What’s the most definitive Disney film musical? Many would say Beauty and the Beast, which is why it’s no surprise that the prettified fairy-tale-with-music turned into what’s probably the most successful attempt to adapt Disney to the Broadway stage. It’s a downright classic — from its near-perfect Menken and Ashman…
“Photography is the most immediate medium for making an artistic statement,” says Terri Bell, founder of the tbellphotographic studio & gallery. “It can happen as quickly as pressing the shutter button. Beautiful art can be made when that sense of immediacy and spontaneity is involved in the process of creation,…
Night skiing has become a regular tradition at the close-to-home Echo Mountain Terrain Park, and it’s available from 4 to 9 p.m. five nights a week. But on Monday nights, competing after dark puts a new spin on the pursuit. Beginning tonight, Echo will host the Under the Lights Race…
Mondo got robbed. Pretty much everyone who followed Season 8 of Project Runway agrees: Denver designer and runner-up Mondo Guerra should have taken it all, especially after breaking our hearts with the on-air revelation that in addition to being an incredibly talented, lovable character, he’s HIV-positive. His loss didn’t dampen…
Mary Horrocks, curator of visual art and education at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, is fascinated by the way her fellow Coloradans merge sport, pastime, recreation, transportation and art in their daily lives. This month, she’s made the Dairy into a temple to the most beloved symbol…
It’s always a happening when Super Ordinary Gallery throws a show, but in the case of New Gothic, an exhibit of collages by Mario Zoots featuring work most commonly seen in cyberspace, it’s maybe just a little bit more so. Though the DIY renaissance man is also known for video…
Paragon Theatre Ensemble will close permanently on March 18, following the end of its run of Miss Julie — only weeks after celebrating the opening of the same show in its brand-new space. A series of expensive code violations led to the ultimate decision to not just shutter that space…
Set your DVR to record the Red Bull Signature Series on March 24 at 11 a.m. MST, when NBC will air footage from the Red Bull Cold Rush freeskiing competition. The event concluded yesterday at Silverton Mountain, and the photos and video teasers from the last two days have us…
Because I grew up in a time when we listened to music by the album side, the idea of the rock musical — essentially a string of related songs hung loosely over a plot — is easy for me to accept. Still, you have to wonder, as I did while…
The sell-out crowd at yesterday’s 25th annual Colorado Business Committee for the Arts annual awards luncheon was treated to planned entertainment by local arts organizations, as well as some unscripted entertainment from Governor John Hickenlooper, whose introduction of Mayor Michael Hancock turned into an R-rated joke about showers…or something. But…
Stan Yan always had a fascination with comics. Even before he understood what they really were, he would draw stick figures in frames. And since then, he’s been a bit obsessed. “All of the stories I think up in my head are in comic form,” he says. Yan recently took…
For being a “show about nothing,” Seinfeld was a very big something during its glory days on NBC. Tonight at 8 p.m., join Geeks Who Drink, the nationally known bar-quiz crew, at Three Lions Pub for The Contest: The Third Annual Seinfeld Quiz, a night of Seinfeld trivia. Geeks Who…
The hardest part about getting tested for HIV and AIDS often isn’t the test itself; it’s the anxiety surrounding the whole experience. For the last three years, Cafe Cultura has set out to ease that tension by offering free testing in a comfortable atmosphere. In honor of National Women and…
Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Kent Thompson has chosen his 2012-13 lineup. It contains some safe choices, some doubtless designed to appeal to high schoolers, the requisite Christmas show (not A Christmas Carol this time, but White Christmas), two scripts selected from this year’s New Play Summit — and…
Juliet Wittman raved about Miss Julie, Paragon Theatre’s opening production in its brand-new home, a specially constructed black-box theater. As it turns out, this will also be Paragon’s last production…ever…
Want to see The Book of Mormon? The touring show’s Denver dates in August are officially sold out, with tickets going for astronomical amounts on the web. At this point, your best bet might be to fly to New York (Jet Blue has a one-day sale today), then get in…
Skiers competing at the Red Bull Cold Rush this week at Silverton Mountain got their first reminder of just how hardcore the venue is yesterday when an early morning avalanche wiped out a third of the planned course for the Day 1 Big Mountain portion of the three-day freeskiing event…
I am the product of weird parents. Okay, “weird” probably isn’t the best word, considering it can describe everything from hairstyles to movies to that guy on the bus who always smells like day-old Whopper Jr.’s and mothballs. But my parents were definitely weirdos. My dad made Tang and Spam…
Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day managed to knock the socks off more than a few listeners when they released the song cycle American Idiot on CD in 2004. But at the time, no one could have imagined the ruckus a stage version would eventually make on Broadway. A fabulous…
Talk about painting the town! Every weekend, Denver is overflowing with activities and events. But Mythica von Griffyn’s live body-painting performance at Xcentricity Gallery Friday could have topped them all…
Denver was one of Chinese art’s first foreign outposts. Back in the ’90s, Robischon became one of the first galleries in the United States to feature contemporary Chinese pieces, while MCA Denver presented one of the first exhibits of Chinese contemporary photography anywhere in the country. The curator of the…
AB EX. Several Denver art venues are presenting shows to salute the opening this past fall of the Clyfford Still Museum, with most featuring displays anchored by abstracts. A stunningly beautiful example of this is AB EX: Positions and Dispositions, at the capacious Robischon Gallery. The exhibit comprises five discrete…
