The Circus Is in Town

It’s a little bit vaudevillian and a little bit Halloween, but one thing’s for certain: Carnivalesque, a new group show opening at the Niza Knoll Gallery, 915 Santa Fe Drive, will fill viewers with a little bit of nostalgia, a little bit of joy, and then, well, something darker. Clowns,…

Southern Belle

Harper Lee’s groundbreaking 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird still resonates with readers today — and there’s no doubt that the Denver Center Theatre Company’s stage adaptation will hit the same notes with audience members. “I do think it’s one of the great novels and movies of the twentieth century,”…

Vroom Service

The star of the Forney Museum of Transportation’s new exhibit, The Phenomenal Ford Falcons, proves that history repeats itself — especially in the American auto industry. “The Falcons are one of a handful of what would then be considered ‘economy cars’ that were introduced to compete with the imports during…

The Nature of Things

No double take necessary: Although at first glance, Altered Nature: Notable Interpretations From South America, which opens today at the Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art, seems like it might belong down the street at the Museo de las Americas, it fits right into the handsome Metro…

Ape shit: Guerilla Garden unveils 5,000 square foot mural on Friday

While the Denver Housing Authority’s 1099 Osage Street building, part of the South Lincoln/Mariposa Redevelopment project, won’t be completed until January 2012, it’s already making changes in the neighborhood. And on Friday, Guerrilla Garden will unveil a 5,000 square-foot mural at the corner of 11th Avenue and Osage Street…

A-Basin opens tomorrow, October 13, for the 2011/2012 ski season

This morning, Arapahoe Basin announced it will open tomorrow, October 13, at 9 a.m., for the season. The ski area is reporting an eighteen-inch base after a week of snowmaking and several inches of natural snow. That’s not quite as epic as the 36-inch dump that helped Wolf Creek temporarily…

Reader: If the arts come together, we can move a Fourteener!

Yesterday, Show and Tell asked readers to weigh in on the nine questions on the table for three creative artists/entrepreneurs — Lonnie Hanzon, Jimmy Sellars, and Marie Gibbons — on the panel for last night’s EatART panel at Fresh City Life. I was the moderator, and the conversation turned out…

Sad Halloween costume of the day: Child drag-queen pumpkin?

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as they say. Other times, one man’s trash is basically just another man’s trash, but at least it’s hilarious trash. That’s the case with today’s Sad Halloween Costume of the Day photo, in which a pudgy kid of indeterminate sex wearing a too-short…

Was the IFSC World Cup Lead Climbing competition an Olympic sneak peek?

Austrian climbers dominated both the men’s and women’s competition this past weekend, before a sold-out crowd at Movement Climbing + Fitness in Boulder for the 2011 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Lead Climbing World Cup. Many climbers — and climbing fans — hope this event was a preview of…

Colorado artists take a unique look at the state

For 150 years, artists from around the world have come to Colorado to record its majestic mountains in paintings, prints and photos. And while the Rockies are certainly the most dramatic element of our landscape, some artists have instead focused on other, less expected views of Colorado. This includes those…

Now Showing

Bayer & Chisman. From the 1940s to the 1970s, Aspen’s Herbert Bayer was one of the premier artists in Colorado, and from the ’80s to the first decade of the 21st century, Denver’s Dale Chisman played a similar role. But beyond that, their work has little in common, with Bayer…