Thursday July 1 As festivities leading up Sunday’s annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb begin to reach that feverish pitch, the Denver Press Club Lunch on Deadline Series joins the fracas in a typically dignified manner: Today’s luncheon guests are race car drivers Rod Millen, a four-time overall hill climb…
Thursday June 24 It’s Greek to us–and you, and everybody else–when the Greek Festival ’99, one of Denver’s oldest ethnic celebrations, returns for its 34th year. Featuring a craft market, import bazaar, taverna and live entertainment, the festival has always been its own best advertisement. But maybe everyone’s favorite reason…
Some people will do anything for attention. But anything sometimes leads to art–though it might be the kind of art that’s played out on street corners for a handful of change. This weekend, a horde of street performers will swarm into downtown Denver for the seventh annual US West Buskerfest…
When this year’s PrideFest march takes off down East Colfax Avenue on Sunday, it will be as much a salute to the gay-rights movement’s past as it is a celebration of gains to be proud of today. There’ll be the usual banners and costumes, but at the forefront will march…
Thursday June 17 Bug frenzy is about to break loose at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York St., where they’re trying something different this summer. Get a preview tonight from 5:30 to 8:30 at the Bugaloo!, an opening celebration for the whole family announcing the arrival of Dave Rogers’s Big…
The Women of the West Museum is alive and well, but at the moment, you can wander its halls only in cyberspace. Museum spokeswoman Jeannie Patton thinks it’s just fine being a museum without walls for now; like pragmatic women throughout time, the people behind the scenes at WOW are…
Thursday June 10 Coloradans have an ongoing love affair with their Western heritage–even if they came here from New Joisey. Place of birth notwithstanding, there’s an unending demand in these parts for that Lonesome Dove kind of lore. If you fall into the category that craves such entertainment, a new…
Thursday June 3 In typical form, the theme-friendly Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities opens its summer gallery season with a trio of interconnected shows that seem to go with the flow of summer by exploring family relationships, the lure of the road and teen rites of passage, respectively…
A 540, switch-foot, tick-flip McTwist–Ev Rosencrans says it’s the hardest trick he’s ever seen executed on a skateboard. “It looks like he goes upside down, but then he spins the board, catches it, ticks it and lands on it again while doing a twist in air…” Well, you get the…
Deborah Krasnoff is an Academy Award-winning documentarian and a lesbian. But she’s also the mother of two school-aged children, and that’s what originally prompted her to make It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School, airing in Denver Wednesday night on KBDI-TV/Channel 12. “I wanted to make a film that…
Thursday May 27 The Colorado Symphony Orchestra bids its season goodbye with style and splash this weekend. Beginning tonight, a grand reading of Mozart’s Solemn Vespers of the Confessor, featuring voices of the symphony chorus, will be followed by the evening’s centerpiece: Prokofiev’s Cinderella, staged in collaboration with the Cleo…
Thursday May 20 Area jazz fans get a treat tonight when the Creative Music Works ships in the Charles Lloyd Quartet to that well-tucked-away foothills haunt, the Mount Vernon Country Club (exit 254 on I-70, Golden), where you can wine, dine and enjoy an evening of music. Saxophonist Lloyd, an…
Morris Carter’s voice goes in and out on the cell phone, but it’s no surprise, considering where he’s calling from. “Right now we’re halfway between Lamar and Las Animas on Highway 50,” Carter says. “Earlier we were along the Arkansas River.” He’s speaking from the seat of a Conestoga wagon,…
It’s an old Denver story: In 1968, a group of local artists erected nine temporary plywood sculptures in Burns Park, setting slabs of sheer color at playful geometric angles against a background of green grass and blue sky–a visual flight of fancy for passing Colorado Boulevard motorists. Intended to last…
Thursday May 13 If you remember anything about him, it’s that voice–the halting, weathered, lizard-like Germanic drone of Henry Kissinger. But anyone with the tiniest sense for recent world history knows that Kissinger’s also been a key player in the outcome of numerous global affairs, serving in both the Nixon…
Bobbie Boyer retired last September after 24 years of teaching in Denver elementary schools. But in the last year of her career, she planted a little seed that’s about to bear fruit. During that final year, she taught third grade at Smith Elementary School–now known as Smith Renaissance School of…
Back in the heydey of local trolleydom, the Denver & Intermountain Railroad Interurban Car 25 wound her way from downtown Denver through west Denver and Lakewood to her final destination in Golden, passing through scenery both urban and bucolic. She was capable of going a good sixty miles an hour…
Thursday May 6 The Denver Center Theater Company ends its season with a cultured leap of faith–well, sort of. Truth is, the two new and untested plays being presented as the mainstage portion of the DCTC’s annual US West TheatreFest are the works of Richard Hellesen and Nagle Jackson, both…
Independent theater entrepreneur kryssi wyckoff-martin is that rare bird, a native Coloradan. Better yet, after studying theater with playwright Edward Albee and Circle in the Square founder Jose Quintero at the University of Houston, she even returned to her home state. Wyckoff-martin then “puttered around” with Citystage Ensemble and some…
Boulder photographer Joanna Pinneo has come full circle. First attracted to her medium on a college study trip to Spain, Pinneo came back to the States, took up the camera and traveled the world, capturing masterfully beautiful and humanistic images from the four corners of the planet. Those images appear…
Thursday April 29 Get over it–they do play bagpipes in Galicia, a region in northwestern Spain where an onslaught of religious pilgrims delivered Celtic cadences and instrumentation centuries ago. The pilgrims moved on, but their music stayed behind, eventually forming the basis for Milladoiro, a contemporary Galician outfit that blends…
When 91-year-old string-band musician Howard Armstrong performs Friday at the Swallow Hill Music Association’s Roots of the Blues Festival, he’ll be something of an anomaly. He doesn’t call himself a bluesman, though he knows how to play the blues. Instead, he plays a little bit of everything: old-time, jazz, blues,…
