In her hit cover of “MacArthur Park,” gay icon and disco-music diva Donna Summer famously sang, “Someone left the cake out in the rain/I don’t think that I can take it, because it took so long to bake it/And I’ll never have that recipe again.” Now a local artist is…
As Denver’s scruff-speckled comedy scene prepares itself for something like a changing of the guard, some of the more hysterical corners of the blogosphere have bewailed and bloviated about a “Denver comedy exodus.” Biblical hyperbole aside — a half-dozen comics departing for Los Angeles is about 600,000 Hebrews short of…
I dread explaining man-child dramedies to the ghosts of the dead. “You see, Grandpa, after your time, a generation paralyzed by the economy and indecision stopped growing up, and started churning out indie movies justifying why.” In the ’40s, men fought wars at eighteen. In 1967, Benjamin Braddock faced accusations…
Each spring, the MCA Denver’s Feminism & Co. series offers interactive lectures touching on topics related to women and gender. This season has already featured programs on infidelity, female chefs and women’s roles in the military — and tonight, Andrea Moore will focus on body image. The poet, activist and…
No one deserves success more than Paula Poundstone, who’ll be in town for a special solo benefit for Colorado Public Television on Saturday. A genuinely sweet person with more than thirty years of touring as a comedian under her belt, she has diversified into writing, acting, interviewing and commentating —…
From its beginnings in the mid-1800s, Denver has been a city of booms and busts, but there’s no doubt that the Mile High City is on one hell of a tear right now. The current economic explosion actually began in the late twentieth century, making the recession of a few…
This week a pair of respected regional ensembles will present strong work on stages in Boulder and Lakewood, while the Avenue brings back a crowd-pleasing favorite. Hysteria Dairy Center for the Arts April 23 through May 17 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 4 p.m. Sundays 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April…
It might seem hard to believe in these days of Furious 7, but cinema did not start with an ear-splitting, seat-shaking bang. For decades, filmmakers had to rely on crafting stories that entranced and enthralled audiences without making a sound. And Howie Movshovitz, director of the Denver Silent Film Festival,…
The ghost of Anton Chekhov has been haunting area stages lately, what with last fall’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, an absurdist Christopher Durang comedy-parody at the Denver Center, and the Boulder Ensemble’s recent Stupid Fucking Bird, in which playwright Aaron Posner closely follows the plot of The…
“A friend once pointed out that it wasn’t proper to wear diamonds in the daytime. I didn’t think so either, until I had some of my own.” That’s a famous quote from Margaret Tobin Brown, better known as Molly Brown. The Molly Brown House Museum’s new gem of an exhibit,…
As I was driving through Jefferson Park yesterday on a short detour to get to the 20th Street Gym downtown, I finally saw the horror with my own eyes. It’s one thing to see photographs of it, but to actually witness that kind of destruction is overwhelming. I’m talking about…
Silas Soule was killed on the streets of Denver on April 23, 1865. No one was ever charged with his murder, but a plaque at 15th and Lawrence streets honors the captain, then serving as the young city’s provost marshal, who’d refused to let his men participate in the Sand…
Water always finds a way. In planning the tiny house, there have been so many conversations about water. Not only rainwater as a force of good – providing showers and drinking water – but rainwater as a destructive force, winnowing through every narrow channel and path. This is why there…
StarFest might be the geekiest of all Denver’s pop-culture cons, even just for its sheer variety, which includes Quidditch matches, Ferengi family reunions, a dedicated Dr. Who Fest, tribble hockey and dozens of other sci-fi and fantasy pastimes. And when this year’s model went down over the weekend, the cosplayers…
#27: Leah Brenner Leah Brenner calls herself a “collector, adventurer and quiet curator with a taste for the witty and rebellious.” She came by her passion for culture and what makes humans tick while studying anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder; she’s put that interest to work helping…
Which way does your beard point tonight? In 1956 Alan Ginsberg made reference to Walt Whitman’s beard in “A Supermarket in California.” Now, almost sixty years later, beards are still a part of popular culture and the Beat Generation is being revived through Famous Beard Oil Company, founded by Eric D…
Spring fashion events keep popping up, everything from fashion shows to flea markets. Here are five more events to put on your calendar for the end of April. 5. Wine Wednesday at Whorl Shop 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 Whorl Shop 3326 Tejon Street Wine Wednesday at…
Did you know that there’s a new family-audience feature film that implies that God nuked Japan because one plucky American moppet dared to dream? That’s no exaggeration. In the summer of 1945, the kid stands on a California dock, points his fingers magician-style out at the Pacific horizon and screams…
Ex Machina is an egghead thriller with a scary selling point: Unlike Liam Neeson shooting up half of Boston, this actually could be taking place right now. It’s a smart film about the shrinking divide between man and robot. It’s also a hoot, an anti-comedy in which all of the…
The Stanley Film Festival just channeled its final release before the upcoming horror fest that runs April 30 through May 3 at the spooky Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. The organizers announced that RADIUS-TWC co-president Tom Quinn will receive its Visionary Award for his work championing the genre, most recently…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Thirteen-year-old Max Miller had something special in mind for this year’s Autism…
Growing Gardens has been managing eleven acres of land in north Boulder since 1998, and the organization offers a variety of gardening programs for all ages — all designed to enrich the lives of community members through sustainable urban agriculture. The organization’s Children’s Peace Garden, located on the Growing Gardens…
