Life is a drag with Viva las Divas at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret

If life is a drag, why not play to the hilt? Since this is the second Wednesday of the month, Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret is presenting the Viva las Divas Art of Illusion Follies, hosted by female illusion artists (drag queens, in shorthand) Alexandra Winters and Harley Quinn and featuring a…

Law school is totally glamorous — at least in this CU musical

Glamorous Law School, a new musical written, directed and performed exclusively by University of Colorado Law School students, opens Thursday at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder. So how glamorous can a musical about law school be? Glamorous enough to provide a brief respite from actual law-school life,…

DaVinci machines exhibit energizes the Denver Pavilions

Get in gear! Discover the DaVinci In You, an exhibit of machines and inventions created by Leonardo DaVinci, has moved into the former Virgin Records space in the Denver Pavilions. It’s not quite the stuff of the nearby Victoria’s Secret, but it’s definitely a miraculous body of work. The exhibit,…

David Lynch’s ten weirdest scenes, by film

It’s a scientific fact that if you watch the canon of David Lynch’s full-length films back-to-back, your eyeballs will not only melt, but David Lynch himself will somehow randomly appear to film your eyeballs melting. Fortunately, for safety’s sake, there is a week of recovery time between each of the…

Wolf Creek posts record skier attendance numbers during 2011-2012 season

With many Colorado ski areas closing this weekend (some of them ahead of schedule) and recent headlines bemoaning this season’s abysmal snowpack across the state, it’s easy to lament the sad state of this year’s ski and snowboard season. But let’s accentuate the positive for a moment: Yesterday, Wolf Creek…

Reader: To Sir Noah Van Sciver, with love

Every week, Noah Van Sciver serves up both art and insight into local bands in 4 Questions, his comic. But occasionally we send him out to paint the entire town, as he did for the recent opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver…

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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…

Hockey enforcer flick Goon is rowdy but humane

Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is a polite Jewish boy from fictional Orangetown, Massachusetts, whose one God-given talent is having a skull made of granite and, on command, a rock-’em-sock-’em left-right combination. Doug is a bouncer, but his middle-class parents (Eugene Levy and Ellen David), in denial that their son…

Chess: A Musical is nearly saved by director Rod Lansberry

Did you understand it? I couldn’t hear the words. They just kept yelling and yelling. — Overheard in the women’s bathroom after the play The semi-operatic Chess doesn’t have a lot of dialogue, and the music ebbs and surges continually like the sea — sometimes lyrical, witty or moving, and…

Keshet organizes Queer Seder 2012 and more GLBTQ-inclusive events

Marking the beginning of Passover, the seder is a ritual meal that brings together generations of families — and tomorrow’s Queer Seder 2012 will definitely extend the definition of family. In conjunction with Integrity Print Group, Keshet is hosting a GLBTQ-welcome dinner at Temple Emanuel. “We work for the full…

Think big! Conference on World Affairs starts today in Boulder

Now in its 64th year, the Conference on World Affairs is a five-day mental fest that fires up at the University of Colorado Boulder campus today. Since the first CWA in 1948, thinkers from the forefront and fringes of science, politics, spirituality, medicine, academia and the arts have convened every…

An atheist visits The Thorn passion play

“People really bring their kids to this thing?” my girlfriend asks. The kids, dressed in their Sunday best, hold their parents’ hands as they walk toward the Magness Arena on the University of Denver campus. We follow behind, my girlfriend gripping my own hand tightly. At the foot of the…