Update: Make that four ways: We’ve just received this notice from Planned Parenthood’s Monica McCafferty. Due to unpredictable and incremental weather and road conditions, we are canceling this evening’s candlelight vigil at the Capitol in honor of World AIDS Day. We will reschedule the event for a time in 2012…
This year’s holiday play at Denver’s Dangerous Theatre has everything you could ever want to see: rednecks, guns, cussing, sex, violence, intrigue — and an angel in his underwear. Kentucky Claus & the Rebel Elves, which opens tonight, is an hour and 45 minutes of backwoods insanity, starting with six…
When people picture an artist’s life, they usually envision something romantic: Gene Kelly in An American in Paris, opening the window to his rooftop Parisian studio, letting in the morning light while singing “I Got Rhythm,” and dancing out the door to make a living selling art on the streets…
The first-ever Roller Derby World Cup gets underway today in Toronto at 5 p.m. EST (that’s 3 p.m. here in Denver), kicking off with a Canada vs. France bout. The entire tournament is being webcast live at www.DerbyNewsNetwork.com, and DNN is calling Team USA the “prohibitive favorite,” thanks in no…
If this weekend is just too long for your so-twee-it-hurts heart to wait for Fancy Tiger’s Holiday Handmade Craft Fair or the Holiday Mancraft event at Ink Lounge, West Elm in Cherry Creek is inviting five Etsy-approved crafters to sell their wares tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Unlike…
In his comedy act, Anthony Jeselnik plays the asshole, cracking dark, arrogant, and hilarious one-liners. The persona has gotten him far; Jeselnik is now a prominent figure on Comedy Central’s roasts, has a successful stand-up career, and is in development for a television show on the same network. Jeselnik will…
Just in time for the holidays, Jenny An served up the “Seven tastiest feast scenes in movies,” ranging from Eat Drink Man Woman to the Americanized version of that flick,Tortilla Soup, to The Nutty Professor and, of course, Big Night. Our plate looked pretty full, but then Anonymous responded with…
While collaborating on the 2007 film Once, musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova proved that life can imitate art, as their real-life love connection mirrored the on-screen romance. The Swell Season, which opens tonight at the Denver FilmCenter, 2510 East Colfax Avenue, follows Hansard’s and Irglova’s love story from its…
Stuart Alden of Ink Lounge knows the craft-fair routine. With his wife, Nicky, he screenprints and sells unique calendars at various shows and markets, which, he admits, are mostly a woman’s world. “I’m usually one of a handful of guys in there,” he says. “And a lot of the time,…
Technically, it’s not yet winter — December 22 is the first official day of the chilly season — but it’s not too soon to start chasing the cold-weather blues away at Winter Wow!, a day of dance, yoga and meditation workshops. The program kicks off with an Afro-fusion dance session,…
If you’re at all familiar with the work of Tiffany Smyth — she won a 2009 Best of Denver award for her masks, available at her ArtsMyths boutique on South Broadway — then you might kinda, sorta know what to expect at tonight’s Fashion, Music, Dance event, featuring ArtsMyths and…
If you’re wondering what to do with your charity dollars this season, the Wynkoop Brewing Company has just the package: For $25 ($30 at the door), you can join the Parade of Darks this afternoon, sampling seventy-plus beers from breweries big and small, with the beery knowledge that 100 percent…
Santa is coming! Lots of Santas are coming! As part of this year’s lighting ceremony, Breckenridge is introducing Race of the Santas, which is exactly what it sounds like. “It involves a hundred Santas sprinting, running, jogging and skipping down Main Street,” explains Breck spokeswoman Rachel Zerowin. “The idea is…
Last holiday season, Stranded Jewelry proprietor Amelia Deleon brought her annual holiday trunk show out of the living room and into Illiterate Gallery. The move was so successful that this year she decided the more the merrier — and so the jewelry designer is adding the work of other local…
Though Patsy Cline played her last show in 1963, Kelley Zinge will bring her back to life tonight when she stars in A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, a tribute to the legendary country singer. A local jazz singer who’s found success in her own right, Zinge has performed this…
Erin Algiere, Sandra Fettingis and Kelsey Dalton worked together at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, but that’s not all they had in common: Like many people who labor behind the scenes at museums, they were all artists, aspiring or otherwise. And since they were far from alone in that…
In his comedy act, Anthony Jeselnik often comes off as an arrogant jerk. But a successful one: The comedian’s resume includes writing for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and Sarah Silverman, as well as last year’s Comedy Central Records’ Shakespeare album. And he insists that the jerk act is just…
The award-winning theatrical tour of The Lion King launched in Denver oh-so-many years ago — and theater-lovers will be thrilled to hear that it’s back for another run. “In big, commercial musical theater, there are still a handful of shows that seem to be magical. Phantom is still Phantom. Les…
Fancy yourself a socially and environmentally conscious consumer? Brian Baker, who visits factories around the globe to make sure they’re not running sweatshops or spewing toxic waste into the air and water, certainly hopes so. He’s leading a talk titled “Night With a Futurist” at the Da Vinci Institute tonight,…
It began with a figurine. The story behind veteran New Yorker reporter Susan Orlean’s most recent venture into literary journalism is simple, though the book that resulted is a bit more in-depth. When Orlean was a child, her grandfather kept a toy version of canine TV star Rin Tin Tin…
Forget Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Carol or even Home Alone: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is the quintessential American holiday movie of the last century. See for yourself tonight when Clark Griswold once again battles trashy relatives, uppity neighbors and a psychotic squirrel at Movie and a Martini, an…
There’s a simple and obvious recipe for A Christmas Twist, and it goes something like this: “Take A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, and throw it in a blender,” jokes the play’s director, Clint Heyn. Presented by Firehouse Theater beginning tonight at 7:30 p.m., the show, which was written by…
