Arts & Culture

With the weather getting colder and people getting snugglier, it is definitely the beginning of movie season. Now picture the best possible experience: No advertising before the show, anyone talking or texting is thrown out, and, of course, you’ll be able to enjoy a beer and an appetizer or two…

The people spoke, and Yoga Rocks the Park listened: The popular yoga session featuring live music in an outdoor setting has moved to Sunday mornings. “There were so many people who said Sunday mornings are so much better for them and their families,” notes Erik Vienneau, event director. “Then you…

Imagining new worlds, both real and conceptual, is an objective for many artists, but few have achieved that goal as literally as German painter/sculptor Anselm Kiefer, who in 1992 moved to La Ribaute, an abandoned silk-factory complex in Barjac, France, and slowly turned it into a labyrinth of grand subterranean…

As the “final girl” in the first and third installments of the Nightmare on Elm Street horror-movie series, Nancy Thompson never received the respect and adoration that Freddy Krueger has. Now, Nancy — and Heather Langenkamp, the actress who played her — is getting what’s coming to her with I…

In the Rangeview Library District, once famous for being the worst-funded library district in the state, they don’t even call them libraries anymore. They call them “Anythink,” and they don’t charge fines, use the Dewey Decimal System or even expect patrons to bury their noses in books. In that spirit,…

“I think we’re all just a little bit off,” says Abbe Stutsman, executive director of Stories on Stage, and so it was easy to pull together Stories on Stage: Eccentrics Unlimited, the first full-length program for this year’s edition of the series. “We put a program together about folks that…

If you ever tried (and probably failed) at model painting as a kid, then you might take solace in WingNutCon II, a setting for model builders and artists to show off their work. The contest spotlights some of Colorado’s best model builders and their creations in over forty different categories…

Silent films are decidedly out of style, but the Denver Silent Film Festival hopes to rekindle the audience’s amazement with moving pictures by showing off classic films in the same context in which they would have premiered: on 35mm prints with a full orchestra accompanying them. Because of the nature…

Gentlemen (and ladies), pull on your finest pair of pantyhose and strap on your heels: The Running of the Gays is back. After a successful inaugural jaunt last year, the youth-empowerment organization Art From Ashes is putting on another mini-“marathon” in an effort to raise money for its GLBTQ poetry…

The new Lone Tree Arts Center will unveil its first theater run of the season — and its own short life as a performing-arts venue — tonight with a comedy imported all the way from the rarefied climes of Creede, Colorado. But though it showcases the esteemed Creede Repertory Theatre,…

When pro tennis player Diane Van Deren was diagnosed with epilepsy, the only thing she found that helped stave off the seizures was running. “As I had an onset, a feeling of déjà vu that a seizure was about to erupt, what I would do is I’d throw my running…

Snowboarder Travis Rice and director Curt Morgan nearly blew the doors off the Ellie Caulkins Opera House the last time they were in town, showing their 2008 film That’s It, That’s All to a sold-out crowd. Now Rice says that was a mere baby step on their way to truly…

It only took five minutes on stage for Nick Nunns to realize that he loved the idea of Ignite Denver. Actually, since his performance only lasted five minutes total, it took less than that. “It’s a blast,” says Nunns. “After I got over being nervous, I loved it.” Ignite Denver…

What’s the first step to improving the quality of your photographs? Head to Telluride amid the explosion of fall colors this week and start shooting. Making the most of the local landscape is at least part of the idea behind the second annual Telluride Photo Festival, says executive director Eric…