Pigskin and Pints

A heated debate over which city makes the best beer bubbled up before the Denver Broncos took on the New England Patriots in the playoffs in January: Boston mayor Tom Menino erroneously claimed that Beantown had the best. The Broncos lost, and the Patriots moved on to the Super Bowl,…

Love Lines

UPDATE: Tonight’s performance (Friday, Feb. 3)has been canceled. “I have been really interested in the Creative Commons movement and how artists are sharing what they’re creating, particularly through the Internet and through social media,” says Garrett Ammon, the artistic director at Ballet Nouveau Colorado. For Intersection, which Ammon created with…

Oh, Baby!

The dichotomy of rich people adopting poor people’s babies makes for high drama, and while you can probably rent Stockard Channing’s and Laura Dern’s made-for-TV version of Jane Anderson’s The Baby Dance, why not go see a live version of the play? “You can get right up close and have…

High Times

Sick of being known just as “the girl from The Blair Witch Project,” Heather Donahue left Hollywood and the film industry and set off to join her new boyfriend growing weed. And now she’s written a book about it. The actress-turned-marijuana-farmer will be on hand to discuss and sign Growgirl:…

The Key to Community

Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s weekly Wednesday night get-together, will shake things up tonight with the Communikey Showcase, which will offer a taste of the Boulder-based electronic-arts festival, celebrating its fifth year in April. Like all Gorinto throwdowns, the emphasis is on local art and artists, a community atmosphere open to…

Sing Your Song

Produced by his youngest daughter, Gina, this profile of Harry Belafonte, foregrounding the 84-year-old actor and singer’s political activism, is a moving if occasionally wearying hagiography. Not that the subject is unworthy of anything but veneration: Unbowed by the racism that dogged him during the first several decades of his…

Coming Full Cirque

Not all Cirque du Soleil shows are the same. Senior artistic director Alison Crawford promises that even if you’ve seen the impressive acrobatics and fabulous costumes the Canadian entertainment empire is known for, the latest incarnation of Dralion is sure to be something new. The performance premiered in 1999 with…

Different Strokes

The idea that all significant art in America is made on the East Coast held sway for a long time. But over the last twenty years — and increasingly in the past few years — people in the know have promoted the concept that the West, including Colorado, is an…

What questions would YOU ask John Waters?

What’s better than Santa Claus coming to town? John Waters coming to Denver. He’s a lot like Santa, except his bag of toys is for adults only, his trademark mustache is neatly trimmed, and his elves include Patty Hearst, Traci Lords and Liz Renay. Waters will be presenting An Evening…

Impossible Winterbourne’s unsanctioned public art goes steampunk

The Impossible Winterbourne, a Denver artist, doesn’t consider himself a “street artist” because his art isn’t limited to the streets. But like street artists, Winterbourne’s installations appear quietly, waiting to be noticed. He’s been in Denver “scarcely a year,” and during that time has added his sculpture to ordinary urban…

Jason Mewes would have been a roofer if not for Clerks

On Thursday, February 2, movie theaters across the country will screen a one-time-only film: Kevin Smith: Live From Behind. The evening will comprise a live recording of Kevin Smith’s podcast with longtime pal (and film sidekick) Jason Mewes — but you probably know him better as the Jay to Smith’s…

Sitting pretty? PlatteForum seeks funky chairs

Another year, another residency — it’s business as usual at PlatteForum, the award-winning nonprofit that pairs struggling kids with resident artist/mentors to create something communal and beautiful. The latest resident, installation artist Jessica Kruetter, has been working with ArtLab students for a few weeks already, with an imaginary environment as…

Blondes don’t have more fun; fake Italian girls with glasses do

I’m not a blonde anymore. That fantasy has officially ended. After spending the better part of a year transitioning from dirt brown to Michelle Pfeiffer’s off-yellow Scarface bob to accidentally sea green to Gwen Stefani white, my hair is now a pleasant rich-chocolate color. So my mother can stop thinking…

Fitness Origin is the anti-gym for sand lovers

A first glimpse of Fitness Origin — a new gym that opened in Colorado Springs this month — had us wondering: What, exactly, goes on in this room full of sand with straps hanging from the walls? It sort of looks like one of those secret basement serial-killer lairs discovered…

Now Showing

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…