Trekking through RiNo on an Art Safari

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…

Embrace your inner freak, have a peek at Delirium: Circus of the Senses

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…

Five reasons to volunteer for Girls Rock Denver

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…

Photos: Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum

“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…

Little Edie’s top ten outfits from Grey Gardens

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…

The Art Safari and Second Saturday collide in RiNo this weekend

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…

Raymond Scott’s looniest tunes: An introduction

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…

Denver Public Library: One City, One Book Sale

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…

Comment of the day: “Turn Signals are Sexy”

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…