Black Odyssey. Based on Homer’s epic, Black Odyssey tells the story of a soldier, Ulysses Lincoln, coming back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Like his namesake, he is forced to wander for many years before he can return home, encountering supernatural beings and many strange adventures along the…
How retrograde are many of the core tenets of the Disney princess? Consider this: My daughter owns a book called Snow White’s Secret, in which Disney’s royal archetype reveals her devilish hidden life: When the Dwarfs are working at the mine, she sneaks into their cottage and joyfully cleans the…
Under the Gunn and Project Runway stars Tim Gunn and Mondo Guerra are joining forces this year to host Goodwill’s annual Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap, which features both upcycled clothing designs by the young designers of Goodwill’s youth programs and local celebrity models showing off secondhand finds…
When a blind assassin with a flying guillotine faces off against a one-armed boxer, there’s no doubt who’ll win: everyone who loves a great kung fu movie. Once you’ve seen Master of the Flying Guillotine, one of the greatest — and most influential — kung-fu flicks ever made, you, too,…
The 1969 Stonewall riots, which protested police brutality, are widely recognized as a historic moment in the gay-rights movement. But Melinda Chateauvert also identifies the riots as a cornerstone of the fight for sex workers’ rights. “This is a movement that we haven’t paid attention to, but we need to,”…
“My life started when I read On the Road, by Jack Kerouac,” says John Sinclair, a poet, activist, former MC5 manager and White Panther Party founder. “It came out in September of 1957. I was a junior in high school. It set me on the correct path of life. I’ve…
Need an excuse to get hands-on with your Valentine? The Valentine’s Couples Thai Yoga Massage Workshop at the Yoga Mat is just what the massage therapist ordered! Thai yoga massage is also known as “lazy-man’s massage” because the massage recipient is completely limp while the practitioner moves his or her…
Independent businesses unite in the name of love tonight with a benefit soiree for Denver CASA, a nonprofit supporting abused and neglected children. Hosted by The Scout Guide and mid-century-modern home-furnishings store Mod Livin’, Modern Love is an affection-themed showcase of special-edition prints from local artists Josh Wills, Michael Lindau,…
For a certain subset of people, skateboarding is more than a hobby; it’s a way of life. When photographer Matt Alberts was looking for a worthy subject for an art project using an archaic, labor-intensive photographic technique known as the wet collodion process, he found that these “lifers” made a…
As Center for Visual Arts director and curator Cecily Cullen notes, today’s Native American artists don’t live in the past. And in pulling work together for Cross Currents, the second half of a two-part exhibition series Cullen started in 2009, she specifically looked for artists who respectfully nod to the…
Just in time to add some romance to Valentine’s Day week, actress Liv Ullman tells the story of how she and Swedish director Ingmar Bergman met, fell in love and made eleven films together in Liv & Ingmar, a documentary that screens at the Sie FilmCenter today. “They ended up…
Shopping for your Valentine can be a cliché-ridden task, but there’s a way to do it without browsing through the ugly ties or skimpy lingerie that your partner — of either gender — will never wear. At the Perfect Petal’s Love Me Sweet Soiree — a swanky two-part shopping evening…
Two orphaned brothers lead a dreary, grimy existence together in a Philadelphia slum, uneducated in societal rules and living off the most basic of provisions — and whatever the older brother can steal. When they decided to kidnap a Chicago mobster who is, coincidentally, also an orphan, things start to…
Musician and ethnomusicologist Stephen Wade first listened to the Library of Congress Field Recordings — gathered by John and Alan Lomax, starting in the 1930s — at the urging of an instructor who was teaching him to play the five-string banjo. Curious about the songs on the recordings and how…
One of Denver’s burlesque powerhouses is marking an anniversary, but the whole scene will be celebrating at Follies Voudou Burlesque Showcase this evening. “It’s my fourth year in burlesque and my second year hosting a burlesque show,” says organizer Frenchie Renard, who’s been alternating all-burlesque shows with a variety show…
Throughout its nearly three-year run, GroundSwell Gallery has encouraged artists to embark on solo projects that might not otherwise grace gallery walls. Starting tonight, it’s design-oriented creative Andrew Hoffman’s chance to stretch with Watershed, the result of a year-long experiment for which he painted all of the included works simultaneously,…
Musician and ethnomusicologist Stephen Wade first listened to the Library of Congress Field Recordings — gathered by John and Alan Lomax, starting in the 1930s — at the urging of an instructor who was teaching him to play the five-string banjo. Curious about the songs on the recordings and how…
What’s Valentine’s Day without a good drag show? Nuclia Waste and her Demented Divas — Marion McKuzins, Portia Potty and Gabbriella Butts’in — will provide the answer to that question tonight at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret…neon costumes, platform shoes, flouncy skirts, green wigs, glittery beards and all. The veteran troupe returns…
Rebecca Remaly, who founded Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company with her husband, Stephen Weitz, hadn’t directed a play since the birth of their son, Jamison, over eighteen months ago. But when she read Sharr White’s Annapurna, she knew she had to get back in the game. White, whose The Other Place…
In what might be one of the most unlikely scenarios in modern theater, a Jewish plantation owner returns to his ravaged property after the Civil War ends, only to sit down for a Passover seder with two of his former slaves in Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man, which opens tonight…
Ubiquitous as it already is, the Internet is only beginning to make a major impact on the art world. An exhibit opening tonight at Counterpath features two works by digital video artist Conor McGarrigle, who explores the art inherent to the Net in unique and intriguing ways. The first, the…
Plays that get life pumped into them early on through public readings at the Denver Center Theatre Company’s annual New Play Summit tend to pop a little louder when they finally make it to the stage, and this transformation to full realization has been especially challenging for director Mike Donahue…
