I have never been particularly crafty. I once knit half a scarf and I still have a cross stitch project I started when I was 10. In Girl Scouts, the only thing I was good at was selling cookies and I think I was the only kid who hated art…
“Come look at the flirts!” Jenna Bainbridge (left) and Regan Linton (right) are tearing up the stage in Phamaly’s (Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Arts League, Inc.) production of Side Show. This Tony award winning musical tells the story of conjoined twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton, and their rise from…
I have a confession. There is nothing I love more than a day of shopping, getting a pedicure and drinking copious amounts of alcohol with my girlfriends. I know I should say my perfect day involves reading or volunteering or planting trees….but I would really have to be drunk to…
The popular and extremely stylish Riverfront Park Fashion Series begins its summer run tonight from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the base of the Millennium Bridge at 16th and Little Raven. Tonight’s event features clothing from the store Garbarini and will have a “blue sky” theme. Future events are scheduled…
The screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it, and what it looks like depending on where you’re standing. In Conrad’s The Weather Man, the central figure was a vain TV news personality who had everything…
Loath though I am to carp about any director who’s devoted chunks of his career to bringing the non-white world’s suffering to Western attention, Roger Spottiswoode’s The Children of Huang Shi — a drama based on the life of an Englishman who saved an orphanage full of boys from Japanese…
In recent days, Universal’s been running a TV spot for The Incredible Hulk that gives away what should come as no surprise to any fanboy worth his action-figure collection: the appearance of Robert Downey Jr. as, natch, Tony Stark. From the delighted, deafening squeals of at least one sneak-preview audience,…
I am absolutely dreading the arrival of Guitar Hero: World Tour. Can’t even enjoy the summer. It might sound like insanity, given that the fourth installment in the Guitar Hero franchise could end up being the most successful game of 2008. It won’t even hit store shelves till late October,…
No matter how well you thought you knew it beforehand, every show that Phamaly does takes on new meaning and dimension. This is the only company in the country to use disabled actors exclusively — and unlike, say, the National Theatre of the Deaf, it uses actors with every kind…
From this distance, it’s hard to figure out just what made Will Rogers so famous. He began his career with rope tricks and homespun philosophizing in Wild West shows, found fame in the Ziegfeld Follies, and eventually wrote newspaper columns, appeared in films and took a brief run at the…
The Denver Project. Created by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz of New York’s UNIVERSES, this is an attempt to bring the realities of life on the streets to us, the well-fed patrons of Curious, to show that the homeless constitute a society and culture of their own, one that abuts…
It’s funny how things go in waves in the art world. One minute there’s a gaggle of landscape shows everywhere you look, and the next minute photography and photo-based works are everywhere. This phenomenon is under way again, as there seems to be a lot of three-dimensional work on view…
Though stone carver Vicki Rottman and photographer and ceramicist Loay Boggess, didn’t work collaboratively, they have nonetheless intermingled their separately produced works in a set of installations. This conjoined twin of a solo, Sticks and Stones: Branching Out, is on view at Ironton Studios and Gallery (3636 Chestnut Place, 303-297-8626,…
Abstraction. A group of untitled abstracts by Ania Gola-Kumor launches this exhibit, which was organized by Sally Perisho. Gola-Kumor is little known around here; in fact, she could be called the best unknown artist in Denver, though she had her first show in town back in 1982. She’s represented here…
It’s the age-old debate: What’s better, the original, classic story, or a bells-and-whistles remake? Old-school or new-school? The Denver Film Society has joined the debate with its Old School + New School film series, which features two films, separated by decades, screened in a single night and discussed afterward by…
There’s this little studio in Pittsburgh called the Mattress Factory. The least complicated but most interesting installation piece there is a black room minus the roof. As you watch the framed sky at dusk, the shifting colors are highlighted in a way most people never notice. An artist friend called…
On the surface, it doesn’t seem as though Denver, Chicago and Miami have all that much in common. But consider this: Right now, these are the only three cities where you can find Rubi Rey rum, Bacardi’s new high-end brand of alcohol. And they’re also the only three cities where…
Metalocalypse, a show entering its second season on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s grown-up sister network, revolves around a death-metal band called Dethklok — and when it came time to assemble a live version of the group, which smashes into town tonight, Brendon Small, Metalocalypse’s creator, had a couple of non-negotiable…
You probably think of Swallow Hill, the non-profit music association, as a down-tempo enclave of chill folk and acoustic music. If that’s the case, then Denver band U.S. Pipe is about to funk up your expectations. Joined by a few Swallow Hill regulars, the critically lauded ensemble, helmed by Chris…
Surreal visions and beautiful, complex abstract designs populate the world of Robert Maestas, a Colorado artist originally from New Mexico who works primarily in a digital medium. In his work, bizarre figures and twisted tableaus inspired by his life’s trials and tribulations are rendered in bright colors and bold shapes…
Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental’s The MeLTING BRiDgE promises to slam “the past into the future” and “conjure Mesoamerican concepts of time.” Clearly, that description doesn’t detail exactly what you’ll be seeing — but you can be assured that whatever it is, you won’t be bored. Thaddeus Phillips’s theater pieces are always…
Wanda Sykes, who begins a two-day engagement here tonight, isn’t as big a star as she deserves to be, and she’s making Hollywood talent pay for the oversight. Because Wanda at Large and Wanda Does It, two sitcoms built around her, failed to find an audience, she currently steals scenes…
