Since the city recently took over the Crossroads Theater in Five Points, things have been slow getting off the ground. But the announcement that the Indigenous Film and Arts Festival will be making the Crossroads its home this year is hopeful, as is a new festival side trip, Indie Film…
As you read this, Jackie O — or at least someone who looks a lot like the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — could be walking down the street somewhere nearby, dressed in a pink Chanel suit and a pillbox hat and tweeting her location and a secret word to Twitter…
The great session guitarist John Jorgenson has certainly been around, and in more than one musical circle. He founded the Desert Rose Band with Chris Hillman, cut loose in a swingabilly tangent with fellow phenoms Will Ray and Jerry Donahue in the Hellecasters, and toured the world in Elton John’s…
Two decades after David Lowery left Camper Van Beethoven and joined Johnny Hickman to form Cracker, the two will pare down their already basic signature alt-rock sound to the bare acoustic bones tonight for a Cracker Unplugged show at the usually folksy Swallow Hill Music Hall, 71 East Yale Avenue…
It’s no less than a miracle that Susannah Perlman and her New York comedy/burlesque troupe Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad are returning to Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. They almost died the last time they came to Denver, Perlman says. Caught in a snowstorm on I-70 as they commandeered their two-wheel-drive minivan…
Denver drummer and DJ Skip Reeves, aka Skip the Funktologist, is a generous man who will host a fundraiser at the drop of a hat. Tonight the Funktologist will give it up for one of the area’s premier cultural ensembles: the trailblazing Shadow Theatre Company, which in recent years has…
When students and faculty from the University of Colorado Denver’s HOT Sculpture Program are ready to pour and cast iron, they head to RiNo. “It’s such a performance,” says UCD sculpture professor Rian Kerrane. “And people really do get into the whole pyromania thing.” RiNo’s Tracy Weil agrees. “It’s super-cool,”…
A pair of old Pirate gallery friends, clay artist Marie E.v.B. Gibbons and sculptor Craig Robb, finally share billing in Double Entendre, which opened February 26 at Ironton Studios & Gallery, 3636 Chestnut Place. In a departure from her familiar, otherworldly ceramic works, Gibbons is showing dreamy mixed-media wall works…
Meet the MasterMinds Six years ago, Westword added a very special component to Artopia: the MasterMind awards. Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, we created a program that every year honors five cultural visionaries — artists and organizations alike —…
The Denver Botanic Gardens keeps up with the times, a fact that’s evident in its theme of choice for the 2010 Bonfils-Stanton Lecture Series. Feast in the Garden: Edible Landscapes and Regional Food Traditions links gardening with eating, which very well might be one of the great overriding themes of…
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.” Those are the words of the great American playwright Eugene O’Neill, from his play The Great God Brown. And in Lazarus Laughed, quoth he: “Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”…
Cantaloupe Music isn’t a household word. But the adventurous, avant label does have some big names on its roster: Laurie Anderson, Aphex Twin, Don Byron, Brian Eno, Steve Reich and Terry Riley are just a few of the artists who’ve recorded for Cantaloupe. The stable of musicians it represents on…
Good news for folks who like to talk books over a cozy potluck: Chris Cleave’s book-club-ready novel Little Bee is out in paperback. Inspired by the London author’s time spent years earlier listening to the desperate stories of people living in a British detention camp for refugees seeking asylum, the…
During the decade when Peter Frampton, Kiss, Springsteen, the Eagles, punk and disco all strangely intersected in popular music, photographer Henry Horenstein photographed a completely different musical milieu: honky-tonk culture, from the lowliest Southern backroads to its pinnacle on stage at the Grand Ole Opry. His evocative images of rising,…
When dumpster-diving art collaborators Matt Doubek and Sam Mobley open the doors tonight on Carnival of Fictional Amusement, their new joint show at Pirate: Contemporary Art, what awaits will be anything but the same old, same old. That’s partially because Doubek and Mobley are men of facile resources; you might…
First impressions don’t always hold true. So if you think CU-Boulder’s Goldberger Week of Jewish Culture is synonymous with dull and academic, think again. Designed this year to tie in with the university’s ambitious ongoing series MoVeRs: Jewish Mavericks, Visionaries and Rebels, the week’s programs include not only the lectures…
No small endeavor, the fully rounded annual Denver Jewish Film Festival will celebrate its fourteenth year at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center when the curtain rises on tonight’s opening screening, the kickoff for ten days of programming that includes numerous local and regional premieres, parties, workshops and guest appearances…
Two high-profile politicos from opposite sides of the partisan arena will lock horns tonight when the University of Colorado at Boulder’s student-run Distinguished Speakers Board presents the touring Howard Dean and Karl Rove Debate in Macky Auditorium. And no matter how rote the agenda might be, it’s a match-up that’s…
Marilyn Megenity’s Mercury Café always rolls out the red carpet for Valentine’s Day, and this year is no exception: Because the holiday of passion falls on a weekend, she’s allowing the love to lazily spill over on both Saturday and Sunday, with a Valentine Visions art show and the annual…
Valentine’s Day falls just in the nick of time — ’tis the season when our gonads traditionally get fired up for spring, the season of procreation: You know, the birds, the bees, all that good stuff. But in the age when fast cars creep along the highway, bridled and bound…
There will be a couple of changes at this year’s Big Fringe Lottery Party, hosted by the Boulder International Fringe Festival. First, it’s moving to a new venue: Boulder’s blue, a-frame Wesley Chapel, which Pastor Roger Wolsey is renovating to accommodate cultural events. And second, the lottery is morphing into…
Word has it that even the Denver Art Museum’s Christoph Heinrich considered entering the contest to be Pirate honcho Phil Bender’s Valentine’s Day dream date at CORE gallery’s opening for The Love Show. But let’s just call this next part total hearsay: He didn’t do it because the application required…
