Arts & Culture

Last year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival opened with high hopes…until hundred-year-strength flooding on Boulder Creek ravaged the proceedings (along with the rest of the town). Although the Fringe has now had a year to dry off, it can’t bring back money in the bank — and with a full program…

After a smashing inaugural year, the High Plains Comedy Festival rides again this summer with a kickoff party today from 4 to 8 p.m. at Illegal Pete’s, 270 South Broadway, followed by a two-day lineup overstuffed with headliners Kumail Nanjiani, T.J. Miller and Pete Holmes, as well as national crushers…

Almost as old as the city itself, Loveland’s Old Fashioned Corn Roast Festival began in 1894 as a way for farmers to celebrate the area’s booming agricultural industry. Though the annual gathering of cob lovers was taken over by the Loveland Chamber of Commerce in the 1980s, not much has…

It was a simple walk around his own neighborhood — and the beauty of a Denver Urban Gardens project there — that inspired Eric Matelski’s vision for Art Farm. The artist saw the garden as a perfect spot for an art show, so he connected with DUG, and the event…

Now and again, Time Lords need to regenerate. That means a new form, complete with a new set of quirks and, in practical terms, a new actor as the good Doctor. That time has come around again, and the Doctor Who Series 8 Premiere will feature Peter Capaldi as the…

The USA Pro Challenge is billed as “America’s Race,” and Pat McQuaid, former president of competitive cycling’s global governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale, has called it the “best race in American history” — but, really, it might just as well be called the Tour de Colorado. The fourth installment…

Before 1999, Michael Taggart didn’t really understand the meaning of his middle name, Bliss. That year, he moved to Austin, where he’d secured studio space but not a place to live — until Gary Peden, manager of the arts organization ArtPlex, offered the multi-talented dreamer a place to crash. “It…

As one of the founders of the Denver County Fair, event maven Dana Cain is practically a household name in this city — but her first dalliance with local fame came with her first big success: the Denver Modernism Show, which in its ninth year might still be her favorite…

“Sometimes it feels like you’re working in a vacuum; its nice to have a camaraderie with other artists to inspire you and make your work better,” says Sigri Strand, one of a handful of artists featured in Moonlight Drive: Domestic Astronauts. A photographer and member of Pirate Contemporary Art, Strand…