Population is the theme of this year’s Moving Mountains Symposium on Friday, May 25, kicking off the 34th annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival, which runs through May 28 over Memorial Day Weekend. The full roster of speakers for the symposium was just announced…
Baseball season officially starts today (in Tokyo), and artist Kyle Banister couldn’t be more excited. He’ll be performing a live sidewalk chalk-art exhibition at the corner of Blake and 21st streets during the Rockies home opener on April 9, he’s the resident artist for Root Sports this season, and he’s…
The opera singers who regularly let their hair down at Opera on Tap, the up-close-and-personal monthly bar night at Bender’s Tavern, will further reveal their inner selves during tonight’s installment, the Musical Month of March. And though opera is inherently musical, this “musical” refers to what blossoms on Broadway rather…
Our coverage of a recent meeting of the minds between theater producers discussing the state of theater in this town inspired a harsh response from Jack, who said that “anyone with even a modicum of taste and refinement is getting out of town before you beer-swilling losers stink up the…
Which is better: the hamantasch or the latke? That simple question is suddenly not so simple when placed in the hands of the Buntport Theater crew and faculty members of the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies, who are preparing to debate the issue — for the third year…
Alien meets girl. Girl falls for alien. Government agents track alien as she and her intergalactic friends attempt to save their home planet through heartbreak. The plot for Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same might be a little out there — actually, galaxies out there — but its creators weren’t…
Game of Thrones Season 2 is coming. Game of Thrones, HBO’s latest popular series that’s been described as sort of The Sopranos meets Lord of the Rings, debuts its second season Sunday night, but Denver-area viewers can get a sneak peek of the new series tonight…
Stacy Peralta — legendary professional skateboarder, founder of the Powell Peralta skateboard company, documentary filmmaker and commercial advertising mogul — visited the Auraria campus yesterday to speak with students on the art of being creative. “When kids tell me their kids are skateboarders,” he told the crowd, “I tell them,…
The sun may not break through all the smoke in the air from the Jefferson County wildfires today, but “Solar for a Small Planet,” a free program at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science tonight, will shine a light on how solar helps power low-income communities around the world…
Mondo Guerra was the undeniable star his first round on Project Runway. Even though he didn’t win the competition, he won hearts with his admission that he’s HIV-positive. And last Thursday night, he got his sweet revenge by winning Project Runway All Stars , which came with a hefty load…
There’s a lot of mythologizing in All In, an adoring, exhaustive survey of the last decade’s poker boom and its impact on the culture. Director Douglas Tirola tries so hard to make poker a central metaphor for the new American Dream that at times the relentless stream of hot air…
In the first scene of Israel’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a forty-something Talmudic scholar whose research has earned adulation while his sixty-something father’s has mostly been ignored — accepts an honor with an obliviously glib speech built around a childhood anecdote about his…
On Saturday night Rhinoceropolis was transformed into a surreal collection of different visceral spaces, a kind of haunted house of DIY weirdness, attacking the senses partly with fear, but also with ideas that challenged reality and the nature of aesthetics. Known as Fantasia 2012, the art installation put its guests…
Madrid, Paris, Denver.What do these three locations have in common? They are the three sites selected by the French fashion house to host Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, which opened yesterday and runs through July 8 at the Denver Art Museum. As if you needed added incentive to see this…
The sound of hammers was deafening at Clear Creek Academy of Jewelry and Metal Arts over the weekend, when students learned the ancient metal-forming techniques of chasing and repoussé. The workshop featured the guidance of master silversmith Valentin Yotkov, a Bulgarian-born expert in the craft who has trained members of…
Stacy Peralta, a ’70s-era skateboarding legend in his own right — and co-founder of the Powell Peralta Bones Brigade skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill and dozens of the top pro skaters of the ’80s and ’90s — will be the featured…
The basic Goodwill business model — which relies on people cramming a bunch of garbage bags full of random shit they don’t want anymore and giving it to Goodwill to sort and sell for cheap — offers two major benefits: 1) You can get the shit for way cheaper than…
AnomalyCon 2012, Denver’s “first and only steampunk convention,” came down March 23 through March 25 at the Tivoli Student Union. The highlight of the weekend-long string of conferences, celebrity appearances and networking was Saturday night’s Grand Ball; Emily Driskill brings these photos back from the party. See the full slide…
A new MCA Denver satellite show, Richard Peterson and the Art of a Warrior Tribe, opened on Friday, March 23, at the Gildar Gallery, and will be up through April 20. Curated by the MCA’s Adam Lerner, it’s one cog in the machine called Search & Destroy, an exploration of…
That Minnesota slam poet Sierra DeMulder commands an audience is a given: The high-ranked word-slinger helped the St. Paul Poetry Slam Team take the nationals two years in a row, and that’s the top line on a list of kudos she’s received over the last few years. The author of…
Many of Denver’s smaller companies got together last week to talk about recent developments on the local theater scene, and how they could work together better. The conversation was largely positive, attendees reported…
The idea is “to turn the inside of Rhinoceropolis into a temporary fantasy village,” says Colin Ward of the art installation Fantasia 2012, which he’s organized along with Stephan Herrera. “We want to pack paradise into one night; like a magic spell and welcoming of the springtime.” That night will…
