Summertime, and the living is easy — and the entertainment free! This week we’re hanging out with celebrity authors, dancing to some throwback tunes and learning about the world we live in—all for free. If you know of any other bargains, tell us in the comments section; for more entertainment…
Anyone who’s slogged through this sodden spring in Colorado knows that our supposedly semi-arid climate can get downright wet sometimes. For longtime residents, the freak hail, mini-twisters and violent lightning storms of the past month or so might trigger a few memories of another soggy June fifty years ago that…
Variety is the name of the game in the Denver art scene this weekend: You can choose to take art seriously, view it with a light heart or stroll and browse through an outdoor art market where the collecting is easy. Here are a few new shows and events to…
The secret to why children look happier in photos from 1973 than they do in photos from 1933 could have something to do with the toys they had to play with. Baby boomers, breakthroughs in plastic molding and the rise of television pop culture are all credited with the revolution…
The Kholghy family, owners of Authentic Persian & Oriental Rugs, are at war with the City of Glendale over the fate of their property on Colorado Boulevard. In the rug business for more than thirty years — with 25 of those years at their current location at 550 South Colorado…
Last year renowned Denver hairstylist Charlie Price broke down in tears while watching an episode of Al Jazeera’s Borderland. Memories of growing up in the early ’80s with two girls from Cuba came flooding back as he saw the effects that immigration has on Mexican children crossing the border. “My boyfriend,…
Ole’ Marge Gunderson summed it up best in the Coen Brothers 1996 offering, Fargo: “There’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’tcha know that? And here ya are, and it’s a beautiful day.” She was right, because this weekend, there’s going to be so much to do and it’s…
Summer is the time to get up and get out, try a new sport, challenge yourself, meet people. And the season comes and goes pretty quickly, so here are ten suggestions for some new, mostly outdoor activities to try. We promise you’ll work up a sweat. Denver Cruisers Wednesday nights,…
When Colorado Maker Hub teams up with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science this weekend for the Denver Mini Maker Faire, the result will be a geekophile’s paradise, a thriving village of more than 100 tinkerers, artisans, tech nerds, robot-builders, Daleks and droids. We’d be hard-pressed to name them…
There weren’t many nerdy kids in the ’80s who didn’t love The Last Starfighter. How could we resist its charms? It was about a poor kid growing up in the middle of nowhere whose love and mastery of video games turned out to be his ticket to the stars! That’s…
Young Frankenstein is close to wrapping up its monstrously successful run at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, so grab tickets now. Meanwhile, Detroit continues to roll at Curious Theatre Company and Mary Poppins has landed at BTD Stage in Boulder. Keep reading for capsule reviews of these productions. Detroit. Detroit…
Prison life is reliably repetitive, but conditions can be frighteningly unstable, too. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, which returned June 12 for its third season, reflects that paradoxical state of affairs by delivering more of the same — heartfelt but complicated relationships, inspired capers, compelling personalities, stomach-twisting flips in…
Ben Kronberg is among the most successful of Denver comedy expatriates, having amassed an impressive list of credits and accomplishments since moving to New York. With his high-profile appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show and the Comedy Central Half Hour, it’s a surprise…
Sandra Fettingis did some amazing things during the first year of her artist residency at RedLine, including working with the Epic Program and ten high school students from Emily Griffith to make sanctioned street art that featured the teens’ own warriors. “We created this mural as part of a workshop…
New York has often been the setting for films about heroin addicts, with titles ranging from Shirley Clarke’s cinéma-vérité-tweaking The Connection (1961) to Slava Tsukerman’s new-wave cult classic Liquid Sky (1982) mining the drama of smack freaks tying off, shooting up and nodding out. But Josh and Benny Safdie’s tough,…
In Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic Park reboot — set 22 years after dinosaurs started walking the Earth, again — brontosauruses, stegosauruses and velociraptors have become old hat, sort of like the mechanical Abe Lincoln at Disneyland. Meanwhile, the habitat around them has gone Vegas: Isla Nublar, home of the…
Almost anything goes in contemporary art right now, which explains the wide range of expressions included in the three shows at MCA Denver. It makes sense to begin with Critical Focus: Monique Crine, which is installed on the lower level. The exhibit was organized by MCA curator Nora Burnett Abrams…
The Chinese Zodiac got it wrong: 2015 isn’t the Year of the Sheep — it’s the Year of the Otter. Photographer Josh Olsen has spent the last several months taking photos of “otters” — described by Mister Hollywood as hairy men with an athletic build — and he is now releasing…
Join the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for more fun with the Bard, travel the world through the eyes of one woman with a suitcase or bid on the chance of a lifetime — to step on stage in a Broadway musical. Have some fun this week! Wittenberg University Theatre, CU-Boulder Campus…
After two days of raging thunderstorms that would have provided an appropriate backdrop for King Lear, the weather was bright and mild on the opening night of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival — perfect for Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s loveliest and best-constructed comedies. But this production mixes so…
“Go ahead, call them chick flicks. We dare you.” So reads the motto for the fifth annual Colorado Independent Women of Film Festival. For the June 12-13 event, founder and program director Eileen Agosta has curated more than twenty film and television projects by two dozen female filmmakers from across the…
When I was offered a tour of Lumina last week, I jumped at it. Although not my favorite new building in town, Lumina has done many things right where other developments have done so many wrong — especially on the Northside. It’s a big structure for the neighborhood, but at five…
