Brooklyn-based playwright Michael Mitnick is a young phenom in the theater world whose play-in-progress, Ed, Downloaded was featured as a reading as part of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Colorado New Play Summit in 2012. A year later, the fully produced play — utilizing sophisticated, cutting-edge visuals to tell the…
The classic romantic images of cowboys, tumbleweeds and sunsets will always be attached to the idea of the American West. But the art coming out of this side of the country encompasses so much more, as can be seen in the exhibition Rethinking Western at Gallery 1261, which opens tomorrow…
Whether she’s posting hilarious observations on Twitter, accepting calls from random strangers on her podcast, or performing her delightfully judgmental standup, comedian Chelsea Peretti does it all with sharp wit and magnetic observational humor. Peretti, also a former writer for the Emmy-nominated Parks and Recreation, will be in town starting…
Editor’s note: Mustaches are derigeur on uncles, cops and closing pitchers, but they’ve also become a fixture on the upper lips of the young and the hip. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a time since the Civil War when razors were so ignored. But the look can be polarizing,…
Editor’s note: Mustaches are de rigueur on uncles, cops and closing pitchers, but they’ve also become a fixture on the upper lips of the young and the hip. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a time since the Civil War when razors were so ignored. But the look can be…
Every year, Breckenridge pays fun tribute to Ullr, the Norse god of snow, with a week of celebration throughout the area. This year’s fiftieth annual Ullr Fest lasts January 6-12, 2012 — and we’ve got photos of the Ullympics and the crowning of this year’s Ullr Fest king and queen…
The Denver Center Theatre Company has long been a pioneer in the creative use of multi-media, and four years ago artistic director Kent Thompson commissioned a work from playwright Michael Mitnick. The intention was to have multi-media considered from the earliest conceptual stages rather than being “layered into a script…
Ed Baierlein, the founder of Germinal Stage Denver, has sold the building the theater moved into back in 1986. Juliet Wittman took a look back at Germinal’s impact on Denver performers, and Denver itself, in a story posted here yesterday that included an interview with Baierlein himself. “I don’t know…
On the cutting edge of the dance world, it’s not just about movement anymore, although the physical voyage through space is still an integral part. In Dance the Orange, a new performance created by Monica Dionysiou and Marc Devine of the the Umbrella Collective, the movement is suspended in a…
Contemporary painter Sharon Feder, a longtime resident at Ironton Studios and Gallery, is the subject of a good-looking solo there called Topologies, which represents both a continuation of her interest in urban archaeology and a change in direction. The subject matter — rundown warehouses — links her work to that…
Becoming van Gogh. Timothy Standring, the Denver Art Museum’s curator of painting and sculpture, is the brains behind the very compelling, very interesting and, most of all, very successful Becoming van Gogh, on display now. When we think of van Gogh, we are actually only thinking of the work of…
Although they almost certainly have plans for striking new projects that expand our understanding of what documentaries can be, Bill and Turner Ross — the co-directors, -producers, -camera operators and -troublemakers behind Tchoupitoulas — could do posterity a service if they simply resigned themselves to replicating this one-night-in-New Orleans documentary…
Just so you know, it’s going to take a while,” says the CIA officer to his newly arrived colleague at the start of Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. The year is 2003, the place a secret prison (or “black site”) somewhere in the deserts of the Middle East or Asia,…
What I like about Jack Holmes’s one-man play RFK: A Portrait of Robert Kennedy is that although it is in some ways hagiographic, it also humanizes its subject, showing his vulnerabilities and flaws. The Kennedys are generally seen through a haze of nostalgia: Jack as the charismatic leader who presided…
The National Western Stock Show has not been rustled away from Denver, and that alone is reason for Mayor Michael Hancock to be the grand marshal at the annual Stock Show Parade, which will stampede through downtown at lunchtime today. “Working with Mayor Hancock and his staff over the past…
It’s no big secret that the Internet has dramatically changed the way we work, socialize and get around, but is it changing us? In his New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer finalist The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, author Nicholas Carr argues that the advantages of…
“Loveland Ski Area has come a long way since 1937, and we want to thank our customers for supporting us through the years,” says Rob Goodell, director of business operations at the mountain, long a locals’ favorite among Front Range skiers and snowboarders. Loveland, the second-oldest ski area in Colorado,…
Handlebar, porn-star and pencil-thin: These are just a few of our favorite mustaches. Recent years have ushered in a renaissance in facial foliage unseen since the halcyon days of the ’70s. And tonight’s The ’Stache event honors that most manly of lip accessories. “It’ll just be fun, celebrating the mustache,”…
It’s easy to fall into a Chelsea Peretti-related Internet tunnel. The funny lady has it all: two hilarious shows, All My Exes and Making Friends; a podcast during which she accepts calls from random strangers; and a whip-smart Twitter feed — all of which can suck you in for hours…
Now in its nineteenth year, the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza brings a rich cultural tradition to life as part of the National Western Stock Show. Featuring complex roping artistry, bull fighting and bareback horse riding, the Mexican take on animal husbandry is one of great physical showmanship and festive pageantry. Jerry…
Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a community-growing endeavor dreamed up by Evan Weissman of Buntport Theater, is catching on and has everywhere to go in the new year; its simple idea of presenting points of view on community issues while doing something fun and sharing milk and cookies just makes…
Because of its tragic fate, the city of Pompeii became a time capsule. Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, burying the ancient Roman city under volcanic ash and pumice and preserving it for hundreds of years until it was rediscovered in the early 1700s. Pieces of Pompeii will make their…
