It’s never too early to start holiday shopping, and for those seeking handmade or unusual gifts, the first wave of sales begins this weekend, with many time-honored annual gift events rubbing elbows with a few fresh ones. One of the latter, the Paris Holiday Market Trunk Show, is actually in…
The RiNo art-studio community Wazee Union is a little like the proverbial beehive of activity all the time, with art being made in its studio cells and artists communing in its labyrinthine hallways day and night. But tonight’s Second Saturday building takeover, Rock Paper Projector, will raise the buzz to…
If Lighthouse Writers had tried to snag smoking-hot author Junot Díaz for a Denver appearance in the last year, it probably wouldn’t have happened, notes Lighthouse program director Andrea Dupree. But thanks to a an inside contact and discussions that literally began years ago, Díaz — a Pulitzer Prize-winner and…
France’s notoriously out-of-touch, extravagant and ill-fated queen will come to life tonight in the regional premiere of Joel Gross’s Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh. The intimate, three-person production by Spark Theater imagines a love triangle between the cake-loving queen; her portrait painter, Madame le Brun; and a count named…
Denver Arts Week unlocks one of the city’s most precious secrets: Almost all of the events and places falling under its diverse cultural banner are actually available to the public nearly 365 days a year, give or take an hour or a day. First Friday gallery walks and dozens of…
Thordis Niela Simonsen will bring her latest book, Dances in Two Worlds: A Writer-Artist’s Backstory, to life tonight with Building on Memory, a performance of her ongoing work as a writer, painter and photographer. Rooted in her journeys to Greece over more than twenty years, the book and the live…
People believe in some pretty funny stuff, from virgin birth to Bigfoot. For Ian Harris and his partners in The Evolution of Comedy show, all of those beliefs are fair game. “Even the most seemingly rational people, who might not have a particular religion or something, they still have some…
Steampunk and German lieder, a romantic form of song, don’t seem like they’d go well together, but Luminous Thread Productions likes to combine the unexpected. Nuptials for the Dead, which opens the company’s 2012-13 season, titled Dreampunk, gives German art songs a new life in this story of a woman…
Serious adult conversations can be boring, which is why pairing them with cookies and milk might be the best way to get people interested. That’s what Evan Weissman hopes to do with Warm Cookies of the Revolution, which he describes as a “civic health club” designed to get people engaged…
“When you walk into a bookstore, you’re faced with life in such a grand scheme, between fiction and nonfiction and travel and every-thing under the sun,” says Ronald Rice. “I’m so overwhelmed by how much there is yet to know, and that feeling makes you alive.” And he’s not the…
Gallery owner Carmen Wiedenhoeft likens local abstract artist Jeffrey Keith’s creative output to that of Clyfford Still or Vincent Van Gogh. “When these people are so voraciously creative, they do anything and everything their whole life, and it’s incessant,” explains Wiedenhoeft, who has been working with Keith, a professor of…
“Men have their midlife crisis, but we never talk about women having their midlife crisis,” says Susan Lyles of the And Toto Too Theatre Company about the premise of Toto’s latest production, Naked in Encino. Written by Mork & Mindy and Anything but Love writer Wendy Kout, the play explores…
Over the past three decades, Paula Poundstone has worked as a standup comedian, political correspondent, television-show creator, cartoon-voice actor and columnist. And during that time, Poundstone has decided that the best place to be is the stage — alone with a microphone and no one else on the bill. The…
Unit E was named the Best New DIY Gallery in the Best of Denver 2012 — but two liquor-law enforcement agents thought that the Unit E crew had gone a little far in doing it themselves. And so they busted the place on Friday night, just hours after Mayor Michael…
The election is a time for taking sides — on issues, on candidates, on which of the watching parties has the best drink specials. But this year’s election joined a few sides along the way. (This is where you can go ahead and imagine is winking at you.) Continue reading…
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 pick for Wednesday, The Revisionaries…
Young Americans have lots of experience with war, right? I mean, we’ve lived (very remotely) through wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and we’ve got hard-hitting blockbusters like Battleship and Red Tails to learn from. We can even step into a soldier’s shoes with video games like Call of Duty,…
The Tupperware will be real, all real, when the participatory tour-de-force Dixie’s Tupperware Party returns to the Garner Galleria Theatre tonight for another hi-larious repeat run, just in time for the holidays. And like the contents kept in Tupperware, Dixie Longate, the larger-than-life, big-haired, trailer-trash star who struts out on…
The very public paint job on the outside of the new Pasquini’s Pizzeria at 777 East 17th Avenue has prompted more discussion of art than anchovies. Cap_Hill_Cowboy calls it “a blight upon the city,” and adds “I’ve stopped taking Clarkson to 18th just to avoid the eyesore.” But this critic…
Want to watch the 2012 election results as they come in but don’t want to sit at home alone, screaming at the television? Or maybe you just want to celebrate an end to political campaign ads (until next election). Whatever your reason or affiliation, there’s an election-watching event for you…
Ever wonder why zombies are so popular? Or why you have to destroy their brains to kill them? Or even what modifications your trusty Subaru might require in order to become an effective zombie apocalypse escape vehicle? All these questions and more will be addressed tomorrow, November 7, at the…
The heart of the noir genre is the hardboiled detective, but your typical noir doesn’t pit him against furries and Lucha Libre wrestlers. For that, you need a farce noir, and that’s exactly what you get with The Honey Cooler, debuting tomorrow, November 7, at the Hi-Dive. Farce and noir…
