Director/producer Todd Cassetty is used to working with pop sensations like Taylor Swift. He produced two Taylor Swift music videos and seven Taylor Swift TV specials — most notably, her 2010 NBC Thanksgiving Special. More recently, though Cassetty has set his sights on a culture somewhat less predictable than his…
Getting a dance show off the ground in this economy can be a real circus, a delicate dance requiring high-flying financial acrobatics. Nancy Smith, the founder and artistic director of Frequent Flyers Productions, a Boulder-based aerial dance troupe, is uniquely qualified for the job. Last month Smith turned to Kickstarter.com…
Wish your favorite purse was just a little bigger? Have a bag that is perfect in every way, except there’s no place in it to put your keys? Handbags.com and Big Buddha Handbags want to hear from you. Running now through April 18, the companies are asking for video submissions…
Denver is no stranger to Wicked. The Broadway show has toured through here three times before, and April 11 marked the start of a fourth run in this city. Arguably, no one can celebrate the show’s return more than lead actor Andy Kelso, who plays the role of Fiyero, the…
It’s not a bad thing to get a red card at the Colorado Gay Volleyball Association’s Red Card Party at Hamburger Mary’s Club M this Saturday. “Everyone who comes to see the show gets a red card — and they get to give their “violation” to their favorite model or…
What’s striking about Cheryl Strayed’s writing is its radical sincerity and vulnerability. She pens personal essays as responses in her advice column Dear Sugar (which was written anonymously until recently), dishing out loving, thoughtful advice to questioners she addresses as “honey bun” and “sweet pea.” Her new memoir, Wild: From…
“While President George H.W. Bush had been known for saying ‘Read my lips,’ I began urging colleagues and reporters to ‘Read my pins.'” — Madeleine Albright. That’s the basic story behind Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, an exhibit opening Sunday at the Denver Art Museum. A showcase of…
This weekend rules. Just saying. There’s tons of stuff to do that won’t leave you eating cereal for dinner for a week, and whether you want to see a feminist spoken word night, go to a huge comedy show, or dance at an art opening, it’s all here — and…
First rule of Soundpainting: You do not have to be a virtuoso. And from there, the sky’s the limit: It doesn’t matter how old you are, what you play — if anything — and whether or not you can even read music. Soundpainting is a kind of improvisational “Simon Says”…
Leonardo DaVinci has come to the Denver Pavilions. Discover the DaVinci In You, featuring replicas of sixty machines and other inventions created by DaVinci, has moved into the former Virgin Records space — and it’s quite a change from the other things on display in the Pavilions…
With their red-brick walls and stone turrets, many of America’s mental hospitals look eerily like sanctuaries. Some of these facilities genuinely endeavored to do good. Others have darker histories, belied by the elegance of the architecture. In The Empty Places, a photo collection and soon-to-be-produced documentary, Ralena Gordon tries not…
Sister Spit is coming. The queer, feminist-minded, spoken-word tour will land at St. Cajetan Event Center on the Auraria campus Friday night, and at the helm of the event is founder, author and icon Michelle Tea. From her debut memoir The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in…
What’s better than scoring a perfectly fitting designer dress or a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes on a shopping expedition? Snagging the good stuff at a decent price — or, even better, for free. This weekend, Fast Geek Boutique will host its first-ever Spring Cleaning Clothing Swap and Fashion Denver will…
Besides blowing the mind of everyone who ever heard it, Sgt. Pepper broke a lot of ground: The album radically expanded the concept of what pop music could be, in the process inventing the studio technology needed to make it happen. There’s probably not another person alive who can articulate…
Julie Puma had a month to put together her new show, Let’s Get it Straight, and she diverted from painting, her usual medium, into snapshot aesthetic photography. The biggest challenge for Puma wasn’t the medium, however. Rather, it was spotlighting her own personal life. Let’s Get it Straight” offers a…
The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of those reliable touchstones that can always be used as a time-keeper for historical fiction. Although only the fifth most deadly shipwreck of all time, it is undeniably the most famous. The drama of one of the most expensive, “unsinkable” nautical marvels…
Star Trek and Star Wars and all that descended from them inured us to the real hardships of space travel by making it look so easy. But what was it really like for Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit the planet? The Soviet cosmonaut…
Bree Daves discovered how the other 1 percent lives when she went to Beaver Creek for a night, and shared her discoveries in “Five things destitute dames need to know about shacking up in fancy hotels.” Among other things, you do not wear the fluffy robe from your room to…
The story of the Evil Companions goes something like this: Several decades ago, a secret society of Denver writers would meet, drink and gab at downtown watering holes, and while the conversations might have been deep, they weren’t always pretty. But when the Evil Companions concept was resurrected in 1992,…
Even people born decades after the Beatles first banded together know that Eric Clapton played lead guitar on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” as well as many other Fab Four facts. Those truly obsessed fans won’t want to miss composer and engineer Scott Freiman, arguably the world’s foremost expert on…
Ever since Jill Warner and her husband, Erick Roorda, opened Mod Livin’ ten years ago, they’ve been fielding questions about Charles and Ray Eames on a daily basis: “What did they design? How can you tell which pieces are theirs? Why are they important?” But it wasn’t until this year…
What does it mean to be a sex worker? Former tradeswoman/current erotic performance artist Cassandra and professional dominatrix Mistress Djuna will answer that question at tonight’s installment of Feminism & Co.: Sex Work, part of an interactive lecture and performance series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver that explores…
