Thursday, August 11 San Francisco-based sound-art superstar Pamela Z, a long-ago graduate of the CU-Boulder College of Music, returns tonight for a concert drawn from her extraordinary repertoire of avant-garde performance/compositions, many of which have been heard around the globe. Already gifted with a set of trained soprano operatic pipes,…
Bob Saget has a lot of fond memories from his days playing Danny Tanner on ABC’s Full House. “One episode, we had a donkey in the house named Eeyore,” Saget recalls. “And the donkey kept getting aroused and getting this huge erection. The girls were level with it. They were…
SAT, 8/13 Attempting to promote diversity and raise funds for the non-profit educational art program Destination: Artistic Activism, local poet Day Acoli has launched the first-ever Aurora Black Arts Festival. This lively benefit, beginning today at 10 a.m. and running through 7 p.m. tomorrow at Fletcher Plaza, 9900 East Colfax…
SAT, 8/13 Still pining for the times of tight jeans, Aqua Net, and heavy-metal T-shirts? Have a thing for big tires crunching metal? If so, you will definitely want to haul butt up to Copper Mountain for Monsters on the Mountain, which kicks off today and runs through tomorrow evening…
SAT, 8/13 Videographer Juan Downey, who died in 1993, is remembered as one of Chile’s most innovative talents. It’s appropriate, then, that Film Under the Stars: Celebrating Chilean Video Artist Juan Downey, happening tonight at the Museo de las Américas, promises to be as creative as its subject. Rewe, Downey’s…
WED, 8/17 In 1947, the first Edinburgh International Festival — a post-war attempt to reunite Europe through art — was crashed by eight uninvited theater groups. They played ’round the fringes of the Scotland town, drawing crowds to their makeshift storefront and rooftop stages. Before long, their spontaneous act of…
Summer used to be the time when the art world all but shut down. The idea was that collectors were on vacation, so why bother with noteworthy exhibits? Directors, curators and dealers would simply throw together a group outing that showed off work by the hottest artists the organizers could…
After three years, the commercial-gallery part of Studio Aiello (3563 Walnut Street, 303-297-8166) is giving up the ghost. The business succumbed to sluggish art sales and the disadvantage of an off-the-beaten-track location. On the bright side, other aspects of Studio Aiello, including the Tar Factory Atelier, will still be around,…
2005 Biennial BLOW OUT. This is the third in a series of biennials presented at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art. In the past, participation in these biennials was limited to artists from around here; for the 2005 version, it’s been expanded to include artists working in most of the Western…
The Winter’s Tale, part of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, is a peculiar hybrid of a play. It begins as tragedy, then lurches into full comic mode. There’s a sixteen-year gap in time, more comedy, and it’s back to gravitas for the final scenes. The play contains many familiar tropes –…
Impulse Theater. Basements and comedy go together like beer and nuts or toddlers and sandboxes. The basement of the Wynkoop Brewery where Impulse Theater performs is crowded, loud and energetic. Impulse does no prepared skits, nothing but pure improv — which means that what you see changes every night, and…
The contentedly independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has brought his restless energy to a series of surreal road movies that move nicely along on the strength of rare characters, quirky humor and a willing embrace of chance adventure. These quest stories for hipsters have transported Jarmusch’s fiercely loyal audience from New…
And so, once more, the googolplex emits the stink of the network rerun, this week offering yet another worthless big-screen take on small-screen detritus. While Hollywood wonders (cries, actually, over spilt spoiled milk) why audiences are staying away from theaters — offering theories that range from the absence of such…
Once you get past its negligible plot, scant dialogue and almost zero action, Gus Van Sant’s elliptical rendering of the final hours in the troubled life of a grunge musician is rarely boring. That may seem like a backhanded compliment, but, given the absence of such customary cinematic conventions as…
The zombie king, George Romero, has got to love Shaun of the Dead. In Edgar Wright’s witty 2004 sendup of the ghouls-on-the-loose genre, we meet a pair of North London layabouts who are a lot more concerned with scoring their next pint of bitter than with saving the world from…
Some think it’s ironic that young practitioners of graffiti — a stealth art form that’s as stylized as it is free-spirited — often end up working as commercial illustrators. One of the genre’s biggest names, Shepard Fairey, proudly sticks up posters by night dissing the very capitalists for whom he…
Thursday, August 4 If the idea of Chautauqua performances leave you cold, maybe you just have the wrong impression of them. The scholarly dramatizations of historic figures don’t always have to resurrect a bunch of old moldies from the distant past; for proof, look no further than the High Plains…
James Brown may have been right when he said this is a man’s world: Social scientists have long postulated that we might well live in a less war-torn, ego-crazed culture if women, rather than old, trigger-happy white dudes, were in charge. And though it’s a long way from world domination,…
FRI, 8/5 “You don’t need twenty thousand dollars to start an art collection with one piece,” says Charmain Schuh of Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts. “If you can’t afford the original paintings, like with Warhol, you can always have them in your collection through the print media. Printmaking is…
SAT, 8/6 At 9 a.m. this morning at Colorado Gators in Mosca, GatorFest X will commence, and we all know what that means: It’s the tenth anniversary of the biggest, baddest alligator rodeo in the state. What exactly is planned at this enterprise seventeen miles north of Alamosa? Live music…
FRI, 8/5 Most people in this country don’t equate Canada with the word “exotic.” But risqué Canadian dance troupe Fluffgirl Burlesque hopes to turn up the heat on any chilly notions of our friends to the north. Fluffgirl founder and performer Cecilia Bravo started producing sold-out burlesque shows in her…
SUN, 8/7 To Fara Tolno, tradition is everything. Born in the former French colony of Guinea, he’s spent most of his life dedicated to preserving his homeland’s rich heritage, touring the world as both a teacher and a living embodiment of West African performance arts. Tonight at 8 p.m. at…
