As a wedding photographer and hair and makeup specialist, Jewels Gray was tired of seeing the same old routine play out in the wedding industry. But it wasn’t just the traditional wedding themes that bored her; it was what she saw as the “Mason jar” wedding. “One of the things…
The Grawlix dudes are back! The Denver comedy trio has been out doing big things on the national stage lately, but tonight, Adam Cayton Holland, Ben Roy and Andrew Orvedahl bring their ridiculous monthly show back to the Denver — and for a bargain price. If comedy is not your…
Update, 10/18/13: And the winner is…Lakewood High School. Katy Perry picked the school this morning and is coming to perform next Friday. It was fate — sort of. Lakewood High School’s lip-dub to Katy Perry’s “Roar” was in fact a submission to Good Morning America’s call for such entries, but…
When Taylor Boylston was working on setting up the next art show for her backyard gallery, The Inca House, she went straight for her favorite artists. “I just had an idea and sent an e-mail and now we’re having a Daniel Johnston,” says Boylston straightforwardly. But the exhibition comes with…
“Do we want to dominate nature, or see ourselves as a part of nature?” asks Karole Armitage in her latest multi-faceted performance, Armitage Gone! Dance: Fables on Global Warming, presented this evening at the University of Colorado at Boulder. That’s the question that the world-renowned choreographer will explore in her…
It must be weird to be a famous person. Realizing that you will encounter other humans on a regular basis who want to engage with you because they feel like they know you — and also realizing that you have to be cordial during 99 percent of these interactions or…
THE WEEKND at 1STBANK CENTER | 9/20/13 Though visually heightened by flashes of naked, writhing women and feeling rather Internet-manic with its placement of faux-commercials for condoms between songs, the Weeknd’s show at 1STBANK Center was simply okay. But for fans of the Toronto-based musician and his steady stream of…
With summer still hanging in there, this is a good weekend to get out and enjoy the warm weather without breaking the bank. We’ve rounded up ten activities in the Mile High City — everything from a beach-themed roller-derby party to watching marathon runners dive into pools pull of sudsy…
“Aurora’s Green Revolution” is that city’s 2013 theme, and Recycling Reversal: The Art of Rubbish will turn the Aurora Public Library green tomorrow at a one-day celebration of found-object art. On Saturday, September 21, this interactive art project will give people a chance to work with local and national artists…
Colorado native Courtney Mizel is a lot of things — including the founding director of The Cell (The Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab) in Denver, a small business consultant and former small business owner…and a movie producer. Now based out of Los Angeles, Mizel still does quite a bit of work…
With This American Life, Ira Glass and his band of writers and reporters have been creating radio narratives that spotlight slices of American culture in an original, thought-provoking way, one that captures a worldwide audience. Now with his latest in-person production, Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass, the radio…
Peeling back the shiny top layer of a completed radio broadcast, tonight’s Reinventing Radio: An Evening With Ira Glass reveals what it takes to produce a program from start to finish. But Glass, the host and co-creator of National Public Radio’s This American Life, doesn’t just take listeners behind the…
For Racheli Mendelson, a former EMT who’d been creating performance-art pieces since she was thirteen, it just made sense to explore her time serving in the Israeli military through a red-nosed clown performance. See the result at Mendelson’s Boulder International Fringe Festival debut, Shoot, Cry & Forget About It!: A…
An Emmy-winning actress best known for her work on Family Ties and as a regular in Lifetime Original Movies, Meredith Baxter has been an endearing force in Hollywood for more than four decades. But her path has not been an easy one, and the film and television star makes a…
In the fall of 1998, I took my then four-year old sister to the steps of the State Capitol for a memorial gathering for Matthew Shepard, not long after his death in Wyoming. Nothing makes a vicious hate crime seem more horrific and pointless than trying to explain to a…
Celebrating seventeen years as Colorado’s premiere anime convention, Nan Desu Kan opens its doors today, taking over the Marriott DTC for a cosplay-packed weekend of fun. With voice-actor guest speakers, educational panels on the industry, cosplay contests and late-night dance parties, NDK has packed Friday, Saturday and Sunday with cool…
If you missed the big announcement of Off-Center@The Jones’s upcoming programming at the theater’s season opening event last night, you also missed a big party with lots of free beer. Under wraps until the live trailer show commenced, the venue’s third season of nonconformist theater can now be discussed, and…
Christie zumBrunnen and Nicole Lowery started their Hey! Party Collective business as a way to bring together fellow wedding and big-event innovators, in order to throw the perfect party. Almost two years later, the Hey! Party Collective is throwing its own party, Rebel Bells at Artwork Network on Sunday, September…
As an incubator for the arts and a show space for up-and-coming creatives for more than thirty years, the Chicano Humanities & Arts Council Gallery is all about inclusion, and tonight’s opening of the Los Vatos Renaissance show is the embodiment of just that: It’s a presentation of work from…
Loyal disciples will come together this weekend for the seventeenth incarnation of Nan Desu Kan, one of the country’s largest anime conventions. For three days and nights, NDKers will take over the Marriott DTC in full anime regalia, enjoying keenly organized programming that brings the industry’s biggest stars, experts and…
“What always happens with Off-Center — which is both fun and terrifying — is that we have this initial inspiration, and then we bring a bunch of people together to make it happen,” says Charlie Miller, co-curator of Off-Center@The Jones. “But it is often not until it gets closer to…
The latest venture of Tran Wills, Base Coat Modern Nail Salon X Gallery will celebrate its grand opening this Saturday, September 14, when the combination nail salon/art gallery joins the lineup on Tennyson Street in the Berkeley neighborhood. Wills, whose name has become synonymous with style and small-business savvy in…
