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Friday, November 20 | Details | Read more | Watch and listen
Macky Auditorium, an elegant and intimate concert hall on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, is a fine venue for one of the most influential and angelic voices in American music. Emmylou Harris’ forte—interpreting country, pop, and folk songs with a rustic, heartrending beauty—will guide a set list that spans more than 40 years of recording.
More: Puscifer | Pink Mountaintops | Corb Lund | The Fiery Furnaces
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Despite some kind of promotional relationship with that cute Esurance gal, the future of the Monolith festival is “very grim.” Those words come straight from the “Monolith team” that puts on the two-day indie-music festival at Red Rocks.
“A tough economic year and an opening day of chilling rain combined to put a serious dent in our humble operation,” the team writes in a note on Monolith’s Web site. “We have continued to pursue any and all options that would allow us to recover from this year and head into 2010 with full steam. At this point in time, we have been unable to secure any options.”
This year’s turnout seemed solid, as did the acts—which included the Mars Volta and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, among many others. But the outcome “unfortunately, seemed foreseeable, especially when organizers parted ways with AEG Live, the promoter who produced the 2008 installment of the festival and who opted out this year,” writes Westword.
There’s a glimmer of hope: The festival could go on if a new promoter who appreciates Monolith’s ear for great music can be found to provide the needed cash.
Posted at 12:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Beaujolais & Beyond Festival, Mile High Station
Thursday, November 19 | Details | Read more
You know it’s November when Beaujolais Nouveau makes an appearance. Around the world, the fruity, punch-like wine is always released—and celebrated—the third Thursday of November. In Denver, it’s no different. Sip Beaujolais and a variety of other French wines, and dine on appetizers, entrées, and desserts prepared by more than 20 restaurants, including Jonesy’s EatBar, Encore, Brasserie Felix, and 1515 Restaurant.
More: Chocolate Walking Tour of Denver | Cele-bracon: A Celebration of Bacon | Merlove | Steak and Scotch
Posted at 9:30 am by Emily Dougherty
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Pixies, The Fillmore Auditorium
Monday, November 16, and Tuesday, November 17 | Details | Read more | Listen
The Pixies’ late-’80s album, Doolittle, is an underground rock masterpiece, a shimmering opus of jagged punk fury, tasty pop hooks, and weirdo lyrics that laid the foundation for what became mainstream alt-rock. Longtime fans and giddy neophytes will be floored when the reunited group plays the entire album (plus B-sides) for the LP’s 20th anniversary.
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An Evening With Will Allen, Fuel Cafe
Saturday, November 14 | Details | Read more
Discuss urban agriculture and sustainability over New Belgium beers and tasty eats with this MacArthur Foundation Fellow, who has been a speaker for the Clinton Global Initiative. Allen is admired and respected for his pioneering efforts to cultivate the urban-agriculture movement and is visiting to support the debut of Feed Denver: Urban Farms & Markets.
More: Colorado Cheese Festival | Denver International Wine Festival: Taste of Elegance | Anthony Bourdain
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East End Arts District’s Winter Art Walk, Multiple Locations, Aurora
Friday, November 13 | Details | Read more
Set out from the Martin Luther King Jr. Library and allow this vibrant enclave to introduce itself. Admire sculptures by local artists, get your hands dirty at Mud Hut Ceramics, sip hot cider during a rehearsal at Shadow Theatre Company, and ruminate on your night’s journey while listening to live music at Zephyr Lounge.
More: Where the Wild Things Art | Calaveras: Skulls, Skeletons, Devils and Demons in Mexican Folk Art | Malcolm Farley | Things as They Are
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The Winterling, Paragon Theatre
Through Saturday, November 14 | Details | Read more
Taking a page from Guy Ritchie’s playbook, The Winterling is a dark, British comedy about three loser gangsters. In the dead of night, in a deserted farmhouse, in the middle of an uninhabited forest, the outcasts unite. But why? And who’s the mysterious woman living upstairs?
More: Wicked | Absurd Person Singular | Quake | The Tales of Hoffman | Ameriville | And Then There Were None
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone have forsaken the area (Park County) for which they named “South Park,” their subversive cartoon series.
Instead, the two have built their massive retreat in Steamboat Springs, reports Steamboat Today, which notes the abode’s many amenities: a balcony overlooking Steamboat Ski Area, a curved, granite kitchen counter, a 19th-century Japanese chest, a 110-inch projection screen, two dining rooms, two master bedroom suites—even a Japanese tea house.
The $5 million home also claims many environmentally friendly features, notes The Associated Press, which reports that Parker and Stone have wanted to build a getaway in Steamboat since they were kids.
Posted at 3:30 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Afro-Punk Tour, Fox Theatre
Sunday, November 8 | Details | Read more | Listen
Afro-Punk—a Web site, documentary, and now, a concert tour—asserts that a burgeoning community of African-Americans love and play punk rock, a musical form mainly credited to Caucasian musicians. Slam poet/musician Saul Williams headlines the show, which includes a host of other acts that dig upending expectations of race and genre.
More: Art Brut | Dirty Projectors | Pinback
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Saturday Night at the Museums, Multiple Locations
Saturday, November 7 | Details | Read more
Eleven museums throughout Denver offer a night of free cultural events based on Paris’ popular La Nuit des Musées. And with special arts-centric programming taking place at each venue—like a peek at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Genghis Khan exhibit, edible Dia de los Muertos projects at Museo de las Americas, and re-enactments at the Black Americans West Museum—you’ll want to take advantage of the free shuttles running throughout the night.
More: Know Your Arts First Friday | The Art of Teotihuacan & Its Sphere of Influence | Art Fitness Training (Track A Session 1) | Currents: Native American Forces in Contemporary Arts
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Well, Ricketson Theatre
Opens Friday, November 6 | Details | Read more
As Lisa Kron tells it, her life growing up in suburban Michigan was full of puppy love and crazy neighborhood antics. Then, her invalid mother butts in to convey the “true” version of events. Kron uses humor to address her mother’s chronic illness in this autobiographical play about mother-daughter relationships.
More: Squirm Burpee: A Vaudvillian Melodrama | The Tales of Hoffman | Quake | Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood | Intersection | I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change | Vox Phamalia: Re-Dux | Kosher Lutherans
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer
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Tapped, American Mountaineering Center
Thursday, November 5, and Saturday, November 7 | Details | Read more
As Nestlé prepares to tap local Arkansas River water for its Arrowhead bottles, the annual Colorado Environmental Film Festival brings water issues front and center with “Tapped.” The award-winning documentarians explore various concerns surrounding the precious resource, including some tough questions on bottling.
More: Mary and Max | Sweet Crude | Antichrist | Under Our Skin | Dynasty
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DU Vin Festival, Daniels’ School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, University of Denver campus
Wednesday, November 4, and Sunday, November 8 | Details | Read more
Rendezvous with local talent during Wednesday’s Wine Pairing Dinner, an elegant five-course meal featuring grilled rack of lamb over braised rainbow chard with a red-wine gastrique. On Sunday, head to the Grand Tasting to sample delicious cuisine and pours, while raising money for DU’s Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management students.
More: A Taste for Life | Twisted Pine Imperial Porter Vertical Tasting
Posted at 9:30 am by Emily Dougherty
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For about a year now, a plan has been in place to make downtown Denver’s 16th Street Mall more “vibrant and successful” for the generation to come.
“This project will be more than a makeover of the mall,” Cassie Milestone, urban planning manager for the Downtown Denver Partnership, says (in a statement via the Denver Business Journal).
“Ultimately, it will integrate place making, economic development, universal access, historic preservation, and other components to create a space that will be sustainable economically and environmentally for the next 25 years.”
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP of Portland, Oregon, has been picked to develop a design that will include a makeover that runs to the core of the mall, including its infrastructure. » Continue reading this entry…
Posted at 3:15 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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Nir Barkat, Gates Concert Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts
Tuesday, November 3 | Details | Read more
Since being elected mayor of Jerusalem in November 2008, Nir Barkat has spent his time in office trying to modernize the ancient city, which is caught in constant conflict.
Hear his vision for transitioning Israel’s poorest city into a cultural, educational, and economically sound destination. Colorado Governor Bill Ritter also is scheduled to attend.
More: Laleh Khadivi
Posted at 9:45 am by Daliah Singer
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The storm that dumped loads of snow on Colorado has moved out of the Denver area and is now headed east, but there are plenty of closures and icy roads (via 9News). Still, the worst is over—just in time for the Halloween weekend, with its possible Mall Crawlers and Naked Pumpkin Runners.
That news will be music to the ears of Stephen Cooper, a missile-defense instructor who has synchronized 68 plastic, light-up pumpkins to music as part of a $6,000 Halloween show of sound and light in his front yard, writes the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Meanwhile, kids aren’t as scary as they used to be on Halloween, notes The New York Times in an article that points to the apprehension of schools these days to permit anything that could be construed as a weapon. Various school districts have encouraged kids to dress as historical characters or food items. Or perhaps Balloon Boy? One Canadian company has manufactured such a costume (pictured), with a price tag of $19.99, according to 7 KLTV in Texas.
And despite the recession, haunted houses, including one that CNN visited in Aurora, are doing a booming biz. Haunted houses not your thing? Hit up our list of recommendations for Halloween fun.
Posted at 2:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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DeVotchKa, Boulder Theater
Friday, October 30, and Saturday, October 31 | Details | Read more | Watch and listen
The globally inspired Denver rock group fills its homestate Halloween shows with otherworldly elegance.
In honor of All Souls Day, the group will stir up spirits with their anachronistic stew of accordion, violin, tuba, and romantic folk-pop crooning.
More: Dinosaur Jr. | The Motet | Ghostface Killah | Bassnectar | David Gray | Trans-Siberian Orchestra
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Tomb/Abattoir: white on white translucent black, Packing House Center for the Arts
Through Saturday, October 31 | Details | Read more
Bring your friends to this haunting art installation and live performance, but don’t expect to emerge with a shared experience—if you emerge at all. Reality becomes warped as participants shroud their features behind garish masks and enter a maze teeming with palpable fear. Refreshments and hot cider are waiting if you manage to surface from your icy terror.
More: Night of the Living Brass | Irresistibly Wicked | International FrightFest Film Series | Howl-o-ween Fundraiser | Chatfield Corn Maze | Wicked | Halloween Dreams | Night of the Living Dead
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Heads, Denver Victorian Playhouse
Through Thursday, October 29 | Details | Read more | Watch trailer
Current events intersect with theater in this story about four hostages in Iraq. Blindfolded and shoved into dark, closet-sized cells, each fights to survive in an impossible situation. Don’t miss your last chance to see this winner of the 2008 Francesca Primus Prize, awarded to an emerging female artist for contributions to American theater.
More: A Raisin in the Sun | Intersection | Honk! | Guizhou Chinese Modern & Contemporary Dance Ensemble | Fat Pig | Demented Divas Go to Hollywood!
Posted at 9:30 am by Daliah Singer
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Those who braved the snow last night to get to the Pepsi Center for the Denver Nuggets game were rewarded with an exceptional night of entertainment.
Local musician Isaac Slade of The Fray kicked off the night with the national anthem, team mascot Rocky dropped out of the arena’s ceiling in a balloon-boy spoof, and rap group Naughty By Nature performed at halftime.
The Nuggets also put on an impressive show against the talented Utah Jazz, winning 114-105.
Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony looked to be in midseason form, hanging a game-high 30 points, eight rebounds, and five assists on the Jazz, including a fourth-quarter tomahawk jam over the Jazz’s Paul Millsap, nearly making the Pepsi Center explode (via The Denver Post).
The Jazz led the game by as many as eight points in the third quarter, mostly on the stellar play of point guard Deron Williams, who finished the game with 28 points and 13 assists, notes The Salt Lake Tribune.
But key mistakes and the impressive debut of Nuggets rookie guard Ty Lawson proved to be too much for the Jazz. The 5-foot-11 Lawson (pictured, playing for North Carolina) finished the game with 17 points and a team-high six assists, showing off a variety of ways to get the job done for his team. » Continue reading this entry…
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