Evergreen Lake was lit up by flood lights last Saturday night in preparation for Skate the Lake, part of the Evergreen IceFest. While workers cleared the lake to create a skating rink, Michael Campe and his crew from Colorado Ice Sculptures were hard at work carving a putt-putt golf course…
If the flurry of excitement and variety we’re being offered in January is any indication, this is going to be an amazing year for theater. The month opens on a light note: a 1930s Noel Coward play set in the big-haired 1980s. This isn’t the kind of interpretation you expect…
If “Go ice climbing” is on your New Year’s resolution list, this is your week: The Ouray Ice Park is 100 percent open, and the seventeenth annual Ouray Ice Festival starts on Thursday. Ouray is a serious six-hour drive from Denver — but if you’re serious about learning, this is…
John Hickenlooper still isn’t sure why he was the only elected official invited to sit in the President’s Box with Barack Obama and this year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients: Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins, Neil Diamond, Meryl Streep and Barbara Cook. But Colorado’s governor knows it was the thrill of a…
Film-going ain’t what it used to be. But thanks to the Denver Film Society, you can enjoy an old-school viewing experience on Tuesdays in January, when the DFS will roll out brand-new prints of five foreign classics on the big screen at the Denver FilmCenter. The weekly screenings flicker on…
Takeshi Kitano’s latest finds the actor-director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and the Tortoise, Glory to the Filmmaker!) dealing with artistic endeavor. Stark and brutal, Outrage is a litany of startlingly violent set pieces filmed in Kitano’s decorous, aestheticized style, gunshots blooming…
We know — you’re excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And The Hunger Games. So are we. We’re also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to put…
Happy New Year! Show and Tell scribes are taking the day off — we’re out celebrating the good news that the world is not going to end in 2012, as revealed in 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, a film made by the folks at PeaceJam. And if the world isn’t…
Depending on who you’re listening to, the world is going to end in 2012, or the world will undergo some sort of transformation. Either way it’s spiritual. What’s not spiritual, however, are these cold, hard numbers: The top ten posts on Show and Tell during 2011, which may or may…
I never make resolutions or even expect to be able to stick to one; it’s my nature to veer, day-to-day, with the winds and the waves. If I’m hungry, I eat. If I want to be alone, I cocoon. That’s just me, but I’m not at all against the idea…
The Mi Pueblo Market at 125 Knox Court in the Barnum neighborhood might be the best grocery store in the entire world. On any given day, the clean and brightly decorated market is warmly bumping a reggaeton Rihanna remix as shoppers peruse cascading bins of fresh avocados, bananas and tomatillos…
The road to Alderon was paved with good intentions, as was One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, but unfortunately the Force can’t fix everything. Charlie Ross’s solo adaptation of the first (not the second, thank Emperor Palpatine!) Star Wars trilogy was presented to a packed house at the Lone Tree Arts Center,…
Here’s something to ponder in 2012: The new year will mark, among other things, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. And, as Chris Loffelmacher of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program points out, “How often does a shipwreck turn 100?” That’s why, when Loffelmacher rolls…
The sign didn’t quite seem right: Carioca Cafe — better known to patrons as Bar Bar, one of the best and last true dives in downtown Denver — will soon be serving espresso? But the Budweiser-emblazoned banner hanging on the newly installed outdoor smoking corral was telling the truth…sort of…
For almost three decades, the modest Kloewer house at 4990 South Elati Street has featured an outsized holiday light show — a favorite annual sight, as Susan Froyd describes here. But after this year’s display, the family is pulling the plug for good on January 5…
It’s no secret that Colorado ski areas have been embracing social media: Vail Resorts’ EpicMix Photo app is the gold standard, and even the tiniest ski areas in the state now have very active Facebook and Twitter feeds. Every “impression” counts, especially when you have skiers and snowboarders sharing photos…
Leo Franco is a veteran of the Denver art scene, showing his work at Spark Gallery and Zip 37 on a regular basis. But he still has to work a second job. In fact, he laughed when asked if he was a full-time artist. Hard. “I have two kids in…
We’ve discussed many weighty subjects on Show and Tell over the past year, but the all-time comment-getter remains Jeff Otte’s “White people with dreads.” Just yesterday, Bongzilla weighed in with this: I’m sorry, but every comment I’ve read on here has been EXTREMELY racist.. All you’re doing is finger pointing…
Jews like me are always finding ways to pass the time when the rest of you are putting up and taking down your trees. Sure, we light our little candles for eight nights (whenever those might fall), exchange gifts, and share latkes and chocolate gelt and other holiday delicacies, but…
It takes longer for most people to argue over their favorite parts of the original Star Wars trilogy than it takes Charlie Ross to just act them all out. The force has been with him since 2002, and the actor and comedian has visited four continents and more than 180…
Forget about bundling up against the cold: at Midnite Martini’s Winter Burlescapades, it’s all about taking it off. “We wanted to provide an alternative to the usual kid-focused holiday events going on right now,” explains Midnite Martini herself. “It provides comedy, dancy music and good ol’-fashioned live entertainment that adults…
Drag Nation: Apocalypse, a holiday spin on Tracks Nightclub’s Friday tradition, goes off with an even bigger bang tonight as the raucous band of queens welcomes Ru Paul’s Drag Race contestant Alexis Mateo to the stage. But the almost-New Year’s Eve bash has another larger-than-life reason to celebrate: Nina Flowers…
