedy — as seen at Buntport Theater’s Great Debate. “I think this medium works super-well for…
Susan Lyles, founder and director of the woman-centric And Toto too Theatre company, confirms it: This Play Crawl thing seems to be working. Entering its third year of entertaining and fundraising along Tennyson Street, the And Toto too Theatre Company Play Crawl will hit the road this evening from 6…
Watching the documentary Hey Bartender is like spending a night at a good bar: It’s fun, easygoing, and it lasts just a little longer than it should. And the conversation, while delightful in the moment, often seems banal the next morning. It’s clear that director Douglas Tirola is passionate about…
Downtown Denver, already an arts-and-culture hot spot this weekend, will welcome another new event tonight: Denver Digerati’s Friday Flash, with public motion-based art and animation screenings on the city’s jumbo LED screen at 14th and Champa streets. An outgrowth of some Create Denver projects that Plus Gallery’s Ivar Zeile (and…
Denver PrideFest 2013 is this weekend, and there will be music, food, drink, live entertainment and a big-ass parade on Sunday morning. the people-watching opportunities alone are worth the trip downtown and the parking hassles. But every PrideFest has its perils and pitfalls, and in order not to be named…
As the sun continues to heat up Denver, womenswear is heating up the streets. One of the bright spots we spotted this week was Lauren Jestes, a local technical writer and fashionista. Read on to discover her favorite accessories, where she shops, and who inspires her personal style. See also:…
ShaNae Ross doesn’t tell dirty jokes. She doesn’t get political, unless you count poking fun at racial differences as she does in a bit where she asks the audience to guess an imaginary person’s race based on their name. She also doesn’t approach religion, despite having a religious background. Ross…
As frontwoman for Wheelchair Sports Camp, Kalyn Heffernan is a busy emcee: Her band is currently on tour with Flobots and, from the road, the musician has been organizing a benefit show for the Colorado Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp. Celebrating its thirtieth year in 2013, the week-long camp — from…
Local filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe has a passion for pop culture. His work has tackled pop cultural phenomena as big as Star Wars and as small as the strange case of the octopus that correctly predicted Germany’s World Cup games a few years back. He’s also hard at work on…
Pop-art icon Andy Warhol famously came to Fort Collins in 1981 when collectors John and Kimiko Powers mounted an exhibition of his work at Colorado State University. It was a memorable visit for many, and was even celebrated all over again a couple of years ago with an exhibit at…
With the sun heating up Denver to a smolder during the day, some of the best fashion comes out at night. Case in point: local pedicab driver Ox Lox, who was spotted rocking a mix of unkempt clothes and tasteful accessories. Read on to learn his style icons, his favorite…
“Let’s all just acknowledge for a moment that: This. Is. Weird,” John Oliver said last night, opening his first round of hosting The Daily Show for the summer. While Jon Stewart will be away for the next twelve weeks directing his debut film, Rosewater, the most celebrated comic to come…
Settling in to write about my feelings on this year’s Denver PrideFest, I was interrupted by a text message from my friend David, a grown man I lovingly refer to as Liza, my “gay husband.” His texts, like his real life persona, are always worth my undivided attention: He thinks…
While he may be world-famous and seven years sober, the streets of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn still ring in the voice of Tracy Morgan. Coming from a childhood of poverty and crack-dealing, Morgan built a respectable career in standup, performing on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam before reaching TV mega-stardom on Saturday Night…
Sure, Colorado is landlocked — but that doesn’t mean you have to spend your summer high and dry in the sweltering, 90-plus degree heat. We don’t have an ocean, but there are rivers, reservoirs, pools, water parks and many more places where you can immerse yourself this summer. So dig…
#63: Kate Petley Kate Petley’s lush and color-dominated resin panels contradict as they encapsulate gesture and motion in elegantly formal terms; she creates equally sophisticated sculptural and installation works that have garnered recognition across the West. An NEA Rockefeller Foundation grant winner, Petley is a full-time artist whose work can…
The people who lined up outside the Seawell Grand Ballroom to purchase tickets for The Book Of Mormon’s second Denver run may have been the lucky ones. At least they could hold onto their purchases. But dozens, if not hundreds of people, who tried to buy online at the Denver…
The free, Outdoor Family Film Series at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will start off with a bang this summer, when David “The Bullet” Smith Jr. launches himself into the sky with his human cannon. The Alamo Drafthouse is an eat-and-drink movie theater that usually only allows patrons eighteen or older…
They can’t fit in your pocket and they are not considered “smart,” which is why pay phones no longer have a home on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. Is this just another sign of the changing times? The phones disappeared when new information kiosks came in, according to Boulder Downtown and…
