Why throw a Tu B’Av Jewish Festival of Love? For one thing, American Jews don’t know much about it. It’s primarily an Israeli version of Valentine’s Day in modern times — though in ancient times, white-robed unmarried women were said to dance in the vineyards outside Jerusalem, with young men…
Modern Muse Theatre Company co-director Gabriella Cavallero, an Argentine by birth, fell into a gold mine when her mother, a concert pianist on the East Coast, teamed up with Grammy-winning Uruguayan bandoneón master Raúl Jaurena for a series of tango concerts. It got her thinking about how the singular art…
It’s been a long, hard ride to this moment, peppered along the way with fundraising concerts and pleas for equipment donations, but Denver’s first Girls Rock Camp, inspired by the original in Portland (and the subsequent documentary) finally got off the ground this week: 25 girls – give or take…
What do surfing and Zen have in common? Well, nothing…and everything. To truly understand the connection, you’ll need to pick up a copy of Jaimal Nikos Yogis’s book Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea, which follows Yogis as he heads to Hawaii with a one-way…
Curious Theatre Company’s New Voices Summer Playwriting Intensive, now in its sixth year, represents a fruitful marriage between the company’s longstanding focus on new plays and education director Dee Covington’s interest in working with young people. For a month, students between the ages of 15 and 21 work on their…
This year’s Mile High Mayhem scooter rally, celebrating a remarkable twelfth anniversary, will be living in the past: With its “Mile High School Musical” theme and four days of events named after a salvo of high-school movies, it’s all about the joy of youth and the call of the carefree…
By now, the Antiques Roadshow crew that came to town last week to film a show at the Colorado Convention Center has gladdened a few hearts – having identified unexpected treasures in the approximately 10,000 items brought in for appraisal – and broken many more, revealing that all those pampered…
Hark, forsooth! What din from yonder tavern rings? Why, ’tis the Bard himself! And thine ears deceive thee not: This time, he bringeth the Metal and hath come to shred. At long last, someone has finally combined the Olde English power of William Shakespeare with the modern English power of…
This year’s Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region is going to be a little different from those of previous years — but the changes are all for the good. “Our biggest news is the new partnership with Curious Theatre,” notes Red Rocks Community College visual and performing arts department chair…
With summer weather (finally!) settling in across the Front Range, people are doing everything they can to get outdoors, and Theatre-Hikes Colorado offers a truly unique way to take a traditionally indoor activity outside. This child-friendly take on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe takes audience members on a…
Jill Warner of Denver’s popular mid-century/modern design emporium Mod Livin’ had no trouble rooting out local designers of furniture and decorative objects when she put out the call for Denver by Design, a competition intended to connect Colorado’s indigenous design community with the forthcoming Denver Modernism Show. Sixty of them…
One thing we share unequivocally with our ancestors: the heavens above. And just like our prehistoric precursors, we continue to be fascinated and inspired by the moon and stars, even if, in this day and age, we’ve gone so far as to set foot on the former and roundly hypothesized…
Billing itself as an “urban laboratory,” RedLine (2350 Arapahoe Street, 303-296-4448, www.redlineart.org) is a place where artists are provided with free or partly subsidized studio space and where there are some pretty impressive facilities for exhibitions. The handsome, award-winning studio/gallery — in a converted industrial building — could one day…
Charles Parson. This must-see sculpture solo titled Charles Parson: Personal Echoes on the Horizon, at Golden’s Foothills Art Center, begins out front with a trio of hieratically composed tubular metal sculptures — basically gongs. The viewer/participant is meant to strike the gongs with clappers that are chained to them. This…
Annie. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre is at the top of its form; it has to be. How else could the company make Annie — its mandatory summer family show — anything but a smirking sentimental bore? As everyone knows by now, the story of Annie concerns a little red-haired girl’s rough…
Being a young actress in Hollywood can be a horror show even for performers who achieve something akin to stardom – a condition that’s temporary for all too many of them. Consider the case of Mischa Barton. She was a sizzling property in 2003 upon the arrival of The O.C.,…
In the lushly produced but dispiriting new comedy The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl stars as Abby Richter, a successful but hopelessly uptight TV producer who is also perpetually single. Ever efficient, Abby does background checks on the men she meets, and takes along on the first date a ten-point checklist…
A small mob of camels stampedes by a nomad’s tent, with something that might once have been a tractor eating the kicked-up dust. Inside, a young guy in a sailor suit sits on the rug, cheerfully recounting his death struggle with an octopus to the impassive middle-aged couple he’s hoping…
Much Ado About Nothing is the story of a feuding couple, and that’s where most of its charm lies. Beatrice is one of those wonderful Shakespearean women: tough-minded, principled, smart and funny. She and Benedick are older and more cynical than the usual romantic pair, famed in their circle for…
You already know that the stretch of East Colfax known as the Bluebird District, which runs from York Street to Colorado Boulevard, is one of the hippest zones in town. And you may have already had your margs at Mezcal and your cupcakes at the Shoppe and Lovely Confections. But…
From its opening scene, when a homeless man commits suicide after being refused a dollar by a passing businessman, to the close, where two naked men leap from the water like dolphins, director Tatia Rosenthal’s $9.99 is one odd duck. The film takes a look at the lives of the…
Have you ever thought about just how many phrases involve the word “square?” Boulder artist Cha Cha has: She curated a new exhibit that opens tonight at the Boulder Public Library called Squareplay: Colorado Metal Artists, in which “the concept was to invite jewelers and artists to create pieces of…
