Dear God: I have a small complaint. Falling as it does at the whim of the Hebrew calendar, Hanukkah comes much too early this year. I’ll have barely turned the Thanksgiving turkey into a pot of soup before the eve of December 4, and it’s already time to spit-shine the…
A new show opening tonight at the Sandra Phillips Gallery will appeal directly to your animal instincts: The message of Nature. Interrupted — a three-way exhibition of works by Anna Kaye, Susan Jean Hart and Pauline Foss that explores the effects of man’s ugly footprint on the natural world —…
You could say that Dr. Jeanne Abrams, as director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and the University of Denver’s Beck historical archive, took advantage of her position to compile her new book, Images of America: Jewish Denver 1859-1940. But no one could possibly take her to task for…
There might still be sawdust in the air at the future Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum in Golden, but in the meantime, the museum’s Base Camp gift shop is open for business at the American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th Street, just in time for the holiday season. High-country-lovin’ folks who…
Jewtopia the book is an ultimate inside joke: It takes one to know one, after all, and that’s just the kind of humor the quasi-handbook/history projects. And Jewtopia the play draws on the outer limit of Judaism — its relationship to the non-Jewish world — by telling the story of…
If you want to see an entertaining winter play — but are going to puke nutcrackers if you see A Christmas Carol one more time — head to the Denver Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington Street, tonight for A December Suite. The musical follows the fictional Fitzenstarts sisters and their students…
As a purchaser of a pricey Vail Resorts ski pass, making sure I get the biggest bang for my buck is a constant winter worry. There’s a running tally in my head of the weekends I can make it up to the mountains, right next to the list of the…
As a Denver native, I’ve sometimes taken for granted how awesome it is to live in the shadow of what is essentially a great big playground. The Colorado Mountain Club started celebrating that fact three years ago with its annual Mountain Fest, a full day of everything that makes living…
The 2003 Jack Black film School of Rock presented a fictionalized spin on a real phenomenon: Paul Green’s School of Rock Music, which debuted in 1998 and inspired the 2005 documentary Rock School. The first institution of higher shredding, based in Philadelphia, has gone national, and tonight’s concert will introduce…
If you need to jump-start your Christmas spirit this season, a visit to WinterWorld may be in order. On a five-acre spread in Greenwood Village, a group of “imagineers” have realized a vision of Christmas that blends the familiar and traditional with some unusual additions to create an over-the-top winter…
Bedazzler be damned! The kids over at the South Broadway boho boutique Fancy Tiger have grabbed more than thirty local crafters to peddle their homespun handiwork at the first annual Holiday Handmade fair — and this ain’t your grandma’s craft bazaar. There will be potential gifting goods such as Vital…
When you live in the city, you can’t always just up and take off over the river and through the wood to Grandmother’s house or whatever when the holidays are nigh. But you can get a facsimile of the pastoral — all while shopping ’til you drop, urban style —…
About fifteen years ago, Charles Phoenix discovered a box in a thrift store; written on the box were the words “trip across the United States 1957.” He opened the box of slides and held a couple of them up to the light. “I said, ‘This is a treasure with my…
Lest you think today’s Iron Chef Latke Cook-Off & Judaica Auction is all fun and games, know this: Arthur Rosenblum (co-editor of the Greater Park Hill News) has already challenged his friend and neighbor, Dr. Jacob Schor, to a duel. A latke duel. Because contrary to popular belief, latkes aren’t…
The folks at Vail sure know how to throw a party, and they prove it every year with Vail Snow Daze. The 2007 version will be no exception, with live musical performances by Ludacris and the Roots, for starters, as well as special guest appearances (Ziggy Marley is on tap…
With an artistic legacy built around the Campbell’s model of instant recognition, mass production and self-conscious kitsch, isn’t a roomful of Andy Warhols just life imitating art? If you’ve ever longed for a taste of Factory superstar chic, then put on your silver wig, black turtleneck and dark glasses, because…
Who couldn’t use a new red chair? And could there possibly be a better place to get said chair right now than the Museo de las Américas, 861 Santa Fe Drive? The answers to those questions (respectively) are nobody and absolutely not. So slip on your best cocktail attire and…
Tonight’s second-annual Art Bash at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design can take a licking and keep on ticking. That’s because participating RMCAD students, alumni, faculty and guest artists have fashioned a wide array of decorative clocks as part of a fundraiser for the Philip J. Steele Foundation,…
Most people would agree that domesticated animals such as cats and dogs experience emotions and possess a capacity to think that we don’t quite understand. My dog dreams, as many dogs do, growling and barking in his sleep. But what’s the difference between my dog and a rat, rabbit, mouse…
NBC’s Chuck was picked up for the back-nine of a full-season order on November 26. That’s a very good thing, because it’s the best of NBC’s new shows this season. As part of TV Nerd-Rush 2007 (other notable entrants in this category include the CW’s Reaper and CBS’ The Big…
Let’s give thanks that this past holiday weekend, Denver International Airport proved that it could handle crowds. (And what, exactly, was the airport waiting for? An engraved invitation from Mary Peters?) But for once, I was sorry that I wasn’t stuck in an endless line while waiting to go through…
Something about that movie, though, well I just can’t get it out of my head/But I can’t remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play. — Bob Dylan, “Brownsville Girl” Literally speaking, Bob Dylan isn’t “there” in Todd Haynes’s staggering mix-tape biopic I’m Not…
