One of the great things about living in a place like Denver for much of your life is that you wind up with friendships that span twenty or thirty years by the time you’re my age. And sometimes, those friends’ lives are parallel and you find yourself in similar places…
One thing’s for certain — zombies have staying power in Denver, where the undead are much more than a passing fad. the Walker Stalker Con came to town this past weekend, bringing cast members from The Walking Dead, Z Nation and more, as well as Freddie Krueger himself — actor Robert…
#87: Tya Anthony A photographer first, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design grad Tya Anthony widens the boundaries of her craft through adventures in mixed-media collage, installation and performance with cultural roots, while also focusing on faces and social movements through portraiture and documentation. What’s on Tya Anthony’s horizon?…
Cheesman Park has been a fancy-pants part of Denver for years…at least since it stopped being Mt. Prospect Hill Cemetery, when the parcels of land available here were understandably much smaller, and far less sought-after. By early in the twentieth century, though, the cemetery had mostly been moved, and Cheesman…
If you’re a fan of the sitcom The Middle, you’ll remember the wonderful episode in which the family’s eccentric youngest son, Brick, starts a font blog. “If you can talk about fonts, you can talk to anyone,” he comments to his father. Brick acquires one reader, blogs for a few…
Ritualcravt holds more sparkly goodness than you’d expect to find inside one store — unless it happens to be an eco-craft store, where every gem, bone, fur, nest, petal and potion is the real deal, not some fake geode, and all chosen with care by owner Missy Rhysing, who opened the…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Bonnie Gregory grew up outside of Philadelphia, in “Mennonite country,” surrounded by lots…
Once spring has sprung in the Mile High City, you might want to head outside — but fight that urge. Because in April, you’ll want to get into the cool darkness of one of your favorite movie theaters and see a film or three. If you must spend time outdoors,…
Denver’s annual 4/20 holiday is coming right up, so you might want to start saving your green for the green. Fortunately, this week has plenty of free entertainment options that should keep you laughing and thinking. Keep reading to see our three favorites, and check out the Westword calendar for more…
Art is back in the news with the recent KKK/cop piece hanging at the Wellington Webb building. But there have been plenty of other controversial pieces of public art — and most of them don’t just disappear. We just listed the Ten Most Controversial Pieces of Public Art in Denver…
Last weekend we shared a note from Meg, who’d moved to Denver just a few days before — long enough, though, to have an important question for this city. “I have lived in your seemingly wonderful city for just five days,” she wrote. “My fiance was relocated here for work and…
Spring is the season that brings us floral patterns, the first garden parties and reminders to clean out your closets. This month offers many ways to revamp your style and prepare for the hotter season ahead, everything from festivals to fashion shows. Keep reading for the best twelve fashion events…
Tantalized by a glimpse of spring before our sunny hopes were dashed in snowbound oblivion, soggy and shivering Denverites are in need of a laugh. Fortunately, the entertainment calendar is chockablock with chuckles this April. With comedy legends new and old headlining our clubs and theaters, local shows that celebrate partnerships…
New art is blooming all over town, so don’t be an April fool — get out and celebrate the season and support your local artists. ImPressed The Art Gym Now through April 21 Art Gym shows some Mo’Print mojo in April with ImPressed, a national printmaking show juried by the…
The Best of Denver 2016 just hit the streets, but we already have a contender for the Best New Building in 2017… The Kirkland Museum, one of the city’s most beloved art institutions, will be closing its Capitol Hill home at 1311 Pearl Street on May 1 and will reopen…
April is here and it’s brought a bounty of great geek events — no fooling. From zombie conventions to classic action movies, the month is peppered with fantastic ways to live the geek life in Denver. Here are ten of the month’s best, presented in chronological order. 10. The Kepler…
After you wrap the toilet seat at your favorite neighborhood bar in Saran Wrap in honor of April Fool’s Day, retreat to one of these bargain events, where you can enjoy a very rare beer, color away your cares or clean up the community. Here are ten of our favorite…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
It’s no joke: On Friday, April 1, the Denver Tool Library is turning one — and hosting a birthday party to celebrate. In recognition of a year’s worth of achievements — including selling more than 400 memberships — the tool-sharing organization is inviting everyone in the community to have a…
There are few joys in life simpler or more pure than the cocktail of adrenaline, testosterone and cordite that makes up the American action movie. It is a not a nuanced genre. It is not a deep genre. But in the same way an ice-cold Pabst Blue Ribbon goes down…
MCA Denver likes to mash up things that don’t necessarily belong together, and so last week’s Black Sheep Friday social feted both Mad Max and Purim with Max-inspired costumes, live klezmer music and those all-important cheap drinks on the rooftop. Photographer Ken Hamblin documented the artsy party. Now see the…
Last weekend, Nina Flowers pulled the best of Denver’s drag queens – along with some of her RuPaul’s Drag Race friends – out of her magical, glittery headdress for Drag Nation’s seventh anniversary bash at Tracks, and it was anything but a drag. Oh, wait…! Have a peep at these…
