The Amazing Acro-Cats: Is my Munchkin cat Hollywood material?

Take a look at these cats: These are the Amazing Acro-Cats, which have skills that make even the cutest of house cats look like Garfield’s fatter, more sarcastic cousins. The second I saw this photo, I wondered (and then doubted) whether my cat has similar chops — whether she’s secretly…

Photos, Video: “Virga: The Sound Performance”

Dozens of art admirers gathered at the Delgany bridge by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Friday night to view “Virga: The Sound Performance,” a work that featured sound designed to complement Virga, the art piece on the bridge…

The ZIP POP! pop-art show at Zip 37 closes this weekend

ZIP POP! at Zip 37 provides a scope into the phenomena of pop culture, and how art plays into the societal dialogue between humans and the world they create for themselves. Dana Cain, who juried the groups show, explains that pop art delves into the concept that “everything is art”…

Q&A: Six and Four Articulations tour dances into Denver

Summer heat keeping you glued in front of the fan? Get up and get out to Six and Four Articulations, a physical, visual and intellectual dance performance presented by the touring group of the same name at 8 p.m. tomorrow, at Work|Space. In advance of the show, we caught up…

Denver’s streetcar routes are retraced by the Rail~Volutionaries

To the stroller-pushing mommies and patio-side drinkers who lined West 32nd Avenue on Sunday afternoon, it probably looked like just another Cruiser ride, as thirty folks on bikes trekked up the Highland hills in Sunday’s 100-degree heat. Yet this sweaty mass, organized by the Denver New Rail~Volutionaries, was on a…

At the Denver Art Museum, change is good

Right now there are, by my count, a total of nineteen shows up in the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building and across the street in the Gio Ponti tower. But even a professional show-goer like myself can hardly be expected to keep up, especially with all of the other attractions…

Slam Nuba celebrates another big victory tonight at the Crossroads

Steamrolling toward the August nationals in Charlotte, North Carolina, the 2012 Slam Nuba slam poetry team (and 2011 national winner) is just back in town after snagging a first-place victory in the Southwest Shootout in Tulsa. The Slam Nuba crew will celebrate tonight, with help from guest poet Tongo Eisen-Martin…

Painting and jazz brighten summer Sundays in City Park

Starting today, June 24, you can enjoy live jazz while you learn to paint in City Park. Every Sunday through the summer, Colors & Bottles offer $35 classes from 5 to 8 p.m., which happen to coincide with the City Park jazz series. So bring a blanket, an easel and…

Make Music Denver clangs through downtown

Tourists who hit downtown yesterday will leave the Mile High City with a slightly exaggerated impression of the role music plays in the workaday lives of Denverites. During the first-ever Make Music Denver — an all-day, outdoor showcase of local music that builds on a global movement to celebrate music…

Cara a Cara: A Museo de las Americas photo preview

The Museo de las Americas will be full of fresh faces tonight at its twentieth-anniversary celebration and mask exhibit, Cara a Cara. Before you go to the show, check out this preview of some of the colorful masks from the collection All photos courtesy of the Museo de las Americas,…

All the mall’s a stage for Make Music Denver

All the mall’s a stage for today’s Make Music Denver Denver loves its music, whether sounding off in outdoor amphitheatres, concert halls clubs…or the streets. That’s where it will be today, when the Downtown Denver Partnership brings Make Music Denver, our own little slice of today’s global celebration of World…