When’s the last time you saw a musical that just stood right up and 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…

It’s a well-known fact that behind every great artist’s print, there’s usually a great printmaker to serve as master technician, problem-solver and perhaps as a muse, as well. We Coloradans have been lucky enough to count one of them, Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink studio in Lyons, as one our…

Valentines go 3D – with an added Latin inspiration – when the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council hosts its annual fundraiser, Milagros del Corazon, a laid-back evening of classical guitar music, snacks, drinks and bidding scheduled this year for Friday, February 13. But the event’s lifeblood must circulate through your…

One of Colorado’s more remarkable citizens, Dr. Temple Grandin first distinguished herself in her chosen field of animal science and as an advocate of humane treatment of animals. She went on to further garner attention as a best-selling author and lecturer, unique in that she is also autistic and unafraid…

There are thirteen member societies at the non-profit TACtile Textile Arts Center, each of them specializing in arts as old as the hills, yet somehow completely contemporary in a time when doing for yourself is back in style. They embroider, tat, knit, bead, weave and quilt; know their way around…

Just about anything local artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy does is a-ok with me. Whether it’s making art, promoting art or teaching it, she’s always in the driver’s seat, full of purpose and brimming with creativity. And now she’s offering a class so propelled by what drives her that I (and…

You just naturally expect Design After Dark, the annual benefit for the Denver Art Museum Design Council, to be a little cooler than other glitzy fundraisers: uptown enough for society bigwigs (or at least the ones with artsy pretensions), downtown enough for the rest of us cutting-edge design groupies. And…

First of all, 7dancers spokesman Lee Prosenjak notes, there are actually eight dancers in the cast of Passengers, but that’s not what makes this travel-themed production so different. It won’t be performed on a stage or even in a set area, but will instead trek through the expanses of a…

French animator Michel Ocelot‘s sophisticated children’s film Azur and Asmar begins strangely and mysteriously, with an Arabic nanny cooing ancient tales into the ears of two boy babes — one pale, blond and blue-eyed, and the other dark with curly black hair. The computer-generated animation is a bit strange, too,…

From the start of his tenure as artistic director of the Denver Center Theatre Company, Kent Thompson has sought to give the company a strong regional voice, one in tune with a cultural constituency of many colors. To that end, he immediately gave a nod to Colorado’s Latino community, including…

Hear me, O comics nerds and graphic-novel snobs: The Messiah cometh! And he’ll bring with him a large screen and a catalogue of comics lore the likes of which have never been unleashed in these hills before. As one of your ranks, believers, my heart poundeth at the very mention…

Local burlesquer Michelle Baldwin has known a lot of driven people: One guy she knew had only five things in his house for a time; another couple of collectors were finally so freaked by how much stuff they had that they purged it all from their house. But her friend…