The father of the modern zombie, George A. Romero, came to town Wednesday night, and I was there. Not there in the audience — there, on stage, introducing one of my heroes, a man I consider to be one of the most important and influential filmmakers of our era. And…
Denver’s Civic Center just added another attraction. Coral Sphere, a sculpture by Yvonne Domenge, was installed this morning in front of the McNichols Building. The two-ton, blue-steel sculpture was previously on display at the Boeing Galleries of Millennium Park in Chicago; it will now reside in Denver, like an abstract…
From November 7-11, Cirque du Soleil’s roving band of international artists and acrobats is taking over the 1STBANK Center for the multi-dimensional show Quidam. Show and Tell was lucky enough to catch opening night, and we’ll share more about that soon. In the meantime, go backstage with the troupe as…
Every year since 1986, Denver has recognized creative individuals and organizations that make an artful impact on the community with the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The 2012 winners were just announced, and for the first time, they were split into three new categories: Youth Arts, Entrepreneurial Arts…
This Saturday afternoon the Romero Theater Troupe will perform Auraria Custodians Tell Their Story, a play which seeks to air the recent grievances Auraria custodians have had with campus management. “The theme of [the play] revolves around dignity and respect,” says James Walsh, event organizer and UCD History Professor. “We’re…
When most people look at a mound of used bicycle parts they see (at best) the potential for scrap metal, or possibly a refurbished bike. But when Carolina Fontoura Alzaga looks at the same junkyard of rust and discarded, greasy metal, she sees interior design. See also: -As Denver becomes…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Here, he shares his Thursday pick, Starlet…
Thordis Niela Simonsen is a modern renaissance woman: a teacher, photographer, writer, painter and creative guide. In her latest work, “Building on Memory,” Simonsen takes a performance approach to sharing and interpreting her book Dances in Two Worlds: A Writer-Artist’s Backstory. This Saturday and Sunday, November 10 and 11, Simonsen…
Denver’s private Dikeou Collection has a permanent gallery space in a downtown Denver office building that’s a little hard to find, unless you know your way around the corporate world. As a remedy, the gallery’s Devon Dikeou also curates a more accessible ground-floor pop-up space in the Golden Triangle, which…
A week ago, Bree Davies was excited to see Katt Williams perform. But excitement turned to sadness when he finally took the stage at the Wells Fargo Theatre on November 1, and proceed to completely lose his shit in front of the audience. “What I witnessed in Williams was a…
Conceptualist Susan Meyer, who teaches art at the University of Denver, is the subject of the provocatively titled Plato’s Retreat at Plus Gallery. What makes the title provocative is that it’s a reference to a well-known heterosexual swingers’ club that existed in New York in the late 1970s and early…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Dixie is a booze- and sex-addicted, trash-talking, child-neglecting ex-con from Alabama who holds Tupperware parties in her trailer, and she’s invited you to this one. Dixie’s Tupperware Partyat the Galleria really isa Tupperware party — you get a name tag and raffle number when you come in,…
Lisa Ohlin’s Simon and the Oaks has all the superficial elements of compelling drama but none of the interiority; it looks like a good movie without ever actually feeling like one. Try to imagine low-rent Spielberg set in Sweden: whimsical children with intertwined fates, Nazis looming on the horizon, and…
If Hollywood’s rut du jour is the origin story as bid for franchise immortality, you can’t say that Skyfall — the 23rd “official” James Bond film in fifty years — isn’t on trend. Eight years ago, in Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s first outing as Bond, we learned that 007 owes…
The Loneliest Planet begins with a close-up trained on the body of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It’s not what it sounds like. Nica (Hani Furstenberg), on a pre-marriage honeymoon with fiancé Alex (Gael García Bernal) in rural Georgia, is in the midst of a makeshift shower. As Nica…
“Look out, Haskell. It’s real.” — From Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool, 1969 For all but a small sliver of U.S. society, wars are just a distant rumbling. But for those who have experienced them — soldiers, journalists, refugees — they are devastating. The images engrave themselves indelibly on the brain…
While we wait for Drag Machine, people start handing out freshly spun cotton candy to a line that snakes around the Jones Theatre. Inside, we find that the Drag Queen bathroom (there’s one for Drag Kings, too) sports a glittering tinsel curtain; decorated top hats are taped to stalls for…
Breaking out of consignment-shop confinement, tonight’s Holiday Fashion Swap aims to capitalize on recycled fashion’s burgeoning popularity. This organized clothing-trade party invites all you frugal fashionistas to bring a bag of up-to-date, gently used and seasonally appropriate attire to exchange for a bag of new-to-you goods in a pop-up boutique…
Bison are the largest land mammals in North America, and they have the richest cultural history (just ask the elected officials pushing the National Bison Legacy Act, which would make the woolly beasts our national mammal). Bison are so big, in fact, that MCA Denver needs two full days for…
From her legendary standup routines to her versatile work for television and radio, comedian Paula Poundstone has been interacting with audiences for more than three decades. Tonight, Poundstone comes to the Newman Center with her one-woman show — which is just the way she prefers it. “I’m so isolated in…
“Opera seems very conservative and traditional, but it’s not,” says Opera on Tap’s Eve Orenstein. “Opera’s not stuffy at all. It’s kind of fun and naughty.” The monthly series, which just moved from the now-defunct Bender’s Tavern to the Bar, is a raucous night of opera singers performing songs centered…
