#74: Gemma Danielle Artist Gemma Danielle’s intricate mandala work intersects with her mastery of the healing arts as a Reiki practitioner. For her, both are spiritual, referencing inner energies and meditational journeys. And now she shares these visual therapies on a larger scale in public murals, most notably her Urban…
June has come and gone, and with it, gay pride month, but the reverberations of the tragic mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12 — which took the lives of 49 and wounded 53, all from the Latinx and LGBTQ communities — continue to move…
The Fourth of July flew right by, so there’s no time to waste if you want to enjoy the summer. This week’s calendar boasts plenty of free fun and games, including a movie at Denver International Airport. Check out the Westword calendar for even more events, and let us know…
The Fourth of July lands on Monday, which means a long weekend of celebrations this year. There are dozens of ways to fill the time, from serious fireworks displays and red, white and blue picnics to neighborhood block parties and choral-themed festivals. Here are our thirty favorite parties and places…
Lets take a moment to remember the late great Bill Cunningham, who passed away this week at 85 and was a an inspiration to the fashion and art world, photographing fashionistas all over New York. Many believe Cunningham was the grandfather of street-style, and likeCunningham we attempt to capture the…
Bud+Breakfast is opening a new location in the mountains of Grand County this weekend, marking the company’s fourth marijuana-friendly bed-and-breakfast in Colorado. Located about an hour and a half from Denver in Parshall, Camp Bud+Breakfast was set up in partnership with Aspen Canyon Ranch, in a ranch setting where guests…
As weed-smokers across Colorado prepare for a long weekend of revelry and patriotism, here are some ideas for how to create some new Fourth of July traditions to make your holiday an elevated experience. Water Indica users in particular will understand this: There’s nothing like diving into a pool or…
As Denverites roast their way through international hot dog month during the high plains heat, opportunities abound to chortle away the evenings in air-conditioned comfort. Fittingly for a month named after an Emperor, July has a legion of comedic delights ready to lay siege to our city’s sweaty audiences — everything…
The Emmy award-winning Colorado Inside Out is offering another blast from the past at 8 p.m. tonight on Colorado Public Television with “Time Machine Special: Circa 1876.” Colorado became a state in 1876, the same year the nation celebrated its centennial — which explains this state’s nickname. It’s a little…
Sure, July is all about fireworks and celebrating the launch of the American endeavor, but when it’s time to take a break from all the backyard pyrotechnics and flag waving, you’ll be happy to find a month well stocked with geek fun. From the greatest fan film ever made to…
With The Stoner’s Coloring Book, Jared Hoffman has created the first adult coloring book designed specifically with stoners in mind. Hoffman, a graduate of Cornell University now living in Brooklyn, worked with artists around the world to compiled over forty illustrations designed for “high-minded” individuals. Hoffman’s goal was not just to…
Hot dogs, hamburgers, fireworks and heat will always stamp our memories of summer, but it may be those moments we spend inside the refuge of our favorite movie theaters — scientifically cooled by refrigeration — that leave our minds and imaginations racing like a kid headed toward a water slide…
Pack as much fun as you can into the weekend — Monday is a holiday, when you can nurse that hangover while watching fireworks. There’s plenty of First Friday art and free music, and even a Canadian dance party to keep you busy until July 4. Here are our ten…
The Alamo Drafthouse is flying high this summer, with a new partnership with Denver International Airport calling for Alamo to produce a free, four-film-series this year, Film on the Fly, which will show off the new open-air plaza that connects the iconic Jeppesen Terminal with the Westin Denver International Airport. The series…
If your city’s power grid shuts down this summer, it may be a brownout, or it may be an act of cyber-warfare — a straight-out-of-Hollywood scenario that suddenly seems scarily possible thanks to the labyrinthine story director Alex Gibney tells in his riveting documentary Zero Days. It’s complicated, but know…
Passion. That’s what lies at the heart of the geek experience. Spaceships, wizards and monsters may be its signifiers, but what really drives geek culture is passion. Crazy, all-consuming, unbridled passion, the kind that drives people to reread dozens of thousand-page tomes, argue minor plot points endlessly in online forums,…
#75: Arturo Garcia Activist, workingman, writer and painter of animals and people, Jaliscan emigre Arturo Garcia also partners with the Boulder-based Americas Latino Eco Festival as steward of Graficomovil, Mexican artist Artemio Rodríguez’s mini-museum and community printmaking studio on wheels. This summer, Garcia is on the road with Graficomovil, making…
Josh Viola, the award-winning author of The Bane of Yoto, founded Hex Publishers last year and promptly released a horror anthology, Nightmares Unhinged. This November, he’ll publish Cyber World, a steampunk collection. But in the meantime, he has another project: Words, a free online zine for junkies looking to load up…
After twelve debauched years, last call for the legendary open mic at Squire Lounge was June 28. A rogue’s gallery of Squire favorites took the stage that night for a boozy, profane farewell to the “meanest mic in America,” topped off by a performance by Denver comedy supergroup Big City…
Patrick Marold: Residuum, an intriguing solo at Goodwin Fine Art, features abstract process pieces by one of Denver’s most accomplished conceptual artists. They have the refined elegance and quiet, contemplative character that have been key components of Patrick Marold’s work over the past decade — but they also reflect a…
Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, a 1900 novel about the depravities in all social strata written from the point of view of a servant named Célestine, has famously been adapted twice before, by two of cinema’s immortals. Benoît Jacquot’s uneven take on the material won’t challenge the stature…
In a stark white room, four boys huddle on a mattress, addressing the camera. They’re athletic, the picture of youth and every Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. A blond boy says, “We want to thank Jane O’Brien Media for this opportunity,” and they all smile and wave. They’re about to take…
