So Tent State University is on the outs with their protest brethren at Re-create ’68. What gives? Last Friday, when the ACLU held a press conference to declare it had filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Denver and the Secret Service, it seemed that all was well…
The Denver Film Society has announced that executive director Scott Rowitz will be taking off for a position at the California Film Institute. Rowitz has held the post since 2002 and has overseen significant growth in general ticket sales as well as increased attendance at the Starz Denver Film Festival,…
Some undercover stenciler left some fresh Alice in Wonderland-themed street art in the alleyway behind the Westword building at 969 Broadway this weekend. The text reads, “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” The white stencil (after the jump) features some fairies spooning. Very pretty. Just watch your step…
First things first. The Wetboys are not gay. They’re not the Wetfags, or the Homo Skate Crew, or the Denver Dicksuckers, or anything else they’ve been labeled in the hard-core skater world. Sure, some of them wear tight pants. Yes, their name was cribbed from a gay phone-sex ad. And…
“I got hit by Bob Saget in a Prius!” says William Spencer. Not once, but many times. Bob Saget. Driving a Prius. Running into William Spencer. But don’t worry, folks, he’s okay. “You just roll up off the side and look like you slam hard,” William explains. The stunt was…
At 2:10 a.m. on December 19, Denver police officer Timothy Campbell was standing in the middle of the street in a west Denver neighborhood, his gun pointed at a man. The patrolman had been driving north on Irving Street when he’d passed a 1997 Saturn that seemed suspicious. When Campbell…
While there are plenty of Democrats in Hollywood, there’s nothing democratic about the film industry. The silver screen begins to look more like an iron curtain when one considers that most movie options are pre-ordained by a coterie of producers and executives. So when a few local deciders from the…
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is thinking very hard about what this city’s arts community will look like in twenty years. At the Cultural Visioning 2028 town hall meeting at the Denver Art Museum on January 29, DOCA director Erin Trapp led a couple dozen artists and arts enthusiasts…
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy: Hopefully just as vibrant and bigger, with international attention regularly and lots of cultural tourism. However, if we don’t have good stewardship for the scene we have now, that won’t happen. Ken Hamel, denverarts.org: It would be beautiful to see Denver as an international destination on the art scene, playing…
The city looks different when you have a pocket full of magnets. Bricks, concrete, glass and anything containing organic matter recede into the background, leaving only metal. So what Matt Feeney and Harrison Nealey see are dumpsters, light poles, air conditioners, electrical boxes and LOADING ONLY signs. Even in the…
If not for all the pink hair and inventive body modifications, the two dozen people wandering around the Golden Triangle on a sunny Saturday could be mistaken for delegates surveying the city in advance of the Democratic National Convention. “Gather ’round, everyone. Welcome to Denver. My name is Rockslide. I…
I was trying to squeeze my body through a hole at the bottom of the fence when the truck drove up. But my jacket got hooked on a wire, so all I could do was lie there and stare back like an idiot when the driver looked at me, then…
The three friends approached the old factory. It was mid-morning on Sunday, September 9, so traffic on South Broadway was slight, reducing the likelihood of being seen. They scanned the perimeter, took a quick glance back. Then they walked through the unlocked gate and into the alleyway, looking for a…
A curious sticker campaign featuring a hot hipster chick in a pouty-lip pose has even the most snooty veterans of the street-art scene doing a double take. The stickers show a MySpace URL and the blaring headline “JULENE HAS HERPES.” Could it be a new DIY fashion brand or an…
The group that may be the most prepared for the 2008 Democratic National Convention is also the least likely to be prepared. It doesn’t represent labor unions or mainstream progressives, but anarchists. A loose coalition of anti-authoritarian factions from across the nation have formed an outfit called Unconventional Action, with…
Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was one of the original Chicago 8 defendants charged with conspiracy and inciting a riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The trial was one of the most divisive and chaotic in history, partly because Seale’s frequent outbursts prompted…
The throng of demonstrators — 500 according to police, 1,500 according to protest organizers — had taken over the intersection of 15th and Stout streets, unfurling banners and emptying a bucket filled with fake blood and dismembered baby dolls. As dozens of officers in full riot gear approached and camera…
One brush stroke at a time. That’s how the Santa Fe Arts District went from being a crumbling old commercial strip a decade ago to becoming the center of Denver’s visual arts community. So when gallery owners and studio renters started looking for a way to spruce up the ol’…
About fifty activists gathered late last month inside the Four Winds Survival Project building, a former Episcopal church now serving as a kind of town hall for Denver’s Native American community, to plan what they say will be a memorable protest of Denver’s annual Columbus Day Parade. It’s a yearly…
Get well soon, Dr. Rocha. Just don’t come back. That’s probably the most civil way to characterize the sentiment among many faculty members at Metropolitan State College of Denver with regard to Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Rodolfo Rocha. School administrators hoped that Rocha, hired in the summer…
It usually occurs between ages nine and twelve. Dolls and action figures get pushed under the bed. Play dates become “hanging out.” Kung-fu grip finds other applications. And then there are individuals whose shelves are never cleared of pre-adolescent accoutrements. Semi-respectable titles like “hobbyist” and “collector” are cloaks that enable…
“Have you ever been through the Denver airport? It’s strange. It’s one of the busiest, but I’m telling you, it’s weird. There’s a firestorm of people talking about this thing.” Especially on June 11, when George Noory devotes all four hours of Coast to Coast, his nationally syndicated talk-radio program…
