While most people ostensibly make their resolutions, to keep or forget, on New Year’s Day. But I think it makes more sense to save them for Earth Day and resolve to take doable ecological steps with an infinitely more likely capacity for follow-through. I also think it’s something to celebrate…
Colorado’s got its green on good, and the success of Denver B-cycle offers major proof that metro area pedal-pushers welcome the opportunity to get out of their cars and onto the city streets. The city’s member-supported bike sharing program, now in its second year, will appropriately celebrate a solid year…
Performance artist/seamstress/activist/do-gooder Frau Fiber’s message is rooted in old-school proletariat values; with that in mind, she focuses specifically on the undervalued garment worker, a workforce icon and punching bag of capitalistic society with a history of struggle against poor labor conditions and wages. She’ll be leading a workshop tonight at…
When 13 Families, a new documentary about how the families of the thirteen victims of the Columbine shootings cope with their loss, premieres tonight at the Denver FilmCenter, it will be a new experience for the public. After so much media focus on the more sensational and political aspects of…
Now that IKEA and H&M have both signed on the dotted line in metro area, folks who’ve waited patiently for their first chance to walk in the door of either of those trendy Scandinavian outlets will finally have their day. But after those open, and we’re all done dancing in…
New craft is a happening cultural sector these days, and it comes with an aura of DIY activism, hipster vibes, high art and pure politics. And how modern-day women crafters are choosing to express themselves through this challenging set of values is the worthy subject of Craftivism, tonight’s Feminism &…
Eric Matelski is a champion of the common — and often inexperienced — citizen when it comes to art appreciation: He tirelessly curates and hangs shows for the hoi polloi in bars and restaurants around town, dreams up hands-on bar nights like this winter’s Artzy Fartzy craft-and-chili nights at Dazzle,…
More than ten years down the line, Columbine still hovers over the Front Range in silent watch, a constant reminder that the world can be a dangerous place no matter who you are or where you live. The Columbine shootings have since been explored from nearly every angle in the…
Poet Ginny Hoyle, a member and instructor at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers, and artist Judy Anderson of PlatteForum created the tag-team installation When We Were Birds, which opened last month at Walker Fine Art for a run through May 7. But to see the results of their collaborative effort wasn’t quite…
There’s something especially poignant about the annual National Theatre Conservatory Repertory performances when they come around each spring: Signifying both the end of a long, hard road and the launching of a new flight into the mystic, the productions show off the newly honed skills of conservatory seniors. “It’s the…
Samuel Schimek’s newest pop-up incarnation, I ♥ Denver, opened its doors over the weekend in a newly painted second-floor suite at the Denver Pavilions that’s been slicked up with serene ice-blue Scandinavian highlights befitting a city about to welcome IKEA and H&M into its retail fold. Unlike the previous Pavilions…
Create Denver Week, which kicks off on May 12, will celebrate the local creative scene with a series of stylish events, including a pop-up art installation at the Spire, outdoor LED light and video projection showcases at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, food trucks, fashion, music and crafts. But its…
Cartoonists are wackier than the average bear, and that’s the closest we’ll ever come to explaining why, once a year, cartoonists across the nation gather en masse in coffee shops and comic book stores and other dens of iniquity too dark to properly describe to individually plot and sketch and…
RiNo’s relatively new Second Saturday phenomenon continues to gather steam tomorrow, with gallery open houses and openings at Wazee Union/Walnut Workshop, Plinth Gallery, DesignHaus Denver, Crema Coffee House, Ice Cube Gallery, Pattern Shop Studio and the Laura Moretz Studio at Taxi. Depending on where you land, there will be food…
Amy Harrold, aka Pretty But Ruthless, thinks it’s high time Denver had its own roller derby boutique. Denver is, after all, the home of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club A-team, the top roller derby team in the nation. And Colorado is literally loaded down with leagues – there…
Think of the Muse’s Market as Al Gore with music and art, and you might begin to get the idea of what it’s all about: Billed as “a modern-day Chautauqua” or a “farmers’ market for music and ideas,” the Denver-based tour comprises an earnest crew of musicians, artists, a photojournalist,…
When this weekend’s Denver Style Expo debuts tonight at the Denver Merchandise Mart, there will contests of every kind, from the prestigious Denver Style Awards, which acknowledge the city’s top local designers, to a special people’s choice award for the best-dressed audience members. But for at least one big expo…
When it comes to this summer’s Denver County Fair debut, Dana Cain has no doubts, but, she admits, this weekend’s inaugural Denver Style Expo, a brand-new event with a fashion-forward vision for the Denver scene, still feels like a giant step into the great unknown. But it sounds like a…
Photographer Stephanie Auld formed the AWE Collective, a 1,400-square-foot gallery and studio space at the far southern end of the Art District on Santa Fe, out of her desire to “see less traditional and more local art” along the thriving gallery row. And tonight, the collective (which officially opened in…
Clay artist Marie Gibbons has been looking out on 44th Avenue and Tennyson Street from her EvB Studio storefront for four years now. Part of the charm of her little studio and gallery in the shadow of the Oriental Theater is its accessibility to the street traffic and the out-side…
There are slam poets, and then there are SLAM POETS: Though there’s more than a little love and support spread around in the performance poetry community, it’s still everybody for themselves when they hit the stage. That means there’s going to be some fierce nitty-gritty going down at Westword MasterMind-winning…
Sabin Aell of Hinterland took up the challenge of Denver’s Month of Photography by putting out an international call for entries for work that is “wild, uncontrolled, different, luminous, beautiful, sparkling, in the flow.” It’s a tall order, but that’s exactly what came up out of the ground for jurors…
