THURS, 9/25 The organizers of Denver’s 22nd annual Great American Beer Festival know what you want: “Three days. 320 breweries. 1,400 Beers. 144,000 square feet of total beer heaven.” That’s what the banners say. That’s what’s repeated over and over again on the Web sites. And other than, maybe, a…
THURS, 9/25 Where did the love go for the Rockies? Attendance is down, and there won’t be any red, white and blue bunting adorning 2001 Blake Street this year. That’s no real surprise: Only once in their eleven-year history have the Rox sailed beyond their allotted 162-game regular season (and…
WED, 10/1 A circus remains an eternally strange blend of old traditions and things that have never been seen before: For instance, kids who are afraid of clowns and attend the 133rd Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will barely even recognize that skyscraper-coifed daredevil Bello even is a…
SAT, 9/27 The Colorado Ballet borrowed the costumes and set for its season opener Don Quixote, not from Spain, but from Louisville, Kentucky. “I originally wanted Boston Ballet’s,” says artistic director and CEO Martin Fredmann, “but it turns out they were doing it at the same time.” A harried search…
WED, 10/1 What are all those people doing in that long line snaking out of the Denver Performing Arts Complex? Odds are that they’re waiting for free tickets to tonight’s 6:30 p.m. performance of Almost Heaven: The Songs and Stories of John Denver. The Denver Center Theatre Company will reopen…
A principal leitmotif of Colorado’s history is the influence of Mexican culture. Though not equal in legend and lore to the cowboys and Indians, it has been more enduring. Mexican explorers coined the state’s name, and the southern half was actually once a part of Mexico. Thus Mexican-Americans have been…
For its fall opener, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (1513 Boulder Street, 303-455-8999) is presenting the theme show Recreated Realities. Though a wide variety of mediums are on display, from primitive pinhole to up-to-the-minute digital, all of the photos were created by assembling multiple images. The photographers included are an…
Urinetown is set after a drought so severe that people no longer have private toilets; everyone must use run-down, unsanitary public amenities controlled by a monster corporation called Urine Good Company. Poor people pay more than they can afford for this privilege, and anyone trying to pee anywhere unauthorized suffers…
The Drawer Boy is a droll, humorous, slowly spun story that’s often gently charming. It’s based on a Canadian theater project carried out in 1972, when a group of actors from Toronto went to live in a farming community and created a play about their experiences there. You can catch…
Tidy little Montecarlo, Georgia, which is the setting for Jonathan Lynn’s The Fighting Temptations, is a perfect movie fantasy town. At the picturesque train station, the ticket agent will call you a taxi or serve you a plate of Southern-fried chicken. The house band at the local nightclub is dynamite;…
If your name ends in a vowel and your people came over in steerage a hundred years ago, you will almost certainly find yourself in the kitchen these days, wooden spoon in hand, plum tomatoes draining in the colander, thoughts drifting between sweet nostalgia and the malaise of indefinable loss…
Devotees of grim drama and great acting are in for a treat this Saturday, September 20, when the 1964 British classic The Pumpkin Eater screens at the Tattered Cover Free Film Series at the Starz FilmCenter. Adapted from a best-selling novel of the day by Penelope Mortimer, it features Anne…
Boulder’s Nomad Theatre delves into life’s origins and what happens after we die in tonight’s premiere of Darwin in the Dreamtime. Written by Boulderites David and Lila Sophia Tresemer, Darwin in the Dreamtime is the story of Charles Darwin’s fictional great-great-granddaughter, Sarah Darwin, as she lies on her deathbed pondering…
Thursday, September 18 CU-Boulder’s Artist Series gets started tonight when renowned classical guitarist Christopher Parkening teams up with baritone Jubilant Sykes for an evening of music by Piazzolla, Albéniz and Copland, as well as traditional spirituals. The 7:30 p.m. concert, held in Macky Auditorium, will be preceded at 6:45 p.m…
Vince Ku quietly excuses himself from his martial arts class, bows to the shrine of the three compatriot warriors to show his respect, then sprints upstairs to fetch the lion. Returning, he pulls a huge papier-mâché head from a canvas bag, hoists it above his shoulders and brings the animal…
SAT, 9/20 They will not go quietly, these little critters. Instead, Boulder’s prairie dogs — creatures with names such as Viktor the Victim and Prairie Home Protection — will hold their polyether-resin heads high at a final celebration tonight at 7 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall, 1543 Pearl Street…
THURS, 9/18 Bone-crushing tackles come as no surprise in a football game played without protective gear, and such action is at the black-and-blue heart of Aspen’s Ruggerfest 2003. The 36-year-old demolition derby, held every September in the Rockies, features the toughest rugby teams from across the country. The gathering’s a…
SAT, 9/20 It seems incredible that books are still subject to witch-hunts, but in the 21st century they most certainly are, particularly when it comes to literature written or recommended for children and young adults. According to the American Library Association, the ten most challenged books or series last year…
FRI, 9/19 You don’t have to be American to know about the Pony Express, but it’s a saga that Americans, particularly Westerners, all grew up with: Nary an oater has flashed upon the silver screen in the past hundred years without making some reference to the mid-nineteenth-century version of express…
SAT, 9/20 In pagan lore, the autumnal equinox, or Mabon, celebrates the harvest season in what amounts to an early precursor of the American Thanksgiving. In other words, when the shadows grow long and the sun dips low, it’s time to make merry and share abundance with others. Leave it…
It’s hardly news that Denver is a sports town — think of all the money the city has thrown at its professional sports teams in recent years — but this is something of an art town, too. Those of us in the visual arts march to a different drummer than…
The Camera Obscura Gallery (1309 Bannock Street, 303-623-4059) opened in the 1970s, making it the granddaddy of Colorado’s photo galleries. Its creator, octogenarian Hal Gould, a photographer and curator, is the granddaddy of local photo enthusiasts. Fifty years ago, even before he launched the gallery, Gould began to collect photos…
