The overwhelming success of the first annual Denver Comic Con provides the perfect segue for Comic Con con Comedy, Theater Company of Lafayette’s new collection of fourteen original short sketches inspired by comic-book superheroes, spandex and competitive dressing up. The plays, chosen from hundreds of submissions from across the nation,…
Four years from now, when the Summer Olympics return to beam in from Rio, rugby — last played as an Olympic sport in 1924 — will make an auspicious return to the world games. Prepare for pure action when it does: Olympic rugby will be strictly sevens rugby — the…
It’s patio season, in case you hadn’t noticed, and rooftops all over town are buzzing. But one rooftop blast is about to pop up where you’d least expect it: in a parking lot atop the Denver FilmCenter, in the Lowenstein CulturePlex. FilmCenter director Ryan Oestreich, who dreamed up the idea…
The only naked bodies you’d ever expect to see in an art museum are the ones on the wall. But, as intimated by Cara a Cara, the show of folk-art masks currently on view at the Museo de las Americas, things aren’t always what they seem. Just as putting on…
With all the parties and workshops and roundtables mashed-up with the shows, there are more than 350 events at this year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival, playing out in twelve days at eighteen venues. So how do you choose what to see? Fringe frontman Dave Ortolano says this year offers at…
We go to art museums to see capital-A “Art,” work created by a global colony of recognized artists. And it’s an experience that’s definitely worthwhile: The artists good enough to show in museums offer us visual and visceral challenges, tickling our funny bones and breaking our hearts. But what if,…
It’s First Friday, so there’s plenty to do if you’re up for rushing around town — but maybe you’d rather sit back in the grass and usher in the dusk with one of the greatest sunsets of all: Billy Wilder’s melodramatic showpiece, Sunset Boulevard. See also: – Relax at Film…
Most toilet seats are meant to be sat upon. But once in a while, there comes a throne cover fit to decorate a wall. And that’s the case with the seats going up for auction tomorrow night at the Sh%ts & Giggles Charity Art Show — though event organizer Adam…
Swallow Hill’s Shady Grove Picnic Series at Four Mile Historic Park might offer the most relaxed summer concerts in town, and the shows are certainly among the most affordable. That’s all part of the plan, says spokeswoman Meg Ivey: “The whole vibe is laid-back and casual, and it’s just lovely;…
In its 84th year, Littleton’s Western Welcome Week is pretty much what it is: An old-fashioned community festival featuring more than fifty tried-and-true events stretched out over a couple of weeks, with no changes needed. Everyone can use a little good, clean fun from time to time, and Western Welcome…
In spite of all those panhandlers and sign-spinners on street corners reminding us every day of the modern epidemic, we can’t claim homelessness as a strictly 21st-century blight. History tells us otherwise, and that’s the underlying theme in a pair of shows opening today at the Loveland Museum/Gallery. First, there’s…
Boulder mystery author Stephen White is one of our own, and that’s reason enough for Coloradans to follow his long-running series of Dr. Alan Gregory detective tales. But White’s yarns are good enough to have kept him on the national bestseller lists for years, with no end in sight. Except…
Adam Rose of Fallen Owl Tattoo shop, the recipient of Westword’s Best Good Samaritan Tattoo Joint award this year, thinks tattoo artists sometimes unfairly get a bad rap. But not Rose, who frequently hosts art auctions and fundraisers for local charities, like tonight’s Sh%ts & Giggles Charity Art Show. More…
Denver’s Month of Photography 2011, a citywide celebration of the art of the camera masterminded by local photographer and arts mover Mark Sink, was a picture-perfect success on all counts. One element, called The Big Picture, was particularly ambitious, adding an international flair and a sense of living, breathing drama…
The 2012 Slam Nuba slam poetry team has a big reputation to uphold when it heads to Charlotte on August 7 for this year’s National Slam Poetry Meet: It’s a new and differently configured team that will be defending the group’s 2011 first-place title. See also: – Meet your 2012…
Update: A lot of folks are reporting bumper crops this warm summer. How about you? If you haven’t already entered your prized eggplant or handmade quilt (because, hey, not all of us garden) in the Denver County Fair, you’ve been given a reprieve: The fair has extended its online competition…
Copper Mountain’s axe-centric Guitar Town music festival turns five this year when it returns to the resort two weeks from today. It’ll also mark the fourth year for the fest’s Art Guitar Silent Auction, which features twenty cast-away instruments donated by the Guitar Center and brought back to life by…
Plus Gallery’s Ivar Zeile was all ready to take a break in August, but instead, chance brought together a special end-of-summer show at Plus. Merge is something of an anomaly for the gallery: an exhibition of small, affordable works by three very different emerging artists — New Zealander Shannon Novak…
2012 Westword MasterMind Dianne Denholm has presented exhibitions focusing on the fiber arts in nearly every aspect since opening the TACtile Textile Arts Center six years ago. But never before had she turned the magnifying glass on the fine art of dressmaking and couture, a subject that’s undergone a renaissance…
So what if opera’s a bit melodramatic, ear-piercing and overlong? That doesn’t necessarily mean it deserves a bad rap — especially not in the case of the Central City Opera Festival, which springs up every summer in the historic mountain town and gambling haven. This year’s festival hits the slopes…
Not to be confused with free will or freebasing or free-falling, Freethought is something you might want to look into if you’re a fan of Mr. Spock, Voltaire, Susan B. Anthony or Mark Twain, among others. Its driving force is a belief in logic and reason over dogma and authoritarianism,…
As the long, hot summer of 2012 blazes on, the idea of Christmas in July starts to look pretty cool. But that’s not the only reason the cabaret-style Denver’s Dangerous Theatre is bringing back an abbreviated version of its, um, Christmas classic, Kentucky Claus, a slightly raunchy backwoods holiday story…
