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July 26, 2011
Reader: Arts & Venues merger diminishes Denver's arts efforts in name of efficiency
In a recent post, Patricia Calhoun weighed in on critics of Arts & Venues, which merged Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and the Division of Theatres & Arenas. Taking issue is Anthony Radich, second chair of the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs and executive director of the Western Stat ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Arts & Venues Denver merger not a hit with critics
Michael Hancock hasn't yet taken office as mayor of Denver. That's on tap for later today. But Hancock's already being pressured by some arts advocates to take another look at the recent merger of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and the Division of Theatres & Arenas into Arts & Venues ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
The One Book, One Denver selections this year have ties to... uh, Seattle?
Despite the fact that there is no known shortage of awesome writers, authors and poets in this town, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs' One Book, One Denver program has a long history of coming up with arbitrary treacle that has nothing to do with Denver for the three selections it nomina ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Arts & Venues Denver: The city's artful merger of culture and concrete
In cash-strapped times, governments have to think creatively -- and it was the budget crunch that led to the idea of merging the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs with the Division of Theatres and Arenas, itself a subset of the Department of General Services. That marriage becomes official to ... More >>
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May 4, 2011
A new sculpture for Denver comes at a steep price
A little over four years ago, Frank Bingham's entire family was killed at the corner of 15th and Arapahoe streets downtown when he, his wife and two children were struck by a drunk driver while crossing the street. Only Bingham survived. At the time, Bingham was the director of the University ... More >>
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April 18, 2011
An indefinite future for a giant blue ball and chain made out of yarn
In the quiet hour of 4 o'clock this morning, the Ladies Fancywork Society struck again. The organization, devoted to epic works of guerrilla knitting, brought to completion what is arguably its biggest project yet (or at least since it knitted leg-warmers onto Borofsky's "Dancers"): knitting ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Denver won't have a rhyme in time for National Poetry Month
In the quiet hour of 4 o'clock this morning, the Ladies Fancywork Society struck again. The organization, devoted to epic works of guerrilla knitting, brought to completion what is arguably its biggest project yet (or at least since it knitted leg-warmers onto Borofsky's "Dancers"): knitting ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and Division of Theatres and Arenas to merge for art's sake?
Denverites love the arts -- but the arts didn't officially become a part of the city structure until "1 percent for the arts," a program established under Mayor Federico Peña that earmarked one percent of any city construction project for art works. Even as that project grew, so did the str ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
Curtis Fuller to headline Five Points Jazz Fest
While this year's line-up for the the 8th Annual Five Points Jazz Festival is still being solidified and won't be announced until April, we do know legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller will headlines this year's fest, which is Saturday, May 21 at venues along Welton Street in historic Five Poin ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
NewsCube's no more, but YesPleaseMore Pop Up Store pops up again on the 16th Street Mall
The pianos have been silenced -- for now -- and the NewsCube was closed after just a few weeks of operation. But there are still signs of life popping up on the 16th Street Mall, including the skating rink that will open in Skyline Park after Thanksgiving and a second installment of the YesP ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
John Hickenlooper handlers disagree about letting him go on David Sirota AM 760 show?
John Hickenlooper.While officially anointed (by GOP boss Dick Wadhams) luckiest-guy-in-the-world John Hickenlooper is running for governor, did you know he's still Denver's mayor? Well, he is -- and AM 760 host David Sirota thinks these two roles came into conflict earlier this week in regard ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
The Rhythm Is Gonna Move You
John Hickenlooper.While officially anointed (by GOP boss Dick Wadhams) luckiest-guy-in-the-world John Hickenlooper is running for governor, did you know he's still Denver's mayor? Well, he is -- and AM 760 host David Sirota thinks these two roles came into conflict earlier this week in regard ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Denver Office of Cultural Affairs wants your Civic Center snap judgments
The view from Civic Center on July 3.This summer the Biennial of the Americas has made Civic Center Park the epicenter of, if not the world, at least the Western Hemisphere. And now the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs wants your snap judgments of the action there.
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July 8, 2010
City Sites
The view from Civic Center on July 3.This summer the Biennial of the Americas has made Civic Center Park the epicenter of, if not the world, at least the Western Hemisphere. And now the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs wants your snap judgments of the action there.
Blogs
June 15, 2010
One Book, One Denver, one last chance to vote today
This book will not help you understand DenverIf you haven't yet voted for your choice for the next round of One Book, One Denver, then start panicking. Today is the last day to help choose the book that Mayor John Hickenlooper will command everybody to read this fall, in order that we may be ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Party in Five Points
This book will not help you understand DenverIf you haven't yet voted for your choice for the next round of One Book, One Denver, then start panicking. Today is the last day to help choose the book that Mayor John Hickenlooper will command everybody to read this fall, in order that we may be ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
Arty Party!
This book will not help you understand DenverIf you haven't yet voted for your choice for the next round of One Book, One Denver, then start panicking. Today is the last day to help choose the book that Mayor John Hickenlooper will command everybody to read this fall, in order that we may be ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
Kenny Be's Sign Language: You're invited to a gigantic guitar art party in Westwood
click image to enlarge The tiara-topped, oversized red guitar sitting on the new Westwood welcome sign seems to have magically appeared out of nowhere last weekend, but it has actually been over ten years in the making. The newly landscaped corner lot where Morrison Road meets South Sherida ... More >>
Culture
August 20, 2009
Burns Park sculpture to have work done
click image to enlarge The tiara-topped, oversized red guitar sitting on the new Westwood welcome sign seems to have magically appeared out of nowhere last weekend, but it has actually been over ten years in the making. The newly landscaped corner lot where Morrison Road meets South Sherida ... More >>
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June 2, 2009
Wake-Up Call: Throwing the book
Here's the great thing about a book. Once you have it in your hands, it never goes offline. The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs hasn't been so lucky with the web site where the city's residents are invited to help choose the next One Book, One Denver selection. Voting allegedly started on June 1 ... More >>
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April 28, 2009
Wake-Up Call: High on the Mile Haiku City
Verse came to worse last night at the Central Library, where close to a hundred people gathered for last night's Fresh City Life poetry reading inspired by "Mustang," Luis Jimenez's blue horse sculpture out at Denver International Airport. We were in the depths of the basement, but spirits soared ... More >>
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April 27, 2009
Wake Up Call: The week ahead -- when worse comes to verse
Before we were panicked about swine flu and twisted by torture-memo leaks, we were terrified by the Devil Horse, Luis Jimenez's killer sculpture that stands guard outside Denver International Airport, its red eyes shooting deadly lasers at unsuspecting passersby. Or are those glowing orbs actually ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
Sites Unseen
Doors Open Denver keeps growing.
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March 5, 2009
City announces program to fight graffiti by paying for murals
Denver Office of Cultural AffairsA city-funded mural in Globeville City officials announced a new program yesterday that will encourage artists to paint murals on walls across the city as a way to fight graffiti vandalism. Erin Trapp of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs told members of the ci ... More >>
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February 18, 2009
Wake-Up Call: Pony up for the Arts
Fresh from shmoozing with Barack Obama, John Hickenlooper will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight, presenting the 2008 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts to Charles Burrell, the Denver Young Artists, Su Teatro and the Bloomsbury Review, as well as a Mayor's Cultural Legacy Award t ... More >>
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October 23, 2008
One Book, Many Attitudes
Fresh from shmoozing with Barack Obama, John Hickenlooper will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight, presenting the 2008 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts to Charles Burrell, the Denver Young Artists, Su Teatro and the Bloomsbury Review, as well as a Mayor's Cultural Legacy Award t ... More >>
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September 17, 2008
Graffiti prevention makes the city budget...for now
Fresh from shmoozing with Barack Obama, John Hickenlooper will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight, presenting the 2008 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts to Charles Burrell, the Denver Young Artists, Su Teatro and the Bloomsbury Review, as well as a Mayor's Cultural Legacy Award t ... More >>
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September 11, 2008
Denver discovers the difference between art and vandalism
Fresh from shmoozing with Barack Obama, John Hickenlooper will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight, presenting the 2008 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts to Charles Burrell, the Denver Young Artists, Su Teatro and the Bloomsbury Review, as well as a Mayor's Cultural Legacy Award t ... More >>
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August 27, 2008
Shepard Fairey’s Manifest Hope camps out at Andenken Gallery
Fresh from shmoozing with Barack Obama, John Hickenlooper will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight, presenting the 2008 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts to Charles Burrell, the Denver Young Artists, Su Teatro and the Bloomsbury Review, as well as a Mayor's Cultural Legacy Award t ... More >>
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August 21, 2008
Let Freedom Reel
Cinemocracy Rocks! puts democracy into film.
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August 21, 2008
Art of the City
Convergence is the name of the game in Dialog:City.
Blogs
June 9, 2008
Chandler Romeo’s Heart Land
Convergence is the name of the game in Dialog:City.
Blogs
May 15, 2008
Creative Space Survey Released
Convergence is the name of the game in Dialog:City.
Blogs
May 12, 2008
Mystery of the Missing Horse
Convergence is the name of the game in Dialog:City.
Blogs
March 28, 2008
The Denver Biennial
Convergence is the name of the game in Dialog:City.
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March 13, 2008
Democracy in Action
Cinemocracy brings the filmmaking to the people.
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March 6, 2008
Down to Business
Cinemocracy brings the filmmaking to the people.
News
February 21, 2008
The View From Here
Denver creatives sound off on what they'd like to see happen in Denver's arts scene in the next year.
News
February 21, 2008
Denver Envisions the Art Scene in 2028
We asked these local creatives to predict what the arts scene in Denver will, or at least should, look like in 2028.
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November 8, 2007
Kurt's Mile-High Celebration
Appreciate, depreciate or just plain celebrate Kurt Vonnegut today.
News
September 20, 2007
It�s Not Over �Til the Fat Lady Strips
While a popular gallery closes up in Denver, Glendale strippers take it almost all off for the opera.
Calendar
June 7, 2007
Down in the Valley
Public art's all a-bloom.
News
May 3, 2007
Pour It On
Art goes dry.
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April 26, 2007
Get to the Points
Art goes dry.
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March 1, 2007
Building Blocks
Learn to merge art and life at the Creative Business Expo.
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February 22, 2007
Awards Away
Learn to merge art and life at the Creative Business Expo.
Culture
January 19, 2006
Denise Montgomery and John Grant
Denver Office of Cultural Affairs
News
July 21, 2005
Creative Thinking
Denver gets down to business about the arts.
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July 7, 2005
What's So Funny
Denver gets down to business about the arts.
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April 14, 2005
Open Up, Denver!
Places that are normally out of sight see daylight during Doors Open Denver.
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