The Space Creators, the realtor/masterminds behind the RiNo artist enclaves of Wazee Union, Walnut Workshop and Laundry on Lawrence, do one special thing that sets them far apart from the pack in real estate: They are active partners in the communities they build. Not only do they provide legs for…
One upshot of the current handmade/crafting renaissance: Quilts are back. Walk into Fancy Tiger in Baker, for instance, and you’ll be greeted by a rainbow of cheerful fabrics cut in squares suitable for the age-old tradition; modern quilts also took ribbons last month at the Denver County Fair. And the…
Want to see Nick Urata and DeVotchKa at Red Rocks on September 20 with the Colorado Symphony and the Airborne Toxic Event? Of course you do…and we have a way you might be able to do it for free. To enter our contest to tickets for the event, all you…
When it comes to artists decorating objects for charity we’ve probably seen it all by now — giant cow statues, guitars and violins, skateboard decks, fiberglass cats and even those hideous masks that seemed to start it all. But we’ve never before seen the likes of Breasts of Colorado, at…
The DocuWest Documentary Film Festival, a Westword Best of Denver recipient, will continue to champion nonfictional film when the tight little fest returns to the Foothills Art Center and other satellite locations tonight. Nearly forty films of varying lengths, many of them Colorado premieres, will be shown over a five-day…
Whether one is speaking about the exhibits or the programs offered there, MCA Denver isn’t exactly known to offer boring fare, and Black Sheep Fridays, a series returning to the MCA Cafe for a seasonal run, is a case in point. The very poster child of edgy community programming, the…
Broadway’s La Cage aux Folles is one of those everlasting crowd-pleasers; you don’t have to be a cross-dresser to end up laughing in the aisles over this musical comedy of errors surrounding a gay cabaret owner, Georges, and his vivacious drag queen of a mate, Albin. The role of Albin…
Kirie, or the Japanese art of paper cutting, is an intricate study in traditional yet ultra-contemporary design in the disciplined hands of Hyakkimaru, whose exhibition, Hyakkimaru’s Kirie World, opens today at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in conjunction with the upcoming Mountain Festival, a fiftieth-anniversary celebration of the Springs’…
Who but Stephen Sondheim would dare to write a musical about U.S. presidential assassins? The man famous for that other grisly Broadway hit, Sweeney Todd, did just that with Assassins, mining the lives of everyone from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald and even Colorado wannabe assassin John Hinckley…
We love our dogs in Denver, but few local pups have stirred up as much heart-thumping love and attention as house corgi Denver Picard Schimek, the I Heart Denver Store’s animal ambassador. His owner (and I Heart Denver entrepreneur) Samuel Schimek says the precious pooch turns one this month. See…
The local graphics community rolls quite naturally alongside the hipster bike community, which is evident every September when the annual ARTCRANK bike-poster show takes a lap through Denver. This year’s event featuring $40 limited-edition, hand-printed posters by 36 talented artists will be in that RiNo live/work haven, Taxi, to celebrate…
The Denver Art Museum’s monthly Untitled series is a study in opposites: Half of its format is instantly recognizable, and the other half — well, you never know what to expect. That is in no way a drawback, mind you: You start with a blueprint, then veer off on unpredictable…
The late Stan Brakhage — a Colorado native and longtime Boulder fixture who’s recognized as a father of experimental filmmaking — spawned generations of visual rule-breakers. Although his work alone could easily fill a one-man retrospective, Brakhage is both a focus and a take-off point for the new Boulder Museum…
In the world of slam poetry, competing as a team and competing as an individual are two different beasts, as Suzi Q. Smith, a member of this year’s Slam Nuba team (which made it to the national semi-finals last month, only to fall in a sudden-death slam-off), can attest. “When…
Every year since 2007, when bike lover/entrepreneur Charles Youel started ARTCRANK in his home town of Minneapolis, the concept — a bike-centric exhibit and sale of hand-screened posters by regional artists — has gotten just a little bit bigger and spread to new cities, from St. Louis to London. Denver…
Opera in a bar: The two go together well, as Opera on Tap demonstrates. The New York-bred monthly pastime has conquered Denver in its first year here, and has done so well it’s now spread to Boulder. “We have introduced so many people to opera — and shown how accessible…
Though its sister theater, the Mayan, seems to grab all the attention as an historical treasure, Landmark’s Esquire Theatre is actually a little bit older — though you wouldn’t know it from its moderne facade. But while the Mayan, which opened in 1930, survives — with tweaks — as the…
Noah Van Sciver, one of the hottest commodities in the region’s comic community, set out to picture Abraham Lincoln in a way not yet explored in comic form. The resulting graphic novel, The Hypo, recalls Lincoln’s early treatment for his chronic melancholy, a purge that involved a sadistic variety of…
The quintet of new exhibits now up at Core New Art Space veer a bit from the usual Core show construction: Four Core members, all friends and neighbors in the Fresh Art Studios located in the hallways behind the gallery, will share the main gallery that’s usually devoted to just…
CultureHaus, the Denver Art Museum’s art-loving social group for young professionals, is always coming up with new ways to have creative fun, such as tonight’s Fashion to the MAX, a nod to the end of the DAM’s most fashionable summer ever. Though the YSL show is over, his high style…
The MCA changes its groove a bit with a new summer exhibit, Frohawk Two Feathers: We Buy Gold, We Buy Everything, We Sell Souls, featuring imaginative work from L.A.-based artist Umar Rashid, under the nom de plume of Frohawk Two Feathers. The collection of paintings, works on paper and sculptures…
Noah Van Sciver, who draws Westword’s weekly “4 Questions” strip as well as the Blammo comic-book series, could be Denver’s comic artist most likely to succeed. He’s about to tour the country to promote his new graphic novel, The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, and is already riding a wave…
