Blogs — and take note, you are reading this in a blog — aren’t the wave of the future. Blogs are the here and now, the thing of the moment, where grassroots communications are dealt right over the top of the table, straight-forward, via the Internet. It’s where we can…
They say that tomorrow is always a new day — and if you’re struggling artist or cultural nonprofit in Denver, here’s a way to try to make it brighter: You still have time to register for tomorrow’s fourth annual Create Denver Expo, hosted by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs…
If you didn’t just completely float away on St. Patty’s Day, here’s a last chance to get caught up by a last bit of seasonal Celtic backwash: Scottish guitarist/singer/songwriter Dougie MacLean will bring his singular sound to town tonight with a show at the Colfax Events Center, the new kid…
They say tomorrow is always a new day, but if you happen to be a struggling artist or cultural nonprofit in Denver, that just might be true: You still have time to register for tomorrow’s fourth annual Create Denver Expo, hosted by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs to provide…
Back in the ’60s, my mother had an older co-worker named Aida whose nephew was Chet Helms, a San Francisco free spirit whose Family Dog Productions included Denver’s Family Dog concert hall for a couple of explosive years. It was through Aida that my brother and I came to possess…
Amy Serrano’s documentary Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers on the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic, with its knowing narration by the Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat, isn’t Serrano’s first film and it isn’t likely to be her last. She’s left behind a long trail of…
Unlike our own drunken managing editor at the Fainting Goat, have you been sticking to the straight and narrow, sitting in a cubicle all day, with nary a sip o’ anything green or otherwise? You still have time to carouse before they mop up the St. Patty’s Day mess, and…
It was only a matter of time before drag queens hit reality TV. To prove the point, RuPaul’s Drag Race, an elimination competition hosted by America’s favorite female impersonator on MTV’s GLBT-centric Logo network, is speeding around the bend tonight with its fifth fantastic episode. The show features a super-heroine…
There might be something familiar about the all-local cast and recognizable backdrops in Ink, a new independent feature by Denver filmmaker Jamin Winans of Double Edge Films, which premieres today at the Starz FilmCenter. But from that point on, the film diverges into a fantastical world. The key characters –…
Since we all know that great minds think alike, it’s got to be an auspicious day when two of the town’s greatest trivial pastimes team up. To be exact, Best of Denver winners Geeks Who Drink and Buckfifty.org will collaborate tonight on Denver’s first (and possibly last) Locals Only Pub…
There might be something familiar about the all-local cast and recognizable backdrops in Ink, a new independent feature by Denver filmmaker Jamin Winans of Double Edge Films, which premieres today at the Starz FilmCenter. But from that point on, the film diverges into a fantastical world: The key characters –…
Assuming the weather holds — and since we live in Colorado, you never can tell — this could be just the day to play hooky from work and loll about at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York Street, where delicate winter hellebores will be blooming, and cheerful daffodils and other…
There are plenty of reasons to enjoy tonight’s Jewish Women in Harmony: A Musical Evening for Women at the Shwayder Theater (350 S. Dahlia Street in the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center). One would be the marvelous lineup of talented local songstresses. Another would be the general sense of…
“MATTER: Disregarding the barriers between design and art since 1999.” That’s the motto of MATTER, the fast-forward local design studio masterminded by Rick Griffith — and it perfectly describes the show Griffith has hung in the fourth-floor Jury Selection Room at the Denver City and County Building as part of…
Like just about everything else, some of the boldest new art hitting our shores comes from China these days. But unlike sports shoes and electronics, these works aren’t commodities by any stretch of the word. And they’re popular at several venues right here in Denver. From the Denver Art Museum…
“MATTER: Disregarding the barriers between design and art since 1999.” That’s the motto of MATTER, the fast-forward local design studio masterminded by Rick Griffith, and it describes perfectly the show Griffith has hung in the fourth-floor Jury Selection Room at the Denver City and County Building as part of the…
Gallic dancer/choreographer Marie-Jose Payannet of Danse Etoile Ballet proves that egalitarianism is a French notion. Her concept behind the Broomfield-based troupe’s performances this weekend at the Dairy Center for the Arts is to show off a little of everything ballet is and can be, from elegantly classical to thoroughly modern…
You probably best know Dave Flomberg — our colleague and competitor at the late Rocky Mountain News, where he followed the nightlife beat — from his public face. But, to use his own term (and one borrowed from newspaper lingo), the “below the fold” Flomberg is a little more remote,…
Nothing gets your blood pumping faster than a little African dancing and drumming. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the stage or in front of it. By the time the drums start talking and the dancers start whooping and leaping, you’ll be ready to credit the Africans for inspiring the bulk…
Ever had the feeling that life is just a long, drawn-out, ultra-violent comic book? Claudio Sanchez, comic-book author and leader of the metal-esque prog-rock band Coheed and Cambria, has made an entire career out of just such a continuing plot, spinning albums around his serial visions. More recently, Sanchez branched…
Don’t be fooled: There is plenty of meat in Courting Condi, the unique undercover-muckraking biopic about the imaginary romance between an obsessed musician (now-adult child star Devin Ratray, best known for his role as big brother Buzz in Home Alone, who plays himself) and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice…
Cool can be fleeting. That was always the underlying premise of the temporary Denver Community Museum, which is, it turns out, truly and not just conceptually, temporary. Founder Jaime Kopke reports that the Platte Valley pop-up museum will disappear at the end of April — but not until two final…
