In the beginning, there was the Ballpark Market, a singular urban flea with a European ambiance. And not long after that, sisters Kim Dahlquist and Stacey Johnson begat A Paris Flea Market in downtown Littleton, bringing a similar concept to the the southwest ‘burbs. And then, and then, and then…
Denver is one slammin’ town, and that’s to our advantage: It means we’re not under the radar of the national slam poetry community. Rather, Denver is a destination: Touring poets make it a point to stop over here, say “hey” to their Denver brothers and sisters and perform for them…
I completely adore John Doe and cherish every word that comes out of his mouth; his 1990 album Meet John Doe was a life-changer for me and still remains among my favorites. He’s at the Lion’s Lair tonight, in a trio that includes X cohort DJ Bonebrake on drums, for…
What exactly is a Maker, anyway? Obviously, it’s someone who, well, makes stuff. But a Maker is more specifically an inventor of sorts, who works in cross-disciplinary realms where technology and the arts collide. There’s a fierce DIY spirit among Makers, who tend to surf and hack their way across…
Flea markets and farmers’ markets and craft sales have merged and morphed into outdoor markets where you can buy beautiful handmade treasures, clothing, antiques, jewelry and food ― and they’re all the rage in Denver these days. Although it’s rare to find this sort of mash-up market downtown, that dearth…
For more than thirty years, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council has been a cornerstone of the local Latino community and culture. “Metarealist” painter Stevon Lucero has been there from the beginning. Along with a few other artists — Al Sanchez, Jerry Jaramillo — who still show at CHAC, once…
Word has just come down that Emily Griffith Opportunity School has undergone a name change. The century-old institution, created by educator Emily Griffith to offer quality (and, at the time, free) vocational instruction to Denver’s huddled masses, will heretofore be known as Emily Griffith Technical College, a dumbed-down nomenclature that…
Poetry is all about words well chosen; success in gardening starts with the right seeds. Placement, or syntax, means everything to both: While the poet needs to know exactly when to let the sun shine directly on a word and when to hide it in shadow, the gardener must likewise…
Denver painter Karen Bozik first learned of the 100 Days Project, an annual collaborative online project for which a network of people working in interdisciplinary art create a work per day for 100 days and share the process through blog pages, from Sabin Aell, whose Hinterland gallery is currently showing…
Congress Park’s Teller Elementary School already marches to a different drum when it comes to fundraising: Instead of hosting yet another carnival or bake sale, Teller has Tellerpalooza, for instance: an annual family-friendly night of live music at the Mercury Cafe. And now, local fashion and design maven Tran Wills,…
Stacey Johnson and her sister Kim Dahlquist first jumped into the flea-market fray several years ago when they conjured the Paris Street Market in downtown Littleton, which has since changed hands and moved to Aspen Grove. Their love of the flea, however, has never gone away, and lately they began…
Taking it all off is all in a day’s work for members of Colorado’s busy burlesque community. But the various troupes rarely mingle while they’re doing it, and many are downright competitive, because after all, a girl’s got to make a living! It would, therefore, take a very special cause…
Candy Darling, aka John Slattery of Forest Hills, was easily one of the most beautiful transsexuals ever; the blond bombshell and habitué of Andy Warhol’s Factory and films in the late ’60s and early ’70s (she starred in Flesh and Women in Revolt) attracted the attention of everyone from the…
April Charmaine of Sol Vida Dance! Studio teaches kids to dance in her Sol Vida Youth Tribe and Tribal Tots ensembles, helping them hone their skills all year long. But in the spring, when it’s time for them to show off what they’ve learned to their families and friends, Charmaine…
Inherit the Wind, the fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, might just be the greatest courtroom drama ever written, and its main theme — whether or not Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution should be taught in a public school — is as…
It’s no secret, really, that art-making is at least one part science. But the husband-and-wife team of Tyler and Monica Aiello take it one step beyond. Widely known for criss-crossing visually between the worlds of art and science, together they reveal beautiful connections in their process-driven sculpture and paintings. Monica…
The last leg of Create Denver Week was by no means an afterthought: Rather, Your Sunday Best, for which Fashion Denver’s Sprout spring market and the Denver Handmade Alliance’s Crafty Ballyhoo shared quarters at the Grant-Humphreys mansion, was rife with good vibes, in spite of the cloudy weather. And, typically…
It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps…
Named a “Composer to Watch” by the New York Times, Juilliard graduate Kenji Bunch excels as both a talented violist and a composer. His highly accessible contemporary works have been heard worldwide, and as a performer, he’s worked with everyone from the Flux string quartet to the bluegrass band Citigrass,…
It was 1867 when British singer George Leybourne wrote of “that daring young man on the flying trapeze,” a paean to the great 19th-century French trapeze artist Jules Léotard, who’s been credited as being the first circus trapeze act ever. Léotard, no doubt, was well taken care of by the…
Rob Bell and John McCaskill of Derailed Ink, a small local t-shirt screen-printing business that’s had a fair amount of success with its sports-related tees, don’t have a problem with being small. It’s the pressure of big business that they don’t like. “We got tired of corporate entities dictating what…
