It started in 1984 and is ending with Fahrenheit 451, which almost makes one wonder if it’s just a coincidence or if the last-ever National Theatre Conservatory Repertory 2012 stage offering wasn’t chosen with a touch of irony. Probably not, but it’s hard not to feel sad about what will…
Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop is hosting the local premiere of the new Think Skateboards film Business As Usual tonight at 8 p.m., at a free screening at the shop at 6821 West 120th Avenue. Can’t make it? Boulder’s Meta Skateboards is presenting the film tomorrow at 8 p.m., with a…
Luis Alberto Urrea really is the story he writes in so many ways: A reporter, poet and novelist, he’s covered the illegal immigrant story from the front lines, where he once worked as a relief worker, and found pieces of himself in the fictionalized retelling of the history of his…
With a soldering iron, Mike McClung creates intricate burn outs out of vellum and cold-pressed paper and arranges the paper to create visual arrays. McClung’s work will show in Connections, a new show starting Friday the 13th at Space Gallery. Aside from showing at Space, Art and Soul Gallery in…
As April blooms, the occasional snow reminds us that it’s Colorado; we view a daring array of fashion hitting the sidewalks. Some of the latest and greatest combinations are being sported by elegant individuals in the city of Denver. This week, accessories are what made the outfit. Be it smokey…
Bravo! The theater department at Metropolitan State College of Denver has become the first college theater department in the state to gain accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Theatre. And not for just one of its programs, but all three: the BA in theater, the BFA in musical…
Wicked opens today at the Buell Theatre, with a wickedly good deal: Two and a half hours before each performance, you can enter your name in a lottery at the Buell box office; thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each,…
If life is a drag, why not play to the hilt? Since this is the second Wednesday of the month, Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret is presenting the Viva las Divas Art of Illusion Follies, hosted by female illusion artists (drag queens, in shorthand) Alexandra Winters and Harley Quinn and featuring a…
Tonight the Mayan is screening Wild at Heart, part of a series of David Lynch films it’s featuring in April. That program inspired Jef Otte’s list of David Lynch’s ten weirdest scenes…
Glamorous Law School, a new musical written, directed and performed exclusively by University of Colorado Law School students, opens Thursday at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder. So how glamorous can a musical about law school be? Glamorous enough to provide a brief respite from actual law-school life,…
Get in gear! Discover the DaVinci In You, an exhibit of machines and inventions created by Leonardo DaVinci, has moved into the former Virgin Records space in the Denver Pavilions. It’s not quite the stuff of the nearby Victoria’s Secret, but it’s definitely a miraculous body of work. The exhibit,…
It’s a scientific fact that if you watch the canon of David Lynch’s full-length films back-to-back, your eyeballs will not only melt, but David Lynch himself will somehow randomly appear to film your eyeballs melting. Fortunately, for safety’s sake, there is a week of recovery time between each of the…
With many Colorado ski areas closing this weekend (some of them ahead of schedule) and recent headlines bemoaning this season’s abysmal snowpack across the state, it’s easy to lament the sad state of this year’s ski and snowboard season. But let’s accentuate the positive for a moment: Yesterday, Wolf Creek…
This past weekend, I went with some friends to Beaver Creek for a night off from the city (because, obviously, we live so hard and fast in Denver that we need a break). But this wasn’t some rustic retreat: The Condo of Beaver Creek is a gated community inside of…
Where do our libraries come from? Beginning at the turn of the last century, there was a building boom across the nation, thanks to the deep pockets of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. In Denver alone, nine Carnegie libraries were built early in the twentieth century — five of which still operate…
Every week, Noah Van Sciver serves up both art and insight into local bands in 4 Questions, his comic. But occasionally we send him out to paint the entire town, as he did for the recent opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver…
Simon Zalkind, curator of the Mizel Center’s Singer Gallery (350 South Dahlia Street, 303-316-6360, www.maccjcc.org), has mounted a show, as so many others have, honoring the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum. His entry, which runs through April 29, is the wonderful Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin, made up of paintings…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
Arriving in theaters on a wave of free publicity — its distributor, the Weinstein Company, butted heads with the MPAA over an initial R rating; it was eventually edited to land a PG-13 — Lee Hirsch’s Bully is something of an outlier among awareness docs: It has a clear and…
At the end of The Cabin in the Woods, the world is destroyed by an apocalyptic hand of fate — an actual hand, mind you — yet that is not a spoiler, not really. The real spoilers in the film are in the tricky mechanics crafted by writers Joss Whedon…
Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is a polite Jewish boy from fictional Orangetown, Massachusetts, whose one God-given talent is having a skull made of granite and, on command, a rock-’em-sock-’em left-right combination. Doug is a bouncer, but his middle-class parents (Eugene Levy and Ellen David), in denial that their son…
Did you understand it? I couldn’t hear the words. They just kept yelling and yelling. — Overheard in the women’s bathroom after the play The semi-operatic Chess doesn’t have a lot of dialogue, and the music ebbs and surges continually like the sea — sometimes lyrical, witty or moving, and…
