Teresa Garcia says her father is the oldest practicing veterinarian in Colorado, and although she might be stretching the truth, one thing’s for certain: Dr. Edward Garcia, who loves fixing up platters of tamales and jars of peaches in his spare time, is the Hispanic equivalent of a mensch. The…

You know, you just can’t walk out on the street these days without bumping into a zombie or two. With half the city getting zombie makeup tips from professionals or suiting up in Thriller costumes for a future flash dance on the 16th Street Mall (and what local bar of…

From its notorious gunfights and shady ladies to its gold-mining glory days to the “Face on the Barroom Floor,” Central City has more than its share of legends for being such a small town. And their ghosts are said to still linger in the present-day gambling haven. A psychic who…

Don’t even try to understand how Thaddeus Phillips puts together a performance. He plucks seemingly random things from the air and somehow creates relationships from a whirling mass of stuff, and his newest work, Microworld(s) Part #1, is no different. Somehow mad scientist Nikola Tesla, the Nagakin Capsule Tower in…

When you first think of Genghis Khan, you invariably picture a fierce-looking barbarian Mongol in a flashy helmet with awesome facial hair of the Fu Manchu persuasion. And then you figure he was the kind of guy who’d nonchalantly lop off your head if you crossed him. You wouldn’t be…

First of all, 7dancers spokesman Lee Prosenjak notes, there are actually eight dancers in the cast of Passengers, but that’s not what makes this travel-themed production so different. It won’t be performed on a stage or even in a set area, but will instead trek through the expanses of a…

We all have a personal cabinet of curiosity lurking inside, but do we know how to open the doors? To truly understand Cabinet of Curiosities, a whimsical new exhibit that opens today at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, knowledge of its history helps: “The concept goes back to the sixteenth…

Cormac McCarthy writes the kind of books — staunch, and filled with pure, cold drama — that were made for movie-making. No Country for Old Men was an Oscar winner that wedded taut writing with skilled acting and direction; the buzz on The Road, which opens later this month, is…

Tiffany Smyth hangs with belly dancers, fire performers, the Ren Fest crowd and the tribal psychedelic rock band Kan’nal, but first and foremost, she’s a mask-maker of enormous talent, working in leather, beads and feathers to create art nouveau-inspired organic disguises unlike anything you’ve ever seen. She owes some of…

Mistress Raven’s been around the block, but now she’s staying put. The driving force behind Rave’s Oh My Goth! moved her emporium — originally an Uptown antique- and vintage-clothing store favored by drag queens — three times, but this location has proven itself the perfect spot. It’s a dark, cavernous…

Four hostages held in Iraq — a British diplomat, an American engineer, a television journalist and a freelance photographer — are the focus of prize-winning playwright E.M. Lewis’s Heads, a provocative and emotional take on what could be an all-too-real situation. Chosen as a season opener by Susan Lyles of…

The seed for René Marie’s new one-woman play, Slut Energy Theory, was planted during a long-ago conversation with a friend about how women often focus more on their relationships than on their own creative selves. “We use up all this energy, physical and emotional, and my friend called it ‘slut…

Years ago, there was this thing called repertory cinema, where you could see a different second-run film every day, which, once upon a time, people really wanted to do – in a real theater. A shared experience! In Denver, you’d sometimes hit places like the Flick in Larimer Square and…

Fans of Stories on Stage already know and love the format: A collection of prominent actors, some local and some national, take to the stage for dramatic readings from literature, all chosen with a specific theme in mind. And they also know how well it really works. There’s a little…

Boulder is one urban-farming kinda town. Locavores sprout like weeds there — delicious, edible weeds — and it seems like everyone in town is hiding a few chickens in the back yard. No wonder, then, that Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art curator Kirsten Gerdes Stoltz liked what she heard when…

The former local theater group Next Stage Denver was the first to host MisCast as a fundraiser in Denver, but after that troupe dissolved last summer, Paragon Theatre stepped in and asked for permission to pick up the ball and keep running with it. And it’s not hard to see…

They say we have a beautiful weekend approaching, and there are few places in the state more beautiful this time of year than the environs of Delta County, where the wine grapes and orchards are peaking. And Colorado Art Ranch, the rootless organization that hosts “Artposiums” twice yearly at changing…