Veteran comedian Drew Carey is well known for his off-the-cuff improv, but he still feels like a relative newcomer to sketch comedy. So when the 54-year-old host of The Price Is Right felt the urge to return to his standup roots, he took a left turn. “I wanted to start…
Marijuana and comedy go together like PB&J and the munchies. Perhaps not so coincidentally, those are all subjects covered in The Marijuana-Logues, a three-person off-Broadway comedy being put on this weekend at the Comedy Works in Larimer Square. The long-running show riffs on the more famous Vagina Monologues in form,…
In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play, produced by Equinox Theatre and opening tonight at the Bug, is exactly what it sounds like: a play about vibrators. But in this case, the action centers around their use as a treatment for “hysteria,” a commonly diagnosed “affliction” in women at…
The fabled color-field painter Mark Rothko left a troubled yet brilliant legacy behind after committing suicide in 1970, something that’s brought into hyperreal focus in the Tony Award-winning drama Red, which is, in a way, an act of abstract expressionism played out on stage, as Rothko and his assistant talk…
You won’t ever find a better opportunity to visit Rick’s Cafe Americain — the famed venue in Casablanca where star-crossed lovers Rick and Ilsa reconnected — than tonight’s 1940s World War II Era Ball at the Boulder Municipal Airport. And if you’ve been to the ball in previous years, then…
Although Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation — the document declaring that all slaves be freed — on January 1, 1863, the news didn’t reach a still-confederate Texas until June of 1865. That’s when the slaves there celebrated, an occasion that sparked the observance of “Juneteenth.” This year’s Juneteenth Music…
Few burlesque acts involve the spoken word, and as far as we know, Lucky DeLuxe (aka Susanna Lee) is the only spoken-word comedic burlesque artist in the business. “I’ve been a standup comic for sixteen years,” Lee says. “I always loved what I was doing, but it always felt just…
Our little town has hit the big-time: Denver Comic Con is here, introducing a whole new level of geekdom to the Rocky Mountain West con-going community. The weekend event, a fundraiser for the locally based Comic Book Classroom after-school program and everything a comic-book nerd could wish for, officially kicks…
Four “out” lawmakers — senators Pat Steadman and Lucia Guzman, and representatives Mark Ferrandino and Sue Schafer — will serve as Denver PrideFest 2012’s Grand Marshals this year, something that highlights the importance of the “Fight for Your Right to Pride” theme, says Dani Perea, communications and marketing manager for…
Sure, you can watch your favorite movie at home on demand or via your Internet hookup, but that’s small-time. If you want to do it a little bigger, check out Film on the Rocks, the annual movie series that puts Colorado’s greatest entertainment venue, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, to good use…
“You can go almost anywhere now and find really amazing vegan or vegetarian savory food, but it’s still somewhat difficult to find really good vegan baked goods,” says Doron Petersan, owner of the Sticky Fingers bakery in Washington, D.C., and author of Sticky Fingers’ Sweets: 100 Super-Secret Vegan Recipes. “And…
“Snowflake,” by Bryan Nash Gill, pine. Michael Paglia’s review of Material Abstraction at the Robischon Gallery (through June 30) and Bryan Nash Gill: Cut Wood at Goodwin Fine Art (through June 22) explores contemporary abstraction while showcasing pieces by regional and national artists. Both shows, he writes, help “to prove…
Bike accidents are a scary — and seemingly unavoidable — occurrence if you ride on a regular basis. With the copious amount of bike shops around Denver, not to mention the big box sports stores, there is almost no reason to ride without a helmet to at least prevent major…
While many comedians themselves may prefer a stiff drink, marijuana has, for some time, been the drug of choice for comedy audiences. From Lenny Bruce’s satirical pamphlet on the dangers of the herb, to sketch comedians like Cheech & Chong and Dave Chappelle building whole careers around it, entertainers have…
I’ve heard it a million times. The last time, I was looking at a Kandinsky, minding my own business, when someone behind me chattered to her friend, “Look at that. Ugh. I bet it’s worth a million dollars, and my three-year-old could paint it.” The truth is, the painting is…
When I was younger, I thought bisexuality was a party trick. I thought it was something that teenage girls used to get attention. Since I’ve stopped being a teenage girl, I’ve learned that there are more than just the three oversimplified dimensions — gay, straight and bi — of sexuality…
The official start of summer is still a week away, but for film fans it really begins tonight at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder, when the Chautauqua Silent Film Series kicks off its 27th year. In a long-standing collaboration with the Silent Film Trio, Hank Troy and the Mont-Alto Motion Picture…
The republic to the northwest — you know, Boulder — is really at its best in the summertime, when the forward-thinking city’s groovy vibe moves outdoors where everyone can share it. Summer in Boulder? It’s where those now-ubiquitous outdoor film screenings first caught on and music sounds better in Chautauqua’s…
Denver has lots of wonderful galleries that deserve to be seen — and then, as Tiffany Fitzgerald revealed in her list of “Five hidden Denver art galleries,” there are great spaces hiding in plain sight — in the back of bigger galleries. The Back Room at Zip 37, for example…
The six members of the Buntport Theater Company like taking up strange facts, historical anomalies and odd and eccentric bits of information and working them into their communally created plays. After one Buntporter spotted Tommy Lee Jones standing in line for tickets to La Bohème at the Santa Fe Opera,…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition 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…
In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play. Playwright Sarah Ruhl uses the orgasm as the prism through which she views the entire Victorian world — and, by extension, our own. From the orgasm, entirely misunderstood and invisible in those repressive times, emanate ripples that change not only the relationships…
