Colorado painter Emilio Lobato invariably refers in his work — if only obliquely — to his family’s deep roots in the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado. He does it principally through his severely limited palette, which is dominated by the somber tones of the Southwestern scenery, and by the…
So, a group of Pakistani terrorists walks into a bar. No, wait: a group of Pakistani terrorists is living in Buffalo, New York. They’re washed up, out of work and utterly incapable of successfully martyring themselves until their boss suggests they blow up Niagara Falls. That’s where The B-Team, a…
The premise of K2, a play about two men trapped on a ledge at 27,000 feet on the side of the world’s second highest mountain with little chance of them both living through it together, is one that few humans thankfully will ever experience in true life. But a universal…
Two promising solo shows are opening today at SYNC Gallery, a two-year-old cooperative in the Santa Fe arts district: Tim McKay: Obligations of Being Human and Jim Olson: Pleasantly Unfocused. McKay pours acrylic paints onto canvases in order to establish the grounds for his neo-abstract-expressionist paintings; on top he affixes…
Loveland Ski Area’s twice-annual amateur slopestyle skiing and snowboarding competition is a celebration of that most ridiculous staple of new-school spring ski fashion: the extra tall T-shirt. “Last year we only ordered large and extra-large shirts, but even the littlest kids wanted the XLs,” says Loveland spokesman John Sellers. “I…
Journalist Tamara Banks has made four trips to South Sudan; she returned from the latest just twelve days ago. And at 8 p.m. tonight on “Sudan: The World’s Newest Country,” a special episode of Studio 12, Banks will lead a panel discussion on recent events in Sudan, as well as…
Swedish detective fiction has an icy edge: The cold, the darkness and the brooding populace biding time in the snow add something singular to the genre, something that could only come from the kind of mystery writer who’s spent too much time in the sauna. In fact, that hot, vaporous…
Sarah Vowell’s latest tome, Unfamiliar Fishes, takes its title from a letter by native Hawaiian David Malo, who was converted to Christianity by nineteenth-century missionaries but was still concerned about the impact of Caucasians on the islands. “If a big wave comes in,” he wrote, “large and unfamiliar fishes will…
For the tenth year, Denver will commemorate the life of civil rights leader César Chávez with a march. But this year’s celebration will focus on involving a broader spectrum of the community. “César Chávez was able to accomplish what he did because he had all these wonderful qualities as a…
Drag queen Joel Valenzuela, aka Angelina Essex, came out of retirement two years ago at the request of friend (and RuPaul’s Drag Race participant) Nina Flowers to perform in Flowers’s new monthly show, Drama Drag, at Tracks Nightclub, 3500 Walnut Street. Now Valenzuela is once again stepping out of the…
Steampunk is all about “what could have been” fictions, with dirigibles flying through the air, steam-powered mechs battling cowboys, and pocket watches telling the time. And it’s not as niche as you might think, as plenty of popular films and novels from both the past and the present have delved…
More than 100 published novels into his career, science fiction and fantasy author Kevin J. Anderson is still finding new territory to explore. After writing eleven books set in the world of Dune, he and Brian Herbert, son of Frank Herbert, are taking a new direction. “We had lots of…
“It’s so easy to ‘like’ a cause on Facebook or be what I call a Twi-activist,” says Denver Twestival spokeswoman Jane McGillem. “But it turns out it’s more difficult to turn that into off-line action and real face-to-face community interaction to organize people and support good causes.” It’s one of…
Gone are the days of the gas-guzzling trophy car. If you want to gain the respect of your automotively inclined peers today, you have to go green — as green as you can possibly go. And so the focus at the annual Denver Auto Show, which opens tonight at 6…
As evidenced by last fall’s Art Meets Beast event, at which a bison carcass was butchered before a fascinated audience of back-to-the-earth locavores, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver clearly wants to provide its visitors with the kind of hands-on experiences that stick to your bones. (After all, the two-day…
Erin Bakersmith of the Yoga Mat has been trying to put together a Good Beer, Good Yoga, Good Gracious event for some time — and today from noon until 1 p.m., she’ll finally host a yoga class by the brew tanks of Great Divide Brewing Co., 2201 Arapahoe Street. “We’re…
They’re baaack! Mel and Janie Master, whose original Cherry Creek food temple, Mel’s Bar and Grill, was one of the Mile High City’s most beloved restaurants until it shuttered in 2007, when the Master clan relocated to be closer to family on the East Coast, have re-turned to their former…
When The Boys in the Band opened off Broadway in 1968, it polarized the gay community: On the one hand, the play portrayed gay men in terms of noxious stereotypes — basically as fey, bitchy queens who needed only to down a couple of drinks in order to start stabbing…
The Paper Fashion Show’s beginnings were humble. “It was simple designs, simple dresses,” admits Delana Reilly, event co-chair. But while wearable clothing made from paper sounds inherently humble, over six years the fashion on display has grown far more elaborate. “It’s so ornate, with such detail,” Reilly says. “People do…
John Henry might have caused his own death in his victory over the steam hammer, but in so doing, he taught America a very important lesson: The new stuff might be glitzy and more efficient, but sometimes the old stuff is just better. That’s at least part of the explanation…
Within just a few hours of the time local artist Talia Kauk installed 1,000 paper cranes outside the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum yesterday, without permission, security came out, snipped them down and tossed them in the trash, and they were gone. Conceived as a commentary on the…
On Monday, we shared that the city had officially decided it was time to give Lodo patrons and residents a break by extending metered parking to cover overnight stays. This is great, considering the prior hassle of trying to move a car off the street by 2 a.m., especially if…
