Arts & Culture

It’s no big secret that the Internet has dramatically changed the way we work, socialize and get around, but is it changing us? In his New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer finalist The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, author Nicholas Carr argues that the advantages of…

“Loveland Ski Area has come a long way since 1937, and we want to thank our customers for supporting us through the years,” says Rob Goodell, director of business operations at the mountain, long a locals’ favorite among Front Range skiers and snowboarders. Loveland, the second-oldest ski area in Colorado,…

Handlebar, porn-star and pencil-thin: These are just a few of our favorite mustaches. Recent years have ushered in a renaissance in facial foliage unseen since the halcyon days of the ’70s. And tonight’s The ’Stache event honors that most manly of lip accessories. “It’ll just be fun, celebrating the mustache,”…

It’s easy to fall into a Chelsea Peretti-related Internet tunnel. The funny lady has it all: two hilarious shows, All My Exes and Making Friends; a podcast during which she accepts calls from random strangers; and a whip-smart Twitter feed — all of which can suck you in for hours…

Now in its nineteenth year, the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza brings a rich cultural tradition to life as part of the National Western Stock Show. Featuring complex roping artistry, bull fighting and bareback horse riding, the Mexican take on animal husbandry is one of great physical showmanship and festive pageantry. Jerry…

Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a community-growing endeavor dreamed up by Evan Weissman of Buntport Theater, is catching on and has everywhere to go in the new year; its simple idea of presenting points of view on community issues while doing something fun and sharing milk and cookies just makes…

Because of its tragic fate, the city of Pompeii became a time capsule. Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, burying the ancient Roman city under volcanic ash and pumice and preserving it for hundreds of years until it was rediscovered in the early 1700s. Pieces of Pompeii will make their…

There’s a notable ’60s influence in Ash Reiter’s laid-back California style and sunny, well-crafted pop songs. And while that sort of thing has been trendy lately, Reiter and her band also embody music from the other side of the state that is not often talked about — music with a…

They say the best things in life are free, and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Concert and Humanitarian Awards must surely be one of them, given that the program is not only gratis, but also all about the business of striving to be free. The…

Ten out of ten monkey’s-paw recipients agree: Wishes come with a steep price. The “magical girls” of the hit anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica learn this lesson the hard way in an epic tale of sacrifice, friendship and unforeseen consequences. It begins when an odd little creature called Kyubey…

Although they almost certainly have plans for striking new projects that expand our understanding of what documentaries can be, Bill and Turner Ross — the co-directors, -producers, -camera operators and -troublemakers behind Tchoupitoulas — could do posterity a service if they simply resigned themselves to replicating this one-night-in-New Orleans documentary…

More than a year in the making, A Journey of the Human Spirit is a three-part collaborative work built around the regional debut of Viktor Ullmann’s opera, The Emperor of Atlantis. Written by Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien while both were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943, the…

When it came time for CORE New Art Space member Carmen Melton to put up her first show, she had a different take on how to use her precious wall space: Instead of simply highlighting herself, Melton organized Our Neighbors, Ourselves, a huge group portrait show focusing on the plight…

War Horse enjoyed long runs in both London and New York, winning several awards along the way, though critics and audience members delivered varying verdicts: Some were swept away by the magnificent puppetry, others bored by the one-dimensional characters and simplistic story. The script is actually an adaptation of a…

The Edge’s newest production takes audiences into the seedy underbelly of New Jersey — a world populated by rogue FBI agents, corrupt detectives and Mafia hit men. At the center of Jonson Kuhn’s Newark Violenta, which makes its world premiere tonight, is Leo Betti, a bookie attempting to find his…

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Best known for his Golden Globe-winning work as Kurt Hummel on Glee, Chris Colfer is a 22-year-old who has consistently delivered on his own high ambitions. Author of a New York Times bestseller, the barely-into-adulthood Colfer is also a screenwriter whose first film, Struck by Lightning, opens at the Sie…