When the Beatles album Abbey Road was released on CD in 1987, it spent 92 weeks on the U.K. Top 75 list. Quite a feat for an album more than sixteen years old at the time; it was also the last album the Beatles recorded together before they disbanded. And…
Hold on to your hat — and your purse, wallet, keys and jewelry — because Gregory Wilson’s Thief: A Criminal Act will leave you awed and possibly missing a few valuables. Wilson, a world-renowned sleight-of-hand expert, turns the skills of master criminals — pickpocketing, card sharping, cons and more —…
Dawn Williams Boyd is one powerhouse of an artist. Even articulate PlatteForum director Judy Anderson, whose enthusiasm for the gallery’s changing menu of resident artists never falters, seems to be rendered nearly speechless by her estimation for Boyd: “Dawn is accomplishing an enormous amount of work,” she says simply –…
Everyone’s favorite wine-and-yoga night, Vino and Vinyasa, returns tonight to lululemon athletica, 3000 East Third Avenue. “It’s one of the best-received events that we do here,” says lululemon’s Sybil Mortimer. And no wonder, when the instructor is Baptiste-certified yogi Dave Farmar — which means that he’s studied under the renowned…
Even the most banal moving images have a powerful, almost irresistible pull on the human eye. When artists focus on this quality, the results can be mesmerizing. Experience it tonight when Rubric Video presents Hypnosis, an evening of experimental video works. In Gibson+Recoder’s Untitled, minimalist patterns slowly morph in striking…
The term “urban contemporary art” has gone from vague title to official category over the past five years. But when Aaron Rose first opened Alleged Gallery in New York City in 1992, the new style of art barely had an identity. “I met all of these young artists who didn’t…
About two years ago, Bad Art for Bad People put together a show in Tampa, Florida. “We didn’t really have a theme for it,” Bad Art’s Bob White remembers, “and at the last minute, we decided to make it a prom theme.” Although none of the exhibit guests were notified…
Rarely do we stop to think how cool evolution actually is — particularly in the smallest sense. Sure, Earth as a whole is an amazing place, but it’s often those minute evolutionary quirks that allowed each creature to chisel out a unique niche. Whether it’s a hypersensitive eye or a…
As a nomadic single mother who worked in theater when she could, Breckenridge actor Murphy Funkhouser knows a thing or two about baggage: She’s been on the road, lived out of a suitcase and dumped a lot of old clothes by the road in her lifetime, so much so that…
A lot can change in 100 years, but the greatest thing about Lakeside Amusement Park is how much everything has stayed the same. You can still take a spin around the lake in “Puffing Billy” and “Whistling Tom,” the park’s original miniature steam engines that were installed for the opening…
Ever wanted to donate to one of those really feel-good causes — but you spent all your money at the bar instead? Is rafting higher on your priorities list than helping starving kids in some Third World country? Today starting at 11 a.m., the Yagatta Regatta is your chance to…
All aboard for the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad, dubbed the “scenic line of the world” in the 1870s, about eighty years before the route took a fifty-year hiatus. But the line has been back on track since 2006 and is introducing some innovations in its third season, which starts today…
“This isn’t your spandex-clad, Ride the Rockies kind of event,” says Jennifer Nordhem of the Cycle Jerks’ Memorial Day Weekend double blowouts, Foreplay and Gang Bang. The Cycle Jerks are a Denver-based Internet television group, but they also happen to throw the baddest bicycle bashes this town has ever seen…
Given the opportunity to see a Broadway musical inspired by ABBA’s hits, you may ask yourself, “Should I Laugh or Should I Cry?” But Denver said, “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme More!,” and now the acclaimed musical comedy MAMMA MIA! is back, for one week only. Watch a single “Mamma Mia” face…
To write Snuff, a book about a porn queen at the center of a record-setting gang bang, novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who’s in town tonight, had to immerse himself in the medium, so to speak — and he found much to admire. “I love the fact that porn always ends the…
Near the beginning of Anita O’Day: The Life of a Music Legend, a 2007 documentary that begins its local run today, then-Today host Bryant Gumbel is heard interviewing the venerable jazz vocalist. “Your personal experiences include rape, abortion, jail, heroin addiction…” he says, only to be interrupted by O’Day responding…
Although singer-songwriter Missy Higgins is a star in her native Australia, she’s little known in these United States. So prior to the U.S. release of On a Clear Night, a CD that’s already successful back home, she relocated to Los Angeles with the goal of increasing her profile — and…
Danny Tenaglia is the ultimate DJ, the Platonic DJ form of which other DJs are but pale shadows. His roots can be traced back all the way to the legendary Paradise Garage in New York, where he witnessed the pioneering work of Larry Levan. Tenaglia’s style is wide open, dictated…
So you’re not running the Bolder Boulder on Monday because it’s too hard, too congested or too, well, all about Boulder? No problem: There’s an attractive alternative right down the street today at the fourth annual Pedal the Platte, a non-competitive urban bike ride that snakes through some of downtown’s…
Remember when the Gories stunned Detroit in the late ’80s? No? Well, you’re not the only one. Worry not, true believers: Striking in a new direction from the Gories’ minimalist rhythm section — which featured no bass and only tom-toms — comes the Dirtbombs, led by guitarist/vocalist Mick Collins, who…
If Happenings bled glitz and brought art to the people, then Street Works rose from the gutters, and the people often had to be lucky enough to find them. Perhaps that’s why the latter isn’t as well remembered in Sixties lore: The conceptual-art performances of a group of poets and…
Order: Metal. Family: Swedish. Genus: Death. Species: Melodic. Just as new-wave keyboards revealed Andrew W.K. to be the complete prat that he is, a similar approach here gives Sonic Syndicate a disturbing edge into creepiness. Syndicate’s technically astute, piston-pumping axes and precision double bass give Dark Tranquility a run for…
