Everybody wants to be an artist, but most people are afraid to try. That’s one reason local artist Brittney Wilson opened Canvas and Cocktails at 249 Clayton Street in Cherry Creek North. (Another reason: to show her dad that an art degree does count for something.) Offering a new, more…
Agreeing at the insistence of a Corsican mob boss to suck and then slash a fellow inmate, newly jailed Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) — poor, illiterate, a “dirty Arab” in the prison’s racist pecking order — gets what’s coming to him, but in a good way. Indeed, crime pays…
Matisse called the Barnes Foundation “the only sane place to see art in America.” But the clamor over moving one of the world’s foremost collections of impressionist, post-impressionist and modern art from its home in the bucolic suburb of Merion, Pennsylvania, to center city Philadelphia (4.6 miles away) has been…
At fifteen years old, Avery is a bright, gorgeous, gifted athlete who is very much loved by her white, Brooklyn Jewish lesbian mothers. She’s also black, has a transracial older brother at Princeton and a younger one who was born in Korea, both of whom she adores. Bearing in mind…
Amy Metier et al. The impressive Amy Metier: Palimpsest features recent paintings by one of Colorado’s foremost abstract painters, Amy Metier. Metier’s style relates back to early-twentieth-century vanguard painting, combining elements of cubism and abstract expressionism. Her large canvases and small works on paper fill the main space at Havu,…
Chicago. Sort of Brechtian, sort of Cabaretish, Chicago tells a story of injustice and corruption, and tells it in the most seductive way, with witty, memorable songs, elegantly glistening dance sequences and a smart, cynical and grown-up script. Roxie Hart is an evil, self-serving little hoofer. Having murdered a man…
Michael Hollinger, who graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, knows exactly what he’s writing about in Opus, the story of the fictive Lazara Quartet, a chamber music group as universally lauded as the Boulder-based Takacs, and his love of music gives this piece radiant life. As the play opens,…
At fifteen years old, Avery is a bright, gorgeous, gifted athlete who is very much loved by her white, Brooklyn Jewish lesbian mothers. She’s also black, has a transracial older brother at Princeton and a younger one who was born in Korea, both of whom she adores. Bearing in mind…
Like both show tunes and rock anthems? Have we got a concert for you! Evolution Theatre Company and Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret have teamed up to present Broadway Rocks!, a musical revue of rock songs that have been belted out on Broadway stages around the world. It’s a night of singing,…
It’s cold in Antarctica. How cold? The temperature at the bottom of the world can drop to -100 degrees during the long, dark winter when the sun says goodbye for six months, leaving behind only a few hearty souls — and a bunch of penguins — to hold down the…
The goal of AtlasObscura.com is to discover and share obscure and esoteric locations, with a little help from its online followers. Today the site will launch what it hopes will become an annual Atlas Obscura Day, and it’s encouraging its followers to host outings to curiosities in their own town…
Like a backwoods Virginia mash-up of Fried Green Tomatoes and a female-fronted Tuesdays with Morrie, Grace & Glorie tells the story of two seemingly dissimilar women thrown together by circumstance, who then stick together by choice and discover they have a whole lot in common. Grace, played by Billie McBride,…
If you like Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice but can’t pick Betelgeuse out of the night sky and are more familiar with Saturn as a car company than as a planet, then tonight’s Spring Equinox Skies program at the William Baehr Observatory is for you. “It’s an introductory celestial-sky program for ages…
For more casual fans, trucker music begins and ends with “Convoy,” C. W. McCall’s 1975 country hit. But Colorado playwrights Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman have scratched that satirical stereotype and interviewed many real-life big-rig drivers about the hurdles and sorrows of the highways for their new musical, Mama Hated…
The premise behind Telling Stories is simple: Blend commissioned, contemporary chamber music with original essays read by the authors in a casual setting, playing to a young audience that might otherwise overlook these particular disciplines, and using a loose theme to tie everything together in a pleasant package. Tonight’s theme…
What do you get when you mix together a balloon sculptor, a magician, an aerial dancer/stiltwalker and a juggler who calls himself a “visionary circus artist”? If all goes right tonight, you get an intriguing, open-ended conversation at the Atomic Circus Salon Series: The Tao of Oddball Arts. “I have…
Like so many people before and after him, Samuel Clemens found himself in the West. But Mark Twain, the character who emerged after Clemens’s almost six-year sojourn along the frontier, was very unlike anyone who’d gone before — or has come after. He remains America’s best-loved, most influential writer…and advanced…
Vampire detective Felix Gomez has faced plenty of supernatural adversaries, from aliens to a Red Bull-swilling zombie master, and still managed to come out on top. Now he’s facing one of the all-time classic vampire enemies in Werewolf Smackdown, the fifth book in the entertaining urban fantasy series by local…
For Dianne Denholm, director of TACtile Arts Center, the most impressive aspect of the current exhibit Holes & Knots: A Modern Interpretation of Lace is its sheer variety. But there’s also the way it stretches our perceptions about lace and openwork. “‘Lace’ means the traditional thing to most people,” she…
In roller derby, it’s not enough to just stay ahead of the other team: To score points, you have to lap your opponent — at the risk of getting knocked on your ass. And tonight’s 7 p.m. season opener for the Denver Roller Dolls at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield…
More than twenty of Denver’s star chefs will converge on the Colorado Convention Center tonight for Chefs Up Front, a blowout culinary bash to benefit Operation Frontline Colorado, a local nonprofit that fights hunger and malnutrition through food education. “This is such a fantastic event, because all of our local…
The last time the Chinese historical epic Red Cliff was at the Starz FilmCenter, it was the mangled, cut-to-the-bone version aimed at soothing the sensibilities of attention span-challenged Americans. Not this time. “What has been missing is about two and a half hours of film, so there’s got to be…
