Modern Muse has kicked off its new season with All In the Timing, six one-acts by David Ives, a witty, sometimes brilliant word-spinner. The plays are all about language, communication and understanding, and also chance and fate. The dialogue is light and funny and fizzy, and it gets your frontal…
Sista’s and Storytellers. This is not a play, and it’s not exactly a cabaret act, either. It’s sort of a cross between a slumber party and a church service, as a group of women who sang together as children in a choir called the Heavenly Voices come together for a…
Even though Shannon Corrigan has been at the helm of the Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria campus for a couple of years now, there’s still something of a breath of fresh air to the place — and she’s apparently the one who’s brought it. Why Emmanuel needed air in the…
Summer — especially as hot as this one’s been — strikes me as an odd time to be thinking about quilts, but that’s what’s on the mind of Judy Hagler, owner of Translations Gallery (773 Santa Fe Drive, 303-629-0713), in her new exhibit, Flow. Then again, the cloth pieces in…
The American Landscape and Carny. Rule Gallery has typically presented single solos since landing in its new space several months ago, but this time, there are two different shows in that long and narrow sales room. The two work well together, though, as both are made up of photographs about…
Most people are only interested in what’s inside their beer can. But most people aren’t members of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America (BCCA), the 4,000-member outfit that will hold its 37th annual CANvention today through September 1 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, 1550 Court Place. Denver adman and beer…
“We got about a hundred feet by eight feet of painters’ tarp,” explains Dave Momper, “and we made an adult-sized Slip ‘n Slide. We stake it down at one end, and we get sprinkler heads arranged so the water’s landing on the slide. The secret is that you’ve gotta get…
Shoppers with an international flair can’t possibly miss today’s Global Market hosted by local Lutheran Family Services refugee and asylum programs. The market features an astounding outlay of exotic fair-trade goods that come from every corner of the earth, including the horn of Africa, southeast Asia, Central America and the…
During the first two years of Boulder’s International Fringe Festival, something about its “Pick of the Fringe” component didn’t seem right. A panel of judges chose the Fringe’s best works for an end-of-festival showcase, relying in part on audience votes that were prone to ballot-stuffing mischief — not the kind…
Milan Records operates in a niche, yet its diverse boundaries seem endless: Specializing in film soundtracks, along with Latin, electronic and generally uncategorizable musical varieties, Milan embraces the ambient nature of music like no other label. Accordingly, a Milan-inspired film festival is a complete no-brainer: Such a purveyor of music…
“The mid-century-modern style has been near and dear to my heart since I was a little kid watching The Jetsons,” says hostess Dana Cain. “Modern design is so popular in Colorado right now, and it seemed like the ultimate thing I could do for Denver,” she adds, explaining the motivation…
One of my favorite First Friday diversions is the monthly mini-shop hosted by clay sculptor Marie Ev.B Gibbons at her cozy EvB Studio Collection, nestled next door to the Oriental Theater, at 4343 West 44th Avenue. Gibbons invites art strollers to stop in and create a different miniature clay work…
“It’s just an opportunity to get some stuff really cheap,” says Kathleen Martindale, coordinator of the no-frills KGNU Book and Music Fair and Artists and Their Crafts show taking place today. “Short of us having the radio turned on, I think the entertainment lies in the little bit of chaos…
In the ten years that Russian emigré Masha Surprena has been in the United States, she’s noticed how little Americans really seem to know about her native Russian culture: The rich food, the dances and music, the fashion sense and the very heart of the Russian people all seem to…
Ancient roots run deep under Boulderite Betsy Tobin’s multi-layered performance works, which unfold in an eerie, non-linear combination of shadow play and silhouette, puppetry and superimposed video imagery. And despite the use of modern technology, it’s not hard to imagine such works being acted out around campfires thousands of years…
The subject of this week’s Message column (see page 16), Dave Navarro, is comfortable in a slew of mediums, including music, as guitarist for the Panic Channel and onetime string-stroker for Jane’s Addiction; television, as the centerpiece (with ex-wife Carmen Electra) of two MTV reality shows and a judge on…
Although Teague Bohlen’s book The Pull of the Earth is set in Illinois, the backcloth of the story might as well be rural Colorado. The novel, which is up for a Colorado Book Award, invokes the universality of the small town where a father and son contend with commitment to…
If we used the same title for chefs as we do for poets, then Sheila Lukins would be America’s chef laureate. Without knowing it, you’ve probably sampled her menu on board a United flight (back when they fed their passengers) or in a recipe from Parade magazine, where she’s reigned…
Maybe we have completely different ideas of daytime fun, but can you think of a better way to spend an afternoon than in the warm embrace of Uncle Beam and Aunt Sapphire while popping finger food in your mouth and then washing it down with your choice of more than…
Ten years ago, “Ponderosa” Harv Teitelbaum caught a segment on CBS Sunday Morning that would change his life. The piece highlighted Peter Jenkins, an Atlanta-based arborist, climbing giant redwoods in California, showing off the new sport he had invented: recreational tree climbing. “I was working for the Colorado Division of…
There’s no denying it: Firefighters are damn sexy. And the Fired Up for Kids organization knows a good thing when it finds it: The group’s Colorado Firefighter Calendar has raised almost $100,000 to date for the Children’s Hospital Burn Center, and those numbers will only continue to heat up tonight…
Each year, television critics across the country go to industry-sponsored sessions where they sample forthcoming shows and interview the people who made them. In contrast, attendees at Rocky Mountain PBS’s Backstage Pass With PBS Producers, which takes place tonight, won’t be professional couch potatoes. Rather, they’ll be station members and…
