Dale Katechis, owner of Oskar Blues, gave up his office to provide a home for Lyons Classic Video in the lower level of his restaurant — but it was worth the sacrifice to save a life. Kevin Carroll, owner of Lyons Classic Pinball (located next to Oskar Blues), “has this…
During the first half of the twentieth century, Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier artist, but in the succeeding decades, he slowly fell into obscurity — known chiefly by local art historians and, because of his murals, supporters of local historic architecture. But three recent projects dedicated to True have…
Jessica Stockholder and John McEnroe. Jessica Stockholder is an internationally known artist who creates what have been described as three-dimensional paintings. She is widely known for her over-the top installations, so it’s unusual to find Stockholders that are small enough for people to actually buy. This exhibit is dominated by…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
Reunited with Charles McKeown, his co-writer from Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam has created another Ultimate Po-mo adventure crammed to a fault with big ideas and bigger images that mutate a grungy contemporary London into a living heaven and hell. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is…
For years, Hollywood has wrestled with adapting C.D. Payne’s 1993 novel Youth in Revolt — which actually was three novels collected under one title, and so the possibilities were endless, given 500 pages of material to mine. In 1996, Fox filmed a pilot starring Chris Masterson as Nick Twisp, the…
There are those who take dance way too seriously, and then there are those who don’t. If you’re one of those folks who avoid the art form like the plague because of the former, here’s your chance to get in touch with its lighter nuances, with help from the latter:…
Set in a Boulder apartment in 1986, Home by Dark is the story of a state trooper who drives from Pueblo to Boulder one snowy morning to confront his son about being gay – and to reveal a secret of his own. “The time and place is very important because…
It’s a little early for this year’s Chinese New Year: The 2010 Spring Festival, celebrating the Year of the Tiger, officially commences on Valentine’s Day. But it’s not too soon to begin preparing for that month-long cycle of activities representing new beginnings, and there’s no better way of doing that…
If you’re kicking yourself for not making the trek up to Morrison last fall to see the well-received Miners Alley production of Jeffrey Hatcher’s A Picasso, opportunity is knocking again: The exact staging, with Chris Kendall as Picasso and Paige Lynn Larson as Miss Fischer, the Nazi attaché, is being…
For Stephanie Tourles, licensed holistic esthetician and author of Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body, her raw-food education began as a child on her grandparents’ Georgia farm. “They had two large gardens in which they grew a substantial portion…
The Baltimore Sun most recently came to the attention of the pop-culture world as the backdrop for the fifth season of The Wire — the groundbreaking cop drama whose creator and writer, David Simon, served as a Sun police reporter for twelve years. But Simon is far from the only…
“Denver has a lot of talented and generous chefs,” says Sheila Lucero, executive chef of Jax Fish House in Denver and Boulder, “but I really wanted to create something a little more intimate for the guests that would include a fun group of female chefs.” Welcome to Females on Fire,…
Think of Brooklyn-based videographer Cliff Evans as a Great Master for a budding century, one whose brave new palette leaves the rectangle of the canvas light years behind. In his three-channel HD video work, Citizen: The Wolf and the Nanny, the montagist unleashes a multi-screen barrage of images lifted from…
Colorado is the Napa Valley of beer, so most Coloradans are used to the idea of pairing beer with food. But what about beer in their food? Any chili chef or beer-can-chicken cook will tell you that beer is an easy and delicious secret ingredient, but the 1st Annual Twisted…
“You’ve got to love ice climbers,” says Erin Eddy, executive director of the Ouray Ice Park. “Anybody who’s up for playing in the snow and ice when it’s 5 degrees out is somebody who loves the outdoors and has a positive attitude.” And the annual Ouray Ice Festival, presented by…
It’s been a few years, but U2 will finally return to Denver — on June 12, at the Pepsi Center. If you’re impatient, on a budget and/or prone to arena-phobia, however, you have another option: Under a Blood Red Sky. Since 2005, the Denver-based band has paid tribute to Bono…
So, you took your kids to Cirque du Soleil and now they’re dreaming of running away with the circus? Yeah, me, too. But I’m keeping my would-be runaways closer to home for a little while longer, thanks to Boulder’s new Frequent Flyers Productions Aerial Dance Studio. “Aerial work is a…
Named for the Norse god of snow, who dumps more than 300 inches of sweet, sweet powder on Breckenridge each year, the Ullr Fest is one of the longest-running events in town. “It’s in its 47th year,” says spokeswoman Carly Grimes. “It began when the town was really small and…
You know the year is off to a good start when Tejana folk artist Tish Hinojosa comes to town. Her annual visits to the Swallow Hill Music Hall are always reason to celebrate, but especially now. It’s become a longer trip for Hinojosa, who used to reside full-time in Austin…
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Vail’s Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival, and the organizers have something special planned. “Twenty-one breweries from around the world have created beers or are releasing new beers at our event,” explains organizer Laura Lodge. “Most are created specifically for our festival and…
The National Western Stock Show kicked off on January 9, a century-old reminder of how the West was fun! While most of the action is up at the NWSS complex in north Denver – at the Coliseum, and the Arena, and the Exhibition Hall (with the fabulous Cowboy Bar in…
