The aptly named Rarities & Oddities, Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s season closer, is a don’t-miss show, according to artistic director Garrett Ammon — and he would know. “Anyone who loves contemporary dance is going to love it,” he promises, “and anyone who hasn’t seen us, this is the perfect chance to…
Just in time for Passover, Susannah Perlman is bringing her troupe of Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad back to Denver for a night of Judaic-themed comedy, music and burlesque. Because of the alignment with the holiday, Perlman promises “a whole burning bush, Moses thing” which entails a “’Go Down Moses,’…
There’s a hoary old joke about the weather in Colorado that also applies to the twelfth annual CU-OnStage Fringe Festival: If you don’t like it, wait a few minutes. With visual art, cinema, costume and set design and plenty of theater represented, the festival will cram artsiness into all of…
Photographer Delilah Montoya spent a year documenting the lives of professional female boxers — including Denver’s own Teri “Lil’ Loca” Cruz — for the book Women Boxers: The New Warriors, portions of which are featured in Su Mirada/Her Gaze, the current exhibition at the Museo de las Américas, 861 Santa…
Chances are you’re already somewhat familiar with the people featured in Denver Stories, an ongoing series in which Curious Theatre Company selects four Denver celebrities and writes and produces a ten-minute play about each. The beauty of it, though, is that you’re likely to learn something you didn’t expect —…
You might wonder: How do the powers-that-be choose the firefighters for the Colorado Firefighter Calendar — an annual Fired Up for Kids project that benefits the burn center at Children’s Hospital? The answer is tonight’s Colorado Firefighter Calendar 2012 Celebrity Judging Contest, during which 29 men and five women will…
Jimson weed, oleander, ergot, angel trumpet: all plants that will kill you if you don’t treat them with a little respect. The Plantae kingdom is filled with deadly photosynthesis-craving organisms, a number of which are spotlighted in Amy Stewart’s book, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other…
Once upon a time, John Lennon had a plan to do a concert with Karlheinz Stockhausen, a hugely influential modernist composer and pioneer of electronic music. That concert never happened — but an experimental multimedia ensemble can imagine, can’t it? From the idea for that potentially mind-blowing concert comes 1969,…
With various Tea Party-led anti-union efforts afoot in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Hampshire and all over the country growing increasingly more vehement, it seems a particularly appropriate time to consider the oppressive work conditions from whence the union movement sprang — and the violent opposition it encountered. Of that violence, there’s…
Conceived by Michelle “Smallfry” Lessans as an art installation at the 2011 Burning Man celebration in the Nevada desert, the Zenith Project aims to create peaceful zen garden in the often chaotic party that Burning Man can be. “I love burning man, it’s a wonderful experience, but at times I’ve…
It’s pretty evident from the headline, but the Ladies Laugh-In monthly comedy showcase has moved from the third Wednesday of every month to the third Thursday. Comedian and Laugh-In coordinator Heather Snow says it was a simple matter of the new night freeing up, and a desire to not compete…
There are many ways to lose yourself to the sweet oblivion — weed is one, and it happens to be the only one with an entire holiday dedicated to its consumption (booze and St. Patrick’s Day notwithstanding). But there are other, less conventional ways to get lifted — ways that…
For obvious reasons, many indie games tend to look the same. They’re simple, often created with pixel art and tend to attempt to showcase an idea more than graphical prowess. For those willing to deal with a simple look, Convergence is a very quick experience that fits into the indie…
Thanks to the internetz, we have spied for you today a little slice of South Africa via a commercial for a snack we’ve never heard of, from a company we’ve all heard of. It’s more than a little aggravating to discover that other countries get different, and possibly more-than-likely better,…
Some people are bad winners. You know the kind: They win one thing and they get all gloaty and in-your-face and won’t shut up with their stupid self-aggrandizement. You know, people like us. In our post yesterday about Denver Roller Dolls B-team Bruising Altitude’s win over the Rat City Roller…
Ski season may be winding down, but Spring is prime time for film crews working on this year’s new ski porn: Many ski areas now work with the top film companies to allow private sessions on the mountain after closing day. Case in point? Poor Boyz Productions has let loose…
Ah, life’s eternal questions, like “Why do words sounds so weird if you say them a bunch of times in a row?” and “What if, like, when you looked in the mirror you were seeing the real you looking at the fake you and you’re the fake you” and “Wait,…
While it’s true that you will laugh at pretty much anything after the multitude of nuggets you’ll be smoking at a certain hour tomorrow afternoon, while you’re at it, you might as well laugh at something that’s actually funny when Chuck Roy and John “Hippieman” Novosad meet tonight in a…
Like a snarky, self-aware Angela Chase, Liz Lee of MTV’s My Life As Liz doesn’t know how to not be herself — which is, of course, what makes her the most lovable thing to grace the former music channel’s digital airwaves since Daria or Kennedy. Though many of her tweets…
Performance artist/seamstress/activist/do-gooder Frau Fiber’s message is rooted in old-school proletariat values; with that in mind, she focuses specifically on the undervalued garment worker, a workforce icon and punching bag of capitalistic society with a history of struggle against poor labor conditions and wages. She’ll be leading a workshop tonight at…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty,” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. As fun…
Now that everyone finally has their taxes complete and their refund checks on the way, it means it’s time to spend some cash on frivolous crap. Good thing we’re here to help you with that, because we’ve got some seriously top-notch entertainment to bust your wallet wide-open with this week…
