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…
The roots of electronic art go back to the first art videos made in the 1960s. It was during that art-crazed decade that Icelandic-born, Czech-educated musician Steina Vasulka, who was then living in New York, created her first videos. The medium will be featured in Blink!, an all-electronic show opening…
There are many ways to die, and there were even more in previous centuries. The Four Mile House Historic Park invites you to celebrate them with its sixth annual In the Dead of Winter: Victorian Mourning, an interactive look at death and dying in the nineteenth-century West. Taking place in…
In 2009, photographer Lucia De Giovanni decided to find out what love looked like. So she set about gathering a collection of candid images of couples — from her own parents to local musicians and their significant others — in every stage of love. To keep her subjects from posing…
There’s no denying that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World tanked in the theaters last year, but that doesn’t mean the film hasn’t garnered a huge cult following already. It’s rare for a film so new to hit the midnight-movie circuit, but when you have one with as rabid of a…
As young adults graduate from Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga, publishing companies are racing to meet the demands of a new generation of readers. This year, there are so many good YA fantasy titles that Penguin’s Young Readers Group assembled a rock-star lineup of authors and sent them out…
Goodwill will ride high on the recycling trend with tonight’s Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap. And the organization has one of Denver’s biggest fashion celebrities, local Project Runway star Mondo Guerra, as the feather in its cap. “We’re trying to get the word out about the whole lifestyle…
Considering that so many of them are starving, artists always seem to be front and center when it comes to donating works for a cause. There’s a lot of controversy about this — among artists in particular — but sometimes you just can’t say no. Case in point: AIGA’s Love…
In his role as Edie, the world’s sexiest drag queen, Christopher Kenney is many things — silly, campy and disconcertingly good-looking would be a few descriptors – but there is one thing he is not: mean. “Sometimes people think of drag queens as being bitchy, but it’s not bitchy at…
Valentine’s Day falls just in the nick of time — ’tis the season when our gonads traditionally get fired up for spring, the season of procreation: You know, the birds, the bees, all that good stuff. But in the age when fast cars creep along the highway, bridled and bound…
Marilyn Megenity’s Mercury Café always rolls out the red carpet for Valentine’s Day, and this year is no exception: The slate will be full, beginning with special romantic dinner entrees in the dining room and the annual annual Mercury Motley Players Valentine’s Follies giving continuity to the goings-on. The players…
There’s a certain randomness to RedLine Gallery’s second annual Valentine’s Pajama Party: “You’ll get an authentic homemade Mexican meal, specialty cocktails, an open bar, DJs spinning, and there’s a contest for best pajamas and giveaways from Neiman Marcus,” says Louise Martorano, RedLine’s director of operations. She also points out that…
When the Broadway production of the explicit rock musical Spring Awakening first came to town in December 2009, the folks at Denver Center Attractions were a little worried. Although spokeswoman Genevieve Miller says the play “deals with the issues in a really thoughtful way,” the organization didn’t want to risk…
For people in the theater industry, the sixth annual Colorado New Play Summit is a pretty big deal. Think of it as a testing ground: The Denver Center Theatre Company rounds up five brand-spanking, never-before-seen plays and gives them staged readings — rehearsed performances of the play with no costumes…
If middle-school boys ran the world, everyone would drive monster trucks everywhere. And just because most people get old and lame doesn’t mean the dream is dead. Welcome to the Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam, which includes six monster trucks, all with badass names like Grave Digger and El Toro…
They say love is blind, and the diners at the Boulder Blind Cafe’s Valentine’s Dinner in the Dark certainly won’t be able to argue with that statement. Musician Brian Rocheleau began the Blind Cafe after experiencing one in Iceland; they were such a success that he continued them throughout 2010…
Whoever dreamed that we’d need to keep up with trends in gardening when for decades — nay, centuries — we thought all we had to do was dig a hole in the ground, drop in some seeds and care for the seedlings? Garden Media Group trend-spotter Suzi McCoy did, and…
If you’re sweet on chocolate, then be still, your beating heart, because Cupid is coming early, at least to Boulder, where the Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN) will host its annual Chocolate Lover’s Fling. Tonight’s love affair, a benefit for SPAN — a nonprofit that provides a safe haven,…
