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ArtLab helps to create the newest mural in the Globeville community

By Emilie Johnson
Jul 25, 2013

What was once just an I-70 underpass at the corner of 46th Avenue and Lincoln Street in Globeville is being transformed into a work of art. With the help of well-known muralist Jolt, a Westword MasterMind whose Guerilla Garden studio is in the area, kids in the PlatteForum's ArtLab are...
Muralist and artist Emanuel Martinez's career was lit decades ago by a matchstick

By Emilie Johnson
Jul 24, 2013

Like most street artists who grew up in Denver, Emanuel Martinez started painting as a youngster on the street -- and outside the law. "I started my first mural when I was thirteen, in a school for juvenile delinquents," he says. "That was more than fifty years ago." And hundreds...
Corvette owners in Colorado are part of a passionate, dedicated bunch

By Emilie Johnson
Jul 23, 2013

Chevrolet recently revealed details of the 2014 Corvette Stingray, the first Corvette to be worthy enough to bear the Stringray name since 1976. Those who buy one will join and long -- and proud -- line of Corvette owners, many of whom are living out a dream that took years...
Here's what the Slaughterhouse Derby Girls listen to to get fired up before bouts

By Emilie Johnson
Jul 23, 2013

Derby girls kick ass -- that's a given. But before they commence to kicking ass, they all have music that gets them pumped to pommel. We caught up with a few skaters from the Slaughterhouse Derby Girls roller derby league , and they told us which tunes get them fired...
Street artist Gamma is laying out Longmont's history, one spray can at a time

By Emilie Johnson
Jul 22, 2013

Finding a wall in the city and making it his own is how Gamma Acosta began his career in art. Since then, he has become one of the best-know street artist in the Denver/Longmont area. But it didn't happen overnight. "It was just through word of mouth," he says. "I...

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