If you like supporting local fashion designers and independent film makers, then this weekend’s Toofy Film Festival in Boulder is for you. For only $20 you can get a pass for all 6 independent films to be screened, plus access to the Toofy After Party Fashion Show at 10 p.m…
I don’t know if my theory holds, but I think global warming signals a heavier chance of rain on the Front Range in the spring and fall. But if I’m right, we all need to buy a good pair of rain boots immediately. Luckily, deciding to do so is just…
Students from The Art Institute of Colorado’s Industrial Design program will have a chance to exhibit their work alongside the masters of modern design tonight at the Design Within Reach studio in Cherry Creek North, 2500 East Second Avenue. The exhibit will feature 19 designs that were picked for their…
Yesterday it was announced that the proposed Centennial IKEA will be built on 13.5 acres on the west side of I-25 in the Park Meadows Mall area. The Swedish home store will be 400,000 square-feet large and will sell nearly 10,000 exclusively designed items. The store will also feature 50…
On September 3, I made my way to the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver as I’ve done so many times since the new building opened last year. But this time I wasn’t in pursuit of an art show. Instead, I was headed, along with a few hundred others, to the memorial…
The death last winter of Mark Travis, a contemporary artist who made his reputation in Denver’s go-go scene of the 1980s, left a big question mark regarding a scheduled exhibit of his work. His representative, Michael Burnett of Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive, 720-904-1088, www.spacegallery.org), had asked Travis to…
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…
The Eyes of Babylon. Jeff Key is an ex-Marine — a man devoted to the idea of patriotism and service to his country — whose homosexuality represents a deep part of his psyche. He left the service in part because of the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but also…
Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously — least of all the enthusiasm of their fans — the brothers surely got a chuckle from an upcoming academic tome, The Philosophy of the Coen…
What do you think this is?” cries a lady who lunches in Diane English’s remake of George Cukor’s The Women. “Some kind of ’30s movie?” Even without the fourteen-year struggle to get the Murphy Brown writer’s pet project past studio doubters, it would be a tall order to remake George…
The moment you walk into the theater for Curse of the Starving Class, 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…
Bubs is a crossover production, a play accompanied by songs, a concert yoked to a narrative, and that’s not a bad thing: Crossovers attract new people to an art form that everyone seems to agree is in trouble (though we’ve been worrying about theater for decades, and it never does…
When Americans think of Firebirds, they generally think of a flashy Trans Am. “We were thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to expose people to the firebird that we all know as Russians in our fairy tales?’” says Sandra Prizemin, who helped organize today’s inaugural Firebird Festival: A Taste of Russia…
Divine inspiration brought the Blind Boys of Alabama together in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, a school that taught blind youth of the beleaguered South Braille and trained them for rudimentary careers making broom handles and chair bottoms. Leader Jimmy Carter is the sole remnant of…
Jonesy’s EatBar, D Bar Desserts and the Vine Street Pub are the new kids on the block, but a rash of Uptown stalwarts, including Steuben’s, the Avenue Grill, Strings, Parallel 17, Limón and other time-honored eateries will also be back for the 21st Uptown Sampler, a lighthearted culinary journey that…
Singer Gallery curator Simon Zalkind starts off a new gallery season at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center with a pair of different yet fascinating exhibitions by contemporary Israeli artists whose work might not otherwise be seen in these parts. First up is the visually stunning Anima, which features paintings…
The movie Starship Troopers is an utter failure as an adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s revered classic science-fiction novel, which is enough to damn it in the eyes of many fans. But if you can get past that, you’ll enjoy the film on its own merits. Like director Paul Verhoeven’s first…
“The climate is changing. Are you?” Marda Kirn, the guiding light behind EcoArts, wants to know. Now in its third year, the Boulder-based arts-science collaboration — a month-long series comprising performances, talks, tours, workshops, panels and more — is all about suggesting ways that we can collectively take baby steps…
If you’re starting to feel depressed about the first chills of sweater weather, hold those tears until next week, because tonight is the Summer Blowout 2008, a steamy evening of jazz, Western swing, blues and comedy at the Roxy Theater in the historic Five Points neighborhood. “We’re excited this is…
When I was growing up in Colorado, there was never a shortage of field trips to the various little houses on the prairie sprinkled around metro Denver. The likelihood that we had all tried our hand at churning butter by day’s end: 100 percent. The mother of all pioneer re-enactments…
The organized sport of arm wrestling started as a bar-room diversion encouraged largely by the efforts of newspaper columnist Bill Soberanes, who went on to found the United States Armwrestling Foundation circa 1953. By 1969, arm/wrist wrestling had gained enough notoriety to land a regular spot on ABC’s Wide World…
Tracing its history back as far as 3,000 years ago, to the original inhabitants of what is now Mexico, El Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is a festival during which the living honor the dead by offering them sweets, decorating their graves and sharing fond…
