Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a community-growing endeavor dreamed up by Evan Weissman of Buntport Theater, is catching on and has everywhere to go in the new year; its simple idea of presenting points of view on community issues while doing something fun and sharing milk and cookies just makes…
John McCaskill of the Upper Larimer boutique/gallery MegaFauna got his start at Derailed Ink, a screen-printing business, and printed work — more specifically, exquisitely crafted band posters — is still one of his passions as a retailer. No surprise, then, that McCaskill has chosen to showcase posters and artists in…
In February, Westword will unveil its ninth class of MasterMinds — five local creatives who go above and beyond to contribute to the arts community. But as we look ahead, it’s always gratifying to see where our past MasterMinds have gone. And after eight years a member of the very…
Maybe you keep it in the back of a drawer or between the leaves of an old journal, or perhaps in a cardboard box in the garage. You don’t know why you keep it, but you do, and every once in a while, when you come across it, it screws…
Millinery — real millinery, where hats are made and blocked from scratch — is a dying art, and nobody knows that better than self-taught Denver milliner Susan Dillon, who markets her completely hand-wrought, sculptural work under the name Kitty Mae Millinery. “I am saddened by the number of people who…
Even if the year the world was supposed to end is barely out of sight, people still don’t know much about Mesoamerican mythology and the workings of the Mayan calendar, or what that heritage means to us in modern times. But Westsider Tony Shearer did. The late activist, poet and…
The Clyfford Still Museum might just be jumping on the bandwagon by presenting its new show, Vincent/Clyfford, as a prelude to the Denver Art Museum’s Van Gogh blockbuster, which opens in October. But Still Museum director Dean Sobel thinks viewers will find that the connections between the work of Vincent…
How does a local independent theater deal with translating a Broadway show to the small stage? When the touring drama Next to Normal came to the Buell Theatre nearly a year ago, it arrived with a state-of-the-art, multimedia set. Ignite Theatre has had to build its production of the groundbreaking…
The Denver Art Museum was on a roll in 2012 and it isn’t slowing down in the new year, with exhibits showcasing Georgia O’Keeffe and Nick Cave’s Soundsuits on their way. At MCA Denver, the Ladies Fancywork Society will soon have its day in the sun its own exhibition. The…
Whether you think of New Year’s Eve as a time for parties that keep you dancing into the wee hours, or you’re the type who’s lucky to still be awake when the corks pop and Auld Lang Syne rings through the town, several events are perfect to prime your pump…
Art-museum shows reigned in 2012, from a couple of demographic-busting blockbusters at the Denver Art Museum to a visual constellation of exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and other satellites that paid tribute to a West Coast punk moment in time. But 2012…
End of the world, or end of the year? Or just a great way to end an evening? To find out, you’ll have to catch tonight’s Hell Toupee Cabaret 2012 topper at Denver’s Dangerous Theatre. Join host Infernal Phil at 7:30 p.m. for the last 2012 installment of the monthly…
Dr. Timothy Standring’s sense of humor no doubt kept him going throughout the arduous seven-year process of co-curating the one-of-a-kind blockbuster exhibition Becoming Van Gogh, which opens today at the Denver Art Museum. Though it does sport seventy paintings and drawings gathered from more than sixty public and private collections,…
Resolutions? Most people are too busy to make them these days, let alone stick to them, so most don’t even bother. But for those who do, the goal is often to get fit or lose weight. If you’re included in that group, Commitment Day, a New Year’s Day 5K run…
Socialite Holly Kylberg’s Clock Tower Events will do something a little different for New Year’s Eve this year: open up the historic Daniels & Fisher clock tower for a glitzy party that’s, well, sort of above it all. A Magical New Year’s Eve Russian Winter Ball — space extremely limited…
Denver Art Museum director Christoph Heinrich calls Ghanaian artist El Anatsui “one of today’s most extraordinary artists,” and the pronouncement rings true in his works, which seem to weave together a whole historical survey of African art through the use of modern techniques and found objects. The renowned sculptor will…
Ready to clean out your brain and start fresh in 2013? Life coach Tama Kieves has some ideas on how to glide into the new year with a serene smile on your face, and she’ll be sharing them at today’s event, Living Your Sweetest Year Yet: Ushering in the Year…
Comic Deacon Gray thinks Denver could use a few more monthly alternative comedy shows, along with such ongoing fare as the Grawlix at the Bug Theatre and the Fine Gentleman’s Club at Deer Pile. The folks at the Bug agreed, so they’re teaming up tonight to introduce Text-a-Saurus, a new…
Think there’s no fun to be had until New Year’s Eve? Think again. Sam Tallent, Nathan Lund, Chris Charpentier and Bobby Crane of the Fine Gentleman’s Club are working through the holidays, and their weekly Too Much Fun comedy show at the Deer Pile will roll like clockwork tonight at…
I can vouch for Rawlitix because I was a guest last month, and I had the time of my life. The Denver-centric live talk show conceived and hosted by local funny man and comedy promoter Onus Spears is still finding its legs, but it’s a grand idea. Spears focuses on…
As the year draws to an end, the Narrators is growing into its cozy home at the Deer Pile. The thoroughly modern storytelling session, co-hosted by Andrew Orvedahl and Robert Rutherford, brings a chorus line of local creatives with a certain verbal panache — comics, writers, musicians and the uncategorizable…
The first night of Kwanzaa is given to the principle of Umoja, or Unity, and Denver’s African-American community will kick off the celebration with family activities today from 2 to 5 p.m. and a Grand Kinara Lighting at 6 p.m., all at the Blair-Caldwell Library, 2401 Welton Street. From there,…
