Between 1955 and 1968, there were approximately 130 murder cases connected to the civil rights movement. These murders fascinate Jake Adam York, and in his newest collection of poems, Persons Unknown, he looks closely at the unknown and oftentimes forgotten voices of the movement. “It contributes to this ongoing series…
Brian Corrigan and Samuel Schimek, the guys behind the all-Colorado pop-up store YesPleaseMore in the Denver Pavilions, and their city sponsor, Create Denver, are all about starting a dialogue between local cultural groups. But they wanted to find the right way to do it. “I went around beating down their…
In the year and a half since Johnny Copp died on China’s Mount Edgar, Aimee Copp has been both supported and inspired by the community her brother helped create — and she’s stayed busy doing everything she can to carry his dream to new heights. “This year’s a new chapter,”…
Chris Loffelmacher, the witty and wicked Fresh City Life programmer at the Denver Public Library, always infuses his productions with both fun and drama, but Frock Out 2010: Sideshow will be totally over the top — the Big Top, that is. This year’s local fashion-design showcase and fundraiser has a…
John Oliver is not a journalist, but he plays one on TV. Actually, he plays a journalist in real-life situations that are broadcast on TV — which can lead to some pretty bizarre situations. “The first one I did was the Israeli ambassador,” Oliver recalled in an interview now on…
It was a party to end all parties, and The Last Waltz, the Band’s 1978 swan song, was in many ways also the end of an era, a celebration of popular music’s old guard giving way to the fresh sounds of the ‘80s. It was what Woodstock was to the…
The word “impersonator” does not always have positive connotations, bringing to mind sweaty fat men in pompadours and rhinestone-studded white karate suits, puffing up the stairs and presiding over drunk weddings. Frank Ferrante is not that kind of impersonator. Sure, his act is called An Evening With Groucho and essentially…
Director Chip Mabry’s documentary portrait of Portland’s Rose City Rollers won best in show at both the Crossroads Film Festival and the Indie Spirit Film Festival this year, and the Brutal Beauty film tour has been selling out in theaters across the country. Despite his film’s success, Mabry says tonight’s…
If conservative politics are a circus, then the Palin family is everyone’s favorite sideshow. The teen pregnancy, the strange babydaddy drama, the truncated term as governor — shoot, that was the Palins just getting warmed up, evidently, because just when you thought shit couldn’t get any weirder for the Addams…
Fashion Denver’s in-house French fashion designer and artist Raphael Lobello grew up in a fort built in the 1200s. After studying screen printing in Grenoble for two years, Lobello moved near Toulouse and studied fashion design for three more before coming to Denver, where he is learning English and making…
For anyone who’s ever seen The Shining, it’s the image you can never erase from your mind: a terrified Shelly Duvall watching the ax splinter the door right before Jack Nicholson at his most crazy-eyed does that famous line: Heeere’s Johnny! Which, of course, makes it a hilarious joke if…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
It turns out running a business is hard. Like, a real pain in the ass. All the annoying employees wanting food and water and janitors and whatnot. If you’ve been contemplating opening up your own business, or if you already own one but for some reason want to pretend like…
In recent years, there’s been a spate of documentaries that traffic in what you might call “guiltertainment,” dissecting a common problem, rivetingly revealing how awful it is and then telling you how you’re complicit. Food, Inc. is that kind of documentary. Tackling the evils of giant agribusiness, Food, Inc. makes…
In most ways, the differences between Denver and L.A. are good for us — far less soul-killing vapidity here, for example — but if there is one thing we tend to miss out on, it’s that there aren’t too many movies set here in the old hometown. And there definitely…
Boulder’s Meta Skateboards celebrates its 10-year anniversary tonight at the Boulder Theater with the premiere of the new team video Lumber Jockeys and two other local videos: Properganda and With A Little Help From My Friends, plus performances by Speedwolf, The Cold North, and The Achievement…
What do you get when a popular game company swallows its pride and asks the anonymous users of 4chan’s video game forum why they didn’t like the new Call of Duty? You certainly don’t get a courteous discussion of the merits of the game along with some constructive criticism. No,…
Unless you’re a troglodyte who lives under a rock and hates freedom, you’ve seen A Christmas Carol. The play, the cartoon, the movie, the movie adapted from the play that is also a cartoon based on a true story — you know the storyline like the underside of your house-rock,…
Mondo, Mondo, Mondo — what are you up to now? Not one to lock himself up and lick his wounds, Denver’s favorite reality show runner-up Mondo Guerra, upset by Gretchen in the Project Runway Season 8 finale, is strutting his stuff all over town, including his big gig Thursday as…
Are you starting to get nervous about the holidays yet? They’re just around the corner and shopping season kicks off in a week. Perhaps you’re worried you won’t know what to pick up for that estranged uncle that inexplicably sent you a gift last year, or maybe you have a…
Westword art critic and exhibit jurist Michael Paglia has already cast his votes and chosen the works for the upcoming Art District Best of 2010 exhibition at eventgallery 910Arts, and the results will be unveiled Friday night at the opening gala. But you still have time to weigh in, too,…
Everyone likes cheap stuff, right? And cheap stuff is even better when it benefits a good cause, like the Denver VOICE. Enter the VOICE’s latest deal: wicked super-cheap Nuggets tickets to tonight’s game against the New York Knicks. As in, $85 club-level seats for $40. And $39 balcony seats for…
