For the record, we’ve got nothing against The Lion King. It’s got swell animation, a great voice cast, and it’s a solid entertainment value. But it seems like Disney is all that kids know when it comes to the cinema. So what’s a parent to do? Madstone Theaters now offers…

It all comes down to breeding: When you go to high tea at the Brown Palace Hotel, you’ve got to know where to hold your pinkie and how to properly administer your lemon curd and clotted cream. That’s unless you happen to be the National Western Stock Show Grand Champion…

New York performance duo Richard Harrington and Chris Kauffman met in clown school — at a five-day workshop with physical comic David Shiner, a Broadway cohort of the physical-comedy guy himself, Bill Irwin. They’d each already come up with their personal signature shticks: Harrington’s on-stage persona, Gustave Flaubert (no relation…

Every town’s got a past, and sometimes that past starts acting up: Wardrobes rattle and rocking chairs rock; people see mysterious headless folks walking through yards in broad daylight. At least they think they do. But whether or not you truly believe the spooky tales you hear, they’re usually just…

You may not realize it when you don your polka gear to party in Larimer Square during the annual Oktoberfest, but your behind-the-scenes host is the Larimer Arts Association. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to promoting arts recognition and education locally, despite diminished funding in the community. Until now, the…

The Jewish religion is no stranger to exile: Jews have been wandering for eons; they’re a people defined by diaspora. With that in mind, it should surprise no one to know that a handful who made their way along the Silk Road from Persia settled in the central Chinese city…

The Arvada Center just wouldn’t be itself come January without another Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering to flaunt: It’s simply the rootin’-tootin’-est thing happening in town (this side of the concurrent National Western Stock Show, that is). The annual event offers four rustic days of campfire songs, stories, yodeling and a…

Women have always worked well with others, so it was no surprise when forty members of the Colorado Women’s Caucus for Art decided to create together. The result is Maternal Legends, a collaborative installation of 128 Mylar panels stitched together to form an incredible ten-foot-square wall pastiche of personal mother-daughter…

Come now, young people, sit upon an old-timer’s knee and listen: Once upon a time, there was a wonderful entertainment called the repertory cinema. These palaces of film history featured schedules of classics, cult favorites, cutting-edge works and beloved genre films that changed daily. We pinned the schedules on our…

Kids are such deep little creatures. Though most parents will shake their heads at the notion of youngsters making truly meaningful New Year’s resolutions (other than shallow pledges promising to be even more greedy in the coming year), the small-fry will surprise you. And when we came a-polling, even those…

World peace and global unity: Those inseparable humanitarian concepts seem to hit home a little harder as we segue into 2003, and there are plenty of people out there who aren’t really feeling the urge to party ’til they drop this New Year’s Eve. If you fall into that category,…

The Nutcracker: Been there, done that. The classic Christmas ballet has been grandly produced, fiddled with, animated, televised and Barbiefied to death. But this year, Boulder aerial choreographer Nancy Smith and her Frequent Flyers company decided to transform the holiday cliche with a countercultural twist provided by longtime Boulder Ballet…

Book dealer Linda Lebsack specializes in books on regional history, but she’s also been on a Denver-history-collecting tangent, partly because there was a market for it. “There wasn’t much more to be said about the Gold Rush,” she notes, “and young people just didn’t care about it anymore.” So she…

Remember the Ice Capades? I don’t. My parents wouldn’t take me. Ditto for the Disney classics. My knowledge as a child of Pinocchio and Mary Poppins was entirely secondhand. But now that I’m a parent, things are different: It would be unthinkable in this day and age to deny my…

What’s fun to play with, interactive, educational and not made of junky plastic? The answer is simple: just about anything at Shop, Skip and a Jump, the tiny little nook of a gift shop tucked into the entryway at the Children’s Museum of Denver. It’s useful information this time of…

White-haired boomers with turbulent pasts are certain to show up at the Swallow Hill Music Association’s Evening to Celebrate Songs From the Anti-War/Peace Movement (8 p.m. Saturday, December 14), but Swallow Hill director Jim Williams hopes the event will attract a younger crowd, too. They’re the ones who really need…

They got mountains, we got mountains. They got Yeti, we got Sasquatch. They got exotic, we got…squat. Is there any better reason to shop at the Nepali Bazaar? Actually, yes: Because instead of copying “ethnic” looks in clothing and accessories like every store and catalogue in America, this shop, recently…

Boulder photographer and emergency vet John McGee grew up with the same view of China as most baby boomers: The nation was a big, crowded, backward place where people were oppressed by scheming Maoists. But then he and his wife traveled to Fujian province, on the massive country’s southeast coast,…

Say you already loved shopping at Miss Talulah’s, Robin Lohre’s funky-chic Ballpark neighborhood boutique. But then you grew up and had a kid. In a way, Lohre did the same when she opened her second shop, Talulah Jones, last summer at 1122 E. 17th Avenue, in Denver’s burgeoning Uptown district…

It seems like folks don’t make as much of a fuss as they used to over World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1. It’s particularly true in the local art world, where “day without art” exhibits used to be more prominent. Is it just a phase provoked by the…

‘Tis the season for galleries to push affordable art for the holidays, so Gilbert Barrera and Ivar Zeile of the Cordell Taylor Gallery, 2350 Lawrence Street, put their heads together in an effort to package the concept in brand-new wrapping paper. The result, an exhibit titled It¹s a Boy!, opens…

Who knew? Golden-based Fulcrum Publishing is the largest independent book house in Colorado, and its output includes hundreds of titles geared to readers in the West: From xeriscape gardening to hitting the trails, Fulcrum’s drawn a bead on Colorado interests without an ounce of help from the big publishing firms…