Arts & Culture

One brush stroke at a time. That’s how the Santa Fe Arts District went from being a crumbling old commercial strip a decade ago to becoming the center of Denver’s visual arts community. So when gallery owners and studio renters started looking for a way to spruce up the ol’…

While Simon Schama geeks his jittery British way through his weekly art-history lessons on Simon Schama’s Power of Art (which is surprisingly riveting, in a PBS sort of way), another public-television gem, Art:21 — Art in the Twenty-First Century, looks to the future. And in honor of the future, and…

Stitched up and spurting, the dancing dead will come alive as Bad Art for Bad People digs up some fiendish fun at its pre-holiday spookfest, the Zombie Dance Party. The two-night phantasmal prom hangs over forty local and national artists, conjures live magic by Phelyx, features the haunted honeys of…

Travelers call it the “Last Shangri-la,” while locals think of Bhutan as the “Land of the Thunder Dragon.” Regardless, the tiny, isolated and pristine Himalayan nation remains a relatively peaceful place where the scenery is spectacular, Buddhism is practiced openly and old traditions live on. From out of Bhutan’s rarefied…

The Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross wanted to find a fun way to educate Denverites on how to prepare for emergencies. And what could possibly be better than a treasure hunt? Today’s Paint the Town Red Treasure Hunt leads participants through downtown, going from clue to clue…

Although this show is titled 3D: Dance, Drinks, Desserts, the performance won’t give you indigestion. Put on by Denver’s Kim Robards Dance company, it’s more about audience repose: Spectators are invited to taste Colorado wines and locally baked pastries as they watch modern choreography unfold on stage. The night’s program…

Want to see the hottest women’s winter sports apparel while raising money for Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC), an organization educating young women about the importance of early detection? And what if the clothing were modeled by strapping young men instead of women? Outdoor DIVAS knew you couldn’t say no…

Come on, now — bust a move! Have you been stifling your fly break-dancing moves? Do you miss old-school hip-hop and those outrageous ’80s fashion choices of b-boys and girls? If so, slide on over to Club Feel tonight at 9 p.m. for a flashback of tight hip-hop and breakbeats…

For one year, A.J. Jacobs — who “grew up Jewish the same way Olive Garden is Italian” — decided to strictly obey the Bible for his book, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. “My goal was to follow every…

Back in 1999, when journalist and All the President’s Men co-author Carl Bernstein began researching A Woman in Charge, his new biography of Hillary Clinton, he thought she’d probably run for the U.S. Senate, but he had no idea she’d be the Democratic Party’s leading candidate for president. Still, he…

Daniel Levitin had always had an innate curiosity — a “why” kicking around in his head. But one moment in the studio as a record producer stands out. “It was sort of a typical day in the office,” he says. “We all showed up for work, bleary-eyed, at the crack…

If rap was the new punk in the late ’80s when Public Enemy, NWA and Boogie Down productions came along to give it a real edge, then the latest incarnation of experimental electronic pop may just be the new indie rock. Thundercade (due at the Meadowlark on Friday, October 12),…

Three days, 400 breweries, 1,700 beers and — finally — me. Although the Great American Beer Festival has earned a spot on my calendar for each of the three glorious years I’ve lived in the Mile High City, the fest always comes to a close without me wetting my whistle…

Lovers of low-brow art, hot rods, custom motorcycles and beer, pay attention: Aaron Hoffmeyer has heard your pleas for a party that caters to all your needs. After the success of Mile High Shakedown this past spring, Hoffmeyer has put together Mile High Shakedown Part BOO, and it’s bound to…

In a July interview with Pitchfork, Bill Callahan goes on at length about the reasons he decided to start performing under his own name rather than Smog, the handle he’d used throughout his recording career. He speaks about a “transformation of some sort, an upheaval” — one he decided to…

The Denver Public Library is on a scroll this week, with three free events inspired by Jack Kerouac. Today from 2 to 4 p.m. in the B2 Conference Center of the Denver Central Library, 10 West 14th Avenue Parkway, John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos) and David Amram, a composer who was…

An inventor of jelly-bean erasers and glow-in-the-dark books leaves home, only to discover that his family is his true inspiration. A pirate-chasing woman and a king get married and realize that their baby is the best adventure yet. A possum goes to the store to buy some baking soda and…

When asked if playing last year’s inaugural Cornstock festival was the most entertaining thing he’s ever done involving corn, Rick Lewis, Fox radio personality and member of a band called the Groove Hawgs, says, “That’s a little too personal.” But he obviously enjoyed it, since Lewis, broadcast partner Michael Floorwax…