The holiday decorations at the Denver City and County Building weren’t always such an orgy of bad taste. Back in 1935, just three years after the grand building was completed, the city hired muralist Louise Emerson Ronnebeck to create a 76-foot-long Christmas painting — a Nativity scene that fit into…
Plenty of theater-goers, feminists and activists know about Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, which has been presented in venues of all sizes and shapes around the world. But if you’ve seen that hardly subtle production, you might be surprised by Ensler’s “other” play, The Good Body, which covers similar territory —…
Although he argues that Peter Shaffer’s Equus is a theater classic on a level with Death of a Salesman or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Craig Bond, director of Vintage Theatre’s upcoming performance has an explanation for why it isn’t staged all that often. “The play won’t give you…
The Banff Mountain Film Festival celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2010, and now brings its world tour to the Boulder Theater tonight and tomorrow at 7 p.m. ($19.50 per day, tickets at www.bouldertheater.com), then to Denver’s Paramount Theatre March 3 and 4 at 7 p.m. ($15 per day, tickets at…
The unexpected confluence of two seemingly unrelated ideas has always been the theme of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s Mixed Taste lecture series, where the MCA brings in a pair of experts to tag-team-discuss two disparate topics. But in its new Mixed Taste on Ice winter series, says programming…
Mina Samuels turns a tired old playground taunt into an empowering command in her book Run Like a Girl: How Strong Women Make Happy Lives. After discovering the power of running and other sports in her own life, Samuels interviewed nearly 100 female athletes — including Kim Walker, owner of…
Maybe, like a lot of people these days, you’ve picked up a needle and thread to sew or repurpose your own clothes, beguiled by the whole DIY craft movement. And maybe, like a lot of those like-minded folks, you’ve hit a wall. The Art Salon’s in-house professional seamstress/designer, April Hoy,…
It came from Crested Butte, and it was absolutely awful. No, it wasn’t Heidi Montag; it was Snowbeast, a 1977 abomination that is a classic in no sense of that word, not even in a so-bad-it’s-good way. “There is absolutely zero, nothing to love in this movie,” says Matt Vogl…
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2011 is the year of the rabbit, but tonight it’s all about saving the giant panda. Pandas International ― a local nonprofit that focuses on the preservation of the endangered giant panda and provides medical and veterinary supplies to the staffs of several captive giant…
John Rodwan’s Fighters & Writers explores the relationship between the two in a somewhat unusual way ― by combining personal essays with literary analysis. “Some see boxing as free of artifice; others see it as full of it,” says Rodwan, who will read from his book and sign copies tonight…
As a narrator, Bruno isn’t that unusual. He’s precocious, self-conscious, slightly unreliable and gets into a bit of trouble over the course of his story. The thing is, Bruno is also a chimpanzee. That’s the watered-down premise of Benjamin Hale’s debut novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, which he’ll read…
Seattle-based composer Matt Jorgensen has a special connection to Denver, even if he’s never lived here. You see, Jorgensen is the son-in-law of the late Dale Chisman, one of the city’s greatest contemporary painters. Jorgensen’s memories of Chisman — in particular, the high standard the painter set for other artists…
The Pokémon franchise has been taking time away from children’s homework for the past thirteen years, and today, fans will have an opportunity to check out the new games in the series, meet the new Pokémon and have a chance to do some real life Pokéhunting in celebration of the…
Right now, at this very moment, local gastronauts are plotting how to snag rezzies at one of the 295 food temples across the metro area taking part in Denver Restaurant Week — a two-week nosh-a-thon, spearheaded by Visit Denver and trumpeting multi-course dinners (some of which even pimp wine, beer…
The Beerdrinker of the Year contest will crown its fifteenth champion today at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, which accepts applications from around the country to determine who will be the best ambassador for craft beer. Three finalists have been chosen — from Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, respectively. Today they’ll…
Minor celebrities are often doomed to live out their careers remembered primarily for that one thing they did that was really famous. For comedian David Alan Grier, that’s probably Antoine Merriweather, his flamboyant pop-culture commentator from the early 1990s show In Living Color. But say what you will about the…
Take a deep breath — and be thankful for that breath this morning before racing up 56 floors in the stairwell of Republic Plaza, the tallest building in Denver. “The Anthem Fight for Air Climb is one of our most popular special events each year,” says Liz Toohey, event coordinator…
Bart Simpson was arbitrarily declared 32 years old today by Twitter trends, a designation that had something to do with the release of the first episode of The Simpsons in 1989 plus Bart’s age, which has always been ten years old. Except the show debuted on December 17, 1989 as…
This weekend, the best and worst of 2010 in film will be categorically determined (right…) by the Academy and Golden Raspberry Awards, respectively. And while statues are nice, everyone knows that money guides filmmaking to a much greater degree than accolades. So we were wondering — does the movie-going public…
When you consider the elaborate costume, the mystical powers and the “popemobile,” it’s pretty clear that the pope is a superhero. Or possibly a supervillain. Whatever the case, like a superhero/villain, the pope also has a rich inner life that gets lost in the glitz and glam of his popular…
Elephant Quest comes to us from John Cooney, who made a name for himself with the self-referential meta game, Achievement Unlocked, a parody of the curious nature of achievements and trophies in game. Elephant Quest takes takes the same elephant from that and plops him into an exploration-shooter-RPG that initially…
Erik Weihenmayer has climbed the Seven Summits, including Mt. Everest, and his resume of adventurous accomplishments also includes such feats as finishing the Leadville 100 on a tandem bike. Oh, and also: He’s blind. Tonight at 6 p.m., the author of Touch the Top of the World and The Adversity…
