Local boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone made good — very, very good — last night when the former University of Colorado students won nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, for The Book of Mormon. But while they were embraced by the traditional theater community, they showed some of the…
Though she was a nearly penniless hermit living in squalor, “Little Edie” Beale still managed to look good. The cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who, along with her mother “Big Edie” Beale are the subject of the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens that chronicles their lives as former socialites living in…
It’s no accident that Saturday’s art-district-wide RiNo Art Safari open studio event coincides with RiNo’s fledging monthy Second Saturday event; the two were tailor-made for each other, and the heart of the Second Saturday movement, the large art-studio enclaves Wazee Union and Walnut Workshop, has a lot to do with…
Now in its second season, the B-Sides film series at the Denver Film Center digs up and plays some kitschier movies of the last few decades as companions to this summer’s Film on the Rocks’ picks. For each movie shown at Red Rocks, B-Sides will offer a similar film at the Denver…
The pianist and composer Raymond Scott, born Harry Warnow in Brooklyn in 1908, is probably best-known for his cartoon music, which he didn’t even originally write for cartoons. But his history is way more more interesting than that: Scott was not only a pioneer in sound engineering and multi-track recording…
Might as well jump! Whitewater athletes at the Lyons Outdoor Games will be making the most of peak flow on the South Saint Vrain River as this year’s epic mountain snowpack melts like crazy — don’t miss the Adam Barron Memorial South Saint Vrain Creek Race on Saturday at 10…
The Denver Public Library’s annual Used Book Sale continues today under the white tents on the north side of the main branch, and it’s chock full of titles you wouldn’t want to pay $24.99 for, but on which you might risk a buck (or two). Which isn’t to say there’s…
Officially, June is bike month. Unofficially, however, it’s bike-anguish month as Denver’s daring, and occasionally dastardly, cyclists mount up and move out — into traffic. But the relationship between cyclists and motorists can be amicable. No, really, it can — if both groups of travelers would just stop being dickheads…
In the decade or so since the first Shrek destroyed the innocence of every thing to follow, it seems like it’s some sort of requirement that every kids’ movie fill at least 45 of its 90 minutes desperately winking and nodding at the parents with over-the-head pop-culture references and self-aware…
It’s hot, you’re cranky and all you want to do is get out of your house for a little while and soak in some culture — but you’ve been blasting the A/C all week and you’re scared of the incoming Xcel bill. Don’t worry: We are too, which is why…
I live in a transitional neighborhood. At least I think that’s what it’s called when white people move into a lower-class section of town and start sprucing it up with Ikea-looking exterior siding and park their way-too-expensive cars in tiny driveways. Unlike the North side, I mean, The Highlands, this…
After nineteen years, the Art Student League’s Summer Art Market taking place this weekend certainly lands in the category of time-honored; the annual sale, which has grown to include works by more than 200 artists, both known and unknown, is also the perfect reflection of what the ASLD is all…
For all those who thought fanny packs were the second-best thing since the dancing baby on Ally McBeal comes a revolutionary way to walk your dog, and all it will cost you is every shred of your dignity. It’s the Waist Waggy Walker, from Denver-based inventor Jill Burkardt, and it…
Last week, the Internetz finally caught wind of Denver-based artist Landon Meier’s exceptionally creepy Hyperflesh masks, most notably with a 2009 video of a creepy family walking down the 16th Street Mall with baby heads on. Meier’s masks have got a bit more traction recently with a perfect storm of…
Gear geeks, rejoice: Bruce Johnson brings his History of Gear project to Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering tonight at 8 p.m. (Table Mesa Shopping Center, 633 South Broadway) for his Great Gear Pioneers of Boulder lecture, where a display of vintage gear from pioneering historic Colorado companies will stand in stark contrast…
In case the Oprah Book Club and Barnes & Noble’s reading recommendations weren’t enough to get you to read generic best-sellers, the One Book, One Denver program is here to help: Once again, Arts and Venues Denver’s nominations for the contest that determines what all Denver shall read ignores local…
New York Rep. Anthony Weiner — Hold up. Get it? His name is Weiner. That’s his name, and also it refers to a penis. If you spell it differently. Funny stuff huh — Weiner faces a dirty photos scandal because he took pictures of his dick, through clothes. But that’s…
Used to be, the only adults who rode bikes were either weird fitness freaks or those with multiple DUIs. Times have changed, however, and more bicyclists than ever are taking to the pedals and jockeying for road space against drivers in an atmosphere of barely contained and increasing animosity. And…
While the common thread in all TACtile Textile Arts projects remains the preservation of old stitching skills and other fiber arts, there’s nothing old-fashioned about the way the center promotes handiwork: At show after show, the gallery features pieces by artists who re-work traditions in hip new ways. The latest…
Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, respectively, were once East Hampton’s most notorious recluses. The musical-theater piece Grey Gardens examines their fall from rich, socially spotlighted women to two hermits living in a home overrun with cats. Director Craig Bond first…
Little Shop of Horrors, the cult classic about a doo-wop-singing plant that eats people, is a musical based on a movie that is also most famous for its treatment as another movie — which is in part hilarious today because of our ’80s nostalgia, but was also hilarious in its…
Once upon a time, the two one-act plays that make up Buntport Theater’s An Evening (or Afternoon) of One-Acts were paired with other one-act plays. The first, “…And This Is My Significant Bother,” a collection of vignettes based on a collection of James Thurber short stories, was originally tied to…
