Big Air ski-jumping in Civic Center Park not enough spectacle for you? A call for fans and practitioners of high-flying acrobatics — on trapeze, hoops, fabric and other riggings — is now underway for Denver’s first Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival, May 12-15, at the Oriental Theater. Billed as the first…
There are many differences between humans and house cats, but the main one is probably that, when humans are morbidly obese, it’s sad, but when cats are morbidly obese, it’s hilarious. So because pictures of obese cats just kind of cheer us up on the mid-week slump, and because it’s…
Let’s face it: If you build a 106-foot launch tower and then send competitors — some of them as young as 14 — careening down the face of it on skis towards a big-ass kicker for a competition like last night’s Nature Valley Big Air Challenge in Civic Center Park…
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: we’re really sick of zombie games. However, this was just too good to pass up. Namely because it’s really a survival game, not a zombie game — you could easily mentally substitute zombies for Mad Max-style psychos with cool mohawks and…
Kirsten Coplans thinks small. She lives and works simply in a tiny, eclectic Uptown matchbox of a house furnished with retro furniture and blooming collections: Chinese jewelry boxes with miniature drawers, Asian dolls, vintage glass casseroles patterned in fruity colors. Her studio, where she creates Pearl Clothing, her local line…
Proving definitively that nobody rocks a party like the gays rock a party, a teeming multitude of bears, twinks, butches, drag queens and the generally effete descended on Colorado’s most celebrity-friendly resort town this week for the 34th Annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, and they didn’t stop until at least…
Metropolitan State College has a special place in Denver’s art world. Not only does it have the biggest set of visual-arts departments in the state, but it has its own mini-museum, the Center for Visual Art, long a fixture in LoDo and now the jewel of the Santa Fe art…
2011: Year in Preview. Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, has employed a clever way to create an automatic group show by putting together examples of work by all of the artists who will be featured in duets this year. The show looks good, but what’s really neat is…
Hello, Dolly!Say hello to Hello, Dolly!, an old warhorse finding new life at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. The musical tells the story of a meddlesome widow, Dolly Levi, who makes a living connecting people. Ostensibly trying to find a wife for half-millionaire feed-store owner Horace Vandergelder, she’s actually plotting to snare…
Writer-director Tanya Hamilton’s striking debut is the rare recent American independent film that goes beyond the private dramas of its protagonists, imagining them as players in broader historical moments. Set in the Germantown section of Philadelphia in the summer of 1976, Night Catches Us examines the failed hopes of ’60s…
The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession a major plot point. This doesn’t mean the subject is wrung out; its continuing resonance with audiences hasn’t been effaced by secular pop psychology or modernization within the…
What a lark! What a plunge!” thinks Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as she steps exuberantly into her day, and that’s pretty much what I felt walking out of Curious Theatre after Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation. The play is just so sweet, smart, honest and touching, such an absolutely delightful…
Playwright Michele Lowe writes well about art, and the central character in her Map of Heaven is an artist, Lena, whose paintings are maps of imaginary places, and who’s about to have her first big show. As the play opens, she consults in her studio with longtime dealer and gallery…
Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist breathes life into a celluloid fossil, lovingly animating an unproduced script by the great filmmaker Jacques Tati. Chomet sets The Illusionist on the cusp of the ’60s, around the time Tati wrote the script as a followup to his hit Mon Oncle. The title character, a…
Close to twenty years after the slang was first coined in those primitive internets forums of yore, at least one Fox News affiliate out of Los Angeles is on the case, intrepidly investigating just what it is that the kids are saying nowadays. Last week, the station dedicated fully three…
In Superior yesterday, a “suspicious package” left in a Costco parking lot triggered alarm bells, causing the store to go on lockdown, with shoppers held inside while the Boulder County Bomb Squad investigated. Why a terrorist would be targeting a Costco parking lot in Superior was unclear. In any case,…
The Academy Award nominations are out and they’re pretty much what you expected: The King’s Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, etc. This is the second year of the expanded ten movie Best Picture category. And as these things go, the ten nominees are not a bad indication of what…
The beauty of chamber music is in its intimacy and immediacy; you can’t help, as an audience member, being caught up in the interplay and, even better, the moment. And at tonight’s Chamber Music Series Concert at the Denver School of the Arts, which raises funds for the DSA Orchestra,…
If you’re interested in stories about a sexually obsessed sister, deadly religious demon monsters, ghost drug dealers or practical jokes taken too far, boy have we’ve got some good stuff for you this week. If you prefer to consume media that keeps to the realm of reality, you’re out of…
Unless you recently awoke from troubled dreams to find yourself transformed into a hideous insect, you may have noted lot of Czech-related stuff going on around town recently. That’s because, stemming from Opera Colorado’s upcoming production of Dvořák’s Rusalka, a handful of Denver arts organizations have jumped on board with…
When you are introducing a new product to the populace, it is important that your ad campaign make a strong first impression. You might try associating this new item with an A-list celebrity, or you might open with a clever joke. You might also go on a serious hallucinogen bender…
The 100-foot launch tower erected in Civic Center Park for the Denver Big Air competition will see its first official action today at 5 p.m. (doors open at 3:30 p.m.) for the Nature Valley Ski Big Air challenge, a Battle of the Brands format that will pit the ski teams…
