There’s more television today than at any other point in the medium’s history, but there’s a good chance you’re stuck in a TiVo rut. That’s because, with a handful of exceptions, this fall has delivered a truckload of mediocrity and dead-on-arrival trends. (Goodbye, “rom-sit-coms” like the already canceled A to…
For actor and comedian Katie Rubin, the key to a balanced life is finding the humor in spirituality. A veteran solo theater performer with a master’s degree in spiritual healing, Rubin began doing standup about six years ago, shocking and winning over audiences with her lighthearted approach to the metaphysical…
“Of course we love costumes and flannel and shenanigans,” says Kiki Nichols, organizer of the annual All Jacked Up: Denver Lumberjack Party, “but primarily, it’s about drinking for a purpose.” That’s a party goal that pretty much anyone can get behind. The beneficiary of the wood-cutting shenanigans is Environmental Learning…
If you’re going to do a haunted house a week after Halloween, it needs to be something pretty special. Last year, Bloodshed Deathbath Productions fused a film festival with a traditional haunted house for its post-holiday horror fest. This year the company went even weirder, bringing us the HorrorHouse Pinball…
This year, Lakewood’s 40 West Arts District decided to do something different for Denver Arts Week as a way to separate itself from the pack, says spokeswoman Julie Byerlein. Instead of the usual wine-and-cheese reception, 40 West Gallery started out with a multi-artist exhibit of food-themed works, titled Farm to…
In 2012, comedian Tig Notaro had a slew of bad luck. She contracted a life-threatening intestinal disease, lost her mother and her relationship, then was diagnosed with breast cancer. Instead of hiding, though, Notaro went on stage and aired her personal problems. “I didn’t know if I was going to…
Boulder dancer/choreographer Laura Ann Samuelson is excited about, but also terrified of, what her Failure Festival will bring, and she’s really not sure yet what it all means. But that’s no reason to dismiss the idea of the three-day multidisciplinary event, which invites local actors, writers, filmmakers, multimedia artists, dancers…
To know Phil Goodstein’s work is to know Denver. The author, tour guide and all-around encyclopedia has written countless books on the Mile High City, from The Ghosts of Denver: Capitol Hill to the comprehensive Denver History Index. Tonight he’ll share his thoughts on his latest release, Curtis Park, Five…
You’ve read all the books, watched every episode of the series multiple times, and own enough memorabilia to fill a spare bedroom. The only way to go deeper with your Game of Thrones super-fandom is to learn to speak Dothraki — and now you can, with Living Language Dothraki, straight…
The paradox of Denver Arts Week is this: Do we really need to set aside a special week to celebrate what happens in Denver every other week of the year as well? The answer is yes. The fact that our city is teeming with galleries, museums, music halls, restaurants and…
Colin Roybal, director and choreographer of Equinox Theatre Company’s production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Musical, knew he’d have to tweak the show in order to adjust to the digs at the Bug Theatre — a task that required some innovation. “When the show originally…
Discovering and Interpreting the West The Arvada Center 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard It was the scenic Rocky Mountains that first attracted artists to Colorado 150 years ago, and paintings and photos of the landscape are the works that laid the foundation for the rapidly developing art scene we have here now…
Christopher Nolan’s space epic Interstellar is a big, ambitious picture but it didn’t connect with our critics. We discuss the film at the top of this week’s podcast before moving onto a few other notable films on screens large and small this week. – The Disney film Big Hero 6…
#46: Susan Lyles Denver actor and director Susan Lyles saw a gap and for the last ten years has made filling it her major concern: She took on the mission of showing deserved support for overlooked women playwrights by forming Denver’s And Toto too Theatre Company, a group solely dedicated…
Colorado artist Jerry Jaramillo was devastated when he found out that his mural, “Primavera,” had been sandblasted and removed from a brick wall at the corner of 41st Avenue and Tejon Street in Sunnyside, where it had been for more than thirty years. “It felt like I lost a child…
Because of warm weather, the Colorado ski/snowboard season got off to a slow start — but Loveland is open for business. And with temperatures dropping and snow falling, the rest of this state’s resorts will soon be online. We profile them all in The Edge, our insider’s guide to the…
To call comedian John Leguizamo versatile is an understatement. The man is a show-business chameleon, flexing his talents in writing and producing, while also acting in film, television and on Broadway. This weekend Leguizamo will bring his Latin History for Dummies tour to Comedy Works South. In advance of the…
The musical Kinky Boots, which was inspired by a modest 2005 film, tells the story of an unlikely partnership. Charlie has just inherited his father’s shoe factory in Northampton in the English Midlands, a factory once known for producing some of the highest-quality shoes in the country. But the business…
If you haven’t voted yet, stop reading now and do so: You can drop off your ballot until 7 p.m. tonight, and if you don’t have your ballot, you can go to one of the city’s 25 vote centers and get a replacement. For that matter, under the state’s new…
Last night, as I sat inside a packed 1STBANK Center with a bunch of ladies who looked like my mom, I waited for Theresa Caputo to appear and wondered what exactly I was going to see. How does someone like Caputo, known to the world as the Long Island Medium,…
Yesterday my friend Philip Spangler crammed all the belongings he came with plus one of Lawrence Argent’s iconic blue bear statuettes into his Dodge Neon and hit the road to his new home in Chicago. Along with him rode my intern, Nico Larsen who is off to check out the…
In 2012, comedian Tig Notaro delivered a set at Largo, a Los Angeles club, that would change her life. Notaro had lost her mother, lost her relationship, contracted a life-threatening intestinal disease and just been diagnosed with breast cancer — and she says she felt compelled to share her misfortunes…
