Closing day at Vail is scheduled for Sunday, April 15, and Vail Resorts will barely let the door hit this sad snow season on the ass before looking forward to next winter: The very next day, the company will begin construction on a new gondola from Vail Village to Mid-Vail,…
Storytelling is the oldest kind of theatre, and, perhaps, the most brazen. It denies audiences the comfort of distance. It embroils them in yarns about love, anger, fear and death; it invites them to abscond from worries, troubles, and boredoms. To storytellers like Irish-born Clare Muireann Murphy, who willfully, unapologetically…
Spending money is such a bummer. Luckily, you don’t have to drop that much cash to have fun this weekend. Whether you fancy a mystical art show, Hunger Games costume contest or a 3-D dance party, we’ve got them (and more!), all for under $10. Get out there and enjoy…
There’s a reason I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change — a gently musical that we dubbed “pure peach souffle” over a decade ago — returned to the Garner Galleria Theatre earlier this year for a several-month run. It’s the perfect show for dating couples, professionals looking for after-work relaxation,…
It’s a story too common in recent months: horses found emaciated on a Colorado ranch and seized by authorities in a last-ditch effort to save them. Half a dozen horses were discovered in a state of severe neglect on a ranch near Bailey in February. One of them, a colt…
After seeing the last installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Sven Ceelen decided to move the action off the screen and into City Park, where his own quidditch team, the Denver Dementors, practice every Sunday. In Harry Potter and the Prizoner of…
The death of Trayvon Martin has thrust race relations back to the top of America’s list of conversation topics. But Carlos Heredia hopes for discourse that doesn’t just happen as a result of violence. He wrote and directed a musical that he hoped would help create it: Then Sean Met…
Leon Gallery strives to bring in artists with unique concepts — from Jimmy Descant’s crutches sculptures, commissioning street artist Impossible Winterbourne to make their door sign, to the live circus opening of The Mad Tatters’ surrealistic Cirque Voltaire show. This Friday’s opening promises another dive into a fantastical realm with…
This is not the best time of year for new movies. So we have Wrath of the Titans, Mirror Mirror and American Reunion. Judging by the box office receipts, you went and saw Hunger Games like everyone else, and were probably were angry that Jennifer Lawrence is too fat and…
Just as you might be compelled to visit Yves Saint Laurent: A Retrospective again and again during its stay at the Denver Art Museum through July 8, you’ll want to keep coming back to the gift shop, which is bursting with a sense of style inspired by the YSL couture…
Both Ski Halfpipe and Ski Slopestyle are confirmed as Olympic medal events at the Sochi Games in 2014, and it’s looking increasingly likely that a Colorado local — sixteen-year-old Aspenite Torin Yater-Wallace — could win them both. He won SuperPipe gold in the Winter X Games event in Tignes, France,…
In this week’s art column by Michael Paglia, the Westword art critic writes that the images in Out Figured — which closes after Saturday, April 7! — raise “disturbing, or at least edgy, philosophical, sexual, psychological or sociological issues.”…
What’s the funniest damn thing you’ve ever seen on television? The commercials. Specifically, the ones that aren’t trying to be funny, but try instead to sell you a load of crap in three easy payments — the Ginsu knives, slicing-dicing machines and spotless cleaning solutions of the late-night surf. The…
Yesterday Show and Tell introduced Wicked Wednesdays, our look at street style. And no, it’s not shorts in a snowstorm, or flip flops at a steakhouse. There’s a lot more to Denver style than that, and Mauricio Rocha plans to ferret out this city’s true fashionistas. But one reader wasn’t…
If there’s any jazz trumpeter out there who fully embraces Dizzy Gillespie’s legacy, it’s Jon Faddis. Gillespie was mentor and friend to Faddis, who closely emulated his idol through his sheer command of the trumpet and his ability to soar in the upper register. In 1987, Faddis played a primary…
Some of us are only just getting over the hangovers associated with our abuse of Irish stereotypes on St. Patrick’s Day, so it’s as good a time as any to get an education in some real Irish culture and folklore from performance storyteller Clare Muireann Murphy. Originally from Dublin, Murphy…
Snowboarding has played a huge part in the fifty-year history of Breckenridge Resort, something the ski area plans to acknowledge this weekend with the Rockstar Throwback Throwdown. “Breck was the first major resort in Colorado to allow snowboarding, and in 1986 we had one of the first competition halfpipes anywhere,”…
Those who attended the initial Vaporize psychedelic music-and-art extravaganza two years ago have been asking Liz E11even, one of the event’s organizers, when the Sculpted Sound crew planned to throw the next one. “It was a mind-blowing experience for them,” she says, “which is what we hear about a lot…
Hey, classicists: Before you shake your heads and moan about tonight’s concert, The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, in Boettcher Hall, consider how many seats will be filled by people who’ve never been in an orchestra concert hall before. So what if some of those people will be…
You’re in luck if you’re looking for an evening of animation, hilarity and mind-blowing 3-D video: It’s Noah Ray McMahan’s birthday, and the Beauty Bar maven is taking the party public with a two-night run of Spike and Mike’s Sick & Twisted Animation Festival, which starts around 8:30 p.m. tonight…
It’s a trick to write a funny book that’s truly funny; it’s even more of one to write a comic novel. Christopher Moore has mastered both, bringing well-wrought characters and situations together in an equally well-spun tale that dips below the surface of life in a string of hilarious, cult-enticing…
Marc Maron has been writing and doing standup comedy for more than fifteen years, but it’s his popular twice-weekly podcast, WTF With Marc Maron, that’s really allowed him to hone his brand of neurotic-comedy chops. The podcast, which boasts 160,000 listeners, is largely unscripted and has featured guests like Robin…
