Hit and Myth

The popular television series MythBusters is known for its hosts’ love of explosions. But the show is about more than just dangerous experiments; it’s about questioning everything and using science to find the truth. That’s what you’ll have a chance to do at MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition, a hands-on exploration…

History Alive

The range of personalities that created (and lived in) the residences showcased in Denver’s Historic Homes, a new book documenting some of the most notable and influential homes in the city, are as diverse as Denver history. Author Amy Zimmer, who also wrote Denver’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood, used historic images…

The Circus Is in Town

Aspen-based artist Pamela Joseph has found success internationally in a variety of mediums, but a project near and dear to her heart will stick close to home when Pamela Joseph’s Sideshow of the Absurd opens today at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Joseph’s been adding to and exhibiting the…

Meet the Artists

While past summer/fall outdoor exhibitions at the Denver Botanic Gardens have taken us to South Africa and the bamboo forests of Japan, this year’s sculptural blockbuster is sticking closer to home. Catalyst: Colorado Sculpture, which opened to the public on May 4, is strictly an in-state showcase, featuring works by…

O Tannenbaum

The presents have been opened, the wrapping paper discarded and ribbons repurposed, and now you have just one last item to get rid of before you can get on with your new year: the Christmas tree. And there’s a better place for this now-unwanted indoor greenery than the dump. “Last…

Pedals to the Metal

When the Bike Art exhibit debuted last year at Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts, it was an instant hit — not surprising for the cycling-happy town nested beneath the Flatirons. But Dairy Center gallery curator Mary Horrocks says it wasn’t just Boulder that appreciated the bike-inspired mega-show. “Here in…

Teaching Moments

The curtains of square product theatre’s new production, Gidion’s Knot, open on a tragic parent-teacher conference: A mourning mother is visiting her son’s fifth-grade teacher to discover why the boy committed suicide over the weekend. The somber, two-woman play is full of secrets that need to be uncovered, and it…

Picture Perfect

Western art sometimes gets a bad rap when it comes to the inclusion and illustration of contemporary themes. But the 2014 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale has been doing just that for more than two decades, with a show focusing on art depicting modern life in rural areas. While…

Happy New Year from Show and Tell

Paint the town read! Show and Tell is off for New Year’s Day — and you should be, too. Get out and enjoy this city’s vibrant cultural scene (or at least find a spot with bottomless Bloody Marys). We’ll be back early tomorrow morning. Happy new year…

The ten best geek events in Denver in January

Any new year that brings with it a slate of new geek activities is a happy new year, and this one does. In between trips to the gym to fulfill your resolutions, you won’t lack for things to do. Even after you give up on the gym mid-month, you won’t…

Ring in the New Year before midnight at these offbeat events

We all have our New Year’s Eve rituals — from parties wild or romantic to a quiet toast at home. Some folks turn in before the clock even strikes midnight, and in Denver, others will be bundling up their families to catch fireworks downtown for free. How bout you? Looking…

New Year’s resolutions: here today, gone to Maui

It’s hard to write a list of New Year’s resolutions that apply to the real world while I’m physically sitting in the altered reality known as vacation. I mean, really. I’m supposed to figure out everything I want to improve in my life — a life that entails e-mails, deadlines,…

Ten fun things to do in Denver on New Year’s Day 2014

For many, New Year’s Day is the unofficial closing of the holiday season — the last hurrah before school and work recommence. Since it’s a federal holiday, a lot of places close down, but there’s still plenty to do, and we’ve compiled a list of interactive museum exhibits, restorative yoga…

Fifteen arts flashbacks from 2013

In 2013, we’ve gone to Paris at the Denver Art Museum and invited the rest of the world in for the city’s second Biennial of the Americas, visited galleries in garages and warehouses, and found unexpected art wheat-pasted on brick walls, projected from LED screens and gracing billboards. To be…

Chill! Breckenridge opens ice castle

Ice sits in the bottom of glasses, decorates parties in elaborate formations, makes snowy Colorado roads slick in the winter. It also forms glittery structures, one of which stands tall at Breckenridge Riverwalk Center, on West Adams Avenue. The ice castle opened on December 26 there — just the third…