There’s nothing new about working at the intersection of art mediums, especially pieces that combine aspects of both painting and sculpture. Take, for instance, those bas-reliefs from antiquity. Since they are three-dimensional, they’re technically sculptures, but because they were meant to be viewed from one side only, they’re actually more…
With the opening of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building last year and the unveiling of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver last month, the city’s gallery owners have really stepped up to compete. The happy result has been a season crammed with first-rate offerings — something that wasn’t so common…
Clyfford Still Unveiled. A master and pioneer of mid-twentieth-century abstract expressionism, painter Clyfford Still was something of an eccentric in the artist-as-egomaniac stripe. His antisocial behavior led to a situation where 94 percent of his artworks remained together after he died — a staggeringly complete chronicle of his oeuvre that…
Thanks to another year of early openings, the ski and ride season is officially here. If you’ve been dreaming about floating in powder or trying out telemark skis, now’s the time to get in line. The trend all over Colorado is steep and deep, with sky-scraping backcountry and extremes. Resorts…
The holiday shopping season is is in earnest full gear, but there’s more than one way to combat its exhaustive toll. For one, you could turn it into a mini vacation in your own town, a trick that just got easier thanks to a promotion sponsored by the Denver Metro…
Not unlike the homeless denizens of Barbara Lebow’s Tiny Tim Is Dead, the Theatre Group found itself on the street after being evicted last May from its longtime home, the Theatre On Broadway. But the troupe’s heavily gay-centric fan base from the old days at TOB aren’t the only folks…
How do you escape the pressures of the holidays, like, really quick? Bundle up, drop your packages in the trunk, pinch your cheeks until they glow and strap on a pair of silver skates, Hans Brinker, for a glide across the frozen expanse at one of the region’s many old-fashioned…
Tony and Tina must really love each other. After all, the two have been married hundreds — if not thousands — of times since Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding opened off Broadway in 1988. And although their wedding is a little different every time, it’s still the craziest, funniest affair you’re…
Improv is an art form. It takes skills to garner tidbits of information from audience members and weave them into a narrative that actually makes sense — and that’s actually funny — in spontaneous sketches and games. The folks at Bovine Metropolis Theater do improv very well — so well,…
My freshman year at Colorado College was peppered with disappointing social exchanges. I didn’t like keggers quite as much as I’d imagined, and yoga class turned out to be a bad way to meet boys. So when my roommate invited me to the hockey match against the University of Denver…
Each year around the holidays, the Colorado Ballet presents Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, and Gil Boggs, the company’s artistic director, notes that the latest version, which debuts today, isn’t terribly different than its predecessors. “As we like to say, we do your grandmother’s Nutcracker,” he concedes. Boggs insists that…
Thanksgiving doesn’t have enough TV specials. Oh, sure, it’s got Charlie Brown, but I covered how weak that is earlier. And there’s the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, but aside from seeing how cold and wet the Broadway dancers are going to be doing their thing in Herald Square, it’s basically just…
After 3 seasons of Project Runway, it seems evident that nobody does the wacky-artsy-type thing like an aspiring designer (though you can also catch some truly wacked-out antics on America’s Next Top Model, which is also on tonight). And nobody has perfected this craziness as much as this season’s yoga-lovin’,…
Okay, maybe not ever. I’m not counting aberrations like and It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown, or You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown, or Try My Flugelhorn, Charlie Brown (and of those three, I only made one of them up). I’m talking about the big ones, the ones that we watched as kids…
Check out this slide show of graffiti murals we spotted on a recent trip to Denver’s West side…
Festival audiences are generally more generous than traditional theatrical crowds. It’s a double-edged sword. Some films that will never see the light of day, or the darkness of theatrical release, find audiences who are willing to set aside their critical opinions and just enjoy a film for mere competence of…
Earlier this week, we interviewed party promoter Charlie Morrison by phone while he was drying out in the forced confinement of Denver C.A.R.E.S. Charlie’s surely out by now, but we thought we’d pop in to his club night at Bender’s Tavern, Night of the Living Shred, to see if we…
Earlier this week, we talked about how Northern Exposure is airing on KBDI-Channel 12 Monday through Thursday nights at 7PM. But what’s the big deal? Why does this nearly twenty-year-old television series merit not one but two blogs? Ah, my friend, I’d give it ten, if I could. (One on…
Check out a slide show of Frock Out. For the past few months, twelve Denver fashion designers have been hard at work creating their own version of Project Runway, and now a piece by each of these talented tailors is on display at the Denver Public Library’s Central Branch for…
You’ve got nothing to do tonight, right? Skip another night of must-see TV and head over to the best Denver cultural event of the year, the Denver Film Festival. We’ve compiled some reviews and profiles of filmmakers and suggest, if you can, that you check out one of the following…
The Memory Thief Director: Gil Kofman It’s going to take a long time to digest this film. For me, the entire experience was thrown off by the woman in front of offering information on her colonoscopy to no one in particular. Shortly after that, Songbird, the short film from director…
Iron Ladies of Liberia Directors: Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott-Johnson When Denver-based documentary director Daniel Junge and producer Henry Ansbacher first contacted newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (who, among other degrees, received a masters in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1970), they were told their…
