Articulated Perspectives. Summer is group-show time, and Bill Havu and Nick Ryan have put together a great exhibit that looks at artists who combine representational imagery with abstract sensibilities. The exhibit, installed on both the main level and the mezzanine, includes the work of three painters and one sculptor. As…
“It’s the secret films you have to watch out for,” jokes Richard Linklater of his new movie Boyhood, a furtive experiment that he kept quiet for more than a decade. In 2002, he chose a first-grader named Eller Coltrane, the six-year-old son of two Texas artists; cast Patricia Arquette and…
When National Public Radio’s weekly news quiz, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, began, way back in 1998, host Peter Sagal and his sidekick, radio veteran Carl Kassell, weren’t even in the same room, let alone in front of a studio audience. The call-in show was recorded remotely from different studios. Now…
Sirens blare and an eerie voice announces that it’s best to remain indoors if you don’t plan to participate. While others make safety arrangements and some sharpen their knives, one man loads his black, steel-armored car with plenty of guns and begins cruising. Fires erupt along the street, and gunshots…
“I forget that people think that I’m the girl with a ponytail and a briefcase,” says Anna Kendrick, perched on a couch in a T-shirt and jeans. Her career-launching role as a prim go-getter in Up in the Air is so far removed from her actual self that she’s still…
“The confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek was historically a gathering spot for Native people, used for trade and for bringing the nations together,” says Walt Pourier, founder of the Stronghold Society and promoter of the fifth annual ONE Gathering Skate for Life event at the Denver…
You’ll see them at every gathering of geeks: elaborately costumed people repping their favorite characters from film, television, comics and more. They’re cosplayers, fans who dress up and role-play as their favorite pop-cultural personage, from the iconic to the obscure. Now the subculture is getting recognition for the art behind…
A makeup artist by day who performs as Drag Nation regular Ginger Douglas by night, Briceson Ducharme leads a fantastic double life. Both personalities come together tonight for Apocalyptic Ball 5: The Revolution, a signature fundraiser conceived a half-decade ago to raise money for AIDS Walk Colorado. The multi-faceted, high-energy…
“Every year of the Colorado Burlesque Festival has been amazing,” says Honey Touché, one of the organizers, “but I really feel like everything is on steroids this year.” And that’s appropriate since the country’s reigning Queen of Burlesque (aka Miss Exotic World) is Denver’s own Midnite Martini, who will perform…
Great things often have catastrophic beginnings. In Lyons, a foothills town devastated by flooding last fall, that is especially true. The Lyons community stuck together through the disaster, though it’s still rebuilding almost a year later. And because the cozy town on the St. Vrain River already has a reputation…
Too often, anime enthusiasts hunker down in solitude, scouring the Internet for the newest Japanese animated release. “Anime fans have so many opportunities to stream it or just wait and get imported DVDs and Blu-rays and stuff like that. But the opportunity they’re missing, in a lot of places, is…
Fans of dystopian novels and sci-fi/fantasy, look out: Young-adult fiction writers Margaret Stohl, author of Beautiful Creatures, and Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent series, will be talking about their work tonight at the Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch. Stohl’s newest book, Idols, is her sequel to Icons. “It’s an emotional…
Bird enthusiast Lynn Willcockson has been going out in the woods with a pair of binoculars since he was twelve years old. “And I’m not going to tell you how long ago that was,” he says with a wink. But rest assured that his cred as a birdwatcher is cast-iron,…
Firehouse Art Center director and curator Jessica Kooiman longed to splash the outside walls of the center with fresh work by regional street artists, but because of the Longmont building’s historic status, it wasn’t possible. So she did the next best thing: she brought it indoors for Street Werkz, a…
RedLine continues its year of celebrating women in art this summer with a show that complements the sculpture retrospective The Material Body, which is on view at MCA Denver through July 13. Senga Nengudi: The Performing Body, curated by Elissa Auther and opening tonight at RedLine with a reception from…
One of the best things about science fiction is it can be weird. Really, really weird. More often than not, it isn’t weird, it’s just spaceships and ray guns and robots, and that’s all fine and dandy, but the genre’s ability to go deep into the WTF zone is one…
When National Public Radio’s weekly news quiz, “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!,” began, way back in 1998, host Peter Sagal and his sidekick, radio veteran Carl Kassell, weren’t even in the same room, let alone in front of a studio audience. The call-in show was recorded remotely from different studios. Now…
On this week’s Voice Film Club episode, film critics Alan Scherstuhl, Amy Nicholson and Stephanie Zacharek recommend seeing Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (12:00) and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (20:00), a movie filmed over twelve years with the same cast. [Subscribe to the Voice Film Club podcast…
It’s not unusual for Plus Gallery to throw a group show in the summer, but Ivar Zeile says this year’s offering, Super Human, is his biggest multi-artist exhibition ever, with work from more than 25 local, national and even international artists. More than just a collection of portraits, Super Human…
Jackie Barry’s love for flags as celebratory beacons originated in Philadelphia, but it’s the Colorado outdoors that inspires Front Range Flag Company. Barry and her business partner, Ryan Casey, launched the custom flag company early this summer to commemorate adventurous achievements big and small — from going a short hike…
The Arvada Center is hosting four strong exhibits right now, all part of the Unbound series. But I will focus on just one here: Unbound: Sculpture in the Field. (I’ll discuss the others later this summer.) The show is highly visible — you can even catch a glimpse from the…
After more than twenty years, the Cherry Creek Arts Festival continues to attract folks from all over the city — and the world — to browse and buy fine art and craft works by a national roster of artists. Food, live performance and interactive art activities for all all ages…
