The ever-changing RiNo Art District continues to grow and prosper, which means this year’s seventh annual RiNo Art Safari promises more stops and diversions than ever before. The event, which began as a series of art-studio open houses, has grown to include dozens of galleries and creative spaces, as well…
Tracy Weil is a master at the art of breathing life into ideas. He calls it branding, and that’s the business end of his skill, but it’s also about being engaged in the community, which is what makes it so special. An artist, urban agriculturist, designer and Westword MasterMind, Weil…
It’s ironic that nearly all the businesses mentioned when we named Tennyson Street the best neighborhood shopping district in 2011 have left the block or closed their doors (see the link below), including some that were strangled by prolonged street construction in the heart of the district. But now that…
#72: Matt Scobey Matt Scobey is a practical artist and jack-of-all-trades creative with a jones for graphic design, illustration, hand-lettering, whimsical puzzles and patterns, and grassroots collaborative projects. Some of those collaborations have been with the art collective Bored of Directors, others with underground publications, art museums and film festivals…
Forty years after it was made, viewers are still split over Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 picaresque O Lucky Man!, the second of three films the British satirist made with Malcolm McDowell, who’d already garnered recognition for handling a difficult role as the sociopathic hooligan Alex in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange…
Ray Tollison and his twin twelve-year-olds, Ben and Sam, are men who make monsters. That’s right: Together, the handy trio created their own monster-making company, A Monster to Love. They stitch together each adorable stuffed creature by hand, and the twin theme carries over into the charitable side of the…
#73: Norman Broomhall and Jean Albus Norman Broomhall raises chickens, sells vintage objects and mirrors antiqued by hand, plays the guitar and takes photographs; Jean Albus is a photographer, as well. Both are inspired by the call of nature and, together, they’ve created Into the Within, an installation that’s been…
Good things sometimes come in small packages, and that’s certainly the case with Westword MasterMind Johnny Morehouse’s long-running Five Minute Film Fest, a showcase of short shorts that pack a lot of punch in five minutes or less. Its latest incarnation has found a home at Deer Pile, and because…
Denver photographer Randall Bellows sometimes works through life changes with images he’s gone on to show in galleries here and in New York. But this time, he’s chosen a more dramatic route: Bellows looked around and decided he needed to see the world — while possibly finding himself. So he…
What would you do if a strange couple walked up to your door and asked to peek inside because one of them had supposedly grown up in the house? That’s just one of the questions you’ll still be pondering when The Ding Dongs (or What Is the Penalty in Portugal?)…
What began as antique dealer Eron Johnson’s winter reverie — how to get together with a few friends and have an outdoor market — has now turned into a major event. “It was a case of bad weather and boredom, and wanting to do something that said it was spring,”…
The makers of A Monster to Love’s stuffed creatures believe that every child should, in fact, have a monster to love. And because AMTL founder Ray Tollison’s twelve-year-old sons, Ben and Sam, are twins, every cute and squishable monster that the family venture makes also has a twin that they…
One reason we return to Facebook again and again is to look at the pictures –and to share them, too. But when artists join in that endlessly unfolding online scrapbook, things really start to get interesting. Following are some of our favorite FB portraits of Colorado artists. See also: -…
Yoshi Saito’s sculpture is a little bit wacky, but in the most delightful and natural way. His new show at Ironton Gallery — currently on view through May 18, with a reception on Friday, May 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. — offers new insight into what’s in Saito’s mind…
#74: Nancy Smith The sky’s not the limit for Frequent Flyers founder and director Nancy Smith, who literally hangs around most days at her Boulder aerial-dance studio: teaching, choreographing, visualizing, directing and dancing, sometimes in an upside-down position. It’s a rare profession, with one hand reaching clear up into the…
Cast-iron cooking is an art unto itself, as any Sister on the Fly will tell you. And members of the nationwide sisterhood of adventurous women who caravan together in vintage trailers all over the U.S. spend a lot time perfecting their camp cuisine. Local author Irene Rawlings, a Sister herself,…
Before the original Alien clinched stardom for director Ridley Scott, back when Blade Runner was just a twinkle in Scott’s imaginative eye, there was his first film, The Duellists, a Napoleonic-era yarn based on a slip of a real incident that was later embellished into a short story by Joseph…
It’s been a long wait, but RTD’s spanking new West Rail Line officially opened to passengers this morning. Tomorrow, however, the parties begin, as the transit organization opens all of its rail lines up for free rides, with themed community celebrations, also free, scheduled at most of the new West…
#75: Conrad Kehn The opening sentence of Conrad Kehn’s professional bio kind of says it all: “Conrad Kehn is a composer, improviser, performer, educator, writer and artist.” But that’s the glib definition of a guy who, under the skin of his basic vita, is hellbent on spreading the joy of…
Sisters on the Fly is one of those phenomena that make American life more interesting: It’s a colorful, nationwide group of women who like to get together for vintage-trailer retreats, decorating their Airstreams and canned-ham rolling houses with Americana murals and sharing such old-fashioned traditions as Dutch-oven cuisine. The latest…
In the last year, the Denver Art Museum’s taken us on a rollercoaster ride of exclusives and firsts, with the Yves Saint Laurent and van Gogh blockbusters at the forefront. And the thrills aren’t stopping any time soon: Next up is Georgia O’Keeffe, whose work — remarkably, given her stature…
Today marks the grand opening of RTD’s West Line, serving the West Colfax corridor from Union Station in downtown Denver to the Jeffco Government Center in Golden. Rides will be free all day not just on the West Line, but on the entire light-rail system, and community celebrations are planned…
