There’s a new cowboy in LoDo, or at least part of one. In recent weeks, his image began to emerge on the side of a building at 1617 Wazee Street, bearing the inimitable mark of Western watercolorist William Matthews, whose high-priced and admired works reside in the gallery within. Already…

Thursday December 24 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow–or not. Snow or no snow, you can get in the holiday spirit without leaving the comfortable confines of your home (assuming you need no last-minute gag ties to wrap up for Uncle Ernie). KCFR-FM/90.1 will air Colorado Public…

In the midst of celebrating Hanukkah, a time when Jews around the world commemorate perseverance, it’s perhaps fitting for the Mizel Museum of Judaica to hang a show of contemporary artwork culled from a tiny community of religious survivors. When Cuban Jewish Art Today! opens Thursday evening, the exhibition of…

Thursday December 17 Listen up, Colorado artists–here’s your last chance to strut your stuff before the jury for Celebrate Colorado Artists, an all-Colorado visual-arts show scheduled for this spring at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The deadline to submit applications with five slides of artwork in most media is Saturday;…

Vampires, specters, werewolves and witches all come out of the ground this time of year, and they all seem to be based in the boneyard, an eternally creepy place. But local author Linda Wommack is out to change that eerie outlook. According to Wommack, whose new book, From the Grave:…

Thursday October 29 Hand in hand with Halloween comes El Dia de los Muertos, the Latin American celebration during which the souls of the dead take time out to party with the living. In that spirit, Aurora’s Crossover Project hosts several El Dia events this weekend, with annual festivities at…

Thursday October 22 Hear that faint tinkling of bells off in the distance? Yep, it’s the holiday shopping season rearing its ugly head. But since it’s still early in the game, you have time to plot a clever course to avoid the ordinary choices, and Kaleidoscope, a bazaar gathering merchandise…

Some say the book is in trouble, destined to become obsolete in the computer age. But when the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation asked for literary testimonials from national celebrities and role models for an upcoming exhibit, the results expressed, in myriad ways, solid, enduring support for books. Called Library…

Greg Sarris is one of those California creations: Part Filipino, part German Jewish and part Coast Miwok Indian, he’s a bowl of soup in the melting pot of America. And if you think Sarris might, as a result, be a complex guy, you’re right. A Stanford-trained writer of fiction who…

Thursday October 15 If those passive boob-tube debates don’t do it for you, get up-close and personal with Colorado’s political hopefuls at a 1998 Candidates Forum, sponsored by the Allied Jewish Federation and the National Council of Jewish Women. All of the high-profile candidates, including gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and congressional…

There are 22 globe-trotting characters in Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt. But when the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theatre Company opens its season with the play this week, only four actors–all men dressed austerely in business suits–will be interpreting the roles. It’s the main quirk of Scottish theater director…

Thursday October 8 We’re on the verge of depression season, when shorter days and gloomy weather seem to bring out the worst in people. But that doesn’t mean you have to sit there and take it like a bout of the flu. Today is National Depression Screening Day, which means…

Thursday October 1 On the brink of a new century, Angelique Kidjo is doing her best to fuse an aural deluge of old and new music styles from around the world into a pop genre that’s powerfully modern–and you can dance to it. Kidjo blends South African harmonies, synthesized hip-hop…

The Bible says Eve succumbed to the apple, but most women secretly know it was probably something more like a shoe. Fashion may be femininity’s most basic foible, something women embrace and spurn with equal zeal, but either way, gals just can’t seem to escape the effects of its powerful…

Thursday September 24 Developers who’ve made financial investments and volunteers who’ve put lots of sweat and emotional equity into the Uptown neighborhood are again showing off the fruits of their labor at the Eleventh Annual Uptown Sampler, from 5 to 9 this evening. A $16 button buys food and drink…

Thursday September 17 Colorado Poet Laureate Mary Crow is here on a mission–she’ll preside over Words on the Wing: Making Poetry Visible in Denver, a two-day program featuring readings, workshops and a public forum with the state’s high poetess. It all kicks off this afternoon at 3 with a special…

For Brad Evans, dumpster-diving is more than a hobby. It’s an art–literally–full of everyday life’s deepest and most secret surprises, caught on the rebound. “If you see it and don’t get it, it’s gone…,” Evans says of his roadside finds–greasy oven doors, grimy hardware, old flags, dictionaries, Ed Grimley dolls,…

Artistic collaborators can walk a tricky tightrope. There’s a whole gamut of personality quirks, ego bruises, ability gaps and creative differences to balance in the process, and for many, it doesn’t always work out. But against all odds, choreographers Chris Harris and R. Bryan Meeks seem to have been born…

Before the Beach Boys first intoned praises to a “Little Deuce Coupe” and that little old lady from Pasadena revved up the Jan and Dean hit, there was the ‘Vette, a new breed of sports car that embodied the carefree spirit of the road with more zest than any of…

The Forney Transportation Museum has always been its own metaphor: The building itself, with its veneer of dilapidation, is the perfect dwelling for the museum’s ancient collection. A jaw-dropping melange of things on wheels–including 170 automobiles of various vintages, 36 bicycles, four steam locomotives, four aircraft and innumerable other oddities–is…

Thursday September 10 A variety of global art adventures will help greet the new season beginning tonight, with several museum and gallery openings that hop cultures, travel around the planet and journey back in time. At the Norwest Bank Atrium, 1740 Broadway, the Asian Pacific Development Center hosts its first…

For the last decade, pulsing lights and droning industrial music have been the lone accoutrements of the subterranean rave scene, a kind of contemporary tribal ritual matching all-night dancing with bare, synthesized rhythms. But it was only a matter of time before visual art joined ravers on the dance floor…