There’s nothing unlucky about this thirteenth season: The always-adventurous Curious Theatre Company, led by artistic director Chip Walton, will follow in its own footsteps by producing another vanguard season of newer works and premieres…
The folks who already bring you the Denver Handmade Homemade Market, a new model for people looking to buy, sell and trade their crafts, veggies, baked goods and whatever else, are now getting into education…
Denver-raised Journalist Micah Toub had a childhood like no one else’s: While other kids’ parents were content asking how their school day went, Toub’s parents, both Jungian therapists, were perhaps looking for something deeper in their son’s day-to-day existence. He apparently turned out all right, though, since he’s willing to…
Over the last nine years, Buntport Theater has produced 29 different original plays in Denver that are simply like no other we’ve every actually seen anywhere. They’ve all sprung from a miasmic six-headed Gestalt monster called Brian Colonna, Hannah Duggan, Erik Edborg, Erin Rollman, Samantha Schmitz and Evan Weissman, and…
A new Colorado Symphony Orchestra season rarely gets folks all riled up to go hear classical music, but when CSO single tickets go on sale Monday, there are a few bright – and unexpected – highlights to consider…
Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, a mover and shaker in every sense of the term and a veritable legend in this town, is leaving Denver in early September, and the opportunities to schmooze with Lauri while enjoying another aspect of her many talents are growing thin. But here’s one of them:…
I wouldn’t make much of its being Friday the 13th if I were you, because it’s summer and life is going to keep on going, superstitions notwithstanding. Besides, what’s so spooky about the following suggestions? Go, do, see…
It’s a rare day when every piece of clothing at the Five Green Boxes little store is on sale, but that’s currently the case, although it’s hard to say say how long such a deal can possibly last. Summer shoes, including colorful sandals and gladiators, are going at 30 percent…
Two worthwhile local theater productions end their runs this weekend: Paragon Theatre’s The Real Thing and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, presented as a benefit for Senior Housing Options in the lobby of the Barth Hotel in LoDo. Paragon’s version of Tom Stoppard’s comedy begins at 7:30 p.m. nightly through…
Now a 23-year-old tradition, AIDS Walk Colorado still finds ways to renew itself: Along with the usual pledge walk, 5K run and volleyball tournament, all of which will raise money for the Colorado AIDS Project and other state HIV/AIDS organizations, this year’s participants will get to have a few laughs…
We’re in love with movies, that’s pretty clear. But do we know why we love them? Get under the skin of what might at first seem like simple, cheap entertainment for the masses at the Denver Film Society’s new Colorado Cinema Salon, a monthly film discussion series featuring clips, special…
Close your eyes and picture this: hundreds, maybe thousands, of MINI Coopers rolling down the road in caravans — from the east, from the west, the north and the south — and all converging on Denver just for the hell of it. The cross-country MINIs hit town yesterday on a…
Peter Moore was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in his first year of medical school at the University of Colorado. About the same time, a fellow med student suffered a relapse of the disease. “After my treatment, I realized that I was in the unique position of being in medical school…
Aaron Blaze, without a doubt, was simply born fast on his feet with a quick mind. But it took a horrible yet life-changing experience for him to become a genius — the same Tortured Genius, in fact, for which he named his new and evolving startup clothing design line. A…
The toughest thing about fringing — attending a fringe festival, that is — is choosing what to see. It all happens so fast — wham bam, six performances in six days — and there’s no real chance for a buzz to really form about a particular performance until it’s already…
It’s your lucky last chance to see another closing Biennial-related show: Artists’ Footprints, a group exhibit curated by Denver artist Viviane Le Courtois that explores sustainability specifically and directly through the artworks included, comes down tonight, but not until after a closing reception featuring artist talks with three participants. It…
Craft meets genius in the work of master artisan William Morris, a one-time student of glass god Dale Chihuly who is also well-versed in native cultures and archeology. Both weave their ways into his technically advanced vessels and forms, which evoke the spirit of ancient artifacts and civilizations. That noted,…
Because I’m married to a guitarist, I can truly appreciate the mysterious attraction a mountain festival like Copper’s Guitar Town exercises upon a certain ilk: I understand how dedicated strummers everywhere all begin to salivate whenever they hear about a weekend where they can not only drink up free concerts…
In truth, you don’t have to be womanish to do either of these things, since there actually are men who knit and go to the theater. No problem, brothers, join right in. For one thing, Fresh City Life’s monthly KnitFlix movies, dreamt up by FCL’s fearless and imaginative leader Chris…
A Monday-night movie under the stars is a little like taking a mini day off (assuming, that is, that the weather holds), making the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off a perfect title for Infinity Park’s summer Monday Night Movie Madness series. You can see it for free tonight…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well-executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, we’re finding out. Each day, we’ll hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our eye and makes…
What happens each First Friday on Santa Fe Drive never fails to amaze me: The whole street becomes this living, animal thing, as culture-goers snake this way and that on the overflowing sidewalks in long, organic conga lines of humanity. It’s a thing, Denver! Be proud. This past Friday, we…
