We never ran into Dr. Livingstone last Saturday in the urban jungle, but we did see a lot of art during the district-wide RiNo Art Safari open studio artwalk event, a generous come-on to the public by artists and gallerists into River North Art District. During the space of only…
Delirium: Circus of the Senses came to the Oriental Theater on Saturday, June 11. Aerialists, drag acts, erotic photography, juggling sword-swallowing, glass-eating, go-go dancers, pole dancers, burlesque dancers, a Bette Midler impersonator and at least one fetish act rounded out Delirium. Check out the full Delirium slideshow. Below are a…
Now in its third year, Girls Rock Denver is committed to empowering young women through, as co-director Katie Rothery explains “music education, creation, and performance.” They do this every summer at a week long program where campers learn to play an instrument, form a band, write an original song, and…
On Friday, the U.S. Forest Service approved plans for Breckenridge Peak 6, a proposed expansion in White River National Forest that would open 550 additional acres at the Breckenridge Ski Resort and add to the resort’s “comfortable carrying capacity” by 1,100 guests (the resort regularly exceeds its current CCC). The…
“This is the first time a museum has ever explored one material across its collections, and I think Marvelous Mud will shatter expectations of clay,” says Denver Art Museum director Christoph Henrich. Photos from the opening day of that exhibit, Saturday, June 11, 2011. Photos by Kelly Kaoudis. See the…
Devil’s Plaything is equal parts technological thriller and science fiction, but it’s also a very human drama about a man’s relationship with his grandmother and her past. Author Matt Richtel will be on hand at the Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue at 7:30 p.m. tonight to read from the book and…
On Saturday, the Ross-Cherry Creek Branch Library hosted a stuffed felt owl craft workshop, put together and led by Stitch Fetish’s Lalania Simone. It was a fun, easy project — and, come on: Look at this guy. Here’s a breakdown of how to make one:…
June is National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month, which is great, but can also be boring. For instance, Thursday and Friday are Fresh Veggies Day and Eat Your Vegetables Day, respectively. But first things first: today is Sewing Machine Day — 24 hours during which we honor the sewing machine,…
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…
