Emilio Lobato, David Mazza and Dale Chisman. The main attraction at Havu is Emilio Lobato: De Veras, featuring an eye-dazzling display of paintings that rely on the horizontal line for their visual interest. Lobato’s distinguished career dates back several decades; some of the amazing attributes associated with him are his…
Eurydice. Playwright Sarah Ruhl has created her own magical, eccentric, gutsy and entirely original interpretation of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth, one in which the Lord of the Underworld is a comic-fearful shape-changer, ruling over a place populated by people of stone; Eurydice’s father, already dead, longs for her from the Underworld…
Skills Like This, which makes its Boulder debut on Wednesday, April 8, prior to a run at Starz FilmCenter that begins April 17, is a funky, if minor, valentine to the Mile High City. The story, about a talent-free playwright turned one-man crime spree (Spencer Berger, who also wrote the…
Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for its leg warmers and knee socks than for the legions of pre-Internet Luddites who gather to participate in those analog rituals known as Skee-Ball and Whac-A-Mole. Drawn…
Radio Golf is the last of August Wilson’s ten plays about the black experience in the twentieth century, most of them seen through the prism of Pittsburgh’s Hill District; he died the year he completed it. With this production, the Denver Center Theatre Company will have done the entire series,…
Skills Like This, which makes its Boulder debut on Wednesday, April 8, prior to a run at Starz FilmCenter that begins April 17, is a funky, if minor, valentine to the Mile High City. The story, about a talent-free playwright turned one-man crime spree (Spencer Berger, who also wrote the…
Founded in 1948 by Howard Higman at the University of Colorado, the Conference on World Affairs is an opportunity for professionals working in the arts, media, technology, environment, politics, spirituality, human rights and countless other fields to get together and discuss just about anything under the sun. Over the past…
Bookworms, unite! Literature lovers devour words on the printed page like the paper-loving insects they’re named for, but rarely do they have an opportunity to actually eat books. If you think cake tomes created from gelatin-based edible paper sound just as delicious as curling up with your favorite novel and…
The goal of Vox Feminista is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable, to provoke thought in audience members, educating and inspiring the community to act for global justice. To do so, these womyn create multimedia performances that tackle a range of issues surrounding one overarching theme – and…
The universal appeal of larger-than-life masked men engaged in an epic battle of good versus evil is brilliantly manifested in Mexico’s lucha libre tradition. Its history and rivalries cross generations, inspiring fierce loyalties among its devotees. But lacking such a background is no handicap to becoming a fan. “For me,…
After 400-plus years of adaptations and reinterpretations, Romeo and Juliet remains a compelling stage (and screen) production, not because the story is that goddamn good left alone, but because of the creative directorial liberties and contextual revisions that keep it contemporary – as a gay teenage awakening, for example, instead…
Michael Chavez curates shows at Foothills Art Center in Golden, where he must cater to a specific suburban constituency; Christoph Heinrich, new modern-art curator at the Denver Art Museum, came to Denver over a year ago with a continental sensibility and the high-heeled shoes of the departing Dianne Vanderlip to…
Grab your skis, silly costumes and thinking caps, because the New Belgium Loveland Scavenger Hunt presents the perfect opportunity to have fun for a great cause. “When you can get people dressed up in costume and acting silly and letting go of anything that usually holds them back, it turns…
People are facing hard times these days, and tonight’s production of A Little Frayed at the Edge features characters navigating tough circumstances that take them to the edge of despair and determination — something many of us can relate to. “These are stories that might be about the life of…
Jack A. Weil was the oldest still-working CEO in the country when he passed away last summer at the age of 107 – and the founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear hasn’t quit working yet. Cleaning up the store at 1626 Wazee Street last month, his granddaughter-in-law came across a manifesto…
Sandy Widener, Westword’s original managing editor, was a force of nature, a ball of unstoppable energy – never more so than when she took to rollerblading along the Cherry Creek bike path. Today’s second annual Parr-Widener Scholarship Walk-Run, a benefit for graduates of the East High School A+ Angels mentor…
Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, who work collaboratively as Kahn + Selesnick, have made a name for themselves by creating works meant to document phony historical events. Their current offering, Eisbergfreistadt, which roughly translates as “free floating iceberg,” is loosely based on an actual iceberg that struck a Baltic port…
CORE New Art Space member Mark Penner-Howell will celebrate his second show in the CORE fold with the March 26 debut of Too Big to Fail: Handsome Paintings for Ugly Times, a sophomore display of his big, bright paintings satirizing popular culture. Reminiscent of some new painting coming out of…
When Simon Zalkind first met Paul Gillis in the ’80s, he was immediately enamored of the unpretentious artist’s work, with its dreamlike take on our times, its Zap Comix imagery, robotic figures and surreal symbolism. “I was taken with how smart and funny he was, while working through a set…
I went to Ireland last fall with realistic expectations: good music, strong whiskey, great beer and green landscapes. What I didn’t expect was much in the way of food. But I was pleasantly surprised to find the grub wasn’t just the atrocious smoked butt and cabbage with boiled potatoes that…
Ashes of American Flags, Wilco’s live concert film and documentary, portrays a reality that is almost the antithesis of the typical glamorized rock-and-roll road picture. In the place of sex-crazed groupies and stylized drug-binge montages, we see the band icing up sore limbs and necks after strenuous performances, eating chips…
Think you don’t know how to make things? Once you’ve met Wiley Sherer, the resident jack-of-all-trades at the TACtile Textile Art Center, that outlook will change forever. Every Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., Sherer hosts DYIFri, a free, drop-in workshop series with changing projects created from ordinary materials. Sherer…
