Who even knew there was such a thing as National Dog Day? Not that I’m surprised, there being a day for just about anything you can think of — and boy, we sure love our dogs. It was apparently founded five years ago by pet expert Colleen Paige with the…
Winning NFL coach Tony Dungy thinks the stars of tomorrow deserve to get off to a positive start, and that’s why, for the first time ever, he’s hosting Tony Dungy’s RED ZONE ’09, a special Fathom Events screening tonight at more than 450 theaters nationwide, including eleven here along the…
When everyone’s favorite cheap, trashy hipster bar turns three, ya gotta take notice. And true to form, the brash and retro Rockbar makes that easy: There’s something going there every night this week, as well as some cool drink specials. Tonight, Rockbar’s Monday-night stalwart, Rockstar Aaron, will be spinning the…
Not every band in town would take on the Who’s Tommy in its entirety, regardless of the cause. But Instant Party, a group that’s partly peopled by members of the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League and partly by local ringers, will not only bite off every bit of…
He’s an animal, that Adam Cayton-Holland. Therefore, the hyphenated one will fit right in tonight, when he headlines this year’s Denver Zoo Comedy Night, which benefits several environmental and wildlife conservation agencies, including the Orangutan Conservancy, Madagascar Faunal Group, WildAid and DECOIN. And although the funny former Westworder will be…
If you haven’t had a chance to get out of town this summer, here’s a quick trip into the past: Our Journey, a self-guided museum trek to the small towns of Colorado’s central plains, can ostensibly be completed in one day and maybe even on one tank of gas —…
An ending and a beginning collide today on the Hill in Boulder when the innovative and free-for-all Hill Flea debuts as both a traditional flea market and a “community edu-tainment playspace” where you can participate in workshops, swap athletic gear and recipes or watch artists at work. Continuing every Sunday…
Poet and filmmaker Gwylym Cano describes his recent work as cine-poetics, since it melds repurposed video with verse — or at least the sense of verse — in a marriage of his favorite disciplines. The result is pure, true, funny, wise, profoundly visual and especially subjective, forged in the footsteps…
Denver’s a bike town, and we’ve got every kind of biker under the sun: mountain bikers, road racers, cruisers, commuters, anarchic DIYers, pixie bike fanatics, baby-pullers and lots of kids with handlebar fringe flying. So when local bike advocate and cycling trade-show veteran Carol Johnson decided to promote a bike…
The bridge from Mad Max to Kill Bill crosses years but not much distance: A starstruck Quentin Tarantino admits to being an unabashed fan of the ´70s explosion of exploitative Australian films and unapologetically copied them. A genre set off when repressed Aussie filmmakers were freed from the shackles of…
It’ll be the ultimate back-to-school practice run at Buntport Theater’s quarterly Teacher’s Pet event tonight, wherein ten volunteers, the first to sign up, get up on stage for five minutes to show and tell on a chosen theme. That would be Back to School (Things I Wish I Hadn’t Learned)…
It’s only right that the Denver Film Society’s Film on the Rocks series should fête Woodstock’s 40th anniversary, considering that the event, the music and the movie have become inseparably melded in our collective consciousness over time. Besides, FOTR is all about a similar gestalt — so of course they…
What’s that spring in your step? It’s Friday and it’s time to play! Seems like there’s more than enough to do this weekend, but here are a few events I’d like to recommend. For art with a serious underground vibe, head on over to INDYINK, 84 South Broadway, for a…
Iraqi artist Hakim Alkarim, who now lives here, expresses unique experiences shaped by continued strife in his homeland in many forms, from beautiful environmental installations informed by Iraqi history to The Witness Archive, a series of spooky portraits that stretch their photographic roots to reveal the bare ectoplasm behind every…
The AIDS battle never ends, even if the issue has slipped from the forefront of national attention as the disease continues to spread around the world. For the Colorado AIDS Project’s Michael Lee, that’s where the real battle lies in modern times, especially when planning another Colorado AIDS Walk and…
Radoslaw Konopka, Christopher Thomas Gilkey and onetime Denverite Kristin Arnesen are Theatre Reverb, a Brooklyn outfit that’s not only familiar with the fringe circuit, but hosts the ongoing Floating Kabarette performance series/cabaret at New York’s open-minded Galapagos Art Space, where anything might happen, from aerial dance to neo-burlesque. Here for…
Part of being on the fringe – i.e., traveling the fringe-festival circuit – is surrendering to chance. With every venue, in every town, the vibe is different and the audience’s level of acceptance a roll of the dice. What’s lauded in New York might get a blank stare in Oklahoma…
Jimmy Hogg, a Brit now living in Toronto, is more or less the king of the Fringe this year: In addition to hosting duties at the Boulder Fringe Festival’s opening-night party and helming the fest’s Daily C.R.A.B. late-night talk-show, he’s also a veteran Fringe performer who has a new one-man…
Margarita Blush, a European-trained Bulgarian puppeteer now living in Boulder, is a rarity on the Front Range whose magic touch transforms puppetry into an art form. Together with another local puppet master, Betsy Tobin, Blush plied this gift to create River Story, a unique take on Zlatka, the Girl Made…
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim probably didn’t have a literary reading in mind when they wrote “Cool” for West Side Story. But I can’t help hearing those high-tension lyrics in my head — Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it. Turn off the juice, boy! — when I imagine what…
Now that the sun’s come out and we’re truly in the doldrums of August, aren’t you ready for a hang-on-to-your-hat read to temper that slow downward roll into autumn? Novelist Elisabeth Hyde to the rescue: In the Heart of the Canyon, her new, many-voiced, adrenaline-charged thriller on the rocks, takes…
Don’t you go around saying there’s never anything new happening in town. You can get a shock of the new tonight, in fact, when Paragon Theatre hosts an edition of The Trench, the company’s ongoing new play reading series, which offers a first look at works by locals. A talented…
