What makes a city great? Bolstering the arts and culture is a good place to start, and many of the nation’s best cities rely on a civic cultural plan to figure how to best do that. Denver’s last attempt at such a plan came back in 1989 when Federico Peña…
Thomas Horne of Black Book Gallery lost his twin brother, Tim, to cancer. But Horne recognizes that he’s not alone in his loss. In solidarity with the thousands upon thousands of families, friends and patients whose lives are affected by cancer, he and gallery partner Will Suitts organized Knock It…
Su Teatro’s XicanIndie Film Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a pure distillation of what the Chicano culture center offers on its stages all year long. That almost guarantees a curated whirlwind of diverse Latin-American films, filmmaker appearances, parties and world-class live performances, all in the space of four…
There’s nothing in the world quite like the University of Colorado’s Conference on World Affairs, whose 65th edition starts today. A universal grab bag of global issues, taken up in more than 200 lectures, concerts, roundtables, film screenings, panels and dozens of celebrity appearances, the annual event is all free…
There’s plenty to be happy about at today’s One Past 5 Happy Hour/Doors Open Denver Kickoff, when several local agencies will celebrate coming together to present the annual architectural open house that returns this weekend (April 13-14). Historic Denver Inc. jumped in by sharing its One Past 5 signature fundraising…
After tonight’s 7 p.m. screening of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno — part of the Sie FilmCenter’s collaboration with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center on photography in film, and a work that the center’s Keith Garcia calls “part experimental film that never came to fruition and part restoration” — lets out, it…
Andrew Novick is such a hardcore collector of stuff that he even collects memories with his camera. Sometimes they have to do with food, as in the case of his new exhibit, Sweet Tooth: 1000 Photographs of Desserts (that I ate). Novick says he’s been shooting pics of desserts for…
Writer, critic and colorful Algonquin Round Table yakker Dorothy Parker was really born to be a character in a play; known in her heyday for her caustic tongue and running witticisms, she left behind a diverse body of work, from comic poems to Hollywood scripts. And her life story was…
Corky Scholl started his Save the Signs campaign with an unsuccessful Kickstarter run. But his dream of restoring the best of this city’s classic neon signs is still going strong, focusing first on returning one artifact — the rescued sign from Denver’s legendary but long-defunct Sid King’s Crazy Horse Bar…
The middle of June isn’t that far away, so it’s not too early to begin planning for Denver PrideFest 2013, scheduled for June 15 and 16 this year in Civic Center Park. Sexy `80s pop star Taylor Dayne will headline the Center Stage on Saturday, followed on Sunday by sassy…
Jack Jensen’s Mutiny Now bookstore, now under new ownership, morphed into Mutiny Information Cafe just one month ago. But the changing of the guard at the South Broadway is already making itself evident, as the new book and coffee place begins to add events, such as the Westword Best of…
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain doesn’t have a flashy name or even a flashy look. But don’t let that fool you. While the ensemble takes its collective picking skills quite seriously and its vocals are better than average, its real strength is in doing exactly what the audience doesn’t…
When Dea Webb and Dave Wendt opened Plastic Chapel eight years ago in a literal hole in the wall in Baker, the designer toy emporium was not only a pioneer business in the neighborhood, but it also owned a retail niche that hadn’t been explored much in Denver. They opened…
As RTD prepares to debut its long-awaited west rail line at the end of April and interest in the region’s long history of mass transit is at a peak, it might be a good time to pick up a copy of Riding Denver’s Rails: A Mile High Streetcar History, Denver…
In a bow to Month of Photography, the Sie FilmCenter is partnering with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center to present Double Exposure: The World of Photography in Film, a five-program series in April that turns its focus on films that channel photography, whether through subject matter or the sheer beauty-driven…
Denver’s slam poetry community is hitting the gas: As the dates for the August National Poetry Slam in Boston draw near, competition is heating up up for spots on a local team. For the poets of Slam Nuba, whose team took first place at the nationals in 2011, tonight is…
New York collagist Charles Wilkin entered the world of cut-and-paste by accident. When he forgot to bring the correct art materials to a college drawing class, his teacher let him cut up a pack of photos from another class to create collages — and he discovered he had an affinity…
When we think of photography and American Indians today, the first images that come to mind — ironically and invariably — are the famous, early twentieth-century photogravure portraits by ethnologist Edward S. Curtis. A century later, Navajo photographer and installation artist Will Wilson decided it was time to update the…
#81: Terri Bell Terri Bell has been busy in 2013, changing hats constantly as an artist, photographer, curator and gallerist. But that’s all part of being Terri Bell, whose middle name could easily be “Industry.” This month alone, she’s participated in Month of Photography 2013 in just about every way…
Space might be the place, but earth is home, sweet, home. And for that reason, tonight’s installment of Deer Pile’s monthly space-nerd evening, Space in Your Face, will turn its telescope on the place where we live, approaching the planet from a dizzying variety of angles, both scientific and out-of-this-world…
Late last week, the Denver Art Museum let the crazy dancers out of the bag: The DAM announced that fifteen out of 120 hopefuls who auditioned for artist Nick Cave last month will perform in Cave’s fantastical Soundsuits in June, alongside dancers from local professional troupes. See also: – Dancin’…
Month of Photography 2013 is far from over. A reception from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at the McNichols Building in Civic Center, will celebrate an unusual city-curated exhibit, In Camera Abstractions, which explores images manipulated within the camera, without digital effects. See also: – Traveling Route 40: Celebrating the…
