A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine who has vast knowledge of the visual arts called me and, in an accusatory tone, asked, “When are you going to review the Moore show? It’s the best thing to hit this town since Giacometti.” He was talking, of course, about…
Colorado & the West. This is the tenth summer in a row that David Cook Fine Art, the state’s premier purveyor of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century material, has presented a group show dedicated to historic Western art. This year’s version is anchored by more than two dozen oil paintings and watercolors…
Dietrich & Chevalier. The Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier we all remember were artificial figures, carefully lit, costumed and photographed, their media images manipulated and protected. They were stunning in their glamour and originality, but meant entirely for the screen. For his play, Dietrich and Chevalier, Jerry Mayer has unearthed…
Inspired by a drug ring that used Hasidic Jews to transport over one million pills of ecstasy to the United States in a six-month period between 1998 and 1999, Kevin Asch’s Holy Rollers stars Jesse Eisenberg as a good old Brooklyn boy turned mid-level dope importer. Driven by the sense…
Fifteen years after ushering in a new era of CGI animation, and eleven years after a colossally successful pre-millennial sequel, the Toy Story franchise returns to a changed world. Its irresistible conceit and snappy good humor remain largely intact, though now it also hauls a saltier and more anxious sensibility…
Opening with a close-up of the crow’s feet around its subject’s eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip, the documentary-portrait Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work celebrates Saint Joan the Resilient, Showbiz Survivor. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg dogged the indomitable standup comic throughout the course of her…
For the past two decades — ever since T.J. Mullin took over the space where William Oakley had been mounting melodramas — Heritage Square has produced some of this town’s most consistent entertainment. Over the years, Mullin and his actors have developed a style and approach all their own, producing…
Inspired by a drug ring that used Hasidic Jews to transport over one million pills of ecstasy to the United States in a six-month period between 1998 and 1999, Kevin Asch’s Holy Rollers stars Jesse Eisenberg as a good old Brooklyn boy turned mid-level dope importer. Driven by the sense…
Outdoor Divas, the Boulder store specializing in funwear for women who camp, paddle, bike, board, strike perfect yoga poses, scale big boulders and adventure-race has teamed up with Savory Spice Shop to host a free outdoor cuisine cooking class tonight at 7 p.m. The demonstration, part of the shop’s Evening…
Denver became the envy of the country — nay, the world! — when it unveiled B-Cycle in April. The city also supports a host of bicycle-friendly groups and events, including the Denver Cruisers, Critical Mass (on occasion) and Bike to Work Day, on June 23. But when it comes to…
The thinking behind this year’s Denver Bike to Work Day echoes the way people have already been thinking these days: Why not bike to work every day? As usual, today’s annual event will include breakfast stations en route, downtown tech stations, prize giveaways and free bike parking, particularly at the…
You will be speechless. Trying to describe the work of Baltimore-based multimedia artist Jimmy Joe Roche in words — mind-blowing, psychedelic, weird, hilarious, frightening, creepy — won’t help, either. But perhaps American Ectoplasm, the title of a new show by Roche opening today at the Rocky Mountain College of Art…
Go inside the Russian mob, hear Texas oilmen explain how America’s addiction to oil will be its downfall, enter the world of “art cars” and more at this year’s DocuWest Film Festival, which starts tonight and runs through June 27 in Golden. The documentary-only event won Westword’s Best Film Festival…
Anyone who hooks up with the RiENNIAL studio tour today (and even some art collectors who don’t) will not want to miss today’s Lauri Lynnxe Murphy Studio Sale, the last of two closeout bonanza open houses hosted by the departing Denver artist, who’s on her way to grad school in…
Denver’s Hope Communities has been finding ways to get local low-income, working individuals and families into affordable housing and better jobs since 1980, and that’s more than enough cause to celebrate. Feed Your Face, Find a Place, the organization’s thirtieth-anniversary fundraiser, will do that in a style befitting its overall…
From 1964’s The 400 Blows to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the French have consistently made standout films in nearly every genre. To celebrate the latest and greatest, the Denver Film Society is presenting J’adore! Focus on French Language Cinema, today through Sunday at Starz FilmCenter, in the Tivoli building on…
We’ve already come to know and love the RiNo seasonal open-studio tours in Denver’s workingman’s art district “where art is made.” But today’s 2010 RiENNIAL studio tour raises the bar even further. With a heightened sense of community wafting through the air, the RiENNIAL will operate as an unofficial introduction…
Detective fiction is a territorial genre by nature because of the way location flavors the action and guides the characters. The nice thing about that is how even the most remote locales can support and enhance a solid plot. Considering its sparse populace, Wyoming’s been lucky in that respect: At…
Fat Tire Bike Week, which begins today in Crested Butte, is billed as “the planet’s oldest mountain bike festival” and, as Dirty 30 birthday bashes go, this one will certainly have plenty of dirt. Start with a core-skills training session (June 22-24) or the Rippin’ Chix Clinic (June 25) to…
You might have seen the lovely and talented Brini Maxwell on the Style Network; the savvy personality can speak with authority on everything from creating the best deviled eggs you’ve ever had to repurposing old furniture. Maxwell — who’s brought to life by actor and cabaret performer Ben Sanders in…
One of summer’s hottest galas goes down tonight at twilight, when five local bands and more than thirty restaurants and watering holes share air with lions, tigers and bears at Do at the Zoo, the Denver Zoo’s largest fundraiser of the year. “This really is a great summer party with…
In the real world, alcohol and engineering aren’t two things you want to mix. Tonight, though, it should be safe to make an exception when the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver launches this summer’s Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics series with a dual lecture titled “Irrational Engineering…
