The students behind Crafting Yourself aren’t all that much older than the six-graders their after-school program is designed to help. As part of the University Honors and Leadership program at the University of Colorado Denver, five senior scholars were given a year-long assignment to create a sustainable, innovative and creative…
Work by Max Kauffman, a former Denver resident, will be featured in a new show opening Saturday, March 15, at Black Book Gallery in the Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. Aether Ceremony “is a look at the interconnectedness of all things, the magic of every day and the sanctuaries…
Denver International Airport seems to have a thing for demons and devils. First “Mustang” earned the nickname “Blucifer” after it killed its creator, Luis Jimenez, and now a canine god has shown up in the middle of the Jeppeson Terminal. See also: DIA flying high as Best U.S. Airport for…
This weekend, the city will be overflowing with green beer and folks decked out in green from head-to-toe. But if the Irish holiday isn’t your cup of tea, er, beer, we’ve rounded up some equally exciting alternatives. From a dark side of Mardi Gras celebration to a comedic argument that…
Few filmmakers have pushed the limits of cinema as forcefully as the late Stan Brakhage. His hundreds of films forged a cinematic language that has dominated the experimental media world since the 1950s. Brakhage work is not the easiest to watch. Some films, such as Window Water Baby Moving, use…
Aspen International Fashion Week promises to be a fun-filled event showcasing world-renowned designers who make cold weather fashion hip. One of those designers is Leonard Gorski, founder and designer of Gorski Furs, who will present the Winter 14/15 collection at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, March 14 on the Apres Ski…
Whether you lay claim to an Irish heritage or not, St. Patrick’s Day has become a holiday for everyone. In Colorado, we’ve got plenty of Celtic pride to go around, beginning with a gathering at the Molly Brown House tonight and continuing through Monday with block parties, pub crawls, parades…
Michael Paglia visits William Havu Gallery in this week’s review, taking in two different exhibits. The main show, Emilio Lobato: The Measure of a Man, includes more than sixty works, most of them new,. The smaller show features new work from Emmett Culligan. Continue reading for photos from both exhibits…
Spacecraft opened in February as a place where companies and individuals could donate used materials to be repurposed into art. “The mission is about providing easy access to sustainability, giving people a way to make a difference that’s fun and doesn’t require that they change their entire lifestyle,” says founder…
Let’s talk about asscrack, shall we? Over the past two days, one of the biggest stories across social media is the gallery of asscracks from a Magic: The Gathering tournament held over the weekend in Richmond, Virginia. It started as a photo gallery on Reddit. By yesterday afternoon it had…
#99: Eve Orenstein New Jersey-born mezzo soprano Eve Orenstein was born into alternative culture: Her mother is a composer and her father an artist and designer who’s known for creating the first inflatable furniture back in the ’60s. But her own cultural love in life turned out to be opera,…
Colorado may be a square state — in shape, if not in spirit — but History Colorado promises to break “out of the box” at its new monthly program, COmingle, which kicks off from 6 to 9 p.m. today, March 13, at the History Colorado Center. The theme of the…
Critical Focus: Ian Fisher. This show, located in the informal Whole Room at MCA Denver, is made up of a group of mostly monumental paintings of the sky. It’s the type of thing that has become the artist’s signature. Though Fisher begins with photographs of clouds used as studies, the…
The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a brilliant work, its flaws so intertwined with its crazed strengths that you can hardly separate one from the other. McDonagh grew up in London, the son of Irish parents, and invented an Ireland — and an…
Leave it to Wes Anderson to make a film about World War II without mentioning Germany. In The Grand Budapest Hotel, a wundercabinet set in the fictitious Eastern European republic of Zubrowka circa 1932, Anderson captures the collapse of a kingdom and the rise of a reich without so much…
Think adapting War and Peace is hard? Try adapting the race-car video game Need for Speed. Tolstoy’s 1,225-page behemoth has nothing on the Electronic Arts franchise’s irreconcilably complicated twenty-year, twenty-installment history: Sometimes cars are subject to physics; sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes they’re invulnerable; sometimes they break. Maybe you’re in London;…
Ah, the Romanians: Sometimes it seems like no one else is bothering to make movies for grownups anymore. With Child’s Pose, the Romanian tide enters its Cassavetes phase, where the thin ice of haute-bourgeois life cracks and opens wide. Classically, we’ve got a character study under pressure, with Luminita Gheorghiu…
As you walk into the theater for There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, you are handed what looks like a school notebook, the kind with a stiff black-and-white-speckled cover. You take your seat before a long blackboard. A bearded fellow watches as you settle in, chiding the latecomers. He…
Anyone visiting the William Havu Gallery right now will be thinking about constructivism — or at least the idea of making things through the assembly of rectilinear shapes — even before they get to the building and the exhibit inside. That’s because of the construction site right across the street…
A wise man — or, more precisely, a wiseass trucker named Jack Burton — once opined that “it’s all in the reflexes.” Few actors have had better ones than Kurt Russell, who makes a welcome return to theaters this weekend in The Art of the Steal. Having been largely MIA…
According to lore, Liberace used to greet the tourists who’d come by bus to gawk at his bejeweled home with the line, “I hope you like it. After all, you paid for it!” Not everyone has to like Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars, the feature-length incarnation of his much-loved television series,…
As of this writing, the Netflix Instant catalogue boasts more than 10,000 titles available for online streaming — a number that, as per the official Netflix rhetoric, seems colossal. But the landscape of this digital paradise may not be quite so idyllic. As classic-film enthusiast Jaime Christley reminds us, “If…
