Down to your last ten dollars? Don’t worry, there are plenty of things you can do this weekend that cost a Hamilton or less. Gawk at a performance artist living in a box, usher in summer at a dance party, or pretend you’re in Paris at a Francophile craft party…
Urban adventure races and downtown scavenger hunts have become old hat in adrenaline-conscious, wheel-happy Colorado. But when AIGA Colorado, the regional design association, decides to put on an outdoor event, you know it’s going to be of a very different type. To that end, letterpress typographer Rick Griffith of Matter…
In honor of the Classic Film Series dedicated to Wes Anderson that started at the Mayan this week, Josiah Hesse served up the top five Wes Anderson one-liners. “Don’t worry about me, I’m on mescaline” from The Royal Tenenbaums made the cut — but isn’t included in the Mayan series…
Tonight at 7 p.m., filmmakers Allie Bombach and Sarah Menzies will show the first two films in their MoveShake series online at www.MoveShake.org. The MoveShake films profile people pushing for environmental and social change; Breckenridge-based Shannon Galpin, who founded Mountain2Mountain, an organization aimed at “creating education and opportunity for women…
Several times now, Lisa Suarez’s mother has come to see her daughter perform in I’ll Remember for You, the play about their relationship and Alzheimer’s that opens at Su Teatro tonight. She has sung along with the actresses, watched as little pieces of her life are reconstructed and recreated onstage,…
Necessity is the mother of invention, and when Cindy Lichfield needed a way to photograph her jewelry without getting the usual hot spots, strange reflections and strong shadows that often show up in pictures of metal and stone, she invented the Cloud Dome — a plastic translucent dome that diffuses…
The Arvada Center galleries will greet the summer with a cheerful set of shows, Faces, Places & Spaces, which open in unison tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. and remain on view through August 26. Two artist nights, each with a panel discussion and meet-and-greet, are also…
The news that Michael Trundle is moving Lipgloss from La Rumba to Beauty Bar — after more than eight years — had Bree Davies remembering 2004, and thinking about Denver’s three degrees of separation. And she wasn’t the only one:…
It’s 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp, absconding with a couple of bedrolls and an air rifle, leaving behind a…
It’s a warm spring evening on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and the crowd jostling for hors d’oeuvre in the lobby of the Paramount Theater exudes the anticipatory hum of a gala studio premiere. Only tonight’s feature presentation isn’t a new summer blockbuster or year-end prestige release. Rather, it’s…
It’s an election year, which means most of us are a little irate, and Second City comic duo Frank Caeti and Matt Craig — known together as FrankenMatt — are no exception. So Caeti, formerly of MADTV, and Craig, an alum of Saturday Night Live’s writing team, are taking that…
“For the Tough Mudder adventure race, we’re changing Beaver Creek’s slogan from ‘Not exactly roughing it’ to ‘Definitely roughing it,'” says spokeswoman Jen Brown. “This race is hard-core, with obstacles designed by British Special Forces that will challenge you in ways you never thought possible.” That’s no understatement: The dozen…
Boulder’s experimental theater troupe Band of Toughs likes to focus on developing new plays, which means they’ll take the time to work a script through many drafts until it’s perfect. With that in mind, they’re bringing (re)production — a play-in-process that they performed in a nascent form last year at…
Though the idea of video-game consoles conjures up the image of gamers sitting on couches, dancer and choreographer Emily Power has re-appropriated the controller-free, motion-sensing XBox Kinect for her new modern-dance performance, Unfolding Perception. To do it, Power worked with a sound designer and computer programmer to use the Kinect…
In Shakespeare’s Othello, the title character strangles his wife, Desdemona, in a fit of jealous rage; manipulated by the liar Iago, Othello believes she has been unfaithful. For Jennifer McCray Rincon, writer and director of The Othello Project: Phase 2, this story is well suited for a modern audience. “I’ve…
The Lyons Outdoor Games heads into its second decade this weekend with demos, clinics and events celebrating Colorado’s outdoor lifestyle. There are five kayak events on the schedule, most of them tomorrow and Sunday, including a down-river kayak race, a kayak slalom race, boater-cross races on the North Saint Vrain…
“We didn’t really know what we were doing, but we had a great time and we sold some art,” says Art Students League of Denver Summer Art Market founder Dennis Pendleton of the first-ever market. The event has done a lot of growing in the twenty years since then, but…
To the west of Denver, folksy Lakewood — and in particular, the West Colfax corridor — clearly had its work cut out when the idea of a new arts district began being bandied about more than a year ago. But sheer determination and a wonderful collaborative spirit, says 40 West…
Way back when Denver was still a boom-and-bust cowtown, Mayor Robert Speer saw the potential for its beauty — or what he called a Western-style “Paris on the Platte.” In tribute to that vision — and to celebrate the anniversary of Etsy, the community-crafting website, the Denver Public Library’s Fresh…
Look out for twisters tonight at Infinity Park. No, not the dangerous ones. We’re talking about magical twisters — the ones that drop houses on wicked witches and blow girls and dogs to the land of Oz. To kick off its Monday Movie Madness series, the City of Glendale is…
To raise money in this dog-eat-dog world of local independent theater, you have to have an imagination — at least that’s what Susan Lyles of Denver’s And Toto Too Theatre Company discovered as she led the woman-centric troupe through the ups and downs of play-making on the fly, in borrowed…
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema — the Austin-based theater chain that takes pride in ejecting rude patrons and bans kids under six — is opening its first Colorado location early next year in Littleton, but the company is offering a preview of its zany ethos this summer by sponsoring the outdoor Aspen…
