There’s always a lot of excitement over Bike to Work Day and the accompanying morning festivities, but when it’s time for the long ride home, enthusiasm seems to ebb. That’s why the LoDo ad agency Cactus has been hosting its Bike From Work Bash happy-hour party for the last three…
Jelly wrestling, anyone? Next-door neighbors Beauty Bar and Jelly Cafe neatly define the term “coexist” in their friendly proximity on 13th Avenue; though one welcomes the nightlife and the other operates mainly in the sunlight, the bar and the pancake cafe are joining forces to create a float for this…
While slowly recovering from back surgery, Jimmy Sellars created a series of digital sketches on an iPad that he describes as “humans either turned into rabbits, for no apparent reason, or wearing prosthetics to turn them into a rabbit.” The darkly whimsical personification refers to Rabbit’s iconic connection to the…
The new Allan Houser blockbuster at the Denver Botanic Gardens is the show that’s getting everyone’s attention this season, but Between the Real and the Imagined, the contemporary installation by artist, curator, scholar and Ho-Chunk Indian Truman Lowe that’s tucked into the nooks and crannies of the Boettcher Memorial Center,…
Face it, we never really get rid of our toys after we grow up. They morph and change shape a little bit, but they’re still toys, though perhaps imbued with a different, more complex meaning. As kids, we play because it helps us learn to navigate the world. As adults,…
We never ran into Dr. Livingstone last Saturday in the urban jungle, but we did see a lot of art during the district-wide RiNo Art Safari open studio artwalk event, a generous come-on to the public by artists and gallerists into River North Art District. During the space of only…
It’s no accident that Saturday’s art-district-wide RiNo Art Safari open studio event coincides with RiNo’s fledging monthy Second Saturday event; the two were tailor-made for each other, and the heart of the Second Saturday movement, the large art-studio enclaves Wazee Union and Walnut Workshop, has a lot to do with…
The pianist and composer Raymond Scott, born Harry Warnow in Brooklyn in 1908, is probably best-known for his cartoon music, which he didn’t even originally write for cartoons. But his history is way more more interesting than that: Scott was not only a pioneer in sound engineering and multi-track recording…
After nineteen years, the Art Student League’s Summer Art Market taking place this weekend certainly lands in the category of time-honored; the annual sale, which has grown to include works by more than 200 artists, both known and unknown, is also the perfect reflection of what the ASLD is all…
These days, it’s a dog-eat-dog world for flea and craft markets; you have to set yourself apart in some way, and in the case of the fledgling Lucky Pearl Bazaar, that’s all taken care of. Imagined by organizer Mandy Yocom as a complement to South Pearl Street’s Sunday farmers’ market,…
The idea of turning the RiNo Art District’s semiannual studio tour into a “safari” has been kicking around for a while, says district co-founder Tracy Weil, but it’s finally seeing the light of day; today’s RiNo Art Safari, he notes, promises to be an adventure for all, with more than…
While the common thread in all TACtile Textile Arts projects remains the preservation of old stitching skills and other fiber arts, there’s nothing old-fashioned about the way the center promotes handiwork: At show after show, the gallery features pieces by artists who re-work traditions in hip new ways. The latest…
Update: Progress is being made at the GrowHaus, as evidenced by this time-lapse of renovations in the facility’s HydroFarm. But in the urban greenhouse’s race to win a $50,000 grant, the road’s been a bit bumpier: After rising to third place and even grazing second, GrowHaus has dropped to sixth…
We sailed for parts unknown to man, where ships come home to die No lofty peak, nor fortress bold, could match our captain’s eye Upon the seventh seasick day we made our port of call A sand so white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all -“A Salty…
Update: Yay! DEVO Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. this morning! Get yours at the Denver County Fair website. It’s official: As previously reported here a few weeks ago, Barry Fey joined the Denver County Fair fold to help Dana Cain and Tracy Weil wrangle a high-profile act music…
The gods were smiling on Saturday night, when the food trucks lined up on Larimer Street and Tran and Josh Wills rolled up their Super Ordinary Gallery’s garage door on Microclimates, a finished Kickstarter project by Samuel Schimek and Rob Mack that comprises three environments based on their combined graphic…
Deepak Chopra is a new-agey self-help spiritualist whose doctrines are rooted in Indian religion and culture; his son, Gotham Chopra, is an all-American boy who publishes comics and makes movies about superheroes across the ages. Together, they have written a new book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our…
The flock of seventeen artist-decorated fiberglass felines that are the core of the Cat Care Society’s fundraiser Tails of the Painted Cats traveled far and wide in the preceding months, curling up in Santa Fe Drive galleries in April and at the Lakewood Arts Council Gallery in May. But now…
In celebration of National Trails Day, there are plenty of outdoor activities and especially trail-building service projects going on today around the state. But on the Front Range, the annual Arvada Trails Day event is certainly one of the least back-breaking and most family-friendly, which is perfect for outdoorsy folks…
In the spiritual self-help realm, Deepak Chopra is well-known. Interestingly, his son Gotham Chopra garners recognition for a completely different kind of career: Gotham is a co-founder of Liquid Comics, which works in various digital platforms, including comics and graphic novels, animation and live-action films, some of them developed with…
It’s not official, solstice-wise, but this might as well be the first First Friday of summer, which means — Mother Nature willing — warm breezes and a slow, lazy sunset will reign gently over all the art districts in town this June evening. What better invitation do you need to…
Moving into the second week of her 100 Days Project, local artist Karen Bozik, whom we first visited with here last Monday, found herself running into mental and academic roadblocks. The aesthetics are there, she acknowledges, but in terms of a complete package, she’s unwilling to speed through the research…
