If you lean toward the campy, low-budget cinematic underground of John Waters and Andy Warhol, you’d do well to familiarize yourself with Mike and George Kuchar, twin brothers who rose through the ranks of avant garde filmmaking in the ’60s and ’70s by making such classics as Thundercrack, Sins of…
Photographer Scott Russell has documented the lives of Denver sign-fliers in Cardboard & Concrete, a show that debuts this weekend at Wazee Union, and puts a face — actually, eleven faces — on the city’s controversial homeless issues. But the show itself is stirring some controversy…
Suitable entertainment for a Knights of Columbus fundraiser, Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope finds the Most Holy Father, wracked with self-doubt about his new position, on a walkabout in Rome. Back at the Vatican, the cuddly cardinals who await his return square off in a round-robin volleyball tournament. The…
On an October night in 1987, Danielle de Picciotto experienced a series of traumatic events that confirmed her decision to leave New York City for Berlin. Memories of that night inspired de Picciotto’s latest film, The Glasshouse, a silent movie constructed from old footage that she saved from that era…
“Let’s be honest: the aerial acrobatic arts do have a certain sex appeal,” says Lynn Coleman, owner of the Denver-based Aerial Fabric Acrobatics apparatus company and producer of this weekend’s second annual Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival. “There’s a dance element, there’s a gymnastic element, there’s an acrobatic element, and there’s…
While it’s fairly certain that death by chocolate isn’t a real thing, you might come close to a cocoa-induced coma at this weekend’s Colorado Chocolate Festival. Now in its fifth year, the festival celebrates all things chocolate, including the chocolatier championships, chocolate cake competitions and Andrew Novick’s X-Treme Confection Creation…
“One of my pet peeves is when playwrights and producers and directors don’t give the audience credit for their intelligence. They don’t think the audience has the capacity to embrace unfamiliar characters; they dumb everything down,” says Luccian Lajoie, writer and star of the new locally produced play, Date* Interviews…
Today’s RiNo Open Studio Tour is a happy dalliance between the River North Arts District and Create Denver; the two happened to rendezvous simply because their dates tend to intersect, and it turns out that a major art-district tour is a nice topper to a full weekend of crowing about…
For moms who are sick of tradition, the Corner Office is planning a funkier way to celebrate Mother’s Day this year: the Sexy Mama Disco Brunch. “There are so many moms that I know that are young and hip and fun, and even moms that are my mom’s age who…
Debate over Denver’s potential urban camping ordinance has shined a spotlight on the homeless, but it has done little to put a face on them. Over the past few months, photographer Scott Russell photographed twenty faces, eleven of which will be on display in Cardboard & Concrete, an exhibit of…
Create Denver Week is growing by leaps and bounds: What started out several years ago as a folksy expo for creatives has turned into a full-fledged urban-art experience, casting a grown-up light on homegrown arts and culture. Not that the Create Denver Expo that started it all has gone away…
Ain’t nothing like the real thing — or close to it. Though Frank Zappa passed away almost twenty years ago, his legacy lives on in The GrandMothers of Invention, a group of expert musicians who all worked alongside the avant-garde composer at some point during his short but prolific career…
Ken Hamel, the single-handed keeper of Denverarts.org, a website documenting the goings-on of local artists and galleries, might seem like a driven man. You have to wonder how he manages to be in so many places at what seems like the same time, snapping photos and capturing the gist of…
To say that the work of artist Nick Cave (no, not that Nick Cave) is singular doesn’t quite do it justice, but his soundsuits, for which he is best known, are a sight to see. A dancer, sculptor, weaver and architect of three-dimensional wearable art, Cave fabricates human shells from…
The success of America’s craft brewers over the past five years — and the phenomenal growth of the industry — prompts this question: Do we even need American Craft Beer Week anymore? The Boulder-based Brewers Association created the celebration seven years ago as a way to recognize independent breweries and…
Wicked opens tonight at the Buell Theatre, making Denver the first market to host the award-winning musical for a fourth time. It’s a distinction that makes Randy Weeks, president of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, proud. “The team diligently works to maintain the quality of Wicked…. Hopefully, I’ll…
Sam Tallent gave up the daily grind four years ago to focus on comedy. A full-time comedian since that jump-off, Tallent co-founded the Fine Gentleman’s Club comedy troupe, a group that offers its Too Much Fun show every Wednesday night at the Deer Pile community space above City, O’ City…
Danielle de Picciotto relocated to Berlin in the late ’80s for a change of scenery and to get away from the violence of New York City, where the artist/musician had been living. In Berlin, de Picciotto quickly became immersed in the rich creative community of the city, and she co-founded…
Bongo Love isn’t afraid of the chainsaw. He’s won multiple awards at chainsaw carving competitions — including third place in Vancouver and fourth place at the World Cup in Germany. He’s also getting set to compete in Whittle the Wood in Craig this June. And he’s recently opened a tea…
On Saturday, when a collision of cultural celebrations — the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo — had people sporting big hats and sombreros all over town, one person’s style statement definitely topped all others. Every witch way. Here’s a look at this week’s Denver street style…
Scott Russell expected to find stories, and he did. On bike rides between Denver’s alleys and street corners, he found twenty of them, eleven of which will be on display this weekend at Wazee Union at Cardboard & Concrete, the project that resulted. But there were a few surprising turns…
Update, 5/18/12: We’re a little late in announcing our winner this week, but we did select one. Check your e-mail to see if you’re the lucky rider! “At one point, over 2,000 miles of narrow-gauge track probed the mountains of Colorado,” claims the Colorado Railroad Museum. Granted, this ol’ fixed…
