The weekend celebrations in advance of St. Patrick’s Day may have already depleted your wallet. Fortunately, there are many free activities in Denver this week — some of which might even help replenish all those brain cells killed by green beer. We’ve picked our three favorites; feel free to add…
Brushstrokes Studio-Gallery is filling up with a lot of love this month. Larger-than-life puppies and hand-painted Valentine’s Day gifts will be taking over the space located in the heart of South Broadway’s Antique Row. The lovely lineup starts with tonight’s opening reception for mural and portrait artist Patrick McGregor. While…
Ana Penalba is a triple threat: She’s an architect, urban planner and artist, but sees no delineation between the three. “It’s all just thinking,” she says. Penalba, who hails from Spain and now lives in New York, has called Denver home for the past couple of months. She’s the current…
For some people, the best — and most frightening — thing about middle school was heading to the roller rink on a Friday night. Would your friends be there? Would they get along? Would your mom embarrass you? Would you be alone for the couples’skate? And while that nostalgia is…
The instructors at the Art Students League of Denver practice what they teach, as evidenced by Revisiting: Celebrating 10 Years of the Visiting Artist Series at ASLD, a special exhibit opening this weekend. Offering art classes for every medium, the 25-year-old ASLD is a community-centric, non-profit, non-accredited art school right…
After sneaker enthusiast Gary Hughes purchased a pair of knock-off Nike Heineken Dunks thinking they were the real deal, he wanted to avoid being ripped off again. So he created a sneaker exchange in a bar ten years ago; now called Dunkxchange, the international traveling sneaker-culture festival comes to Denver…
Brent Podosek wants to make you laugh — but he wants to get you drunk first. The local comedian’s new showcase at The Lobby every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. aims to not only share some jokes but kick the keg. Podosek is the father and host of Kick the Keg…
Halloween is long gone, but costume fiends don’t care: they’re always on the hunt for the next party. Which is why the Denver mask shop ArtSmyths is presenting Puttin’ On The Ritz at the Mercury Café this Saturday, November 30. ArtSmyth’s owner, Tiffany Smyth, is throwing Jazz-era dead-celebrities funeral party,…
Thanksgiving is just a week away…and musician Rekha Ohal has come up with an easy way to share your thanks. A transplant to Denver from the East Coast, Ohal is a singer and piano player who likes to entertain; she also loves the idea of people getting together over a…
Construction has been ongoing for the past couple of weeks, but today was the official groundbreaking for a hip new hotel on Broadway, between 12th and 13th avenues, that is being designed to fit in with the city’s museum and cultural district in the Golden Triangle.the Art, a hotel, which…
It’s not every weekend that a handful of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winners and international artists converge on the area. But this weekend the Americas for Conservation and the Arts will present the inaugural Americas Latino Festival of Colorado, a green event celebrating the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority population and…
Ana Penalba is a thinker. She hails from Spain, but now calls New York home. Currently she is the artist in residence at PlatteForum, and working hard with a group of middle-school students to debut a very cerebral experience on December 12 at the studio. Gaining a residency is a…
The national animal rights group Mercy For Animals gathered, along with local volunteers, in Larimer Square at around noon today to urge the lunchtime crowd to consider living a vegetarian lifestyle. It was hard to miss the group, which was joined by a giant inflatable puppy who lay in a…
Lucky 20 Productions is a three-year-old Denver theater company, and tonight, its members will debut The Travesty of Lear, an update to the classic Shakespearean story. Samantha McDermott, originally from New York, has been involved in theater her entire life. Along with her mother Jeri Franco, they started Lucky 20…
The downtown lunch crowd might be surprised tomorrow, when they find a giant inflatable puppy dog on a bun staring into their eyes. The stunt is part of a campaign by Mercy For Animals and local animal-rights activists that asks the question: “Why love one, but eat the other?” “We’ll…
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art wants to stimulate you all weekend long with MediaLive 2013, an interactive audiovisual experience featuring ten artists with live-music accompaniment. “This four-day festival presents a variety of approaches, discusses the technology and underlying theoretical, formal and conceptual considerations, and offers opportunities to explore live…
It was a sad day when television switched from analog to digital. People had to go out and buy antennas and converter boxes just to watch basic television that had been free forever. Those antennas were never quite reliable, though, and while cable was more consistent, it was also more…
You may never create a masterpiece worthy of hanging, but the Denver Art Museum is giving you the chance to help create something that could be displayed in the facility next year. On Friday, November 8, DAM will host “Meet Here: An Evening of Untitled Idea Brewing and Creative Criss-Cross,”…
Sometimes having a kid can slow down a parent’s social life. Christine Winn ran into this problem when she became a mom, and she decided to do something about it. She wrote a play directed not just to mommies, but is accessible to everyone: The Mommy Rants. Winn is not…
Valkarie Art Gallery and Studio is opening in Belmar this weekend, just in time for Denver Arts Week. It’s the brainchild of Frank Farrar, Valerie Savarie and Karrie York, all veterans of the Denver art scene who will be showing their work in Valkarie’s initial exhibit, which also features ten…
Dia de los Muertos is a cause for celebration, a reason to gather with friends and family to remember the souls who have passed on. Mandie Erickson will make November 1 a day to remember by curating her first art show, which will have a grand opening from 6 to…
With Halloween on the horizon, the time was right to touch base with Miguel De La Torre, author of The Quest for the Historical Satan, to find out just how scared we should be this season. De La Torre is an ordained Southern Baptist preacher as well as a social…
