Even though it’s a Nobel Prize-winner, Elis Canetti’s novel Auto da Fe is still a pretty esoteric text. But not for much longer, says Brian Freeland, artistic director for the LIDA Project, which will bring the 1935 book to the stage for the first time with an original adaptation by…
The Teva Mountain Games in Vail this weekend feature two dozen events for cyclists, climbers, runners, fly fishermen, slackliners, kayakers, rafters, paddlers, photographers, filmmakers and even dogs — yes, dogs — but the best sport might just be the spectacle, says Vail Valley Foundation spokesman Paul Abling. “We love to…
Fashion Denver’s Brandi Shigley has made the professional transition from retailer to full-time fashion consultant, but she hasn’t dropped the curtain on her seasonal, signature fashion markets, where local designers show off their stuff at vendor tables and in mini runway shows. But that doesn’t mean she can’t shake things…
Street painting began in the palazzos of Renaissance-era Italy, when artists adorned the avenues with images of saints as the public looked on. Now in its tenth year, Denver’s Chalk Art Festival builds on this legacy by adding a colorful splash of beauty to Larimer Street. From dreamy pastel landscapes…
The Capitol Hill People’s Fair customarily kicks off the summer at Civic Center Park, making it one of those tried-and-true traditions that you almost don’t want to see change. You go for the walloping local entertainment roster on multiple stages and the quality craft vendors; you bring the kids so…
When you’re a writer on the level of Evergreen native (and longtime L.A. denizen) Daniel Pyne, who’s sharpened his pen writing scripts for everything from Miami Vice to The Manchurian Candidate, infusing a story about brotherly bonds with a big shot of suspense and an action-packed denouement doesn’t ruffle a…
We’ve seen a lot of punk this spring since MCA Denver and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center rolled out their double-barreled Search & Destroy series of exhibits and events referencing the West Coast Punk ethos. But tonight’s Appropriate Punk at Hinterland will swing that exploration into an unknown, multi-disciplinary territory…
Andrew Novick — Warlock Pincher, collector, Asian-pop aficionado, character-about-town — is into things, and one of those things is food. Already famous for his annual Peeps barbecue, he has of late gained a reputation for outrageous food events and edibles, such as the Denver County Fair’s out-of-control, one-with-everything pancake breakfast,…
Night and Day Vintage smells like cinnamon, and it looks like a scene inside Alice’s imagination. For those who enjoy retro deco without an empty-bank-account echo, it might as well be Wonderland. Located one block west of Broadway on 11th Avenue, Night and Day has an interior that leans heavily…
Update: Congrats to Matthew Fuerst, the winner of last week’s challenge. Matthew, check your e-mail for your prize instructions. For everyone else, here is this week’s Guess Where I’m Biking challenge. According to history buffs, this public park was purchased by the City of Denver from the federal government in…
While many people laid out by the pool or devoured BBQ on Memorial Day weekend, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit or old T-shirt and shorts, true street fashion never takes time off. For proof, look no further than these stylistic movers and shakers we found downtown over the…
Carbondale-based filmmaker Skip Armstrong’s short film The Mother premiered online this week, the second of five films in his series Of Souls + Water for Forge Motion Pictures. The Mother, presented online in partnership with NRS Films and New Belgium Brewing, is a meditative profile of 67-year-old kayaker Melody Shapiro…
The term “weird artist” may seems like an oxymoron. Contemporary art in itself is weird: it breaks apart the structural rules put in place before the Modernist movement and asks the viewer to suspend disbelief in order to transcend into an unrealistic world. Yet, some art is just weirder than…
I met Jenny Morgan within twelve hours of stepping onto the filthy and gorgeous streets of Manhattan for the first time in 2007. I was assisting Sarah Cass on a photo shoot of one of Jenny’s portrait subjects, and I have been following her work religiously since that moment. This…
Curious Theatre Company cracked open a whole new fascination for troubled color-field artist Mark Rothko with its production of the engaging play Red, in which the painter and his assistant discuss the meaning of life and art while painting a fresh canvas onstage. And just as the play offers a…
Burning Man is hands-down the biggest celebration of life, art, music and culture that America has ever seen. The week-long event held in the days leading up to Labor Day in the Black Rock Desert — roughly 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada — will have approximately 50,000 people in…
Mountainfilm in Telluride closed out its 34th annual festival on Monday with an awards ceremony in Telluride’s Town Park, recognizing six films for various prizes and naming the nonprofit organization Peaceful Uprising as winner of the 2012 Moving Mountains Prize. The award — and $12,000 — goes to a nonprofit…
I have bad taste in all facets of my life. I’m attracted to pink and turquoise bathroom fixtures, knock-off Chanel purses and PT Cruisers outfitted with the many personalities of Taz. My favorite flavors are black licorice and Alka-Seltzer, and if I could, I would serve every meal with Kalamata…
When I parked the car on Tennyson Street Friday night, I was still two blocks away from the Oriental Theater — and I could already hear the Whomp Truck thundering bass-heavy music into the night air as a prelulde to Cirque Voltaire III: Blitzkrieg. And as I walked to the…
Late last year, spurred by a seeming disconnect among many factions of the local fashion world, style mavens Kathy Bacon and Mona Lucero put their heads together with Ginger White Brunetti of Create Denver and Stephanie Blake of Blake Communications to investigate the concept of a unified fashion board or…
There was real mayhem at the 2010 Mayhem Festival, with one man facing a long prison term for his role in the fracas. “It was like getting socked in the gut,” Eric Swanson says of learning that he could spend 48 years in prison. Except that he could actually be…
Denver has been on a culture binge over the past decade, with major milestones being marked off every couple of years. It began in 2006 with the construction of the Hamilton Building, which doubled the size of the Denver Art Museum and became world-famous thanks to Daniel Libeskind’s futuristic design…
