Considering the rise of abstraction at the beginning of the last century, it’s interesting to note that even now, more than a decade into the current century, some artists persist in creating old-fashioned representational depictions of the human figure. A secret to the success of these contemporary realists is their…
Architects and designers will get a chance to play with their food today as Canstruction Colorado 2012 gets under way at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. To compete in this colossal building event, seven teams will use nearly 10,000 donated cans of food to create visual masterpieces such…
Lafayette-based artist Lisa Michot wants you to know that it’s Ignacio Mouser, her papier-mache rodent alter-ego, and not Lisa herself, who is an associate member of NEXT Gallery, so take that knowledge and a grain of salt with you when you go to see Ignacio Mouser and Friends, a small…
“Hello. I’m Johnny Cash.” That was enough of an introduction for the country legend himself, but Cash’s legacy has surpassed that simplicity. In his nearly fifty-year career, Cash played himself in dozens of film and television spots, but his death in 2003 opened the gates for others to take up…
A roller derby nickname must be several things. Among them: short, clever and intimidating. This year’s winner of “Best Roller Derby Nickname” in our 2012 Best of Denver issue is all three: Boo Boo Radley of the Denver Roller Dolls. But there’s more cleverness and badassery to go around. Here,…
Warning: Spoilers within! In one of the final scenes of the Season 2 premiere of Game of Thrones, henchmen of boy-king Joffrey, the incestuous product of his mother and uncle, tear through King’s Landing, slaying the many bastard children of Robert, Joffrey’s official but now totally dead father. Because his…
Population is the theme of this year’s Moving Mountains Symposium on Friday, May 25, kicking off the 34th annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival, which runs through May 28 over Memorial Day Weekend. The full roster of speakers for the symposium was just announced…
Baseball season officially starts today (in Tokyo), and artist Kyle Banister couldn’t be more excited. He’ll be performing a live sidewalk chalk-art exhibition at the corner of Blake and 21st streets during the Rockies home opener on April 9, he’s the resident artist for Root Sports this season, and he’s…
The opera singers who regularly let their hair down at Opera on Tap, the up-close-and-personal monthly bar night at Bender’s Tavern, will further reveal their inner selves during tonight’s installment, the Musical Month of March. And though opera is inherently musical, this “musical” refers to what blossoms on Broadway rather…
Our coverage of a recent meeting of the minds between theater producers discussing the state of theater in this town inspired a harsh response from Jack, who said that “anyone with even a modicum of taste and refinement is getting out of town before you beer-swilling losers stink up the…
Which is better: the hamantasch or the latke? That simple question is suddenly not so simple when placed in the hands of the Buntport Theater crew and faculty members of the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies, who are preparing to debate the issue — for the third year…
Alien meets girl. Girl falls for alien. Government agents track alien as she and her intergalactic friends attempt to save their home planet through heartbreak. The plot for Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same might be a little out there — actually, galaxies out there — but its creators weren’t…
Game of Thrones Season 2 is coming. Game of Thrones, HBO’s latest popular series that’s been described as sort of The Sopranos meets Lord of the Rings, debuts its second season Sunday night, but Denver-area viewers can get a sneak peek of the new series tonight…
Stacy Peralta — legendary professional skateboarder, founder of the Powell Peralta skateboard company, documentary filmmaker and commercial advertising mogul — visited the Auraria campus yesterday to speak with students on the art of being creative. “When kids tell me their kids are skateboarders,” he told the crowd, “I tell them,…
The sun may not break through all the smoke in the air from the Jefferson County wildfires today, but “Solar for a Small Planet,” a free program at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science tonight, will shine a light on how solar helps power low-income communities around the world…
Mondo Guerra was the undeniable star his first round on Project Runway. Even though he didn’t win the competition, he won hearts with his admission that he’s HIV-positive. And last Thursday night, he got his sweet revenge by winning Project Runway All Stars , which came with a hefty load…
There’s a lot of mythologizing in All In, an adoring, exhaustive survey of the last decade’s poker boom and its impact on the culture. Director Douglas Tirola tries so hard to make poker a central metaphor for the new American Dream that at times the relentless stream of hot air…
In the first scene of Israel’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a forty-something Talmudic scholar whose research has earned adulation while his sixty-something father’s has mostly been ignored — accepts an honor with an obliviously glib speech built around a childhood anecdote about his…
On Saturday night Rhinoceropolis was transformed into a surreal collection of different visceral spaces, a kind of haunted house of DIY weirdness, attacking the senses partly with fear, but also with ideas that challenged reality and the nature of aesthetics. Known as Fantasia 2012, the art installation put its guests…
Madrid, Paris, Denver.What do these three locations have in common? They are the three sites selected by the French fashion house to host Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, which opened yesterday and runs through July 8 at the Denver Art Museum. As if you needed added incentive to see this…
The sound of hammers was deafening at Clear Creek Academy of Jewelry and Metal Arts over the weekend, when students learned the ancient metal-forming techniques of chasing and repoussé. The workshop featured the guidance of master silversmith Valentin Yotkov, a Bulgarian-born expert in the craft who has trained members of…
Stacy Peralta, a ’70s-era skateboarding legend in his own right — and co-founder of the Powell Peralta Bones Brigade skateboarding team that included Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero, Mike McGill and dozens of the top pro skaters of the ’80s and ’90s — will be the featured…
