Arts & Culture

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who spoke up for education, was subsequently shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012. But she survived and went right back to fighting for her beliefs. Now living in Britain, Yousafzai has become a heroine and spokeswoman for women’s rights — at the…

To celebrate its fortieth anniversary, the nonprofit Boulder Valley Women’s Health Clinic wanted to do something unexpected. So tonight at the Boulder Theater, the organization will present Condom Couture, a fashion show benefiting the clinic and its community work. And, as at any runway show, models will grace the catwalk…

High school is hard. Between the hormones, the peer pressure and the homework, it’s a miracle anyone survives. Now throw some uncontrolled telekinesis into that teen angst, set the whole thing to music, and you’ve got Carrie: The Musical, the latest horror classic to make the transition to the stage…

When Tran and Josh Wills started talking about closing Super Ordinary Gallery, which they’d been running out of their house, the Denver creative scene begged the couple to reconsider. “It worked, and we always had great turnouts and great support, but it was a little too much,” Tran recalls. But…

Denver once billed itself as “Paris on the Platte,” so the Paris Holiday Market is the perfect place to do some holiday shopping for the Denverites on your list. Although this is the market’s third year, it’s the first to be held in conjunction with the Denver Public Library’s Fresh…

The real point of Denver Arts Week isn’t to invent ten days of cultural events out of thin air. Rather, it’s to shine a spotlight on what happens here all year long — if you know where to find it. Think of it as a definitive map of the local…

A local legend-in-the-making will meet his hero in the ring tonight when Primos Hardcore and Wrestling presents Twist of Hate, a match between WWE superstar Matt Hardy and up-and-comer Rob Ryzin. In one of the biggest events to date for Primos, the two will face off in a contest that…

What started more than a half-decade ago as a collaboration between 303 magazine publisher AB Aharonian and local stylist Charlie Price has grown into a two-day, must-see scene: Denver Fashion Weekend Fall 2013, which features close to two dozen hair salons, boutiques and designers, including names like Mona Lucero, Garbarini…

The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art wants to stimulate you all weekend long with MediaLive 2013, an interactive audiovisual experience featuring ten artists with live-music accompaniment. “This four-day festival presents a variety of approaches, discusses the technology and underlying theoretical, formal and conceptual considerations, and offers opportunities to explore live…

Tonight’s Interactive Tour of the Universe — part of the new space series at Chautauqua — is bound to be an absolutely stellar evening of intergalactic education. “This is a presentation that Dr. Ka Chun Yu, the curator of space science at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, has…

In 1991, director Richard Linklater burst onto the scene with Slacker, a unique and vibrant film that announced him as a major talent. Now, more than twenty years after its debut, the film — set in Austin, Texas, over a 24-hour period — still stands as one of Linklater’s greatest,…

“You unlock this door with the key of imagination,” began each episode of the iconic Twilight Zone series, with a suit-and-cigarette Rod Serling delivering his social commentary wrapped in a sci-fi fable. The pioneering TV show continues to delight audiences a half-century later, most recently thanks to the Theater Company…

Arts funding and how it is meted out is a hot-button issue these days — especially if you’re a starving artist seeking a grant. In her comedy The Most Deserving, which opens today in the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Ricketson Theatre, playwright Catherine Trieschmann puts those big questions into a…