The opera singers who regularly let their hair down at Opera on Tap, the up-close-and-personal monthly bar night at Bender’s Tavern, will further reveal their inner selves during tonight’s installment, the Musical Month of March. And though opera is inherently musical, this “musical” refers to what blossoms on Broadway rather…
Alien meets girl. Girl falls for alien. Government agents track alien as she and her intergalactic friends attempt to save their home planet through heartbreak. The plot for Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same might be a little out there — actually, galaxies out there — but its creators weren’t…
Game of Thrones Season 2 is coming. Game of Thrones, HBO’s latest popular series that’s been described as sort of The Sopranos meets Lord of the Rings, debuts its second season Sunday night, but Denver-area viewers can get a sneak peek of the new series tonight…
The sound of hammers was deafening at Clear Creek Academy of Jewelry and Metal Arts over the weekend, when students learned the ancient metal-forming techniques of chasing and repoussé. The workshop featured the guidance of master silversmith Valentin Yotkov, a Bulgarian-born expert in the craft who has trained members of…
A new MCA Denver satellite show, Richard Peterson and the Art of a Warrior Tribe, opened on Friday, March 23, at the Gildar Gallery, and will be up through April 20. Curated by the MCA’s Adam Lerner, it’s one cog in the machine called Search & Destroy, an exploration of…
The idea is “to turn the inside of Rhinoceropolis into a temporary fantasy village,” says Colin Ward of the art installation Fantasia 2012, which he’s organized along with Stephan Herrera. “We want to pack paradise into one night; like a magic spell and welcoming of the springtime.” That night will…
While I think I have taste, I’m just another plebe at the Yves Saint Laurent show, wandering through the DAM, slobbering and snorting smelling salts to keep from fainting at each new discovery. So when it came time to pick favorites, I asked someone with a more sophisticated eye –…
On a particularly frigid night in the winter of 2009, Weslie Coleman, Kate Pleuss and Ben Turk were sitting in their collective home and talking about how cold they were. Incredibly cold, they decided. So the three members of the revolutionary theater group Insurgent Theatre decided to plan an escape…
Chess comes with almost as many stereotypes (the nerd, the genius, the poorly adjusted savant) and cliches (the pawn, checkmate, knights and chivalry) as it does pieces. But director Rod Lansberry isn’t interested in any of them. Tomorrow, he and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities will launch…
A group of local theater owners, actors and the newly-minted president of the Colorado Theatre Guild met at Denver’s Dangerous Theatre Sunday night to share ideas on how to work together to share resources and information. This wasn’t an official Colorado Theatre Guild meeting, but rather a gathering inspired by…
Will Mondo get robbed again, or will he finally triumph? That’s still the big question on the minds of loyal fashionistas across the very universe. But either way, we already know that Mondo Guerra has a bright future ahead of him…
In 1919 rancher J. Frank Norfleet got swindled twice by a roving group of slick con artists, who cleaned him out of $45,000 with a fake stock-exchange scam similar to the “Big Con” operation in The Sting. But rather than embrace defeat, Norfleet became the “boomerang sucker.” He spent the…
UPDATE: Mondo won, as you know. Read all about it here: “It’s a celebration, bitches! Mondo Guerra wins Project Runway All Stars”Denver designer Mondo Guerra is about to emerge from the Project Runway vortex after a two-year stay, and he’ll be the latest personality to try and prove that there…
For this spring’s Logan Lecture series at the Denver Art Museum, Modern & Contemporary curator Gwen Chanzit chose to focus on five artists whose primary concern is for the materials they work with. Postminimalist artist Richard Tuttle, whose sculptural works weave in and out of various mediums and techniques while…
Artist Kym Bloom takes playing with her food to the next level by making art out of Peeps, Chicklets, candy hearts and Jolly Ranchers (among other candies). Bloom melts the candies with a butane torch, molds the melted forms together on a surface and finally coats the piece in resin…
If social media is the communication tool of the future, the Denver Public Library doesn’t want to be left in the dust, and that’s why the library will launch its ambitious Creating Your Community (CYC) social archive — a participatory opportunity for people to share stories of their Colorado heritage…
There are usually interesting shows on view near the corner of 37th Avenue and Navajo Street, but rarely as interesting as those on view at two galleries right now. Nate Baldwin: Commanding Comprehension, on display at Pirate (3655 Navajo Street, 303-458-6058, www.pirateartonline.com), is made up a single painting — a…
Artists and arts lovers alike turned out for Friday night’s Start the Art benefit concert — to talk, listen to performances by local musicians Terry Sandoval of the Hunger Artist, ScaTTer GaTHer and headliner Joshua Novak, and promote the cause of arts education for kids, with the goal of raising…
This poster by Nakatomi caused the kid behind me to say: “Dad, I want the giant squid poster. Now.” Flatstock is a dangerous place to be with a credit card. This year, Flatstock 33 (presented by the American Poster Institute) featured over 100 artists with enough completely badass concert posters…
I will not say that Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans (referred to in the Urban Dictionary as “Douche Bagans”) is the douchiest guy to ever host his own TV show, that he’s a certifiable uber-chad, that he looks like Ryan Seacrest and Ty Pennington’s love child, or that the way…
A ticket to tonight’s Start the Art benefit concert buys more than just a night of good food, a cold beer and music by Westword Music Showcase nominee Josh Novak — it buys a chance to support a brand-new initiative to ensure kids’ access to arts education. Event organizers Chris…
Today doesn’t just mark the start of that festive, lush, and green holiday: St. Patrick’s Day. It also kicks off that upcoming festive, lush and green season: spring…
