When you ask middle-school students to draw something, they usually create something representative and concrete, says PlatteForum education director Meagan Terry — which is why the community art center brought in abstract artists Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana for its newest learning lab. “These artists are not representative; they are…
Door-to-door caroling isn’t really a thing anymore, so when the urge hits to express your Christmas spirit in song, head to The Watching Hour: Xmas Pops Sing-Along, hosted by the Action Pack’s Henri Mazza. “Action Pack is a branch of the Alamo Drafthouse that concentrates on sing-alongs, quote-alongs and other…
“I knew they had a great thing going as soon as I got there,” says filmmaker Roger Cotton Moore, who was hired in the early 1960s to film top ski racers in the backcountry playground that would become Vail’s famed back bowls as a way to woo investors to the…
In past years, when Denver designer Mona Lucero threw a fashion show in her LoHi boutique, she’d also take a philosophical look back over the changes in her own life. But this year is different. “It is more about new beginnings,” says Lucero, who is both celebrating the boutique’s tenth…
They’ve dealt with conflict in a war-torn country overseas, but the couple at the center of Time Stands Still — Curious Theatre Company’s new production — finds just as many emotional challenges and troubling issues back home in Manhattan. Pulitzer-winning playwright Donald Margulies’s Tony-nominated work makes its regional premiere in…
Santa will tell you that there’s plenty of Christmas literature out there, from A Christmas Carol to “The Gift of the Magi” and beyond. But this year’s edition of Stories on Stage’s Making Merry dramatic holiday readings will skew younger…and funnier. Sort of. The show will start off more seriously…
Rounding out another big year for Denver’s ever-growing style scene, the Frost: Fashion Denver’s Holiday Market features twenty Colorado designers — fifteen of whom are new to the market — and promises a shoppable showcase of clothing, accessories and housewares in numerous styles and tastes. “It’s not kitsch and craft,…
Opening the curtain on its 39th year, Germinal Stage Denver begins the new season with a production of Don Juan in Hell, by George Bernard Shaw. Written in 1903 as a section of the larger, four-part drama Man and Superman, Don Juan in Hell is a pleasantly strange tale of…
Tamara Pidhayny, aka the Merry Widow, says her monthly Artisan Operetta vaudevillian variety show at Voodoo Comedy Playhouse dedicates each program to a different pre-1960s pop hero or heroine. Last month, for instance, it was the inimitable Mae West. And when it came to December and the holiday season, an…
Visionbox, a local actors’ studio and commercial theater group, recently relocated to 910Arts in the Art District on Santa Fe, bringing an infusion of performing-arts energy to an already artsy area that’s starting to see an upshift in the theatrical realm. But, as Visionbox director Jennifer McCray Rincon (who first…
The holiday show at Obscene/Courageous Theatre begins on a traditional note: a family sitting around the tree on Christmas Eve. But that’s where it gets weird. When drunk Uncle Al shows up and the kids beg him to read them a story, Al pulls out H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon and begins…
Ice sculpture is a holiday art form with wide-ranging appeal, offering power tools and chisels for hands-on types, aesthetically pleasing forms for those with an artistic bent, and a transient, impermanent medium for die-hard romantics. So it’s no wonder that Crested Butte Mountain Resort has made a tradition of bringing…
Denver artist and Chicago native Tim Flynn grew up loving his home city’s unique Midwestern architecture; as an adult, he gravitated toward twisted wire and sculptural assemblage, and eventually — in the present — back to architecture, thanks to a rekindled interest and ensuing research into the technical side of…
With more than fifty performers taking the stage, seasonal extravaganza Home for the Holidays promises extra punch this year. “I liken it to a New York spectacular; the scale of it really makes it special,” says Katie Maltais, spokeswoman for the Christmas variety show. Denver First Lady Mary Louise Lee…
When Winnie Wenglewick of Denver’s Dangerous Theatre set out to write The Perfect Gift, an offbeat holiday play with a message, she looked inside her own life. And when rehearsals began, her two co-stars did the same. “Since then, we’ve practically rewritten the whole script,” she says. “For me, this…
This week we spotted clever pieces of men’s fashion all over town — from a puffy blue vest on the D line light rail to blue suede shoes on the 16th Street Mall shuttle. Take a look at this variety of looks for men across the metro area…. See also:…
Michael Paglia visited RedLine for this week’s review, taking in a group show from artists who also use studio space at the gallery. The show features many different types of work, ranging from paintings to installations, from about two dozen artists. Continue reading for photos from the exhibit…
Noir fiction is full of seedy bars where desperate people make bad decisions to do worse things to each other. So it makes sense that if you want to offer a place for noir writers to read their work and interact with the public, you’ll skip the bookstore and go…
Ballet Nouveau Colorado was started twenty years ago to fill what the founders perceived as a need for quality ballet training and educational dance programs in Denver’s north metro community. But you have to be on your toes to keep up with what Ballet Nouveau is doing these days, and…
This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
Update: Congratulations to superiorforchange and pogomojoho! You’ve each won two tickets to the film. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: One of the year’s biggest Christmas movies might also be one of its biggest tear-jerkers. And then there’s that cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman…
When Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver’s graphic novel The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln was released this past September, he wasn’t sure what its critical reception would be. His prior work was almost entirely comedic, and here he was tackling a complex, biographical-historical novel about one of the nation’s greatest…
