Every cemetery contains at least a hint of mystery, and Riverside Cemetery is no exception. If you’ve always wanted to know just who is buried there and why they were once significant to our city, then the Riverside Cemetery History & Mystery Night Tour is perfect for you. “It’s a…
It was the turn-of-the-century Y2K scare and its threatened “digital apocalypse” that first inspired Omaha-based bar-code artist Scott Blake to develop his oeuvre, along with the dot-screen technique made famous by pop art icon Roy Lichtenstein: His first bar-code image was “Bar Code Jesus,” a pixelated portrait mosaic of Photoshopped…
As a pro-choice feminist, I have some choice words I’d like to share with the multitude of people who think it’s their right to dictate what I do with my body. But most of them are unprintable, and anyway, the people behind the New-York based Words of Choice performance can…
There’s something strange and wonderful about capturing the darkness, says Denver Darkroom director Standish Lawder, whether a scene is illuminated by streetlight, moonlight, or — better yet — the thousands of tiny bulbs that make a Ferris wheel glow. Tonight, Denver night photographer emeritus Chris James will lead a Darkroom…
“Folk is a bad word, in a way,” says Laura McGaughey of the Swallow Hill Music Association. “When people think of folk music, they think of old music that some white hippie wrote with a guitar.” Swallow Hill’s philosophy is to promote music by the people, for the people, that…
American poet Ellen Rachlin once said, “A woman in her lifetime will spend far more hours hugging a handbag than a man,” which is the only justification needed for Pocketbook Anthropology: A Treasure of Handbags, a traveling exhibition currently on view at the Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Avenue in…
San Diego’s JabbaWockeeZ are beloved by MTV viewers everywhere for wildly imaginative and athletic performances that helped them land in the top spot on America’s Best Dance Crew, a breakout hit that spawned a live show taking place in Denver tonight. But Rynan “Kid Rainen” Paguio, one of the group’s…
“It’s not every day you can buy tickets to see Jimmy Fallon or George Lopez,” says Comedy Works media contact Eva Magdalenski. It’s even more unusual to have the chance to see them both in the same month, particularly when you’re not living in one of those magical cities recognizable…
If you’ve finished this year’s One Book, One Denver selection and are wishing that Dashiell Hammett had set it on a planet far, far away, or if you’ve ever wondered how James Ellroy’s LA Confidential might have turned out if Ellroy grown up on a steady diet of science fiction,…
Halloween’s more elegant primo, El Día de los Muertos, is often misunderstood by those who don’t actually celebrate it: As local muertos artist Jerry Vigil notes, the true meaning of the annual and traditional tribute to the departed in Mexico is perceived by outsiders as the simple sum of its…
Just in time for one of the most important U.S. elections in decades comes a powerful, provocative documentary about one of the most important political operatives of the past thirty years. As the architect of the modern Republican Party, mentor of Karl Rove and the man who perfected the use…
Cat’s Pajamas is putting on its oh-so-fashionable jammies and taking a cat nap for a few months. During Cat’s hibernation, you’ll find regular features from this fashion blog in the Cat’s Pajama’s category of The Latest Word blog…
The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed by the…
Some parts of Tiny Alice are laughably literal. At the beginning, for instance, a Catholic cardinal in full black-and-red regalia tweets affectionately at some caged birds — cardinals, naturally. Other words and images seem to offer easy metaphoric puzzles, as when Julian, the lay brother who will emerge as the…
Making the most with the least is a specialty of Sandra Phillips, owner of her namesake gallery on Santa Fe, which opened five years ago. A tiny and cramped storefront with an almost invisible street presence, the facility has little to recommend it from the outside. Inside, there’s only a…
In many ways, magic realism anticipates conceptual realism, even though it’s not actually an early form of the cutting-edge style. Boulder has been a center for magic realism for decades (I guess art really does imitate life), in no small part because of Frank Sampson and Luis Eades, artists who…
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The fall opener at the Center for Visual Art is a conscientious survey of the careers of Christo and Jeanne-Claude as seen through their personal print collection documenting their pioneering conceptual work that began in the 1960s. The exhibit, which includes more than a hundred works of…
There’s a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy issues. There are sweaty flashbacks and splayed-out flash-forwards, too. The only time someone’s getting laid in a bedroom, it’s during a staged rape…
The Duchess is the best women’s movie of the summer. Don’t get too excited: Sex and the City, Mamma Mia! and The Women set the bar so dismally low that almost any film with a dame in it who doesn’t channel her identity only through buying, boogying or bedding is…
Curse of the Starving Class. The moment you walk into the theater, you know you’re in Sam Shepard country — a place suffused with memories of the mythic Old West, but where the breadth and purity of that myth serve only to underline the disappointing realities of contemporary life. You…
In comedy years, these ladies are no spring chicks. Denver’s funniest females came out of their comedic shells long before any mention of a glass ceiling, and the weapons they use with force — punchlines — have people, not glass, cracking up. Tonight, female birds of comedic feathers will flock…
Although Pecha Kucha Night is another Japanese export being embraced from Seattle to Sydney, it’s also quickly becoming a Denver art-scene tradition. Pecha Kucha (it means “chit-chat” in Japanese) is an opportunity for artistic folks of all stripes to present twenty PowerPoint slides — at twenty seconds per slide —…
