Colfax & 15th, an independent film set and produced in Denver, provides a glimpse into a world that many of us simply drive by on our way in and out of downtown: the concentration of businesses that provide high-interest, high-stakes loans to bounce people out of jail. In their fictional…
Hosted and facilitated by — and dedicated to — female poets, the Women of the World Poetry Slam keeps close to its gender roots. Sponsored by Poetry Slam, Inc., the competition is in its fifth year, but its first in Denver. “You have to put in a bid like it’s…
Among the dozens of galleries, hundreds of shows and twelve packed First Fridays in the Art District on Santa Fe in 2011, it’s inevitable that arts lovers missed something spectacular. “There are so many events that go on, and we wanted to give some recognition for different galleries,” notes Sarah…
The second annual Women + Film Voices Film Festival begins tonight with the documentary Ethel and follows with five more days of thought-provoking films by and about women. Over the course of the week, more than a dozen films will get their due, along with complementing salons and question-and-answer sessions…
Maybe you never thought the day would come when suburban-Cali neo-punk would take to the Broadway stage. But, as American Idiot more than proved, the idea was neither a bad nor a far-fetched one: Based on Green Day’s eponymous, Grammy Award-winning concept album, the edgy musical took Billy Joe Armstrong’s…
Dan Jacobs, director of the Victoria H. Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver, has endeavored to present shows that document the efforts of local artists both historic and contemporary. Being on the DU campus in the School of Art and Art History, Jacobs has a built-in roster from which…
Miss Julie, playwright August Strindberg’s spare, sexy classic, was written in 1888, but its themes of class and control resonate loudly in the Occupy era. Set in the kitchen of an aristocratic estate, the play — and the ensuing tension — unfolds over one afternoon, as an unstable heiress trades…
“Showing your work at a Santa Fe gallery is like having your mom and dad home at a party,” says artist Vincent Fasano. That’s why he and twin brother Charly (also known as “City Mouse”) have been putting on art shows at the Phoenix Gallery in the basement of 3…
Nathaniel Adams Coles, better known as Nat “King” Cole, was born in Alabama, the son of a Baptist minister. He learned to play the organ from his mother, who accompanied his father in church. Originally a keyboard phenom, he later studied classical piano, but it was jazz — and the…
Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder poet and playwright Sidney Goldfarb, will open at New York’s La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre on March 1 as part of the fabled Off-off-Broadway theater’s fifty-year celebration. Produced by the Talking Band, a collaborative group that spins evocative tapestries of words, imagery and…
While Colorado may be home to one of the worst dressed cities in America, we’re still ranked as one of the fittest. It’s no secret that people here love being active — and Colorado Clothing has been making workout and sport apparel for our generally healthy population since 1998. But…
Mark Cline was genuinely surprised that we were asking about his chalk art. “That’s not even my best medium,” he laughed. “I just enjoy it a lot.” Cline’s main focus is on murals and painting, but he first decided to try chalk art after he went to the first Denver…
This is the first week Tara Lang of Littleton won’t be applying monster make-up on SyFy’s Face Off. The show, a sort of Project Runway with special effects make-up, has been somewhat of a hit since it started last year, with this season’s premiere hitting the highest ratings for an…
The beautiful South Broadway shop Ironwood, with its plant-strewn, new-Victorianiana steampunk vibe, isn’t very big. But it’s no doubt large enough to hold the musicians of the new, diminutive local Tinyamp Records, or at least some of them — members of Amphibian, Calliope of the Future and Year of the…
For the majority of the population, leap year, and subsequently leap day, isn’t given a second thought. But for a tiny sliver of the world called “leaplings,” or people who’s birthdays fall on February 29, leap day is a big deal. And, as it turns out, there’s a lot more…
Fallene Wells was getting ready to acknowledge defeat in her Kickstarter campaign, which ended on February 22. The Denver fashionista was even preparing a second fundraising effort — with a more modest goal — on another crowdsourcing website since she was so far away from the $20,000 she’d hoped to…
I’m hardly Catholic anymore. Still, I wear the idea of my Catholicism as a romanticized badge of honor, taking pleasure in the idea that I once was a part of something truly controversial — and it wasn’t even by choice. In fact, I’m only now able to write about being…
Kidnapped for Christ, a film by Kate Logan that’s a sponsored project of the International Documentary Association, has hit its $10,000 goal with a good two weeks to go. You can see the controversial trailer below, which is sure to ruffle the feathers of Christians and non-Christians alike, shows teens…
The Boulder International Fringe Festival has announced its preliminary 2012 artist lineup, which includes such past fringe faves as TinHouse Experimental Dance, Gemma Wilcox Productions, Square Product Theatre and Band of Toughs, as well as a wide range of on-the-edge artists hailing from New York to San Francisco and points…
With the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum last fall, a number of galleries have mounted shows highlighting abstraction as salutes to the fledgling institution. The CSM has given its blessing to some of these, while others have sprung up spontaneously. I’ve enjoyed seeing most of these shows, but it…
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…
The Turin Horse not excepted, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, a comedy, is the most startlingly apocalyptic film of the year. As in their Adult Swim Awesome Show, the abiding aesthetic is free-associative channel-surfing, owing something to the public-access mash-ups of TV Carnage. (The attrition of this is significantly…
