I have a confession to make: I live in the house of Hayao Miyazaki. A formidable row of Studio Ghibli DVDs by Miyazaki and other animators in his fold — from the Academy Award-winning fantasy Spirited Away to such lesser-known tales as Pompoko and Whisper of the Heart — line…
The Youth Connection will host a poetry slam/open-mike event at 4 p.m. today in Civic Center Park, in conjunction with Senator Mike Johnston’s Summer of Safety program. The slam is the last in a three-part event series designed to provide local youth with healthy, safe and exciting activities — and…
In July, as artist Eric Shumake was preparing for the opening of his first official exhibit — “Charnival,” part of the current Merge group show at Plus Gallery — he was simultaneously accepted into the Vermont Studios Masters Program. As a result, Shumake was unable to attend the opening night…
Although comedian Kelsie Huff’s new production at the Boulder Fringe Festival is titled This Show Might Be Terrible, her past hits suggest it will be anything but. Known for her Boulder Fringe Official Encore Award-winning shows Bruiser and Huffs, Huff is also a successful stand-up comedian who heads the kates,…
Coloradans and visitors from other states put on their short-sleeved button-up shirts, ties, backpacks and bicycle helmets and made their way down to the Ellie Caulkins Opera House last night for the opening of The Book of Mormon. And even if they didn’t don full-on Mormon attire, these fans felt…
For the better part of the past decade, Minneapolis-based performer Melissa Birch has focused on collaborations, but the veteran artist, singer and innovative cabaret entertainer is hardly a neophyte when it comes to solo performance. That’s how she started her career, and at this year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival, Birch…
The Colorado Independent Women in Film program, an annual three-day event at the Bug Theatre that showcases the work of women in the Colorado film industry, opens tomorrow. Packed, a short documentary that follows evacuees of Boulder’s Fourmile Canyon Fire in 2010 and describes the possessions they collected on their…
We all want to raise our kids right, and sometimes that means we hope they’ll embrace our beloved traditions, like reading box scores and the Sunday comics, and eating Froot Loops while waiting for the Saturday-morning cartoons to come on. And like hunting through a bin of vinyl records. Twist…
Wow, the furry’s still flying over our post on the “Twenty most expressionless furry costumes at Rocky Mountain Fur Con.” And clearly, while it might be difficult to change the expression of those furry costumes, the people wearing them have no problem expressing themselves…
This GIF pretty much summarizes how we feel about The Book of Mormon hitting home tonight. Although the fourteen-times-over Tony winner has already made a splash on Broadway — and sold out in Denver — it finally reaches the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at 7:30 p.m. for the first performance…
John Waters said that “life is nothing if you’re not obsessed,” and artist Alon Paul is certainly an example of an obsession that’s translated into something incredibly cool. Every day for an entire year, Paul created a piece of art of, or inspired by, his hero, Madonna. Here’s a preview…
This past week has been full of activity — everything from fashion shows to music festivals and the Denver County Fair — and a fun mix of styles has filled the streets, too. We spotted this week’s style-setter not once but twice, both times being his carefree self. Read on…
Artist Alon Paul says he hopes that if Madonna ever sees his new show Muse:365, she’ll be equal parts flattered and terrified. This time in 2011, Paul quit drinking and created a piece of art of or inspired by the Material Girl every day for the entire year, and he’ll…
“Many dance company directors, especially the most venerable, keep to the wings, letting their dancers and the works speak for themselves. Cleo Parker Robinson is not one of those.” That’s the start of yesterday’s New York Times piece that’s basically a rave review for Cleo Parker Robinson. Oh, and the…
Boulder’s experimental, “collaboratory” Band of Toughs isn’t out of the woods. In fact, the theater troupe’s production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, part of the Boulder Fringe Festival, will place the play smack in the woods, in the mischievous fairy-forest the playwright envisioned. Performances will run Friday, August…
This past weekend my Hole cover band, Jennifer’s Body, played the Denver County Fair. Until this show, we weren’t an actual band at all — we formed earlier this year for a two-song set to honor the opening of Hole drummer Patty Schemel’s documentary, Hit So Hard, and had never…
People get lazy in the summertime, but it’s time to wake up: The fall theater season is only weeks away, and Denver Center Theatre Company tickets are now on sale. The focus may be on The Book of Mormon, which opens today in the Denver Performing Arts Complex, but when…
The furrys were in town this weekend for Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2012: Furry Apocalypse, and if looking at their costumes made you want to get a dust-buster, you weren’t alone…
Looking that good isn’t as easy as it seems. The proof of that is in the photos of Denver Fashion Week, now a burgeoning tradition on the local style scene. The week-long event rotated through venues across the city August 5 through 12, with hundreds of models, designers and artists…
More than 800 people — most of them dressed in costumes or not adverse to snuggling up to one — flocked to the DoubleTree Hotel this weekend for Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2012: Furry Apocalypse, an unabashed annual celebration of Furry fandom. But while the anthropomorphic lifestyle offers a lot…
The new selection for One Book, One Denver won’t be revealed officially until September 4. But in the August 2 Off Limits, we reported that Enrique’s Journey definitely had the inside track — and now there are many more clues that this book, which grew out of a Los Angeles…
Jenny Lawson made the most of her bizarre childhood. In fact, she turned it into a New York Times bestseller. But Lawson’s entry to the literary world was her popular blog, The Bloggess, which attracted the attention of a literary agent. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened is her new, mostly-true…
