Valentine’s Day can be a scary thing to plan for. There are heightened expectations, guess work, the high risk of going too corny or not corny enough. Which is why we say you leave it all in the hands of Mother Nature, who is really in charge of this whole…
As a longtime live concert photographer, Lucia De Giovanni’s work is entrenched in the local music scene. For her book, The Love Project, Giovanni decided to step away from the stage to capture something a bit more simple: The idea of love. This isn’t her first foray into portraiture–De Giovanni…
Last night, Project Runway contestant and Denver’s current fashion star Mondo Guerra was at the Infinity Park Event Center for a clothing recycling bonanza known as the Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap in Glendale. There was a fashion show featuring Goodwill clothing — repurposed by Denver School of…
Prepare to consider Michael Sawaya — best known as the guy from the auto-injury law firm — in a light in which it is pretty much guaranteed you have never considered him. To celebrate the release of Turbulence in the River, his new book about “finding your world and then…
Once upon a time, when garage/post-hardcore was at the apex of its popularity, a friend and I came up with the concept for Black Back Lotion, a band that would — this is hilarious! — only do Black Black Ocean covers. Like many other concepts that start with a play…
We’re coming up on the weekend before Valentine’s Day, which means there is plenty planned for lonely hearts and weekday shut-ins if you want to get your love on. Hell, we even have plenty to do for people who’d rather spend Valentine’s Day weekend watching movies and listening to authors…
1. Ladies first! Winter Park is hosting the Burton Women’s Ride Camp and the Gravity Goddess Progressive Ski Clinic this weekend. Gentlemen: If you still don’t have the Valentine’s powder day date of your dreams sorted out, this is the après-ski scene you’re looking for. And, if it’s love at…
Guess what? Ronnie and Sammi are fighting. Again. Still. At this point, anyone who stomachs this show has to hate her, because she’s turned Jersey Shore house into a petri dish of bizarre mind games, fighting and girlfriend doublespeak. The Situation has been sharing a room with the world’s most…
Before Dale Chisman’s death in 2008, the artist prepared a number of gigantic piece for a show that would never come to be — financial disputes arose around the work and a proper retrospective of his oeuvre has been on hold in the two years since — until now. In…
Considering the criteria for what qualifies as a Jewish film — “a film made by a Jewish filmmaker, a film that has a Jewish-related theme, a film of interest to the Jewish community” could all make the cut, says Denver Jewish Film Festival Director Roberta Bloom — it’s not like…
Monster Jam is back in Denver this weekend, bringing with it some thirty tons of flying truck. You know the basic idea here — overgrown toys flying over dirt and crushing old junked sedans — but there’s structure to a Monster Jam show that many may not be acquainted with…
We just had one of our first messy snow storms of the year, causing plenty of people to slip and slide around the streets of Denver and curse the snow gods and subsequently the snow plow gods. We decided to catch up with a snow plowman to figure out exactly…
After a seven year run at its home in Fort Collins, the Nonesuch Theater — currently in the midst of its run of The Art of Murder, by Joe DiPietro (the same guy who wrote I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) — is gearing up to draw the red…
If you love Cirque de Soleil, can’t wait for Denver’s first Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival, coming in May — and, oh yeah, happen to like dogs — then the upcoming pooch-oriented aerial show Don’t Kill Bill: A Dog Lover’s Night Out might be just the ticket. Organizer Kyla Duffy describes…
Penguin Books, eager to eclipse Twilight with a new moon of its own, sharpened its stakes and rounded up five authors of hot new fantasy titles for Young Adult readers from its various imprints, unleashing them on the world for the Breathless Reads National Book Tour, which haunts the Tattered…
Cindi Myers used to be a newspaper reporter, and in many ways, that’s apparent in Work of Heart (how about that title, amiright?), her latest. For one thing, it’s a “reality-based romance,” which apparently means that the couple in the story is based on a real-life couple; more importantly, though,…
Who needs people with all their talking and opinions? Not you, you’re a lone wolf who doesn’t need a pack of yapping furballs to cramp your style. Here’s what to do on Valentine’s Day. Alone.
Andy Warhol never seems to go out of style: His deadpan persona and immeasurable impact on modern culture remain emblematic long after his death, and the rage is especially strong here in Denver right now, with the January opening of Warhol in Colorado at the University of Denver’s Myhren Gallery…
The newly formed, in-house Byers-Evans House Theatre Company is truly a group effort, notes house playwright Maggie Stillman, who, along with six other writers contributed a series of vignettes on the subject of Love, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Designed to fill in the cracks that other Valentine-season shows…
The theatrical release of the Oscar-Nominated Live-Action and Animated Shorts 2011 provides a fun peek into intriguing bite-sized cinema from across the globe. This year’s live-action entries are a diverse mix. The African-set drama Na Wewe is a rather obvious critique of cultural identity, while The Confession is a coming-of-age…
Started in 1958 as a little parking-lot tent sale on the University of Denver campus, the Colorado Garden and Home Show has grown to become a massive expo showcasing 650 vendors and home-improvement experts throughout a maze of over 45,000 square feet of live plants and flowers. “It’s a show…
This year, Samadhi Center for Yoga, 639 East 19th Avenue, will be celebrating nine years of being — and it will be bigger than ever, incorporating the Satya Institute. “We have a couple of healing rooms, a great big space for more yoga classes and special events, which focus on…
