Skin Holistic Dermagraphic Clinic is trying to bring tattoo art back to one of its ancient uses: wellness and health. While today a tattoo is generally considered an artistic expression, clinic co-founders Gwynn “Wolf” Wolfstar and Tara Gray-Wolfstar believe it goes beyond the surface and can help heal external and…
The image I had in my mind of Las Vegas before I visited the city last week was a very different one from the city I actually saw. The strip isn’t really a glamorous walkway of lights and people like it’s presented in movies and popular culture; it’s more like…
Hoards lined up to meet meme kitty Lil BUB and marvel at freak-show feats at the 2015 Denver County Fair, where beautiful pies were awarded blue ribbons – and decimated in pie-eating contests – while folks enjoyed carnival rides, live music, a drag-queen contest, the Robot Opera and dozens of…
I decided to take a break from dealing with the tiny house last week and focus on more important issues…like PIE. I take cooking pretty seriously. And I don’t consider “making a sandwich” cooking – even though a sandwich is the most popular meal in America, as Michael Pollan pointed out…
#16: Toluwanimi Obiwole In Denver, we raise poets. Toluwanimi Obiwole is one of them: As a member of Minor Disturbance youth slam poetry team, she took the Denver city slam and became a Brave New Voices international slam champion; now a student in architectural engineering at the University of Colorado,…
Well before the end of the seemingly endless three hours of vicious invective that is Edge Theater Company’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, I’d have been happy to see George strangle Martha or Martha kill George. And given how stellar the acting is in this production, the scene would have…
The heat of August is upon us, but the fashion world is looking toward fall. If you are searching for a fresh new look or simply getting ready to head back to school, events this month should have you looking good. From fashion shows and sales to charity events and…
Jonathan Demme’s rock-and-roll dramedy Ricki and the Flash exists in a wormhole where the last five decades of pop culture are a blur. There’s 66-year-old Meryl Streep, playing a broke singer who ditched her family to dominate the stage with the whiskey growl of Janis Joplin, the jangly jewelry and…
Sometime in the 1980s, Marlon Brando had his face digitized, presumably as a way of leaving just a bit more of himself after his departure from this planet. As we see it in Stevan Riley’s documentary Listen to Me Marlon, that speaking, moving hologram looks like a cross between George…
HTML On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast: The Vacation reboot disappoints, as does Adam Sandler’s Pixels (but it can’t be near as bad as critics are describing, says the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl). Meanwhile, the ’40s noir melodrama Phoenix might be one of the year’s best, says Voice film critic…
Derek Reinhardt, a prominent member of the Denver arts community, passed away early on the morning of July 25. He had created his own photography business, For Love of Still, and co-founded Welcome to the D.O.P.E. Game; he also did humanitarian work with Clean Water Around. He was creative, talented…
Indie design blogger Jeanne Connolly loves to see how creative people put their houses together. In this series, she shares some of her favorite homes, taking us inside the unique private spaces of metro Denver and beyond. Denver artist Meagen Svendsen and her husband, architect Robert Treta, have combined their…
Someone said poetry is the art of juxtaposition, and this work week’s book-ended (get it?) readings offer a convenient study: A nineteenth-century lawman sets out to take back his tarnished reputation from the bandit who framed him and ends up falling in love; meanwhile, in postmodern Brooklyn, a young drone…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Noelle Nelson, a self-taught painter who was born and raised in Denver, graduated…
Since you just paid your rent, your pockets are empty: Fortunately, the week is full of free fun. Catch a movie or two, party with canines who need our help as much as we need theirs. Check out the Westword calendar for more events, and if you know of other…
Denver author Danica Favorite estimates she wrote between 15 and 20 novels before she got the first one published — so many, at any rate, she can’t even recall the exact number. Romance novels tend to draw snickers from the literary crowd, but it’s hard to think of a “literary” writer…
Artist Delton Demarest has spent the summer creating portraits of deceased musicians — Amy Winehouse, Biggie Smalls, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia — that comprise an album of artists you wish were still alive today. It’s all part of his larger-than-life triptych mural project on the garage…
In the world of LEGO, everything truly is awesome. Love for the decades-old building blocks has never been bigger, and the company makes sets for dozens of popular movies, which sell like hotcakes year-round. LEGO bricks even got their own big-screen adventure last year with the aptly titled The LEGO Movie…
“Hot town, summer in the city.” It sure is, but you know we’ll keep your weekends cool with these ten events. Bounce around some county fairs, check out some flicks and roll around on two wheels a couple different ways for an exit out of July and into August. Check…
We were just lamenting the hot-hot heat of July and now the dog days of summer are upon us. Though the summer movie blockbuster season is starting to putter out, we found some great ways to spend time in the comfort of your favorite theater’s air conditioning while its silver…
Geek culture is big, but even in the vast, loosely defined ocean of “geek” there are a few universal touchstones. That’s not to say that everyone agrees on them — hell, if you can get five geeks together in a room who agree on more than two separate geek-related things,…
In perhaps the greatest combination since chocolate met peanut butter, some great Denver drag performers are about to take on your favorite fairy tales. When the dust settles, who will be left — and what will be left of them? Daniella DeCoteau, one of our celebrated Diva Dozen, will be…
