Even though rents are rising as fast as the temperature around here, there are still plenty of bargain entertainment options around — particularly with the Biennial of the Americas opening Tuesday. On Thursday alone you can become an active member of the beer community, check out cool art and learn…
High summer brings variety to local galleries, where new exhibits range from a Biennial-inspired group show to an all-out bash remembering Frida Kahlo with art, film and music. Follow the muse to these five events. Nothing Belongs To Us Rule Gallery July 10 through August 15 Opening reception: 6 to…
Dr. Jeffrey Young is a casting director’s dream. There’s the veterinarian’s look: long, greying hair, a thick mustache and kanji tattoos inked on his biceps, sculpted from years working as a track-and-field coach at North High. Then there’s the fact that, a quarter-century into his practice, Young still isn’t shy…
Hot fashion can strike at any moment, and stylish people can look great even while doing mundane things. We spotted this nautical look on Christine Dan, who works at the Hyatt Regency Denver, while she was waiting for the bus on 15th and Glenarm streets. We stopped to chat with…
There’s so much heat in this town, and it’s not just coming from the sun. Every weekend around here is oozing with things to do to make 2015 one of the best summers of all time. This weekend, you can be apart of American history, be a part of beer…
For more than eighty years, Collins’ Bicycles was a staple on East Colfax Avenue — but in recent years, its fate started to look uncertain. Owner Tito Collins — the third generation of the Collins family to run the shop since its 1934 start — had fallen ill. Neighbors and…
Metropolitan State College of Denver was founded in 1965, with the goal of providing higher education for students who had previously not had much of a chance to seek out a college degree, particularly minorities and low-income individuals. The concept appears to have worked, because the school continues to have…
#19: Justin Beard Justin Beard is a forager — of food, materials, experiences and ideas. As an artist, he won’t be pinned down to one practice, and he works wherever his conceptual foraging takes him, from building sculpture created from things he’s found to performance art, a movement he’s working…
I want you to consider something stupid. I want you to consider a trip down the deepest, nerdiest rabbit hole you will ever find. I am here to convince you to turn pieces of cardboard sideways while pretending to be a wizard, and I can all but promise that if…
Imagine if Donald Trump wanted to reboot his disastrous presidential-campaign-announcement month to start over as a younger man with real hair. In Tarsem Singh’s Self/less, Trump could hire the medical geniuses of Phoenix Biogenic to transfer his aging brain into a strapping-hot bod for $250 million — the price of…
Heidi Keyes’s Puff, Pass and Paint is a very different kind of art class, combining canvas, cocktails…and cannabis. Over the past year It’s proved popular with locals and tourists alike, and last month it moved from the beleaguered Green Labs to a studio space at 2900 Marion Street shared with…
Now in its second year — but already one of the largest conventions of its kind in the world — the R.O.S.E. International Doll Show will shine a light on the lifelike world of reborn baby dolls. The meticulously crafted creations are a favorite of doll collectors, but they also serve…
Denver has never been a great town for fans of architecture. Important buildings from the past routinely go under the wrecking ball, while only a tiny percentage of their replacements are any good at all. It’s actually a brilliant strategy on the part of developers: Short-circuit any future historic-preservation struggles…
“Summer theater” doesn’t always translate to theater-light: This weekend, you can indulge in the restaging of an award-winning production, a well-rounded learning experience from a novice director and a blockbuster opera for the ages. The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size Curious Theatre Company Thursday, July 9 through August 1 8…
Counterpath Press was ousted from its longtime home near the Mercury Cafe over the winter, and since then the MasterMind winner has been seeking out new ways to reach the public while also searching for a new home. One temporary solution: Counterpath landed a booth at City Park Jazz, and…
It’s a good sign when you hear people laughing in the parking lot after a comedy and describing their favorite moments to each other, complete with crazy gestures. In its second week of a now-extended run, The Foreigner was still filling the comfortably worn auditorium of the John Hand Theater…
The death of Amy Winehouse, in July 2011, at age 27, was one of the first great tragedies of 21st-century pop music, an event — like the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain in the last decade of the twentieth — that emphasized the jarring contrast between the fragility…
Dana Nachman’s Batkid Begins marches in with the mini-movie you’ve already seen. (Unless, as Bruce Wayne suffered in The Dark Knight Rises, you’ve spent months in a hole.) On a November weekday in San Francisco — a/k/a Gotham-by-the-Bay — five-year-old cancer survivor Miles Scott rode shotgun in a Lamborghini Batmobile,…
Hollywood lives by the simple, sad axiom “Where there’s money, there’s more money,” which is how we get remakes of movies that sometimes shouldn’t have been made in the first place, two Spider-Man reboots within five years, and a Star Wars franchise that ensures our children’s children will revere George…
There’s no one right way to show mental illness in the movies, yet there are hundreds of ways to get it wrong. Even though certain disorders come with specific traits, a diagnosis is not a human being, and doomed is the actor who just cycles through symptoms rather than working…
I got my first job when I was fourteen. I was a gymnastics instructor during the school year and a camp counselor in the summer at a place that was nice enough to employ a cigarette-smoking teen like me (which still surprises me to this day).So during those non-school months,…
Ding-dong, the witch is dead. And by witch, I mean Bertha: my cranky, undependable but still beloved 1992 Ford F250 diesel truck. I bought Bertha when I decided to go forward with this project, simply so that I could buy supplies and transport the tiny house — but just driving around…
