Buntport Theater Company put several peculiar messages on Facebook before A Knight to Remember opened. These implied that the theater group — known for the creative synergy of its members — was divided on this piece about Brian Colonna’s childhood fantasies of knighthood. Erik Edborg would not be involved, the…
We’ve had a few theatrical art lessons around here recently. And not so recently. Red, at Curious Theatre Company last year, revealed Mark Rothko’s genius, insecurity and narcissism as he bullied his assistant and gave urgent instructions about how he wanted his work viewed. Then there was the Miners Alley…
Half a year later, now on Blu-ray and DVD, Django Unchained is still kicking up shit, this time via cross-media trickle-down. TV’s LL Cool J, not long before declaring Confederate flag apparel A-OK with him, dared to express in “Accidental Racist” one hard-edged complaint about the life of a black…
Last week, America received two embarrassing reminders of its doting but asexual love for the Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM). First, professional cowboy-hat-wearer Brad Paisley and Kangol connoisseur LL Cool J unintentionally trolled the entire Internet with “Accidental Racist,” a country song that argues that access to necklaces today totally makes…
Rampaging through the otherwise arid desertscape of contemporary Italian cinema, Matteo Garrone doesn’t want for ambition; he may be the premier chronicler of Berlusconi-era Italian culture, and its most muscular satirist. (That is, when Italian society isn’t busy outpacing satire altogether.) Reality, his followup to 2008’s Gomorrah, begins with a…
At any prior point in TV history, Rectify, a six-part drama on the Sundance channel, would be a shake-up-the-medium astonishment: A sober, even stately investigation into a curious kind of afterlife, that of a death-row inmate given freedom twenty years after his conviction. For all the finely crafted mysteries of…
Heavyweights of the local animation scene will gather tonight to show their work at the Denver Animated Pixelshow. Organized by Patrick Sheridan of the Emerging Filmmakers Project, Gio Toninelo of the GI Joe Fest and Dylan Otto Krider of the Ones and Zeros Pixelshow, the effort brings together some of…
While members of various subcultures, from MMJ patients to juggalos, mingle in Civic Center Park during today’s 4/20 event, vinyl geeks will be celebrating Record Store Day. Many will have been up all night waiting in line for their favorite music dispensary to open, dreams of the Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka…
Stoners, start your bongs. Now that weed is legal in Colorado, connoisseurs of the sweet leaf can be catered to in nearly the same style as wine and beer aficionados have been for years. To kick off this pot-culture trend, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is pairing the dope classic Half…
It’s difficult to tell who loves marijuana-themed shows more: comics or the comedy fans. The former get to dust off material they can’t use at “clean” shows, and the latter get to hear jokes tailored to their taboo habits. On the annual sacred stoner holiday, 4/20, comedy promotion team United…
Denver performance/movement company Control Group Productions continues its efforts to bring an international slate of touring avant-garde performance groups to town this weekend with the arrival of Lebanon-based Danish choreographer Jens Bjerregaard of Mancopy Danse Kompagni for a week-long residency at work|space. That residency includes a professional dance workshop and…
What would you do if a strange couple walked up to your door and asked to peek inside because one of them had supposedly grown up in the house? That’s just one of the questions you’ll still be pondering when The Ding Dongs (or What Is the Penalty in Portugal?)…
Light: It’s the most elemental characteristic of the art of photography. Without it, the magic of photographic imagery could never happen. Curator Conor King took the formative aspect of light in photography and ran with it, building a new group show, titled Phos: Light Today, that opens today at the…
Urban farmers are getting their hands around everything from chickens to bees to gardens, but to take the next step, they might want to check out aquaponics, a way of raising fish and plants in one sustainable place. To help educate people who want to do that in their own…
Ballet Nouveau Colorado, which will present its last show under the BNC umbrella this weekend before transitioning to its new name, Wonderbound, has always surprised and delighted fans with its innovative choreography and unique collaborations with local musicians. In that spirit, Perpetual Beauty is the perfect show to bid farewell…
One of the best things about Month of Photography, which officially kicks off today (though more than a few related shows quietly opened in February), is its mind-boggling variety. And that includes at least one happy marriage between the arts and business communities along the world’s longest continuous street: Colfax…
Earth Day gets interactive today as the City of Denver invites residents to learn about fuel-efficient vehicles, biodiesel, proper recycling measures and other ways to proactively save the planet. Earth Day Denver will have something eco-friendly for everyone; the free expo takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in…
The makeup of Denver’s national slam poetry teams — Slam Nuba and the Mercury Cafe — has been determined in the past couple of weeks, and now, last but not least, the youth division, Minor Disturbance, will host a Grand Slam tonight to choose its team for this year’s Brave…
Some people think that astrobiologists, who study life elsewhere in the universe, have nothing to do…yet. But nothing could be further from the truth. The search for life on other planets begins with research, the domain of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute, which is, among other things, studying the strange yet familiar…
From original shlock like Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus to “mockbusters” like Transmorphers, the Asylum knows how to turn low budgets, D-list actors and bad CGI into the cinematic equivalent of store-brand junk food: They’re even worse for you than the real thing, but still strangely satisfying. In celebration of…
As a photographer, Mark Sink still sees value in old-school techniques: palpable photography committed to a surface in the old-fashioned way, an alchemy of light and magic. His worldview is similar: In a fast-changing world where kids now in art school might never have even put film in a camera,…
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art curator Petra Sertic first became aware of the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb when a friend took her there a couple of years ago. Created by Croatian couple Olinka Vitica and Drazen Grubisic;, who, upon splitting up themselves, pondered what happens to personal mementos…
