#41: Artists Hollis + Lana. Husband-and-wife team Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana not only fell in love — they also fell into artistic collusion. Together, they wield spray cans to create organic collaborative works, sometimes monumental in size, on canvases, in sculptural shapes and across the sides of buildings. What’s…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide, we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next few weeks in pairs that combine both veterans and…
Who were those masked people? Last Friday, revelers in disguise took over the Living Room for a Halloween evening of music and dancing at the Denver Masquerade Soirée and Global Champagne Party to benefit the Women’s Foundation of Denver. Photographer Ken Hamblin III was there, snapping pictures for Westword. Follow…
Over the weekend, Elitch Gardens unveiled this year’s Fright Fest, which includes two all-new haunted houses — the zombie-themed Flesh Factory and the Terror Chamber, a creepy initiation rite navigated by flashlight — as well as a seance show and a freak show at night, and a trick-or-treat trail, hay…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
#42: Cora Vette Cora Vette, aka Reyna Von Vette, is larger than life, with a big sassy voice, a ribald sense of humor and a sparkly way with a needle and thread, which all come in handy when she tackles her many roles as a burlesque-show hostess-with-the-mostest, costume-maker and show-tune…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
The ghost of Julius Rosenberg floats high above and around Amy Herzog’s drama After the Revolution, the story of a devoutly Marxist East Coast family clinging to the memory of patriarch Joe Joseph, a blacklisted American Red whose refusal to name names in a McCarthy-esque era continues to inspire the…
Now in its tenth year, Denver’s Indigenous Film & Arts Festival continues to present a native- and third-world view through enlightening film screenings and other events. The multi-location, multicultural fest, this year themed “Connections,” begins to unreel tonight at 7 p.m. with a free screening of global shorts, a Q&A…
For years, the University of Colorado at Boulder’s First Person Cinema series has quietly presented work by some of the best experimental filmmakers in the nation, and this time out is no different. The first of the season’s single-filmmaker showcases focuses on New York-based media artist Denise Iris, who works…
What’s an unconference? Basically, it’s by the people and for the people, a model that works just fine for this weekend’s SpaceUp Denver, which brings together regular folks with a shared interest in the mysteries of outer space during World Space Week. “SpaceUp is a template for a conference used…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
#43: Kurt Bauer If you’re an ambient/experimental/folk/worldbeat/noise/improvisatory/uncategorizable musician in Denver, you know it’s not easy to get noticed. But Kurt Bauer is on your side: Bauer — who’s spent years in Denver’s underground music scene — galvanizes a small but serious community of like-minded creatives by providing them with a…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
Actor, filmmaker and theater director donnie l. betts has been reviving the Destination Freedom scripts of Richard Durham, whose long run of live radio theater programs profiled cultural and historical African-American figures beginning in the late ´40s, for more than a dozen years as a pet project, Black Radio Days…
The familiar and evocative mature paintings of Mark Rothko channel pathos in their glowing blocks of color, but they did not leap onto the canvas automatically. The journey that took Rothko from more traditional roots to shimmering shapes is explored in a new exhibit opening today at the Denver Art…
If you think there’s something different about this year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival, check your calendar. Activities are starting about a month later than usual, and, as Fringe director Dave Ortolano notes, there’s a reason for that. Years of feedback from audiences, artists and sponsors from past fests, have indicated…
“You can set a whole continent on fire with language,” says Michael Annis of Denver’s Howling Dog Press. “Poetry at its most passionate is a language tool for getting people in touch with their inner selves. And until you do that, it’s going to be hard to change the world…
Civic Center Eats has morphed over the years from its funky beginnings as an urban lunch-hour farmers’ market to a bi-weekly food-truck party — and, as Civic Center Conservancy director Lindy Eichenbaum Lent notes, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. “There’s only so much room in the park, but…
