Lingerie competitions, bondage performances and boa constrictors are all part of the fifteenth annual Victorian Fetish Ball, happening tonight at the Diamond Cabaret. The event is “pure chaos,” says producer Kevin Larson — an “erotic tasting” whose mandatory-costume rule makes all patrons part of the fetish experience. “It’s my job…
Actor, dancer, playwright and t’ai chi ch’uan master Maria Cheng of Theatre Esprit Asia performed her one-woman show Spirits and Sworded Treks all over the world before landing in Denver and helping to found TEA, the region’s only strictly Asian-American company. The tour de force opened TEA’s inaugural season last…
Despite its name, you don’t have to wear a backwards baseball cap and cargo shorts to enjoy the Bro Show. As long as you’re a guy, or even a woman who likes “guy” things, you’ll find something to love at the event. “You have the sports guys. You have guys…
Runners in the fifth annual Rock ’n’ Roll Denver Marathon will race to a live-music soundtrack provided by more than thirty local bands as they take off from Civic Center Park and pass stages at Sloan’s Lake, Confluence Park, City Park and Washington Park before heading back downtown, where Bonnie…
The Athena Project, which supports women in theater and the rest of the arts, spends the entire year getting ready for its spring festival — and that includes fundraising, because, well, the show must go on, and that’s how the nonprofit makes sure that it does. Now in its third…
You might not know Guinevere Turner by name, but her appearance tonight as part of the Color Commentary series at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, which features live commentary during selected film screenings, is not likely to disappoint. “Guinevere is a really wonderful screenwriter, actress and filmmaker,” says Alamo programmer Keith…
After going on hiatus in 2010, reality-TV Lazarus Last Comic Standing was resurrected through some behind-the-scenes retooling, guided by executive producer Wanda Sykes, that banned the schadenfreude-courting open auditions and Real World-style internecine drama. “NBC’s Last Comic Standing has once again provided much-needed national exposure for some very talented comedians,”…
The Chicano Humanities and Arts Council always gets a jump on local Day of the Dead festivities with El Dia de los Muertos: A Celebration of Life! Tonight’s special opening reception will include a mash-up of DOTD traditions, from a candlelit street procession to live Aztec dancers to a taste…
For his latest exhibition, Yinfinity, artist Dmitri Obergfell took a key element of hot-rod and custom-car culture — chameleon automotive paint, a shimmery, iridescent lacquer that changes color as an object moves — out of its traditional street context and into the brave new world of galleries. “Chameleon automotive paint…
Mommy humor appears to be the going thing: From its modest beginnings in Denver’s Highland neighborhood, Shayna Ferm’s Pump and Dump comedy show for frantic mothers desperately in need of some grown-up entertainment and mama-raderie continues to grow, seemingly with each and every show. On the heels of a national…
National radio program The Moth will land in Denver tonight for the inaugural Denver Moth StorySLAM, an open-mike storytelling competition. Hopeful storytellers can put their names in a hat, and ten lucky people will be chosen to take the stage, where their stories will be scored by judges from the…
Jenny Morgan: The Golden Hour Plus Gallery 2501 Larimer Street Quickly heading to its closing date this coming Saturday, October 18, is Jenny Morgan: The Golden Hour at Plus Gallery, a small but compelling solo dedicated to this onetime Denver artist who now lives in New York. Morgan is notable…
Boulder-based Eldorado Climbing Walls won the Wright Award at the fourth annual Something Independent Awards ceremony Tuesday night at Space Gallery, edging out finalists Icelantic Skis and Oskar Blues Brewery. The award recognizes Colorado companies “who are leading at the intersection of lifestyle and commerce” — and full disclosure, I…
It’s October in Denver and that means zombies — lots and lots of zombies. From zombie crawls filling the mall to sexy zombies strutting their stuff, there’s no shortage of weird, wild and fun ways to celebrate your love of the walking dead. To help make sure you don’t miss…
For nearly forty years, the Rocky Horror Picture Show has been A popular cult classic. Originally performed as a musical and later adapted into a B-movie, midnight showings of the sexual comedy began in theaters in the ’70s and continue in some cities today. With audience participation and the opportunity…
With the news that Paul Feig is going to reboot Ghostbusters with an all-female cast, we wonder on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast what it would be like if they re-did another ’80s classic: Young Guns. We then move onto the latest Brad Pitt World War II movie, Fury,…
By the 1980s, feminist art pioneer Judy Chicago had secured a seat at the table of art history with her landmark installation, The Dinner Party. The triangular table, 48 feet on each side, was decorated with place-settings for 39 women from myth and history and celebrated another 999. The project…
Take a wild ride with the dysfunctional family from hell, revisit the legacy of Robert F. Kennedy and begin following a three-part serial sitcom at Denver theaters this week. Read on for the details. See also: Vox Phamalia: Pity Pity Bang Bang at the Avenue Theater…
My friend Geoffrey Stern, who taught international relations at the London School of Economics, used to try and tease out of his students a definition of the word “nation.” Was a nation simply its physical boundaries? A group of people living under a specific government, or with a common language…
Kiowa Winans stands in the garage of her West Highland home, shaking a lifeless child. “This is our stuffed Quinn,” she says, clutching the little-girl-sized doll. She’s referring to Quinn Hunchar, the actress who, at the age of eight, played Emma in the cult film Ink. The movie was written…
There’s a bizarre alternate reality on the Internet when it comes to Denver — there’s the city we know and the city being sold to out-of-towners through fake blogs on real estate websites, like this list: “27 Things People From Denver Have to Explain to Out-Of-Towners.” The problem with these…
There is nothing like a rainbow over a Colorado mountain valley. I had to pull over – not, mind you, for the rainbow, but for my new friend, a drifter named Apache who had first drained a Gatorade bottle full of whiskey and then attempted to drain his bladder into…
