Shake off your cabin fever by going out on the town this week — without spending a dime! For starters, you can tiptoe through the tulips at a Denver Botanic Gardens free day, try your luck at draq-queen bingo, or watch Hobo With a Shotgun. For more reasons to get…
Late last week, the Denver Art Museum let the crazy dancers out of the bag: The DAM announced that fifteen out of 120 hopefuls who auditioned for artist Nick Cave last month will perform in Cave’s fantastical Soundsuits in June, alongside dancers from local professional troupes. See also: – Dancin’…
It’s not time for the Denver County Fair quite yet — that won’t happen until August 9-11 — but it’s time to start getting excited about it. To help you with your immediate pie cravings and future funnel-cake dreams, we present this year’s Denver County Fair poster, the third in…
The idea behind the Concoctory Creativity Shoppe was simple: to give people a place to tinker and create without being intimidated by the world of electronics. The venture will debut this Saturday, March 23 in a joint South Broadway Grand Opening Block Party with a new coffee shop, Cafe Crescendo,…
Demetri Martin’s polished micro-jokes, nervous stare and intense appreciation of aesthetics have made him a welcome antidote to the wave of loud and sloppy comedians who have dominated the scene over the last decade. In advance of Martin’s visit to Comedy Works South this Sunday for two shows (one is…
Despite snowy forecasts, spring has officially sprung — and fun events are springing up all over town. From a chance to see an Amsterdam Internet archivist’s work to a free screening of the new Ryan Gosling flick to a snack-filled block party, we’ve rounded up ten events that will green…
Month of Photography 2013 is far from over. A reception from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at the McNichols Building in Civic Center, will celebrate an unusual city-curated exhibit, In Camera Abstractions, which explores images manipulated within the camera, without digital effects. See also: – Traveling Route 40: Celebrating the…
“This is an old-boy event in which women do not appear unless to provide some kind of illicit service. And when we do appear, we do not wear heels. And when we do wear heels, if we do not immediately prove we are the smartest person in the room we…
Although Mile High Social, Denver’s newest reality show, is pegged as an honest project with a humanitarian bent, its creators were still amazed by how “real” the first casting call turned out. “I was surprised by how open the women were on camera,” Koncrete Media co-founder Dennis Flippin says. “It…
The first-ever North American summit on anime — an invite-only event — will be held in Colorado on Saturday. Working in partnership with the Consulate-General of Japan, the Rocky Mountain Anime Association (parent company of Nan Desu Kan, Colorado’s massively successful yearly anime convention) will host SANA, a day of…
Stephen Colbert, as a real human being, is useless to us. Yes, that’s a very selfish thing to say, but we all know it’s true. When he’s stepped out of character in the past for interviews on Fresh Air or Meet the Press, it’s mildly interesting, but it’s interesting in…
Since 2005, the CU Denver Iron Pour has been an “annual rite of spring,” with professional and student artists crafting tile sculptures carved with molten iron. Not only does the Iron Pour result in pieces that viewers can take home with the, but it also gives them an amazing look…
#82: Elissa Auther As co-curator of the MCA Denver’s annual Feminism & Co. (there’s another installment tonight), Elissa Auther has been responsible for bringing untold stories and untrue stereotypes to the forefront.Through the creation of panels on polyamory, feminist science and women’s roles in the workforce, Auther has helped start…
The Amityville Horror is the best-known haunting in American history, spawning multiple films, countless books and speculation to this day about what really happened more than thirty years ago. At this point, it seems like there couldn’t be any angle on the story that hasn’t been beaten to death –…
If it weren’t for his recent, surprisingly tender performance in the Oscarific Silver Linings Playbook, Chris Tucker would be in danger of only being known for his massive IRS debt. But now he’s back, not only in his first film in years but on the road performing standup, which was…
Writer, critic and colorful Algonquin Round Table yakker Dorothy Parker was really born to be a character in a play; known in her heyday for her caustic tongue and running witticisms, she left behind a diverse body of work, from comic poems to Hollywood scripts. And her life story was…
Month of Photography, a citywide series of events going on right now, has really left its mark on Denver over the past few years — a goal that hasn’t been easy for some other recent multi-venue offerings. Remember Dialogue Denver, which coincided with the 2008 Democratic National Convention? No? Neither…
Art of the State. This juried effort at the Arvada Center has been attracting crowds, to say the least. The two-person jury comprised Collin Parson, Arvada’s exhibition manager and curator, and Dean Sobel, who, as director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is an art-world celebrity. Because of the curators’ stature,…
In 1988, the fate of Chile and its dictator came down to a ballot as simple as a middle-schooler’s Do-you-like-me? note. A referendum, demanded by international pressure, offered citizens a simple choice: a “yes” for allowing President Augusto Pinochet to return to office for another eight years, or a “no”…
Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is really about have for years surged madly and memorably — especially online, where the Internet’s dead-ends, blind links and back-where-you-started arguments just might be another part of the…
Two sacred texts of the ’50s proto-counterculture have escaped the rapacious machine of cinema adaptation for a half-century. One is J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, which probably only would have worked starring Salinger himself, and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, that ecstatic recount of crossings and recrossings of North…
Private dramas unfold against the backdrop of broader historical terrors in Sally Potter’s absorbing coming-of-age drama Ginger & Rosa, set in London in 1962 as fears of nuclear war loom. For Ginger (Elle Fanning), the more central of the two eponymous teenage protagonists, the world — on both the micro…
