There’s a lot of variety in this week’s events, and there’s a good chance you could attend all three. We’re going to explore ourselves and society, participate in a new kind of concert and split our sides at an award show.
From sexy, wannabe firefighter calendar models to acrobats, skiers and cos-players, Denverites dressed up, hit the slopes (even as they were melting), got hitched and took to the dance floors too, between February 11-16.
It was interesting, and more than a little inspiring, to watch the public outcry against the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education over the past couple of weeks — especially the online campaign in which, in response to DeVos’ ill-informed attacks on America’s supposedly failing public education system,…
Maybe this’ll teach us not to judge a movie by its marketing campaign. Thanks to posters and trailers focused solely on its American star, Matt Damon, Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall has been pilloried as an example of a Chinese myth being given the Hollywood white-savior treatment. In fact, the…
Denver galleries and museums are full of shows that are worth seeing. Here are eight to catch right now.
Fairytale ballets like Swan Lake and The Nutcracker guarantee sold out houses for Colorado Ballet, which leans on those productions to ensure it makes budget. While coastal cities enjoy more consistent, challenging, modern repertoires, it’s an every two-years treat in Denver. In part, that’s because audiences aren’t supporting innovation. The Little Mermaid, which…
It’s only February, and this weekend already looks like it could be the best of the year. Somebody will let the dogs out, the dance floors will take a pounding, and we’re going to wrap up the festivities with the best comedy in town.
Dr. Frankie Bashan is one of the few speed dating gurus who gears events toward lesbian and bisexual women. Her company, Little Gay Book, will be hosting its first Denver-based speed dating event, Fast Flirting, on Sunday, February 19.
Television’s smartest network drama went out last year with a slap. The Good Wife, the hour-long CBS procedural about savvy lawyers and sexy investigators, looked as if it was going to end where it began, with Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) standing by her politician husband Peter (Chris Noth) at a…
The Colorado Ballet has donated tickets to a Thursday, February 16, matinee performance of Ballet MasterWorks to roughly fifty recently arrived refugees from countries including Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and the Republic of Congo. The refugees will attend the performance alongside more than 1,000 students and teachers. The ballet connected with…
Meridith Grundei, who came to Colorado ten years ago after excelling in the Chicago improv community, stays busy in many roles, both as an actor and as a theater professional.
Michael Warren Contemporary, one of the city’s top galleries, often presents two exhibits back to back, as is the case right now. The star attraction, Throw My Ashes Into the Sea: New Works by Daisy Patton, takes over the sprawling multi-part front space, while the gallery’s companion solo, Creative Destruction: New Works by Margaret Lawless, is installed in the more intimate gallery at the back.
The eye-dazzling yet somehow relaxing Lumonics Then & Now: A Retrospective of Light-Based Sculpture by Dorothy & Mel Tanner transforms the interior galleries of the Museum of Outdoor Arts into a world of their own.
Romantic comedies seem to have soured more than most movie genres. It could be due to their insistence on happy endings, or perhaps it’s the rigid structure that demands easily avoidable conflict followed by the protagonist breathlessly chasing down his or her true love just in time for the end…
In recent months, there have been serious calls for liberal city dwellers to reach beyond their “bubble” to better understand their rural counterparts. What’s rarely brought into the conversation: that large swathes of the so-called liberal elite have roots in rural places. These people, myself included, came of age among…
Even zombies need sensible snacks. In Sheila Hammond’s case, that means a baggie of severed fingers, which she munches like baby carrots while stalking her next victim in a parking garage, her pink “kill poncho” pulled tightly around her shoulders. In Santa Clarita Diet, the new 10-episode Netflix original series,…
In 1902, Dr. John Kellogg changed two letters in the word “sanatorium” — defined as a resting spot for disabled soldiers — and changed the world. “Sanitariums” became the health resort of choice for the wealthy and weary, instilling in the privileged a sense that they were perpetually ill, and…
The movies never get the Midwest right. When, onscreen, have you seen white people at the grocery store mouth that shy, apologetic “oop” noise every time someone walks close enough that they feel they must shift out of the way? Or a father lecturing his children about the greatness of…
Photographer Ted Tahquechi lost most of his vision in a car accident in 1999. Up until the car wreck, he had shot photos since attending college in the 1980s. After the crash, “I didn’t pick up the camera. I didn’t do anything at all,” he says. “I was feeling sorry for myself and feeling disappointed with where I was in my life.”
Take a quick scroll through the #WIA2 hashtag on Instagram, and you’re awash in a thousand perspectives of what Winter in America looks like. The hashtag was started by friends and photographers Armando Geneyro and Blake Jackson, co-creators of the loose-knit TheyShootn collective, which invites photographers from across the world…
Herbalist Lynn Flanagan-Till is a natural caregiver, whether it’s her pets, plants or children that thrive under her watchful eye. The mother of three, with a fourth on the way, and keeper of a home menagerie of house pets also has a natural affinity for plants and their healing properties…
Artist Jaime Carrejo returned from grad school to El Paso, Texas, to visit his family shortly after the wide-open Chihuahuan Desert had been divided by a looming fence at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2008. The vast landscape had been interrupted, a sense of difference between the people of each country inscribed through architecture.
