Before October, I don’t think I’d touched a lump of clay for at least thirty years. When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to take ceramics from the great local wood-fired pottery guru Mark Zamantakis, and that romp in the clay was delicious; though I couldn’t throw…
No one in their right mind would normally try to hit four art walks all in one night, but last Friday wasn’t any old First Friday, it was Denver Arts Week’s Know Your Arts First Friday and, courtesy of Visit Denver flak Rich Grant, I got to do it in…
Why is this First Friday different from all other First Fridays? In most ways, it isn’t, and that’s the real beauty of it. But it is Denver Arts Week’s Know Your Arts First Friday Arts Walk, meaning the monthly evening art walk event in arts districts all over town will…
After last summer’s three-month March to Fulfill the Dream, a journey from New Orleans to Detroit meant to bring about awareness of and empowerment to the nation’s poorest people, ArgusFest activist/videographer Jason Bosch learned that the road home was much longer than anticipated. “When I got back, I was overwhelmed…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
Dylan Scholinski and Maggie Evans had a dream. It wasn’t political, a dream that would change the world, or even necessarily a money-making scheme, though the latter wouldn’t hurt; they just wanted to make and sell adorable children’s clothing, made from reclaimed fabrics and set apart by Dylan’s screen-printed graphics…
The Denver Zine Library collects and shares a bounty of zines both local and national with the community; artist Dylan Scholinski’s Sent(a)mental Studios draws attention to individuals or groups affected by suicide through artwork and art therapy, particularly at-risk youth. Together, they share both community values and space at 27…
It used to be that with every November, for many years, you could begin to count the days until Chanukah, like clockwork, by arrival of the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center’s Leah Cohen Festival of Jewish Books and Authors. But three years ago, the JCC’s in-house Mizel Center for…
The fluffy songs of Swedish ’70s sensations ABBA are all about giving it up and feeling good; even the pleasantly good-looking, disco-dressed singers themselves — Frida, Benny, Björn and Agnetha — gave off a placidly sweet aura that just plain made their millions of fans feel happy. The Broadway musical…
The plight of the returning war veteran isn’t a particularly new theme — really, it’s as old as war itself — but it’s an enduring one. And Tom Cole’s harrowing 1976 play Medal of Honor Rag, based on the true story of a black Vietnam vet, remains vital on a…
Sexy, hilarious, deep, irreverent, transcendent, unique, delightful, disturbing: The films of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar are all these things and more, further buoyed by strong performances, memorable leading ladies and the director’s own inimitable imagination. And what could be more wonderful, on the brink of winter and hectic holidays-to-come, than…
Mickki Langston of Colorado Local First loves the end of November. That’s her ground zero, the week after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Buy Local Week, when Langston wants folks to support the local economy by patronizing locally owned businesses on Black Friday and beyond, rather than dive-bombing the malls and…
As reported earlier today on the Cafe Society blog, the enormously popular new cantina from Sean Yontz and Jesse Morreale, El Diablo, will host the second annual Dia de los Muertos Tattoo Art Show and Charity Auction, which debuted last year at the team’s defunct Tambien in Cherry Creek and…
Nobody in these parts does activist theater quite as well — or with as much enthusiasm — as Boulder’s Vox Feminista, an ever-changing collective of radical women that’s been at it now for more than twenty years. “It” constitutes a heady mixture of sharp satire, poetry, feminism, leftist rant and…
If you are 17 or younger, here’s a way to have your Halloween and get an education, too: The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has announced that it will offer any kid dressed like a “vicious fish or other Amazon creature” this weekend free admission to the museum, including…
It used to be that every November, for many years, you could begin to count the days until Chanukah, like clockwork, with the arrival of the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center’s Leah Cohen Festival of Jewish Books and Authors. But three years ago, the JCC’s in-house Mizel Center for…
Now that Denver’s hallowed annual 16th Street Mall Zombie Crawl has gotten the nod from the Guinness Book of World Records and we’ve surely become the Zombie Capital of the World, doesn’t it seem like a shame to just pack up your Zombie gear until next year? The Halloween streets…
We don’t know how Valerie Gaddis-Arellano, who works for the Sage Group’s Second Home Restaurant in Cherry Creek, finds the time to also be an artist. But she does, and Sage’s Corner Office, where she’s also worked, unveiled this six-panel Warhol-inspired installation, Warhol-Eyesed, that now graces the the sides of…
Denver Art Museum design curator Darrin Alfred relished the opportunity to reinstall the museum’s architecture and design galleries: It represented a changing of the guard for him and a chance to cast a fresh spotlight on all the collection had to offer. The resulting spread, What Is Modern?, opens at…
As PlatteForum’s Judy Anderson discusses the gallery’s upcoming show, she’s surrounded by activity. “We’re transforming the place,” she says. “We’ve got a riot of colors going up on the walls.” Featuring the work of resident artist Theresa Anderson and eight students from Denver’s P.S.1, in between, a combination of installations…
There’s something charming, but a little bit off, about Songs of Meat & Cake, a “theatrical song cycle” that treats its subjects both literally and metaphorically. Sometimes giddy, sometimes serious, the cabaret was concocted by collaborating Boulder ensembles Square Product Theatre and Zen Cabaret. It is about sustenance, both physical…
The concept of the second annual Green Spaces Eco-Halloween Bash isn’t really a new one: Since time immemorial, or at least in the last century, people have been picking through rag piles, dumpsters, Goodwill stores and Grandma’s attic for the makings of a really cool Halloween costume. But, says Jennie…
