Stuart Alden of Ink Lounge knows the craft-fair routine. With his wife, Nicky, he screenprints and sells unique calendars at various shows and markets, which, he admits, are mostly a woman’s world. “I’m usually one of a handful of guys in there,” he says. “And a lot of the time,…
Technically, it’s not yet winter — December 22 is the first official day of the chilly season — but it’s not too soon to start chasing the cold-weather blues away at Winter Wow!, a day of dance, yoga and meditation workshops. The program kicks off with an Afro-fusion dance session,…
If you’re at all familiar with the work of Tiffany Smyth — she won a 2009 Best of Denver award for her masks, available at her ArtsMyths boutique on South Broadway — then you might kinda, sorta know what to expect at tonight’s Fashion, Music, Dance event, featuring ArtsMyths and…
If you’re wondering what to do with your charity dollars this season, the Wynkoop Brewing Company has just the package: For $25 ($30 at the door), you can join the Parade of Darks this afternoon, sampling seventy-plus beers from breweries big and small, with the beery knowledge that 100 percent…
Santa is coming! Lots of Santas are coming! As part of this year’s lighting ceremony, Breckenridge is introducing Race of the Santas, which is exactly what it sounds like. “It involves a hundred Santas sprinting, running, jogging and skipping down Main Street,” explains Breck spokeswoman Rachel Zerowin. “The idea is…
Last holiday season, Stranded Jewelry proprietor Amelia Deleon brought her annual holiday trunk show out of the living room and into Illiterate Gallery. The move was so successful that this year she decided the more the merrier — and so the jewelry designer is adding the work of other local…
Though Patsy Cline played her last show in 1963, Kelley Zinge will bring her back to life tonight when she stars in A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, a tribute to the legendary country singer. A local jazz singer who’s found success in her own right, Zinge has performed this…
Erin Algiere, Sandra Fettingis and Kelsey Dalton worked together at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, but that’s not all they had in common: Like many people who labor behind the scenes at museums, they were all artists, aspiring or otherwise. And since they were far from alone in that…
In his comedy act, Anthony Jeselnik often comes off as an arrogant jerk. But a successful one: The comedian’s resume includes writing for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and Sarah Silverman, as well as last year’s Comedy Central Records’ Shakespeare album. And he insists that the jerk act is just…
The award-winning theatrical tour of The Lion King launched in Denver oh-so-many years ago — and theater-lovers will be thrilled to hear that it’s back for another run. “In big, commercial musical theater, there are still a handful of shows that seem to be magical. Phantom is still Phantom. Les…
Fancy yourself a socially and environmentally conscious consumer? Brian Baker, who visits factories around the globe to make sure they’re not running sweatshops or spewing toxic waste into the air and water, certainly hopes so. He’s leading a talk titled “Night With a Futurist” at the Da Vinci Institute tonight,…
It began with a figurine. The story behind veteran New Yorker reporter Susan Orlean’s most recent venture into literary journalism is simple, though the book that resulted is a bit more in-depth. When Orlean was a child, her grandfather kept a toy version of canine TV star Rin Tin Tin…
Forget Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Carol or even Home Alone: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is the quintessential American holiday movie of the last century. See for yourself tonight when Clark Griswold once again battles trashy relatives, uppity neighbors and a psychotic squirrel at Movie and a Martini, an…
There’s a simple and obvious recipe for A Christmas Twist, and it goes something like this: “Take A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, and throw it in a blender,” jokes the play’s director, Clint Heyn. Presented by Firehouse Theater beginning tonight at 7:30 p.m., the show, which was written by…
During The 1940’s Radio Hour’s last appearance at the Arvada Center in 2004, love was most certainly in the air. Production leads Joseph Bearss and Shannan Steele met playing a match made on stage — a connection eventually mirrored by real life. Now married, the couple reprises their role in…
Leave it to Boulder to become the testing ground for something as antithetical as “bus birding,” but that’s what’s happening, thanks to EcoArts Connections, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and the Regional Transportation District. With help from artist and “re-naturalist” Brian Collier, the collaboration is yielding a…
Internationally famous portrait artist Chuck Close is perhaps best known for his photo-realist paintings. But as Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something shows, he’s also an accomplished photographer. Organized by the Aperture Foundation, this show, at the Loveland Museum and Gallery, brings together a group of the…
The Wall Street Journal has a rave review of the Clyfford Still Museum today — its second piece on Denver’s new facility in as many weeks. The first, Daniel Grant’s “It’s Not Easy Being Single,” published on November 17, talked about the difficulties of dedicating a facility entirely to the…
Just as the cherry blossom opens in April, so has the brilliant lip foliage burst forth this month — even in November, traditional harbinger of winter’s cruel silence. Indeed, this Movember has seen more mustaches than ever bloom and grow like the lovely edelweiss, and as the month draws to…
What does climate change have to do with skiing and snowboarding? Everything, according to Auden Schendler — Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, board member of Protect Our Winters, and author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution. Schendler is the…
A few years ago, when actor Gary Culig abandoned his beloved longtime role as Crumpet the Elf in the Bug Theatre’s perennial holiday production of The SantaLand Diaries, he left the local field wide open for a new kind of Crumpet, the sourly wry Macy’s elf based on the true…
Comedian Lori Callahan is not getting rave reviews for her video mocking the current “I’m a Mormon” campaign, the appropriately titled “I’m NOT a Mormon.” “To me, it feels like a cult,” Callahan says of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explaining that the sketch was designed not…
