Arts & Culture
Pussy Grabs Back
This is not a typical burlesque show,” says Jenna Noah, aka Madame Merci, co-founder of Conscious Burlesque and creator of Pussy Grabs Back. “This...
A year of Trump
For those who make their living producing political cartoons, it could be argued that the election of Donald Trump was a godsend. It has...
Reality is the New Fiction
Art is not just a painting on the wall anymore (though some may argue it never was). Today, what we consider art is as diverse as a subway station at rush hour. Due to the technological globalization of our world, a hybrid reality has been born—a place where the ...
In a world with no imagination
To create a world as magical as Oz or as enchanted as Narnia, the writer must have one key ingredient. As Willy Wonka walks...
Arts | Week of August 7, 2014
Game Changer — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443- 2122. Through Sept. 14...
Arts | Week of Nov. 19, 2015
Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29...
Art in all forms
For many, ballet might seem inaccessible, even intimidating. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Denver’s Ballet Nouveau Colorado, entering its 10th season, aims to appeal to a wide audience in various ways, says the group’s artistic director, Garrett Ammon...
Under the dome
ARISE is in its fifth year and it’s already one of Colorado’s best-known and most successful festivals, and there’s a reason for that. It’s...
Women are beautiful, naturally
Through the decades in which women marched for liberation from secretarial jobs, sexual monogamy and bras, Garry Winogrand walked the streets, his palm-sized camera in hand, photographing women. He caught them with their guard down, their knees too high for their ...
Come to this maybe amazing show and hear some things that...
Dear suburbs: Todd Snider and his new band, the Hard Working Americans, are coming after you and any other self-proclaimed “hard working American” who’s stood behind the safety of a picket fence to look down on other people. Of the — generally speaking, as is ...
Rapping it up
Kelly Monico, Nebraska native though she may be, has always been a fan of rap — old school rap. Then the Metropolitan State University of Denver art professor encountered her first Nicki Minaj video on a student’s blog...
Misfit review process
Next year, when Jasmine Baetz’s sculpture ‘El movimiento sigue’ takes its permanent home on 28th Street, on a sliver of grass in front of...