It’s not easy to find venues around town that support untested and new forms of expression, and the avenues for experimental and performance art are dwindling. “The art scene was more round in recent years. It’s not so round now,” says Justin Beard, who earned a BFA in sculpture from…
Counterpath Press was ousted from its longtime home near the Mercury Cafe over the winter, and since then the MasterMind winner has been seeking out new ways to reach the public while also searching for a new home. One temporary solution: Counterpath landed a booth at City Park Jazz, and…
Author, attorney, former U.S. senator and two-time presidential candidate Gary Hart will be at the Tattered Cover on July 6 to discuss his latest book, The Republic of Conscience. Hart, who represented Colorado in the Senate from 1975 to 1987 and ran for President in 1984 and 1988, is the…
In early April, a group of protesters gathered outside of the Regional Transportation District headquarters in downtown Denver to decry a proposed fare hike, which they believed would have a particularly damaging effect on low-income residents who rely on public transportation. Although RTD’s board of directors ultimately approved the rate…
Nick Montfort, computational poet, creative programmer and MIT professor, has spent much of his career exploring the connections between computing and literature and talking about those connections everywhere from Brazil to St. Petersburg to the Google campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tonight he’s in Denver to read from and discuss #!…
Counterpath Press may be homeless right now, but it hasn’t lost its way — as evidenced by the program the 2013 MasterMind winner has planned for tomorrow at the Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax space, where four very different authors — Nick Montfort, Michael Friedman, Sanaz Fatemi and Graham Foust — will…
Wonderbound is about to launch a new season of Mixology, a summer series of dance classes led by members of the dance company. If you want to dance but don’t have much — if any — formal experience, Mixology will offer you a chance to learn from professionals in a…
The Boulder home known as Goss House, which also functions as a music venue, studio and art gallery, is closing down. The house’s residents are being forced to leave, as the landlord elected not to renew their lease this summer. Come July, Goss House will join Astroland and Dead Leaf…
The moon splits apart for an unknown reason, unleashing a meteor shower that pummels Earth and forces a small group of humans to flee into space. Millennia later, their progeny return to rebuild the planet. That’s the premise behind Neal Stephenson’s new book, Seveneves, a “space-arc” epic spanning 5,000 years…
Farm-to-school programs are designed to provide school cafeterias with farm-fresh food. The benefits are clear: Sourcing school lunches from local farms provides kids with healthier options; it boosts the local agricultural community; and it has less of an impact on the environment, as produce travels shorter distances and requires fewer…
It sounds glib, if not cynical, to say that “every day is Earth Day,” (which falls on April 22), especially as public interest in the environment seems to have waned despite the mounting threat of ecological degradation, or even outright catastrophe. But, it’s true: every day is an individual and…
Denver artist Alan Topp first encountered the idea of a zine swap via tumblr, where he connected with a group of zinesters based in the United Kingdom. The zinesters were to submit several of their own publications in exchange for zines published by other artists. Attracted to the community building…
Today Eric Suzanne will release Riding SideSaddle*, an open-source, non-linear novel published locally by Springgun Press. To mark the occasion, Suzanne has gathered three bands – including his own, Gorilla Teacup – to perform at Syntax Physic Opera starting at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in an interdisciplinary performance that integrates…
R. Tyler Christopherson’s upcoming exhibit, The Good ol’ Days, celebrates – and complicates – our collective desire and nostalgia for “good times”: periods of comfort, security and satisfaction that may exist more in our imaginations than in reality. Christopherson will employ an interactive mixed-media installation to evoke and link three…
Counterpath Press is more than just a press. In addition to publishing experimental poetry and prose, the 2013 Westword MasterMInd award-winner also hosts readings, performances and lectures. It serves as a gallery space for visual and audio material as well, and carries books from like-minded small presses across the country…
Many musicians are accustomed to playing for free, especially those who don’t have a large following. The joy of it, as well as the promise of exposure, often suffice as a reward. But this can cause consternation for serious or professional artists who spend hours upon hours honing their craft…
