If you haven’t had a chance to get out of town this summer, here’s a quick trip into the past: Our Journey, a self-guided museum trek to the small towns of Colorado’s central plains, can ostensibly be completed in one day and maybe even on one tank of gas —…
“We mountain people, generally speaking, are connected to nature,” says R.R. Shakti, event director for YogaRocks! Mountain Fest. “Yoga takes us to an inner space and awareness of ourselves, and that same inner power and meditational awareness can happen in nature as well.” Hence the second annual YogaRocks!, which will…
Recycling, composting and relying on solar energy are just a few ways to make the earth a healthier place. But where to begin? And if you’ve already started, where do you go from here? The EarthWorks Expo has plenty of ideas. “We want everyone — no matter if they already…
The individual accomplishments of Gaye Adegbalola, Andra Faye and Ann Rabson fill quite a few pages. But among all their awards for songwriting, playing and even teaching, the three musicians are best known for comprising one of the most soulful and beloved acoustic blues acts in the world, Saffire —…
I love group shows, in particular those that are held together by a clearly defined organizational theme. At their best, these sorts of exhibits can lay out a broad-based historic, aesthetic or stylistic narrative — sometimes all three at once. But solos can also be superior because they give viewers…
Denver Artists Guild Founders. The history of the Denver Artists Guild — an early 20th-century group —- is little known, but it’s been documented in this show. The exhibit was organized by collectors Deborah Wadsworth and Cynthia Jennings, with a design by Steve Savageau. Wadsworth and Jennings identified 52 artists…
Annie. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre is at the top of its form; it has to be. How else could the company make Annie — its mandatory summer family show — anything but a smirking sentimental bore? As everyone knows by now, the story of Annie concerns a little red-haired girl’s rough…
It’s been forever since we’ve had really good, outrageous, dirty-minded, over-the-top camp in Denver — pretty much since Theatre Group gave up the ghost — so it’s a joy to find it back at the Avenue Theater in the form of Die! Mommy Die! Charles Busch’s play is a spoof…
At first glance, Somers Town seems gritty and realistic, what with its handheld, black-and-white shots of working-class London and a cast dominated by actors who wouldn’t look glamorous even after a twelve-hour session with Paul Mitchell. But the film is shot through with a deep streak of whimsy that infuses…
The aliens have been with us for twenty years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s fast and furiously inventive District 9, their huddled masses long ago extracted from their broken-down mothership and deposited in the titular housing slum on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Unlike the space…
In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest film by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki envisions a small Japanese port town turned upside-down by visitors from the bottom of the sea. Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The…
Margarita Blush, a European-trained Bulgarian puppeteer now living in Boulder, is a rarity on the Front Range whose magic touch transforms puppetry into an art form. Together with another local puppet master, Betsy Tobin, Blush plied this gift to create River Story, a unique take on Zlatka, the Girl Made…
Early in The Windmill, filmmaker Richard P. Rogers, whose never-completed autobiographical project was knitted together by former student Alexander Olch after his 2001 death, wonders if chronicling his life using footage shot over decades qualifies as “a kind of jerking off.” Attendees are likely to be divided over this question,…
Poet Drew Myron and artist Tracy Weil have collaborated on a variety of projects over the past twenty years, but Forecast, their latest work, marks the first time they’ve used astrology as a starting point. “I was reading a lot of horoscopes,” explains Myron. “Not that I’m an astrologist, but…
Jimmy Hogg, a Brit now living in Toronto, is more or less the king of the Fringe this year: In addition to hosting duties at the Boulder Fringe Festival’s opening-night party and helming the fest’s Daily C.R.A.B. late-night talk-show, he’s also a veteran Fringe performer who has a new one-man…
Part of being on the fringe – i.e., traveling the fringe-festival circuit – is surrendering to chance. With every venue, in every town, the vibe is different and the audience’s level of acceptance a roll of the dice. What’s lauded in New York might get a blank stare in Oklahoma…
Radoslaw Konopka, Christopher Thomas Gilkey and onetime Denverite Kristin Arnesen are Theatre Reverb, a Brooklyn outfit that’s not only familiar with the fringe circuit, but hosts the ongoing Floating Kabarette performance series/cabaret at New York’s open-minded Galapagos Art Space, where anything might happen, from aerial dance to neo-burlesque. Here for…
“The film program embraces the spirit of the Fringe,” says Kestrel Burley, associate producer of the Boulder Fringe Festival, whose Fast Forward Fringe includes everything from digital films to 16mm to 35mm, in keeping with the festival’s goal of promoting diversity and “creativity that creates community.” Feature presentations range from…
LoDo Bites is a great opportunity for foodies of all stripes to taste small bites from twenty participating restaurants throughout the lower downtown neighborhood. “Some restaurants are going to be doing small appetizers, some will be doing small appetizers and desserts,” says Jeannie Wert, communications and events coordinator for the…
ArtLab is a joint venture of PlatteForum, run by Trish Thibodo, and Labyrinth, where Jose Mercado is at the helm; both nonprofits are dedicated to helping at-risk and underserved youth in Denver. Working together as ArtLab, they select high school students and create a project to get them interested in…
It speaks of Lev Grossman’s savvy as a journalist, as well as an author, that his new book, The Magicians, stands on the shoulders of J.K. Rowling. After all, writing a novel that’s being billed as a grown-up Harry Potter guarantees a certain level of media attention – not that…
There are some strange, serendipitous ways to meet that special someone. A high school friend’s parents met at a Led Zeppelin concert, for example, and I know one couple who met while changing a flat tire and another at a strip club. Of course, not everyone has time to sit…
