Denver’s Month of Photography ended weeks ago, but many of the exhibits are still up and running. So maybe the highly successful March event should have been called the “Season of Photography,” or even “Photo Spring.” Regardless of what it should have been called, it was an incredible chance for…
As demonstrated by shows at Robischon and the Center for Visual Art, conceptual photography has come on strong in recent years, and in the process, it has revolutionized the medium of photography itself. Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art has long showcased this kind of work — in which the photos…
Clyfford Still Unveiled. A master and pioneer of mid-twentieth-century abstract expressionism, painter Clyfford Still was something of an eccentric in the artist-as-egomaniac stripe. His antisocial behavior led to a situation where 94 percent of his artworks remained together after he died — a staggeringly complete chronicle of his oeuvre that…
Ten-year-old ‘tweens seem to leap and claw their way through life. Too old for the Build-A-Bears they dress up and cling to, yet not old enough to rightly embrace their spew of undecipherable longings, they’re members of a truly lost sub-generation, caught in limbo between being “cute” and being “hot.”…
The Annual Neruda Poetry Festival celebrates Chicano oral tradition and flor y canto (flower and song) — meaning a flowery, rhythmic style of reciting poetry. Each year, visiting artists define the individual mood of the festival; for this year, in particular, the late poet Raúl R. Salinas’s motto says it…
Movie-goers familiar with actor Crispin Glover’s eccentric oeuvre won’t be surprised to learn that his directorial debut, 2005’s What Is It?, which he’ll host as part of a multimedia program that begins a three-night run this evening, tends toward the bizarre. According to Glover, the film chronicles a young man…
Join the party at the Lowenstein complex this weekend, when Twist & Shout marks its twentieth birthday. “And we started almost as a lark,” muses Paul Epstein, who, like his wife, Jill, was a teacher when they started the store. “We had no idea how to run a cash register,…
There’ll be more art — way more art — than you can shake a mint Louis XIV walking stick at when you stop by the Gilmore Art Center, 2119 Curtis Street, where the Mile High Bargain Fine Art Fair opens for business today at 11 a.m. Hosted by Gilmore, Gallup…
If you’re tired of the fact that there’s nothing on television, try going out tonight and getting your nothing from the Fried Nothing TV Comedy Night. “You know how you get some fried chicken from KFC and there’s those little fried bits at the bottom that are basically nothing?” asks…
Colorado Ballet dancer Andrew Skeels’s independent dance-theater performance, Palimpsest, was inspired by the American Friends Service Committee’s Eyes Wide Open exhibit, for which Skeels volunteered back in October; the exhibit involved 3,000 pairs of combat boots laid on the front lawn of the State Capitol to represent the soldiers who…
The annual tribal-style belly-dance festival known as Elevation is “electric,” according to host and promoter Elizabeth Ostteen (who also owns the Marrakech and Paprika boutiques in Evergreen and Golden, respectively, and dances as part of Tribe Marrakech). “We have teachers from all over the world coming to teach,” she says…
Urban hipsters Brian and Melissa Ball don’t have kids of their own yet, but they’ve seen enough to know that parents simply go nuts when it comes to buying stuff for babies, from the day they unwrap their toothless, hairless wee ones from their swaddling clothes. And after Melissa’s sister…
If you’ve been searching for a way to fulfill your European fashion craving that doesn’t involve crossing the pond and plunging into debt or secretly thumbing through the International Male catalogue, look no further. Recently named Motocycle Dealer of the Year for 2007, Erico Motorsports is bringing its Euro sensibilities…
Not only is the Green Apple Festival a free outdoor concert with the Neville Brothers, Rose Hill Drive and the Benevento/Russo Duo, but it’s also going to be the largest Earth Day celebration in the history of the Front Range — thus making Denver part of the largest Earth Day…
“There are no perfect people in the Bible,” declares Boulder-based Rabbi Jamie S. Korngold, aka the Adventure Rabbi, who introduces her new book, God in the Wilderness: Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Great Outdoors With the Adventure Rabbi, at an event tonight. “Even God wasn’t perfect. Not a chapter goes…
Sandra Day O’Connor is a true inspiration. Not only did she serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 24 years, but she was also the first woman to ever serve on the Court (and her nomination was confirmed 99 to zero by the United States Senate…
We drove an old faux-wood-paneled station wagon packed with six of us plus backpacks, tents and coolers. All for a music festival at the tip-top of Maine. Ironically, the craziest event on that trip had nothing to do with music, cramped quarters, camping, lighthouses or stopping for lobster rolls at…
This year, Denver is bringing Earth Day to the people. Its Earth Day Fair — which for the past few years was a small exhibition in the Webb Building for city employees — has been opened up to all residents and will be held in Civic Center Park. “It’s probably…
Anyone who thinks of progressive music as either willfully difficult or excessively airy-fairy will be disabused of that notion by this Seattle outfit’s take on the approach once known as art rock. Tracks such as “White Mystery” are propulsive and accessible even as they eschew hackneyed structures for more adventurous…
When it comes to organized religion, Erkekjetter Silenoz, the guitarist/ songwriter for Norway’s Dimmu Borgir, considers himself to be an equal-opportunity hater. “I think most people — at least our fans — know our stance against religion,” he says, his accent as deep as a fjord. “It doesn’t have to…
Austin’s Ghostland Observatory is more than just another pair of sweaty dudes making party music. Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner crank up the heat on this formula by combining filthy French electro with ’60s soul and plenty of ’80s synth pop. While Turner churns out beats that butts can’t resist,…
“So Jayne Cobb and Spock walk into a Denver hotel…” sounds like the start of a particularly geeky joke, but it’s the truth today as Starfest 2008 brings the actors behind those movie roles (Adam Baldwin and Zachary Quinto, respectively) — as well as several other big-name genre stars —…
