The Artist’s Way

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…

Purple Haze

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…

Today’s featured event: Filmmaker Amy Serrano at Regis University

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…

Ink Spills

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 –…

Flower Power

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…

Today’s featured event: China looms large at the Myhren Gallery

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…

Spread the Words

“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…

Personal Ballet

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…

Life Story

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,…

Today’s featured event: That Kill Audio is such a cut-up

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…