In his latest work, first generation Cuban-American artist Anthony Giocolea explores his heritage and the sense of loss he feels for family members he’s never met in a number of pointedly fleeting ways. In a new exhibit by Giocolea at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Related, this self-reflective process is…
What makes an ale a wild ale? Perhaps it’s the barrel you age it in, or the yeast that ferments it into a complex brew. In the case of Avery Brewing Company’s new Brabant Barrel-Aged Wild Ale, one supposes it’s both: Named for a seminal draft horse that spawned what…
If you’re looking for the hippest, most fashion-forward design in Denver, Fancy Tiger’s monthly Denver Made trunk show is a good place to start. Featuring some of the most innovative works in the city, the monthly show is an attempt to get designers and their wares in front of the…
For many years, I’ve abided by a belief — and hit readers over the head with it — that our best local artists represent a collective cultural treasure. They continue to create things that are as interesting and accomplished as anything being done anywhere in the country. I know this…
Damien Hirst. You’d have to be living under a rock — or have absolutely no interest in contemporary art — not to know that Damien Hirst is a superstar, and that everything he makes is worth millions of dollars apiece. The tight solo at MCA Denver (formerly known as the…
Dusty and the Big Bad World. We all know about the Christian right’s attacks on textbooks, teachers, Halloween, the arts, public television and the words “happy holidays.” And we know what happened when these people finally got their very own president. Dusty and the Big Bad World is based on…
Shocking but true: Eden’s title is meant ironically. Director Declan Recks’s film, which opens on Friday, February 6, at the Starz FilmCenter, focuses on Billy (Aidan Kelly) and Breda (Eileen Walsh), a working-class Irish couple whose relationship is frequently described by their friends as ideal even though no evidence of…
If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick’s 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in which the bored, blue-haired eleven-year-old of the title (voiced by Dakota Fanning) travels through the looking glass and ends up in a world that strangely resembles her own —…
The smirky, overbearing, and subliminally hostile romantic primer He’s Just Not That Into You — which sold a regrettable two million copies when it was published in 2004 — seizes on some partial truths about the gender wars and blows them up into evolutionary gospel, as follows: Since cave-dwelling times,…
There’s no evidence that Abraham Lincoln ever set foot on the land that would become Colorado while he was alive, but the late president is making plenty of appearances here this week. After a special, one-hour sneak preview of the PBS film Looking for Lincoln, Colorado state historian Bill Convery,…
Okay, not the actual born-in-1935, died-in-1977 King Elvis Presley, but the next best thing: Velvet Elvis, aka Chris Barber. And he lives every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street, where he shakes his pelvis during the “Love Me Tender” show. “Have you ever seen…
In with the new, out with the old, in with the new: The New Media Salon at Plus Gallery’s temporary space at 1490 Delgany Street, in the shadow of MCA/Denver, is a metaphorical hello/goodbye to the neighborhood that Plus gallerist Ivar Zeile has called an interim home while the gallery’s…
Atomic Elroy (aka Tom McElroy), a fixture in the Colorado Springs art community, isn’t an easy person to explain. A one-man artistic mover and shaker, he puts you in mind of a Phil Bender, but…a Phil Bender in Colorado Springs, home of Focus on the Family, NORAD, Fort Carson, the…
Provide-n-ce Gallery, 4325 West 41st Avenue, might look like little more than a hole-in-the-wall around the corner from Tennyson Street, but the cooperative space carries the weight of the world on its shoulders. An ongoing project of Sister Sen Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee with a daunting past made right after…
Our collective imagination is full of strange things like Bigfoot and flying saucers and Batboy — the stuff of MonsterQuest and really bad tabloids. Watching the History Channel last week, I learned that the Bermuda Triangle mystery may actually be the result of a small black hole. Crazy, huh? And…
Sure, terrorism, climate change and economic collapse are pretty scary, but today’s worst-case scenarios have nothing on the nightmares of yesteryear. Take, for example, A Boy and His Dog, a 1975 Hugo Award-winning film based on a Harlan Ellison novella. In a world ravaged by nuclear war, a boy named…
Shocking but true: Eden’s title is meant ironically. Director Declan Recks’s film, which opens on Friday, February 6, at the Starz FilmCenter, focuses on Billy (Aidan Kelly) and Breda (Eileen Walsh), a working-class Irish couple whose relationship is frequently described by their friends as ideal even though no evidence of…
Menopause the Musical and Hats! are for women at the end of their childbearing years; and Girls Only — The Secret Comedy of Women celebrates a female’s childhood and teenage years. But what about everyone who falls between the onset of menarche and menopause? “We were right in between maturity…
If you’re missing the festivals of summer, head down to the I Love Music Festival (formerly known as the NoDo Record Swap), featuring sixty bands — including Space in Time, Pink Hawks and Oblio Duo — playing twenty-minute sets in every genre from thrash to blues to gypsy folk. “We’re…
Remember hunting through those musty used comic-book stores, or watching Batman and Robin walking up the side of a building, or strapping on a cape and skinning your bony elbows after leaping off the couch? From Heath Ledger’s posthumously grinning sociopath to Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier…
Haul out your vintage hankies. Today at 1:30 p.m., the Hiwan Homestead Museum will host a Valentine’s Dessert Tea, where expert Katie Dix will discuss the significance of handkerchiefs through history, and how these inherited keepsakes can tell stories from our grandmothers, great aunts and beyond. She’ll also delve into…
With an imposing array of guitar gear, including at least one full stack and a variety of pedals, many obviously modified, Warren Bedell, former frontman of the well-regarded Zombie Zombie, looks like he might be the lead player in a Sleep tribute band. As Spellcaster (due at Rhinoceropolis on Sunday,…
