There’s not much that’s Victorian about tonight’s Victorian Fetish Ball. There’s nothing repressed or prudish about the erotic party, and you’re more likely to see bare flesh than you are ankle-length skirts. (If it’s anything like past events, however, you’ll see corsets – lots of ’em.) Now in its twelfth…
While the rest of Denver basked in the summer sunshine, MCA Denver has been shrouded over for the past few months as part of the exhibition Another Victory Over the Sun. But that show is now closed, and the panels and draperies have been pulled off the windows and skylights…
Fashion Denver’s fall fashion show, Revolution, will have some surprises this time around. “There will be over twenty designers, and I would say half of them are brand-new to the fashion-market scene,” says Fashion Denver founder Brandi Shigley. That includes a men’s custom-tailored shirt company, jewelry, clothing and some eclectic…
If you attended the Indie Wearable Craft style mart in April, then you’ll know what to expect for the October incarnation. “The concept of the style mart is that everybody’s merchandise is together, like in a store,” explains organizer Kirsten Coplans (who puts on the event with Jil Cappuccio and…
Ghost stories about the Croke-Patterson Mansion, 420-428 East 11th Avenue, date to the 1890s, when original owner Thomas Croke was too spooked to stay and sold the place to Thomas Patterson, then the owner of the Rocky Mountain News. The mansion is now busy haunting two new books from the…
Denver photographer John Bonath doesn’t just take pictures. Nor is he a photographer necessarily obsessed with process. In addition to being a camera artist, Bonath is part pictorial set designer, part dreamer and part imaginative mind-bender, who spins gold from ordinary and often disparate materials and slaps them on the…
Local artist Xi Zhang ended up here, direct from China, because of an obsession with the Beat poets; the lure of Naropa University and Denver’s Beat history landed him at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he was once a student and is now a teacher. And…
“There are cranes all over this town,” marveled one recent visitor to Denver, who wasn’t talking about birds, but an even rarer sight during the economic doldrums: building cranes. Suddenly, you can spot them all over downtown. With any luck — and a lot of planning — they’re helping to…
In the past few years, the Denver Botanic Gardens has become a place to see major art shows, and this season’s main offering is dedicated to Allan Houser, the late Native American sculptor. In conjunction, DBG exhibition director Lisa Eldred has laid out a schedule that features the work of…
Multimedia artist Tara Rynders is at it again — this time bringing her vision of dance, videography and site-specific art to life though Railroad Stories, a video series opening Thursday night at PlatteForum…
Call it an unlucky guess: In March 1963, the Amazing Criswell, born Jeron Criswell Konig and otherwise known as Jeron Criswell King, predicted that John F. Kennedy would not run for re-election because something would happen to him in November 1963. In the course of a career of wildly inaccurate…
When local actor Royce Wood saw an announcement last week that Lev Grossman’s fantasy novel The Magicians was in development to become a Fox television show, he knew he wanted to be a part of it. “How on earth do I get from here, Denver, Colorado, to you know, the…
Every once in a while it’s satisfying to play a game where the only real objective is to watch things die in horrible and bloody ways. And thats’ what you’ll be doing in Roly Poly Eliminator 2, a new game from Adult Swim that takes the adorable play style of…
We recently noticed an uptick in traffic to our December 2010 post about the 2011 Cyclepassion calendar, featuring Boulder’s Heather Irmiger wearing considerably less than she’d typically wear on her way to winning back-to-back-to-back mountain-bike championships. Why the sudden surge of new interest? Irmiger won Women’s Cross Country Mountain Bike…
Like a zombie from the grave, a good burlesque emcee is impossible to keep down, and Cora Vette is a superb burlesque emcee. So it was inevitable that she’d be bringing back last year’s smash hit Zombielesque! for another run. Changing locations from Bender’s Tavern to Bar Standard — and…
The play Enrique’s Journey, adapted by Su Teatro artistic director Anthony Garcia from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nazario, debuted last weekend in Denver, bringing to light the harrowing story of Central American immigrants who risk life and limb riding the tops of freight trains north, in search of…
If the Rapture came this past May 21 — as Harold Camping had predicted — no one noticed. But not to worry: Camping, who was born in Boulder more than nine decades ago and went on to found a biblical empire, now says that the real date to focus on…
The 79 full-time musicians of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra have been taking steep cuts. They collectively agreed to give up $530,000 in September, and they took another hit when fall programming was trimmed back. To help soften the blow, the CSO Musicians Assistance Fund was created on October 6. The…
Eleven of the twenty resorts profiled in Ski Magazine’s reader’s choice list of the top twenty ski resorts in the Western Unied States this year are from Colorado, including six of the top ten. And while Utah’s Deer Valley takes the top spot in a snub that just might force…
Colorado plein-air painter Joellyn Duesberry has a national reputation and an independent streak, to boot. She recently hung a retrospective show at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (it’s now closed) and now has a beautiful monograph to remember it by: Elevated Perspectives: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry. Duesberry will…
In late December 1999, while the artist then known as the artist formerly known as Prince was preparing to party, and while the rest of the world was shoveling canned goods into their bunkers in preparation for the would-be-apocalypse of Y2K, Kim Miller was trying to get to Jerusalem to…
The Colorado Ballet is going for grandeur and maybe a little Hollywood flash this season with Swan Lake, the opening production of the 2011-2012 season. Most apparent is the promotional material for the ballet, which seems to pay homage to posters for Black Swan, the film that earned Natalie Portman…
