“I wear green velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock, and a perky little hat decorated with spangles. This is my work uniform,” David Sedaris said for the first time on NPR’s Morning Edition twenty years ago this Christmas. Chronicling his stint as an elf in the madcap Santa Land…
Let’s face it: winter can be depressing. If the short days and cold weather have you feeling like one of those bummed-out blobs on an antidepressant commercial, don’t worry. There’s reason — ten reasons, actually — to get off the couch and out into the world. From dance parties to…
The Ice Cube Gallery fronts the Dry Ice Factory, a beautiful, light-strewn maze of studio spaces in, yes, a converted dry-ice factory. It’s a formidable venue for the display of art, and once-a year Ice Cube cooperative members join together for a wide-open group show. See also: – Feminism is…
Although the official cast list for the 22nd season of the CBS reality series The Amazing Race hasn’t been released, Reality Fan Forum, Reality Blurred and other sources are spilling the beans early, and report that a pair of Rocky Mountain Rollergirls will be among next season’s competitors. Google away…
Like Lenny Bruce in the ’60s, George Carlin in the ’70s or Bill Hicks in the ’90s, Louie C.K. could go down as the premier comic of this decade. His standup specials have not only changed the course of comedy material, but have changed the business of stand-up comedy. C.K…
Over the past eight years, Frost: Fashion Denver’s Holiday Market has established itself as more than a gathering place for local vendors: It’s also it’s a hot spot for designers looking to connect with stylish buyers. In fact, the marketplace — going down this Sunday, December 16, at the Grant-Humphreys…
If you want to get funky this holiday season, tonight’s late-night shopping event on Broadway is just the ticket: Word has come down from Jil Cappuccio and Kirsten Coplans of the Westword Best of Denver-winning Sewn boutique that nineteen independent SoBo shops will keep their doors open until 8 p.m…
This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
The AIDS Adagio: Wes Kennedy and Albert Winn exhibit opening tonight connects the work of two photographers and each man’s personal experience with AIDS: Wes Kennedy passed away in 1993, but Albert Winn continues to shoot. This is just the second show in the gallery at the brand-new Fulginiti Pavilion…
Tired of nativity scenes and that jolly old man in the red suit? Looking for a new way to celebrate the holidays, maybe one that’s full of horrors from beyond time and space? You’re in luck: The H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Special that opens tomorrow at Wesley Chapel in Boulder should…
The Denver Cruisers were out in force last night, for a “retro ski wear” ride that could be featured on an It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere, the pilot for a Travel Channel show hosted by Bert Kreischer. But is the Cruiser Ride ready for prime time? See also: – Denver Cruisers…
Jason Bosch won a MasterMind for his work with ArgusFest, showing important movies for trivial prices. Tonight, ArgusFest will be screening two segments of Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of the United States. And as Bosch notes, “You don’t need to have seen the first two parts to follow along,…
Founded by Laura Merage, a wealthy philanthropist and an accomplished artist, RedLine opened in 2008 in a smartly rehabbed warehouse at the northeast edge of downtown. RedLine is an unusual art institution in that it’s partly a studio complex, partly a stunning exhibition venue, and partly an agent for social…
Becoming van Gogh. Timothy Standring, the Denver Art Museum’s curator of painting and sculpture, is the brains behind the very compelling, very interesting and, most of all, very successful Becoming van Gogh, on display now. When we think of van Gogh, we are actually only thinking of the work of…
Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Dixie is a booze- and sex-addicted, trash-talking, child-neglecting ex-con from Alabama who holds Tupperware parties in her trailer, and she’s invited you to this one. Dixie’s Tupperware Partyat the Galleria really isa Tupperware party — you get a name tag and raffle number when you come in,…
Any Day Now is homo history repurposed as courtroom soap opera. Director Travis Fine, greatly embellishing a script written decades ago by George Arthur Bloom — who based it on a real-life, high-camp Brooklyn neighbor (played by Alan Cumming) and the mentally challenged kid he looked after — has virtuous…
Set some sixty years before the events depicted in LOTR, The Hobbit tells of another unassuming Shire-dweller’s grand mythopoeic adventure in the company of wizards, elves, and — this time around — a merry band of thirteen dwarfs. The hobbit in question is one Bilbo Baggins — uncle of Frodo…
It’s dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie of mistresses, should exhibit so little interest in what so engaged its hero: the women’s individual hearts and minds. Instead, Hyde Park on Hudson quickly introduces us (and FDR) to the president’s…
42nd Street is a big, glitzy show filled with great songs and requiring dozens of tapping feet. So I settled in for the Boulder’s Dinner Theatre production with some trepidation. The playing area here isn’t huge, nor is the pool of singers and dancers infinite. The theater does tend to…
A mash-up of theater, improvisation and film is an apt description of tonight’s Cult Following #3 presented by Off-Center@The Jones; co-director Allison Watrous dubs it an “improv cocktail.” The mostly unscripted show features six actors working off of five classic movie moments and a handful of plot lines to create…
When you ask middle-school students to draw something, they usually create something representative and concrete, says PlatteForum education director Meagan Terry — which is why the community art center brought in abstract artists Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana for its newest learning lab. “These artists are not representative; they are…
Door-to-door caroling isn’t really a thing anymore, so when the urge hits to express your Christmas spirit in song, head to The Watching Hour: Xmas Pops Sing-Along, hosted by the Action Pack’s Henri Mazza. “Action Pack is a branch of the Alamo Drafthouse that concentrates on sing-alongs, quote-alongs and other…
