It’s like I went to bed on a normal Tuesday night and woke up yesterday morning to find a Facebook like I had never seen before. Okay, like most things I talk about that happen in my life, that’s an exaggeration. It wasn’t really all that different, but according to…
Steve Cogil opened the first Tattered Cover on the corner of East Second Avenue and Detroit Street in Cherry Creek in 1971. It was small — less than a thousand square feet. Three years later, Joyce Meskis took the reins of the space. In the decades since, the Cherry Creek…
The people spoke, and Yoga Rocks the Park listened: The popular yoga session featuring live music in an outdoor setting has moved to Sunday mornings. “There were so many people who said Sunday mornings are so much better for them and their families,” notes Erik Vienneau, event director. “Then you…
Imagining new worlds, both real and conceptual, is an objective for many artists, but few have achieved that goal as literally as German painter/sculptor Anselm Kiefer, who in 1992 moved to La Ribaute, an abandoned silk-factory complex in Barjac, France, and slowly turned it into a labyrinth of grand subterranean…
As the “final girl” in the first and third installments of the Nightmare on Elm Street horror-movie series, Nancy Thompson never received the respect and adoration that Freddy Krueger has. Now, Nancy — and Heather Langenkamp, the actress who played her — is getting what’s coming to her with I…
In the Rangeview Library District, once famous for being the worst-funded library district in the state, they don’t even call them libraries anymore. They call them “Anythink,” and they don’t charge fines, use the Dewey Decimal System or even expect patrons to bury their noses in books. In that spirit,…
“I think we’re all just a little bit off,” says Abbe Stutsman, executive director of Stories on Stage, and so it was easy to pull together Stories on Stage: Eccentrics Unlimited, the first full-length program for this year’s edition of the series. “We put a program together about folks that…
If you ever tried (and probably failed) at model painting as a kid, then you might take solace in WingNutCon II, a setting for model builders and artists to show off their work. The contest spotlights some of Colorado’s best model builders and their creations in over forty different categories…
Silent films are decidedly out of style, but the Denver Silent Film Festival hopes to rekindle the audience’s amazement with moving pictures by showing off classic films in the same context in which they would have premiered: on 35mm prints with a full orchestra accompanying them. Because of the nature…
Gentlemen (and ladies), pull on your finest pair of pantyhose and strap on your heels: The Running of the Gays is back. After a successful inaugural jaunt last year, the youth-empowerment organization Art From Ashes is putting on another mini-“marathon” in an effort to raise money for its GLBTQ poetry…
The new Lone Tree Arts Center will unveil its first theater run of the season — and its own short life as a performing-arts venue — tonight with a comedy imported all the way from the rarefied climes of Creede, Colorado. But though it showcases the esteemed Creede Repertory Theatre,…
When pro tennis player Diane Van Deren was diagnosed with epilepsy, the only thing she found that helped stave off the seizures was running. “As I had an onset, a feeling of déjà vu that a seizure was about to erupt, what I would do is I’d throw my running…
Snowboarder Travis Rice and director Curt Morgan nearly blew the doors off the Ellie Caulkins Opera House the last time they were in town, showing their 2008 film That’s It, That’s All to a sold-out crowd. Now Rice says that was a mere baby step on their way to truly…
It only took five minutes on stage for Nick Nunns to realize that he loved the idea of Ignite Denver. Actually, since his performance only lasted five minutes total, it took less than that. “It’s a blast,” says Nunns. “After I got over being nervous, I loved it.” Ignite Denver…
What’s the first step to improving the quality of your photographs? Head to Telluride amid the explosion of fall colors this week and start shooting. Making the most of the local landscape is at least part of the idea behind the second annual Telluride Photo Festival, says executive director Eric…
After receiving $13 million to design Denver International Airport’s new south terminal hotel and commuter rail station, world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava abruptly quit the project because it lacked sufficient funding. Rumors about his exit had been flying around for weeks, but it became official earlier this month when Santiago’s…
It only took five minutes on stage for Nick Nunns to realize that he loved the idea of Ignite Denver. Actually, since his performance only lasted five minutes total, it took less than that. “It’s a blast,” says Nunns. “After I got over being nervous, I loved it.” Ignite Denver…
Ridgway-based journalist and MacArthur “genius” grant-winner Peter Hessler has written stories that focus on everything from China to small towns in southwestern Colorado to Nepal. (Latest Word has more on the $500,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, as well as a Q&A with Hessler.) The 42-year-old has amassed a sizable…
September snowboard stoke continues tonight at the Fox Theater (1135 13th Street in Boulder) with the Colorado premieres of Capita’s Defenders of Awesome, Role Model Productions’ Cockfight!, the Givin film One, and the new team video from Boulder’s Satellite Boardshop, plus an encore screening of Familia 2, from FODT &…
Pippin Barr’s The Artist is Present isn’t really a game — it’s more of a bizarre recreation of an already weird performance art piece by Marina Abramović. You’ve probably heard of it, if you haven’t seen it yourself. The game takes its title (and its premise) from the 736-hour performance…
Television commercials are interesting things — often, they serve the intended purpose of getting consumers to buy a product or service. But sometimes, they do one better and become a part of popular culture. If you’ve watched a good amount of television in the last few years, you’ve probably seen…
Was it just the summer before last that Santiago Calatrava brought his genius for form to Denver International Airport with design proposals for a dramatic bridge, a theatrical train station and a sculptural hotel, all in his signature white-on-white style? Yes, it was (“Taking Off,” August 5, 2010). I’ve met…
