Artist Shelley Irish-Smith spent a year creating Chakra Rainbow, a self-portrait project detailing the imbalance and subsequent healing of her body’s energy systems. Through fifteen oil paintings, Irish-Smith explores various stages of the seven chakras. “I used these paintings to speak to my own archetypes,” explains the certified Reiki master…
The main spaces at Ice Cube Gallery are so large that two full-scale single-artist shows can be presented side by side. The current offerings are Ray Tomasso: Transitions, featuring cast-paper paintings made with strips of old blue jeans rendered into pulp, and Brian Cavanaugh: Migratory: Transplant, which examines the artist’s…
T.S. Eliot once famously wrote that “April is the cruelest month,” but if that old ragged set of claws scuttling across the floor of silent seas were alive today, he might not be so damn depressing about it. These days, besides mixing memory and desire, April is also National Poetry…
When Lalo Delgado immigrated to America with his parents at the age of twelve, he spoke no English and couldn’t read or write. It was a pretty hardscrabble beginning for a boy who went on to become a poet, a professor and a towering figure in the Chicano community. During…
“To me, the World Pond Skimming Championships represent diving into a new season and going out with a splash to celebrate the spectacular snow year we’ve just had,” says event spokeswoman Kelly Patton. Still, you won’t catch her getting her feet wet when the competition kicks off in Vail. “Oh,…
Aspen’s resorts have been pushing big-air progression in skiing and snowboarding this year like never before, and not just at the Winter X Games, where Torstein Horgmo’s triple back flip at Buttermilk in January raised the bar and won the gold. “We’ve been working with the core magazines and top…
Today, a handful of luthiers — those who build and repair string instruments — will converge on South Broadway’s Acoustic Music Revival for the Colorado Custom Guitar Showcase, an all-day display of their finest instruments. For guitar buffs, this mini-convention is a free, one-of-a-kind ax heaven, as luthiers from around…
Julie Ekstrom, founder and owner of Golden-based cloth-diaper company Kanga Care, knows that cloth diapers will probably never beat disposables when it comes to market share. “But more people need to know they’re not your traditional pins and pre-folds and plastic pants,” she says. “This isn’t just a backwoods choice…
The aptly named Rarities & Oddities, Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s season closer, is a don’t-miss show, according to artistic director Garrett Ammon — and he would know. “Anyone who loves contemporary dance is going to love it,” he promises, “and anyone who hasn’t seen us, this is the perfect chance to…
Just in time for Passover, Susannah Perlman is bringing her troupe of Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad back to Denver for a night of Judaic-themed comedy, music and burlesque. Because of the alignment with the holiday, Perlman promises “a whole burning bush, Moses thing” which entails a “’Go Down Moses,’…
There’s a hoary old joke about the weather in Colorado that also applies to the twelfth annual CU-OnStage Fringe Festival: If you don’t like it, wait a few minutes. With visual art, cinema, costume and set design and plenty of theater represented, the festival will cram artsiness into all of…
Photographer Delilah Montoya spent a year documenting the lives of professional female boxers — including Denver’s own Teri “Lil’ Loca” Cruz — for the book Women Boxers: The New Warriors, portions of which are featured in Su Mirada/Her Gaze, the current exhibition at the Museo de las Américas, 861 Santa…
Chances are you’re already somewhat familiar with the people featured in Denver Stories, an ongoing series in which Curious Theatre Company selects four Denver celebrities and writes and produces a ten-minute play about each. The beauty of it, though, is that you’re likely to learn something you didn’t expect —…
You might wonder: How do the powers-that-be choose the firefighters for the Colorado Firefighter Calendar — an annual Fired Up for Kids project that benefits the burn center at Children’s Hospital? The answer is tonight’s Colorado Firefighter Calendar 2012 Celebrity Judging Contest, during which 29 men and five women will…
Jimson weed, oleander, ergot, angel trumpet: all plants that will kill you if you don’t treat them with a little respect. The Plantae kingdom is filled with deadly photosynthesis-craving organisms, a number of which are spotlighted in Amy Stewart’s book, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other…
Once upon a time, John Lennon had a plan to do a concert with Karlheinz Stockhausen, a hugely influential modernist composer and pioneer of electronic music. That concert never happened — but an experimental multimedia ensemble can imagine, can’t it? From the idea for that potentially mind-blowing concert comes 1969,…
With various Tea Party-led anti-union efforts afoot in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Hampshire and all over the country growing increasingly more vehement, it seems a particularly appropriate time to consider the oppressive work conditions from whence the union movement sprang — and the violent opposition it encountered. Of that violence, there’s…
Conceived by Michelle “Smallfry” Lessans as an art installation at the 2011 Burning Man celebration in the Nevada desert, the Zenith Project aims to create peaceful zen garden in the often chaotic party that Burning Man can be. “I love burning man, it’s a wonderful experience, but at times I’ve…
It’s pretty evident from the headline, but the Ladies Laugh-In monthly comedy showcase has moved from the third Wednesday of every month to the third Thursday. Comedian and Laugh-In coordinator Heather Snow says it was a simple matter of the new night freeing up, and a desire to not compete…
There are many ways to lose yourself to the sweet oblivion — weed is one, and it happens to be the only one with an entire holiday dedicated to its consumption (booze and St. Patrick’s Day notwithstanding). But there are other, less conventional ways to get lifted — ways that…
For obvious reasons, many indie games tend to look the same. They’re simple, often created with pixel art and tend to attempt to showcase an idea more than graphical prowess. For those willing to deal with a simple look, Convergence is a very quick experience that fits into the indie…
Thanks to the internetz, we have spied for you today a little slice of South Africa via a commercial for a snack we’ve never heard of, from a company we’ve all heard of. It’s more than a little aggravating to discover that other countries get different, and possibly more-than-likely better,…
