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,…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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’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…
Here in Denver we like to throw the number 5,280 around a lot. Skiers and snowboarders at Breckenridge prefer a much bigger number: 12,840. That’s the elevation at the top of the Imperial Express SuperChair, the highest chairlift in North America, and it’s open this morning for the first time…
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…
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…
Update: Because of the snow, this event has been postponed until Saturday, February 11. Life is a big mess, but deep down we all know what to do. Or so say Lindsay St. Antoine and Ravi Zupa in their upcoming exhibit, Nothing Teaches Needs, which opens at the Black Book…
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…
Goodwill Industries of Denver is opening two new stores this spring — one a major store in Longmont, which will hold a job fair to fill thirty positions starting tomorrow. Good idea. But that boutique store in Cherry Creek? Says Rockdove: Stupid idea.I can’t even believe that they don’t get…
Craigslist can be a scary, scary place, but that doesn’t make any of us visit it any less. When Spark Theater playwright Sean Paul Mahoney decided to write a play about the website’s role in Internet and pop culture, he spent hours scouring its Casual Encounters and Missed Connections sections…
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…
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…
Goodwill has plans to open two stores this spring, one in Longmont and a boutique in Cherry Creek, which will be do-good organization’s 25th and 26th stores in the metro area…
People are still comparing notes on how long they tried to log on to buy tickets for The Book of Mormon when they were available for a few brief hours on Sunday, January 22. Those who gave up on technology and simply went to the ticket windows at the Denver…
Though the twenty-something Collin Parson — son of prominent Colorado sculptor Chuck Parson — has the official title of Gallery Exhibition Designer at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, he’s really the de facto director of the fine-art program. He’s filled a vacuum at Arvada because the position…
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…
