Summer’s almost halfway over. Don’t let a weekend go by without drenching yourself in the sunshine and getting a bite of all of these tasty events. In these three days, you can party with the whole city, hang out with dragons and laugh your nights away. Drop a comment if…
If having the pants scared off you seems like a sexy proposition, get ready for your nightmarish dreams to come true. On Saturday Burlesque Nouveau will present The Dark Side of Burlesque, a terrifying tease show in which a bevy of talented performers pay tribute to the macabre with nods to…
Long gone are the days when depictions of reporters in movies were reduced to a fedora with a white “Press” card tucked into the bow. We have Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in All The President’s Men and Peter Finch’s epic cry of “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take…
When Andrea Moore’s artists’ residency culminates in an opening, it’s nothing glamorous. After all, it happens in her garage. “It’s rough,” she says. “There’s only one finished wall, so it’s not like there’s a whole lot of presentation space.” Still, there’s something charming about The Detached Garage — literally the…
When you’re young and behind bars, it can be difficult to keep hope alive. And it can get even tougher after setbacks such as the recent Colorado Supreme Court decisions that did little to modify the sentences of 48 prisoners in the state prison system who are serving what amounts…
Harry Potter has been gone long enough for a bit of reflection. The final book hit shelves eight years ago, almost to the day. The final film, four years ago. Since then, the world has been largely free of new Harry Potter material, apart from the reams of fan fiction…
#17: Jacquelyn Connolly Curators facilitate innovation in art, and as such, Jacquelyn Connolly has been a trendsetter in the field locally. Now the director and curator at Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria campus, Connolly’s left a trail of past good calls at Denver International Airport, where she previously sculpted the…
It’s not easy to find venues around town that support untested and new forms of expression, and the avenues for experimental and performance art are dwindling. “The art scene was more round in recent years. It’s not so round now,” says Justin Beard, who earned a BFA in sculpture from…
As the final High Plains Comedy Festival draws near and the final lineups are announced, Sexpot Comedy returns to Denver after an exploratory sojourn to Los Angeles, boasting another fine show packed with local talent and a nationally celebrated headliner in Sean White. White, a Chicago based comedian whose album…
The High Plains Comedy Festival will be back for a third round August 20 through August 22, and just released the full lineup. “Our schedule this year is insane — there’s no other way to put it,” said Andy Juett, who co-founded the festival with Adam Cayton-Holland, in announcing the schedule additions…
One of the largest galleries in town, Michael Warren Contemporary, is currently hosting three freestanding solos. Each is showcased alone, free of intrusions from the sensibilities of the others. To the left of the entrance is Patsy Krebs: Time Passages, made up of the artist’s austere ruminations on the horizon…
Now!, the 2015 Biennial of the Americas theme, asks the public to be present, eyes wide open, in the immediate world. And though we might all be tired of hearing “now” by the end of this week, the concept has reverberated through the arts community this summer, with galleries developing…
Metropolitan State University of Denver’s off-campus Center for the Visual Arts is turning 25, and celebrating with an art-centric street fair on Friday, July 17, where you’ll find work by talented Metro State students, food, musical performances and on-site gaming — and also catch the unveiling of a brand-new mural by…
This is theater as community. It is holy theater not because it exalts something on high, but because for the hour or so onstage, the audience and actor are one, and all those people, though each seeing it slightly differently, are believing — following the same course or going on…
We may not need another hero, but true believers don’t need to shrink-ray their expectations. Ant-Man is the first Marvel film — and the first of this summer’s pixels-go-kablooey time-wasters — to get better as it goes. The filmmakers save their biggest, wiggiest ideas for the climaxes, where they wittily…
While Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer’s new movie Trainwreck is “occasionally very funny, it also feels carefully constructed to make its points, chief among them that men can get away with all kinds of bad or crazy behavior that women can’t,” writes Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek in her review…
A rocket scientist, a poet and a barista walk into a bar…no, make that the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s pop-up Poetry and Performance Café at 1550 Wewatta Street, in the Biennial Pavilion. The spot will debut on July 15, when Steam (STEM+Art) Day will give special emphasis to the importance…
Colorado is an easy target. We’re America’s new hip spot to stake your claim and the things and experiences that supposedly identify us as “uniquely Colorado” are being exploited and worse, falsely portrayed as representative of who we are. Take the influx of Colorado-themed merchandise lately. We’ve always been CO…
So much Biennial, so little time. The 2015 Biennial of the Americas, which begins today, is so rich in programming that it’s hard to decide what to do and see. You can go with the dependable: There will always be something happening at the Biennial Pavilion at 1550 Wewatta Street…
Does gay have a particular sound? Is there a certain way that gay men speak that our brains read as a dead giveaway to their sexual orientation? The new film Do I Sound Gay?, opening Friday at the Mayan Theatre, explores the myth and science behind the queer dialect ,…
I believe it’s an artist’s job not to provide answers, but to ask questions. Artists are the canaries in the coal mine for problems we face as a society. We are the first to speak up, often under threat of punishment — or even death, in some regimes and times…
For seven seasons and over 248 episodes, In Focus — Eden Lane’s weekly show on Colorado Public Television — has been covering this state’s flourishing arts community with in-depth interviews and spotlights of new exhibits and events. But now the show is looking for a little financial help to keep in…
