Please Stop Calling My House, a new group show opening tomorrow at IndyInk, is all about love — or what happens when the idea of love and the reality of love mix. “A couple of years ago we did a Valentine’s Day show that was pretty similar to this one…
Kalyn Heffernan is a musician (she fronts the band Wheelchair Sports Camp) and a teacher who works with Youth on Record. She’s also an avid music fan who regularly attends concerts around Denver. And she has osteogenesis imperfecta; as a result, she’s three feet, six inches tall and weighs just…
I haven’t even begun to look at my list of New Year’s resolutions for 2015 and it is already February. Why have I avoided the thing I love the most? Because I am waiting. Waiting for a fancy day planner I ordered off the Internet that never came, a life-organizing…
When Cal Eichinger learned that the building on Tennyson Street housing Elitch Lanes had been sold, he didn’t waste any time. Right away, he started looking for a new location for the beloved neighborhood bowling alley — and in May, right after the original Elitch Lanes closes, a new Elitch…
Now in its fifth incarnation, the running Wet Pizza compilation series is a perfect representation of Denver’s just-under-the-radar music scene. But Wet Pizza V (Wet It Be) — a collection of of 32 tracks by 32 artists — isn’t merely a snapshot of this city’s vibrant DIY-minded music community; it…
It was never about being in-flight entertainment. Since 2010 when my roommate purchased the home that would become the Witch House House, we have always kept a fresh copy of SkyMall next to our commode. Everyone likes to read when they are in the john; but even in a magazine…
Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. is a poet, actor, performance artist and rapper — but he is best known as Mykki Blanco, a musical project that melds all of his experience and expertise together. Defying categorization, Blanco works to push the rigid confines of sex and sexuality presented in popular music…
You hadn’t been able to smoke inside Paris on the Platte for several years now. But the cigarette-supporting coffeehouse was one of the last holdouts after the smoking ban went into effect in 2006 — its legal status as a “cigar bar” let the smoking indoors continue, until the spot…
The Colorado history contained in the 26 miles of Colfax Avenue, the longest main street in America, is thick with truth and tall tales. You can read some of this history in the commercial signs that still exist on Colfax; we’ve already profiled the best commercial signs on West Colfax…
As a Chicano artist in the 1970s, Jerry Jaramillo was shut out of many studios and galleries. So, in 1978, he co-founded the Chicano Humanities & Arts Council as a way to give Chicano artists a chance to be seen. “It was really hard for Latino artists to find a…
The show was exactly an hour in length — it may not have been intentional, but Nika Rosa Danilova snuck onto the stage at the Bluebird Theater last night at 9:15 p.m. sharp and tumbled her way off at exactly 10:15 p.m. It felt short, but it was enough –…
Sometimes it seems like it’s all about connections. After the members of Caramel Carmela linked up in 2009 and began playing together, a network of old friends proved valuable in helping the band get better gigs. “We played a bunch of our first shows with Saige, and I had gone…
Last weekend, as I was floating the length of the Olympic-size sulfur-water pool at Glenwood Hot Springs, I was rudely interrupted by Bastille. You know Bastille — the rock n’ whatever arena-boy band that has stepped into the Train/Coldplay/U2 position of bland, ubiquitous retail rock. My mini-vacation and Bastille just…
In case you missed it, last week, Kanye West released a new track,”Only One,” on which he collaborated with Paul McCartney. Like all events in popular culture now, conversation about the song was happening all over Twitter. Some of those tweets (among the millions probably posted about the release) entailed…
“People often say to me, ‘You love film so much and take it so seriously — how can you love musicals?’” says William Morris, curator of this month’s The Reclamation of the Musical or How to Stop Worrying and Love the Dance film series. Morris believes you can do both…
Going strong in cities across the country since 1998, the United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival makes its debut in Denver today. The festival highlights documentaries tackling topics like human rights, the environment, homelessness and racism, then offers a post-screening space for conversation and engagement with directors, activists and more…
As the mastermind behind glitch-party-rock outfit Kill Paradise, Nick Cocozzella never played a show sober. “I was drinking every day; I started having seizures and throwing up on myself. I was like, this has got to stop.” Years of partying on stage and off left him wanting more from life…
New Year’s Day is my favorite holiday. Resolutions are better than presents to me: I love to make them, and I love to hear about other people’s plans for the coming months and champion them along the way. Like many people, getting in better shape was on my list for…
A bride’s big day can be overwhelming, but today’s Colorado Bridal Show aims to alleviate some of that stress by offering the best of the best in wedding vendors all in one room. Discover unique ceremony locations, sample cakes and even sit down at potential reception tables at this curated…
Earlier this year, I penned a love letter to Denver, the city I used to know. It wasn’t meant to be more than a lamenting for a physical place that no longer exists — a remembrance of the city that I have been watching change since 1980. Denver, like many…
I write a lot about the women who have inspired me to make art — but there are dudes in this mix, too. Steve Albini’s stance on music as an industry, Kurt Cobain’s feminism, Henry Rollins’ staunch ethos on life as a musician, Mike Watt’s positive attitude and workhorse musicianship…
Two of Denver’s top-notch dance nights, Lipgloss and Mile High Soul Club, have teamed up to ring in 2015 with Soul Gloss New Year’s Eve, a party for audiophiles and vinyl purists. The Meadowlark’s intimate main room will transform into a sweaty dance floor as Lipgloss DJs Michael Trundle, aka…
