Sharing stories is possibly the saddest yet most uplifting aspect of facing public tragedy, and we’ve been hearing a lot of them in the last few days — about people who died too soon, saved lives through small acts of bravery, and whose own lives were changed forever in a…
Denver’s proved, again, that it’s a straight-up poetry town, and also that it takes a village to make it that way. The city’s stellar Minor Disturbance youth slam poetry team crowned its weekend by taking it all at the Brave New Voices 2012 national slam-off, following in the footsteps of…
One way people are choosing to move forward after Friday’s shootings in Aurora: by going to the movies. It’s their way of saying that they’re not afraid — to take back the movie theater, so to speak, and especially The Dark Knight Rises, the last film in a series already…
Ever since the cavemen used embers to sketch animals on their cave walls, humans have been making art about where and how they live. But the city is a far cry from a prehistoric cave, and portraying the cosmopolitan scene is a lot more complicated for modern-day artists than it…
This year’s Denver Comic Con was too good to be true: Drawing more than 27,000 comix gawkers to the Colorado Convention Center over three days in June, the inaugural expo exceeded all expectations, proving once again that Denver is one lovably geeky city. We can dress up like Wonder Woman…
There’s nothing like sipping wine to put you in the mood for looking at art, and that’s the duh, of course! thinking behind Wine of the Americas, a fundraiser making its return to the Museo de las Americas tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. See also: – Cara a Cara:…
Michael Burnett, founder of Santa Fe Drive stalwart Space Gallery, completely missed celebrating the venue’s tenth anniversary last year. “We reached a significant milestone — not many galleries hang around for that long,” he says, and yet that milestone came and went without a party. But the upcoming eleventh anniversary?…
The magical and the mystical both figure heavily in Crazy Brave: A Memoir, but it’s all part of being Joy Harjo, says the Native American poet, playwright, musician and performer. “My life didn’t make neat short stories,” Harjo explains on her blog. “David Sedaris can do it, make tight, crafted…
John F. Kennedy remains one of the most heroic figures of the twentieth century: The war hero and iconic president died young and tragically, leaving behind a romantic ghost-image that has expanded exponentially over the past fifty years. You’d almost think his persona was somehow crossed with James Bond’s in…
While doing road time is par for the course for just about everyone, it seems that women are still on the short end of the stick shift when it comes to knowing what goes on under the hood of a car. But the folks at Denver’s Green Garage see no…
The delivery date for submissions in the Denver Art Museum’s Open for Design community challenge is closing in. Have you been dragging your feet because you just don’t know how to come up with a solution that fits the problem within the framework of the challenge? The DAM isn’t about…
Imagine this on a Tuesday night, when the week is still young: something old-school and just for the hell of it, a place where you can get funky and dance like you’re fifteen again, in another time and century. That’s what Motown Tuesday, the weekly dance night at Beauty Bar,…
The city’s announcement that Michael Chavez — who’s made his name with strong, contemporary work as a curator and exhibition designer at the Foothills Art Center and the Arvada Center — has been named the new public art administrator for Denver Arts & Venues seems like sweet salvation after he…
Mixed-media artist Rob Mack lives in the mountains, where nature seems just a little bit closer, and visits by foxes and deer and wild animals of all kinds aren’t that unusual. For Mack, the wildlife with which he shares physical space represents a mystical bond, a theme that repeats throughout…
Summer evenings at the Denver Botanic Gardens are something to be savored, and that’s why the growing concern at 1007 York Street hosts themed Sunset Strolls from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. every second Wednesday throughout the season. Tonight’s installment sounds especially dreamy: It’s a Great Gatsby promenade that invites you…
On first viewing, Rob Mack’s color-infused animal imagery, often stamped on old wood slabs, can seem like graphic art on a board. But for Mack, It has deep meaning — and if you spend some time looking at the pieces, chances are that you’ll catch that, too. “I create things…
Everyone loves pancakes, and if you’re fundraising, they’re a great means to an end. That’s what the folks at the Colorado Anti-Violence Program have found, and today they’ll cook up their fifth annual All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast, raising money for a hotline and services for victims of violence…
Free public movies seem to be a dime a dozen this summer — although most of the feature films are those favorite family reruns. But the four-week Film Fiesta series, sponsored by Arts & Venues at Su Teatro in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, takes a more serious turn…
If last year’s inaugural Denver County Fair was a grand experiment, this year’s “is going to blow the first one out of the water on all counts!” says DCF maestra Dana Cain. That’s because Cain’s mental notepad was a cover-to-cover frenzy of new ideas and lessons learned by the time…
Art can be funny — sometimes inadvertently — but rarely do we see a show pointedly dedicated to funny art. But Art You Can Laugh At, curated by Eric Matelski and opening today at MacSpa, is an exhibit that revels in silliness: Its sole purpose is to make us guffaw…
Jose Antonio Mercado is a man with a big, big dream — to renovate the Historic Elitch Theatre, a dilapidated Denver landmark with a rich history, and refurbish both the building and its legacy. And Mercado, an actor, director and teacher made famous on the local level for his work…
The Fourth of July means many things to different people, but to one protester we encountered yesterday on the 16th Street Mall, it was all about freedom of speech. Though she uttered not one word, her visual stance — and a blunt hand-written sign — said it all…
