The end of the Lab, as we know it, is nigh. And nothing could make that more apparent than a garage sale, where, yes, everything must go! But count on Adam Lerner to take his little Lakewood contemporary art museum out with a bang, before proceeding to restructure and merge…
Actress and singer Lotte Lenya has long been an object of fascination for physical theater artist Sondra Blanchard, whose mentor lent her a biography of Lenya ten years ago. But it wasn’t until the talented graduate of Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre moved to Boulder to complete her MFA…
Art history is full of compelling side trips, including the story of the complex relationship between transitional painter Edouard Manet and impressionist Berthe Morisot, a unique friendship not unlike that of their contemporaries Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Manet was both friend and mentor to Morisot, and, after she married…
It’s getting hard these days to tell one cirque from another, but the French Canadian circus Cirque Éloize has a pedigree that’s taken it all the way to Broadway. It all points back to a lasting partnership with acrobatic troupe Teatro Sunil and its founder, Daniele Finzi Pasca, a multi-talented…
From the start, the totally temporary Denver Community Museum has been a one-woman operation, and nobody knows it better the woman herself. Jaime Kopke invented, opened and mostly financed the venue herself, easily devoting 25 to 30 hours a week to the museum, which she ran on a shoestring, without…
Untitled, oh, how we’ve missed you. When the Denver Art Museum put you to bed for the winter, a spark went out of our lives. Though we continued to visit the DAM, it just wasn’t the same as viewing art during one of those accessible, wacky final-Friday happenings that were…
There’s an Earth Day party brewing right where you might not expect one: deep in the heart of Cherry Creek North, which was designed strictly for high-end consumers and consuming. But as pointed out by Myrna Hayutin of Gallery M, 2830 E. 3rd Avenue — where the independent film Lubie…
This is one of those tricky situations. You know someone who is a total fashion disaster — we all do — and you don’t want to let her know you know. And yet, this is your big chance to do something nice for her while paradoxically outing her poor fashion…
Just over ten years ago, local filmmaker and stage director donnie l. betts took a chance on radio drama, a medium some might deem obsolete, by reviving the works of Richard Durham, whose long run of live radio theater programs profiled cultural and historical African-American figures beginning in the late…
I’m not gonna mince words, here, people: There’s a lot to do here throughout the weekend, if you care to slog out into the slush to do it. Here’s a smattering of worthy stuff on our radar. Boulder’s Frequent Flyers aerial dance troupe will take to the sky again beginning…
National Poetry Month is for everyone, and so is El Centro Su Teatro’s tenth-annual Neruda Poetry Festival, which begins today, smack dab in the middle of the nation’s bardish celebration of metered, arranged, improvised and performed verbiage. And you’ll enjoy some of each during this three-day event, kicking off with…
While a slow walk through the exhibit, Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters, currently on view at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through May 3, will answer many questions you might have about the unleashed power of volcanoes, twisters and earthquakes, chances are it will merely whet, rather than…
National Poetry Month is for everyone, and so is El Centro Su Teatro’s tenth annual Neruda Poetry Festival, which begins today, smack dab in the middle of the nation’s bardish celebration of metered, arranged, improvised and performed verbiage. And you’ll enjoy some of each during this three-day event, kicking off…
There are few forms of folk music more soulful than Fado (fado means “fate” in Portuguese), in which a vocalist is backed by two guitarists, one traditional and one classical, to create a people’s music full of melancholic symbolism and saudade, or longing. Fado has fallen in and out of…
Where to start? The massive undertaking that is Doors Open Denver is a growing, morphing creature that’s constantly finding ways to provide new experiences for Denverites curious about their city. At least 10,000 folks attended last year’s DOD events, according to Pauline Herrera of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs,…
You learn one thing right away about the people behind the TACtile Textile Arts Center: They do not take the fiber arts lightly. Indeed, they diligently give such community-oriented, functional arts the same attention that a good seamstress gives her stitches. So when they decided to present an exhibit promoting…
Everybody wants to be an artist, but most people are afraid to try. That’s one reason local artist Brittney Wilson opened Canvas and Cocktails late last month at 249 Clayton Street in Cherry Creek North. (Another reason: to show her dad that an art degree does count for something.) Offering…
Any stage director worth his salt knows that it’s all in the timing. Without it, the stars won’t align onstage or backstage and – horrors – the moment will be mediocre. In the world of theater, that’s the kiss of death, a point the accomplished local director José Mercado, known…
Any stage director worth his salt knows that it’s all in the timing. Without it, the stars won’t align onstage or backstage and — horrors — the moment will be mediocre. In the world of theater, that’s the kiss of death — a point the accomplished local director José Mercado,…
Every ski area bids the season adieu with a big, sloppy snowball of slushy hoopla. But Vail can confidently declare its ginormous Spring Back to Vail to be one of the biggest spring bashes in Colorado’s high country, not to mention the entire nation. It’s so chock-full of stuff to…
We’re all in the same boat here, ladies: The Spa Week website is off the hook! Hotter than Kilauea when it blows its top! Just be prepared to stand by for information, because the glorious week in spring when spas across the nation, including several here in Denver, offer introductory…
Some people circle the globe on impossibly difficult trips for money (if you think you’re one of those, better log on and register to line up for tomorrow’s Amazing Race tryouts at the Wilderness Experience. Good luck, dudes.). Swiss ultra runner Serge Roetheli, on the other hand, circumnavigated the planet…
