If you want to know what a geek is passionate about, look at their chest. Chances are good that whatever their passion is, it will be emblazoned across the front of their shirt in some form or other. With the possible exception of hipsters — and there’s a fair amount…
Before John Sinclair founded the White Panthers, managed the MC5 and did time for giving an undercover cop two joints as a Christmas present, he read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road as a junior in high school — and he says his life started. Sinclair will be at the Mercury…
“I kind of think of myself as maybe an in-activist — I’m not a rebel. I don’t create art,” explains Lindsey Housel, guest speaker at “Rebel,” the February edition of CreativeMornings, a lecture and discussion program that has been described as “TED for design wonks.” Taking place in more than…
Art may not be more important than human lives. But on the list of things that mean something to human lives, across centuries, it ranks pretty high. That’s what’s so compelling about the story of the Monuments Men, a group of people from thirteen nations who volunteered to protect cultural…
Consider the Lego, the toy of contradiction. With one — well, with hundreds of them — you can build anything: houses, airplanes, house-airplanes. You can even build something that will change the world, as Larry Page and Sergey Brin did in 1996, when they housed the server for their new…
Now that people are living so much longer, our self-invention can seemingly go on forever. The heroine of Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s exuberant semi-comedy Gloria is right in the middle of the fifty-something version of that in-betweenness. We join her story already in progress, but get the idea pretty quickly:…
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opened at London’s New Ambassadors Theatre in 1952, moved to the St. Martin’s Theatre in 1974 and has continued its majestic trundle through theater history to become the longest-running show in the entire world. It’s like a lot of other English institutions — tea cozies, the…
During his tenure at RedLine, former director P.J. D’Amico brought an interest in social activism to the programming there. A little over a year ago, he and then-deputy director (and now director) Louise Martorano decided that the 2014 schedule would be given over to exploring the role of women in…
Cross Currents. This ambitious show, put together by CVA creative director Cecily Cullen, showcases contemporary art by Native Americans from across the country. It is a followup to Currents, a show Cullen did at the old LoDo CVA in 2009 that was on the same theme and was equally intelligent…
Black Odyssey. Based on Homer’s epic, Black Odyssey tells the story of a soldier, Ulysses Lincoln, coming back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Like his namesake, he is forced to wander for many years before he can return home, encountering supernatural beings and many strange adventures along the…
How retrograde are many of the core tenets of the Disney princess? Consider this: My daughter owns a book called Snow White’s Secret, in which Disney’s royal archetype reveals her devilish hidden life: When the Dwarfs are working at the mine, she sneaks into their cottage and joyfully cleans the…
Under the Gunn and Project Runway stars Tim Gunn and Mondo Guerra are joining forces this year to host Goodwill’s annual Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap, which features both upcycled clothing designs by the young designers of Goodwill’s youth programs and local celebrity models showing off secondhand finds…
When a blind assassin with a flying guillotine faces off against a one-armed boxer, there’s no doubt who’ll win: everyone who loves a great kung fu movie. Once you’ve seen Master of the Flying Guillotine, one of the greatest — and most influential — kung-fu flicks ever made, you, too,…
The 1969 Stonewall riots, which protested police brutality, are widely recognized as a historic moment in the gay-rights movement. But Melinda Chateauvert also identifies the riots as a cornerstone of the fight for sex workers’ rights. “This is a movement that we haven’t paid attention to, but we need to,”…
“My life started when I read On the Road, by Jack Kerouac,” says John Sinclair, a poet, activist, former MC5 manager and White Panther Party founder. “It came out in September of 1957. I was a junior in high school. It set me on the correct path of life. I’ve…
Need an excuse to get hands-on with your Valentine? The Valentine’s Couples Thai Yoga Massage Workshop at the Yoga Mat is just what the massage therapist ordered! Thai yoga massage is also known as “lazy-man’s massage” because the massage recipient is completely limp while the practitioner moves his or her…
Independent businesses unite in the name of love tonight with a benefit soiree for Denver CASA, a nonprofit supporting abused and neglected children. Hosted by The Scout Guide and mid-century-modern home-furnishings store Mod Livin’, Modern Love is an affection-themed showcase of special-edition prints from local artists Josh Wills, Michael Lindau,…
For a certain subset of people, skateboarding is more than a hobby; it’s a way of life. When photographer Matt Alberts was looking for a worthy subject for an art project using an archaic, labor-intensive photographic technique known as the wet collodion process, he found that these “lifers” made a…
As Center for Visual Arts director and curator Cecily Cullen notes, today’s Native American artists don’t live in the past. And in pulling work together for Cross Currents, the second half of a two-part exhibition series Cullen started in 2009, she specifically looked for artists who respectfully nod to the…
Just in time to add some romance to Valentine’s Day week, actress Liv Ullman tells the story of how she and Swedish director Ingmar Bergman met, fell in love and made eleven films together in Liv & Ingmar, a documentary that screens at the Sie FilmCenter today. “They ended up…
Shopping for your Valentine can be a cliché-ridden task, but there’s a way to do it without browsing through the ugly ties or skimpy lingerie that your partner — of either gender — will never wear. At the Perfect Petal’s Love Me Sweet Soiree — a swanky two-part shopping evening…
Two orphaned brothers lead a dreary, grimy existence together in a Philadelphia slum, uneducated in societal rules and living off the most basic of provisions — and whatever the older brother can steal. When they decided to kidnap a Chicago mobster who is, coincidentally, also an orphan, things start to…
