Su Teatro’s Chicanos Sing the Blues was born on a ride up the highway from Pueblo and fueled by the beautiful crossover mess of Los Super Seven’s Tex-Mex mutt music, says company director Anthony Garcia, who wrote the musical with his driving mate, Daniel Valdez. The result, a revue that’s…
“Designers are geeks for type,” admits Elysia Syriac of AIGA Colorado, the local chapter of the national graphic-design organization. And that’s really the only explanation she can give for how a group of the professional compatriots came up with the idea of an urban-adventure scavenger hunt in search of, well,…
One of the best things about the Heineken Lads Night Out at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park/? Lassies are welcomed to partake of the promotion, too, which includes two each of everything — Colorado Rapids game tickets, Heinekens, hot dogs and scarves for you and a buddy — all for only…
Editor’s note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, our own Artopia, MCA Denver and StarFest 2012. (Make sure you read Noah’s blog for more comics and…
A few years ago, there was a lovely temporary museum in town — Jaime Kopke’s Denver Community Museum — that existed only to engage the community in the act and gestalt of art-making, rather than the usual staring at something hung on the wall of a gallery. That long-gone museum’s…
On such a lovely, long, almost-summer day, you should be out under the sun and the stars. The additional promise of visual surprises behind every wide-open door awaits at the Summer Solstice Celebration in the Navajo Street Art District, which runs Saturday, June 16 from noon to 9 p.m. This…
If you’re a typical Denver Tom, Dick or Harry, there’s a chance you have no idea what goes on at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, a haven for the literary ensconced in the historic Milheim Mansion in Capitol Hill. But the first annual Lighthouse Writers Workshop Community Book Fair — two days…
Our little town has hit the big-time: Denver Comic Con is here, introducing a whole new level of geekdom to the Rocky Mountain West con-going community. The weekend event, a fundraiser for the locally based Comic Book Classroom after-school program and everything a comic-book nerd could wish for, officially kicks…
The fabled color-field painter Mark Rothko left a troubled yet brilliant legacy behind after committing suicide in 1970, something that’s brought into hyperreal focus in the Tony Award-winning drama Red, which is, in a way, an act of abstract expressionism played out on stage, as Rothko and his assistant talk…
The republic to the northwest — you know, Boulder — is really at its best in the summertime, when the forward-thinking city’s groovy vibe moves outdoors where everyone can share it. Summer in Boulder? It’s where those now-ubiquitous outdoor film screenings first caught on and music sounds better in Chautauqua’s…
Art and food have been an item for a long time, but some places do it better than others. City, O’ City is a case in point, where a partnership with the nonprofit Art-Plant, which curates shows by emerging artists for the eatery, keeps things interesting with work that isn’t…
Urban adventure races and downtown scavenger hunts have become old hat in adrenaline-conscious, wheel-happy Colorado. But when AIGA Colorado, the regional design association, decides to put on an outdoor event, you know it’s going to be of a very different type. To that end, letterpress typographer Rick Griffith of Matter…
The Arvada Center galleries will greet the summer with a cheerful set of shows, Faces, Places & Spaces, which open in unison tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. and remain on view through August 26. Two artist nights, each with a panel discussion and meet-and-greet, are also…
In the more than twenty years that Denver’s Viviane Le Courtois has been making art, a good percentage of it has been related to food in some way: where food comes from, what happens to it along the way, what its role is in our communal lives. It’s very interesting…
To raise money in this dog-eat-dog world of local independent theater, you have to have an imagination — at least that’s what Susan Lyles of Denver’s And Toto Too Theatre Company discovered as she led the woman-centric troupe through the ups and downs of play-making on the fly, in borrowed…
To the west of Denver, folksy Lakewood — and in particular, the West Colfax corridor — clearly had its work cut out when the idea of a new arts district began being bandied about more than a year ago. But sheer determination and a wonderful collaborative spirit, says 40 West…
“We didn’t really know what we were doing, but we had a great time and we sold some art,” says Art Students League of Denver Summer Art Market founder Dennis Pendleton of the first-ever market. The event has done a lot of growing in the twenty years since then, but…
Boulder’s experimental theater troupe Band of Toughs likes to focus on developing new plays, which means they’ll take the time to work a script through many drafts until it’s perfect. With that in mind, they’re bringing (re)production — a play-in-process that they performed in a nascent form last year at…
You like the idea of those outdoor screenings where folks lounge around on lawn chairs and watch movies under the stars, but you’re not so thrilled with the usual titles, which are mostly family-friendly second-runs of the lowest common denominator, or cult favorites you’ve seen hundreds of times. But now,…
We’re a forensics-obsessed society, if what we watch on the boob tube is any indication. And who doesn’t get lost in a well-written police procedural after reading the first paragraph? What a crime leaves under its own dirty fingernails fascinates us, and the thrill of step-by-step discovery, with all its…
For Colorado native and Hollywood screenwriter Daniel Pyne, writing a little Wild West thriller set in mining country in the Rockies is like a vocational vacation. The book in question, A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar, was inspired by a thread of truth — Pyne’s brother once…
Looking to start a new chapter? Head to Alicia Bailey’s Abecedarian Gallery, a tiny, meticulously curated book-art gallery on Santa Fe Drive, for the last day of the Artists Book Cornucopia III exhibition. And it’s going out in style, with a special edition of Westword MasterMind Katie Taft’s Action Figures…
