Curious Theatre Company cracked open a whole new fascination for troubled color-field artist Mark Rothko with its production of the engaging play Red, in which the painter and his assistant discuss the meaning of life and art while painting a fresh canvas onstage. And just as the play offers a…
Burning Man is hands-down the biggest celebration of life, art, music and culture that America has ever seen. The week-long event held in the days leading up to Labor Day in the Black Rock Desert — roughly 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada — will have approximately 50,000 people in…
Mountainfilm in Telluride closed out its 34th annual festival on Monday with an awards ceremony in Telluride’s Town Park, recognizing six films for various prizes and naming the nonprofit organization Peaceful Uprising as winner of the 2012 Moving Mountains Prize. The award — and $12,000 — goes to a nonprofit…
I have bad taste in all facets of my life. I’m attracted to pink and turquoise bathroom fixtures, knock-off Chanel purses and PT Cruisers outfitted with the many personalities of Taz. My favorite flavors are black licorice and Alka-Seltzer, and if I could, I would serve every meal with Kalamata…
When I parked the car on Tennyson Street Friday night, I was still two blocks away from the Oriental Theater — and I could already hear the Whomp Truck thundering bass-heavy music into the night air as a prelulde to Cirque Voltaire III: Blitzkrieg. And as I walked to the…
Late last year, spurred by a seeming disconnect among many factions of the local fashion world, style mavens Kathy Bacon and Mona Lucero put their heads together with Ginger White Brunetti of Create Denver and Stephanie Blake of Blake Communications to investigate the concept of a unified fashion board or…
There was real mayhem at the 2010 Mayhem Festival, with one man facing a long prison term for his role in the fracas. “It was like getting socked in the gut,” Eric Swanson says of learning that he could spend 48 years in prison. Except that he could actually be…
Denver has been on a culture binge over the past decade, with major milestones being marked off every couple of years. It began in 2006 with the construction of the Hamilton Building, which doubled the size of the Denver Art Museum and became world-famous thanks to Daniel Libeskind’s futuristic design…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
If women were in charge, there’d be peace in the Middle East — or at least that’s what’s suggested by Where Do We Go Now?, the second film from Lebanese director and actress Nadine Labaki. Like her 2007 debut, Caramel, it’s driven by a deep faith in female friendship, though…
If ever there were a perfect example of pure, fresh, classical simplicity unnecessarily trodden under with complications, it’s Snow White and the Huntsman. Had it trusted the native charm of its cast and the sensory seduction of its often-astonishing images to humbly, naively retell its story, this Snow White might…
Achieving something far weirder and more resonant than the genre pastiche it initially seems to reach for, Beyond the Black Rainbow satisfies on practically every level — provided you allow its narcotic pace, lysergic visuals and throbbing soundtrack to tickle your cortex into a contained frenzy instead of lulling you…
The last time I saw Molière’s The Misanthrope, it was gorgeously staged at the Denver Center, with an elegant set adorned with flying cupids; a huge, round, rose-trimmed bed that dominated the stage through the entire second act; and costumes that entirely expressed their wearers’ over-the-top personalities, so that the…
Scientists have long understood that farts are hilarious. What’s less understood, however, is why. In all seriousness, though, actual scientists have been trying to theoretically understand humor since the time of Aristotle without much success — until University of Colorado Boulder professor Pete McGraw came around with a pretty good…
Mountainfilm in Telluride is celebrating its 34th anniversary this weekend, through May 28, and we’re duly impressed by the the list of Colorado-based filmmakers in the mix. Here’s a preview: Telluride-based filmmaker Beth Gage is the current Board President of Mountainfilm in Telluride and is bringing her second documentary, Bidder…
Three-day weekends rule, and this one is certain to be a hit. The city is bursting with stuff to do, and you don’t have to spend an arm and a leg to do it. Watch Footloose, see a Tim and Eric Awesome Show puppeteer, and more, all for under $10…
Aaron Angello is co-curator of “e-Poetry: The Past, Present and Future of Electronic Poetry,” both a showcase and laboratory for engaging works of digital literature, which comes to Counterpath Gallery + Performance Space at 7 p.m. tomorrow, on Saturday, May 26. “e-Poetry” will include multimedia installations and live readings from…
We’re used to gallery shows that look pretty much the same when they end as when they began. But Residue Denver, opening tonight at Edge Gallery, isn’t designed to remain static. Though the juried group show will begin with a variety of sculptural objects scattered around the space, five or…
“Those B cycle riders are almost as dangerous as the spandex warriors,” says Yosh, in response to Bree Davie’s rant about the Cherry Creek Bike Path. This Memorial Day weekend, Denver’s parks and trails will be filled with people — many of them very hazardous to your health. Who are…
Memorial Day is about honoring fallen soldiers, but it’s also about enjoying good company, getting out of work, and firing up the grill. If you don’t have a backyard to go to this year, we’ve got five events this Monday that won’t cost you more than a five-spot, from a…
Tommy Lee Jones Goes to the Opera Alone is a tough act to follow, but Buntport Theater Company is going for it with the last show of the season, The Roast Beef Situation. The play, which opens at 8 p.m. tomorrow, is old- — as in eighteenth-century, clown-troupe-style Commedia dell’Arte…
The woman in the photo is Pabrita Niroula’s mother-in-law. She and Pabrita came to Colorado from Nepal, where they lived in a refugee camp and slept on hard bamboo beds. In January, Pabrita was one of eight Bhutanese women given a digital camera and asked to document her life as…
