The idea for The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival began when poet and filmmaker R.W. Perkins realized he was the guy who could make it happen. "I'm a video poet and had a lot of success with my stuff overseas -- I was noticing a lot of really talented filmmakers being showcased in Germany and the ... More >>
Our recent cover story -- "Bed Check," a close look at the shelter space available for homeless women in Denver -- was published just as the city opened up a new overflow wintertime option exclusively for women. The emergency spot has a total of fifty mats each night. And after more than a month in ... More >>
Poetry can be a form of catharsis, but often the poems are forgotten after they're written, banished to a closed notebook in a dark drawer. Lesbian Inspired Poetry wants to make those poems public -- by sharing them in a free publication. The first issue of LIP is scheduled to hit the streets in Ja ... More >>
During this heated election season, the American public is awash in "free enterprise" rhetoric, reassurances about the benevolence of the wealthy and parables about bootstraps. But these aren't new themes for those on the right side of the aisle; as KLZ Denver radio scripts from the 1940s demonstrat ... More >>
If you live or work downtown, you probably drive by Minoru Yasui every day. Not the man himself -- he died in 1986, after serving for over four decades as a lawyer and cultural leader in Denver -- but the spot bearing his name: the Minoru Yasui Plaza at 303 West Colfax Avenue, where there's a bronze ... More >>
