Way back when Denver was still a boom-and-bust cowtown, Mayor Robert Speer saw the potential for its beauty — or what he called a Western-style “Paris on the Platte.” In tribute to that vision — and to celebrate the anniversary of Etsy, the community-crafting website, the Denver Public Library’s Fresh…
Look out for twisters tonight at Infinity Park. No, not the dangerous ones. We’re talking about magical twisters — the ones that drop houses on wicked witches and blow girls and dogs to the land of Oz. To kick off its Monday Movie Madness series, the City of Glendale is…
To raise money in this dog-eat-dog world of local independent theater, you have to have an imagination — at least that’s what Susan Lyles of Denver’s And Toto Too Theatre Company discovered as she led the woman-centric troupe through the ups and downs of play-making on the fly, in borrowed…
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema — the Austin-based theater chain that takes pride in ejecting rude patrons and bans kids under six — is opening its first Colorado location early next year in Littleton, but the company is offering a preview of its zany ethos this summer by sponsoring the outdoor Aspen…
In the more than twenty years that Denver’s Viviane Le Courtois has been making art, a good percentage of it has been related to food in some way: where food comes from, what happens to it along the way, what its role is in our communal lives. It’s very interesting…
Former Mayor Wellington E. Webb enacted the Denver Public Art Program in 1988, and it has since helped fund the installation of more than 150 public art works in our city. You see them all over town, and this one in particular saw the commission of both muralists and lighting…
Last weekend was filled with fun. And while many people feasted upon turkey legs at the People’s Fair or gazed upon the Denver Chalk Art Festival on Larimer, others checked out the First Friday Art Walk on Santa Fe Drive or the Mutants show at the hi-dive on Saturday. Take…
If you’re reading this, someone you know — and probably you, too — uses Instagram, the smartphone photo app that has approximately 1 gazillion users, was sold last month to Facebook for $1 billion and, most important, is the latest vehicle for everyone to take photos of themselves in the…
Second City Chicago is this country’s Mecca of funny. Among its famous alumni are John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Steve Carrell and Tina Fey. It also happens to be the place where Frank Caeti, formerly of MadTV, and Matt Craig, a former Saturday Night Live writer, first met and performed together,…
Keith “Scramble” Campbell’s studio moves around: sometimes it’s at the Five Points Jazz Festival, sometimes at the Fox Theatre and other times it’s at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. In fact, Campbell has painted at so many concerts that he has created a database-driven web site where you can look up one…
Pat Milbery wears many hats (and helmets), but professional musician is not one of them. That doesn’t deter him from being curious about the art form, however, and pushing that interest into the unknown. Over the winter, Milbery teamed up with Pretty Lights Music artist Michal Menert and Colorado-local clothing…
Marc Wilhelm has not seen Indie Game: The Movie yet, but he’s already a fan. At 7 p.m. today, when the film comes to the Denver Film Center for a special presentation, he and his family will watch it for the first time — and maybe, just maybe, the documentary…
You like the idea of those outdoor screenings where folks lounge around on lawn chairs and watch movies under the stars, but you’re not so thrilled with the usual titles, which are mostly family-friendly second-runs of the lowest common denominator, or cult favorites you’ve seen hundreds of times. But now,…
When Bob Dylan picked up his Medal of Freedom last week, he was wearing a Rockmount Ranch Wear shirt. Steve Weil, president of the Denver-based company, recognized the model — and says Dylan is a long-time fan of the snap-button shirts. But while Dylan’s fashion sense may be above reproach,…
With a taste for new art and old buildings and a love of hard work, Mina Litinsky was one of the handful of people who invented LoDo as an entertainment district. She opened a pioneering business there, the Sloane Gallery (1612 17th Street, 303-595-4230), in the early 1980s — before…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
Japan’s Hirokazu Koreeda has always been an astute observer of all human behavior, but his greatest gift as a filmmaker seems to be his capacity to work with children. Koreeda doesn’t direct them so much as let them react to the universe he has created. The siblings at the center…
Arriving in theaters on the back of a portentous ad campaign, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus assumes the air of something more than a summer movie, a blockbuster-with-brains that links the genesis and the ultimate fate of mankind beyond the stars. It is, incidentally, the story of an ambitious mission gone wrong…
In her book The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Elisabeth Lloyd, philosopher of science, provides an exhaustive investigation into the female orgasm. After exploring many theories about the orgasm’s origins and purposes, she concludes that it is a vestigial trait like men’s nipples, a…
Summer in Colorado is as refreshing as that first sip of cold beer after you’ve weeded the garden, as restorative as an afternoon in one of Denver’s new beer gardens, as full of fascinating facts as a tour of one of the state’s breweries, whether a behemoth like Coors or…
Radium was hot at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovered by Marie Curie in 1898, it quickly became big business. People loved radium. They put it in watches, in dials, in paints. They figured it had some kind of curative powers, so they also put it in toothpaste, in…
Lakewood Gulch, a trickling tributary in west Denver that feeds into the South Platte River, was once a pretty good place to disappear. The area was overgrown and full of as much concrete as it was weeds; many people used it for what street artist Peter Miles Bergman calls “unsanctioned…
