Rockstar at Rockbar? Not an unusual coincidence: The glammed-out DJ with the neon mohawk, who refers to himself as “the love child of Klaus Nomi and Nina Hagen,” spins mixes from the ´80s and beyond every Friday at the East Colfax joint. But this night is different from all other…
Are you in-the-moment, always on top of the wave, quick with your thumbs and have a good heart? Expect a full-blown multi-media event when local Twitterers gather to join others around the world for Twestival, a night to benefit Charity: Water, an organization that funds clean water projects in Africa,…
What makes an ale a wild ale? Perhaps it’s the barrel you age it in, or the yeast that ferments it into a complex brew. In the case of Avery Brewing Company’s new Brabant Barrel-Aged Wild Ale, one supposes it’s both: Named for a seminal draft horse that spawned what…
In his latest work, first generation Cuban-American artist Anthony Giocolea explores his heritage and the sense of loss he feels for family members he’s never met in a number of pointedly fleeting ways. In a new exhibit by Giocolea at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Related, this self-reflective process is…
Not satisfied with being a sleepy little town, the burg of Lafayette, Colorado, seems to spend an inordinate amount of time looking for ways to distinguish itself by celebrating the ordinary and the unexpected. Oatmeal, peaches, itself: Lafayette’s got an annual paean to each, but nothing quite tops this month’s…
Amazingly enough, in 2004, Russ Gershon’s adventurous Either/Orchestra jazz ensemble became the first American big band to play Addis Ababa since Duke Ellington hit Ethiopia in 1973, spawning a cross-cultural collaboration with some of the East African nation’s top musicians that continues to this day. That includes a partnership with…
Denver’s long-lived Chicano theater ensemble, Su Teatro, will step up next week to receive the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. But the group is also moving closer each day toward the realization of a dream: a new facility taking shape on Santa Fe Drive. And if every step…
Kity Ironton of Pandora Jewelry loves her customers. In fact, like many independent retailers, she’s not complaining about hard times. “Even with the economy the way it is, Denver has supported us, so we want to show our support for them,” she says, and that’s why Ironton and her crew…
Next time you try to pull on one of those lightweight, modern-day wonder-fabric girdles over your bulges, just remember this: In Victorian times, women’s undergarments — at least those of self-respecting, well-appointed fine ladies — typically weighed seven to ten pounds, and women often wore up to thirteen layers under…
The economy is still in the dumpster and the winter winds are wreaking havoc on your face: What the hell, girl, you need some pampering, even if you are on a budget. We love the combo of pre-Valentine’s primping and strong drink being offered at Tambien, 250 Steele Street, during…
I’m a total map freak: I suppose that’s been true since the very first time I ever spun my family’s old globe of the world and let my chubby little finger fall on some far-flung nation. Later, my mother the hiker began bringing home those topographical state forest maps to…
Best known for his assiduously constructed samurai-era drama Ugetsu, 20th-century Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi is famed for his rehearsed and painterly mise-en-scène style and long takes inspired by the work of Josef von Sternberg and others. And his last film, Street of Shame (more aptly titled Red-Light District in Japan),…
The fun of First Friday is in the variety: Choose your district and you choose the whole ambiance of your evening. And while we encourage you to support your local galleries no matter where they roost, here are a couple of suggestions about where to start tonight. Photographer Hal Gould,…
Hey, Sugar: Valentine’s Day, nine days and counting. What will YOU be presenting your friends with when the celebration of love draws nigh? You’re DIY, but not in that lace-and-cupids kind of way, and you’re on a budget that precludes buying long-stemmed roses and diamonds and shit. But you don’t…
I’m a total map freak, and I suppose that’s been true since the very first time I ever spun my family’s old globe of the world and let my chubby little finger fall on some far-flung nation. Later, my mother the hiker began bringing home those topographical state forest maps…
Hey, Sugar: Valentine’s Day, nine days and counting. What will YOU be presenting your friends with when the celebration of love draws nigh? You’re DIY, but not in that lace-and-cupids kind of way, and you’re on a budget that precludes buying long-stemmed roses and diamonds and shit. But you don’t…
From its opening-night film, Noodle, the story of an abandoned Chinese boy who falls into the lap of a widowed El Al stewardess, to the closing-night offering, Lemon Tree, about a Palestinian widow who fights to save her lemon grove from destruction by Israeli security forces on the West Bank,…
Rex Fuller of Opera Colorado loves Brandi Shigley and Fashion Denver. He also loves the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life. Serendipity — and a really cool opera — brought all three together to collaborate on Zandra Rhodes’s Fashion of Desire, an introductory event at the library that highlights local…
Provide-n-ce Gallery, 4325 West 41st Avenue, might look like little more than a hole-in-the-wall around the corner from Tennyson Street, but the cooperative space carries the weight of the world on its shoulders. An ongoing project of Sister Sen Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee with a daunting past made right after…
Atomic Elroy (aka Tom McElroy), a fixture in the Colorado Springs art community, isn’t an easy person to explain. A one-man artistic mover and shaker, he puts you in mind of a Phil Bender, but…a Phil Bender in Colorado Springs, home of Focus on the Family, NORAD, Fort Carson, the…
In with the new, out with the old, in with the new: The New Media Salon at Plus Gallery’s temporary space at 1490 Delgany Street, in the shadow of MCA/Denver, is a metaphorical hello/goodbye to the neighborhood that Plus gallerist Ivar Zeile has called an interim home while the gallery’s…
When’s the last time you saw a musical that stood right up, kicked its gams in your face and screamed, “Broadway!” to the rafters? When I saw Chicago last night at the Buell Theatre, I thought I’d died and gone to the Great White Way, clutching a top hat and…
