You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Marla Keown joined the Army Reserves before 9/11, “when the thought of…
Summer is here at last —- or at least it will be before the month is over. That means that it’s time to get outside, even for geeks! No, there aren’t any camping events on this month’s list of great geek events, but there are a few that might require…
Wonderbound is about to launch a new season of Mixology, a summer series of dance classes led by members of the dance company. If you want to dance but don’t have much — if any — formal experience, Mixology will offer you a chance to learn from professionals in a…
June is here, and it’s brought plenty of fun — much of it free. This week you can watch movies, look at art or get sporty in the mountains…and that’s just the start of the bargain entertainment. For more options, check the online Westword calendar — and let us know…
And the skies broke and the sun emerged as if to tell us all “It’s June! And these summer movies aren’t going to watch themselves!” Whether you’re planning on camping out at the multiplex for the finest Hollywood fare or squeezing as many classic, arthouse and foreign films into your…
When Tran Wills opened her latest business venture, Base Coat Nail Salon, in 2013, the concept was simple: offer customers and employees a safe, non-toxic beauty experience in a charming, art-minded environment. But less than a year after the longtime Colorado entrepreneur’s shop had found a home on Tennyson Street,…
At Denver galleries and art museums this weekend, you can say hello to a budding artist or symbolically say goodbye to an exhibit honoring the faceless ranks of the Chicano movement. Another new show looks at how skyrocketing rents and development in fringe neighborhoods are putting the squeeze on artists…
The Shaken Baby Syndrome campaign has been one of the most successful public-service pushes of the last few decades – the warning to “never shake a baby” can be recited by many adults and children on request — but what hasn’t been communicated is the lack of science behind SBS,…
There is so much more to Colfax Avenue than what appears on its often misunderstood surface. As an advocate for the 26-mile drag and its unique history and culture, local non-profit 40 West Arts set out to collect information about Colfax — West Colfax, in particular — through a survey…
Details matter in fashion. At Broadway and Ellsworth, we spotted Joli Castor, an Art Institute high school representative and world fusion belly dancer with Bale Fire, wearing a pair of mint-green leather platform heels. “Fashion is an expression of who we are on the inside at any given moment in time…
If you haven’t seen the Edge Theater’s production of <em>Jerusalem</em> yet, this weekend is your last chance — and you don’t want to miss it. Keep reading for a capsule review of that show, as well as two more on local stages. Detroit. Detroit is intelligent, absorbing, lively, surprising and…
May is just about a wrap. The month flew by with all kinds of fun things to do in between the thunderstorms. But you can say goodbye in style by LOLing at various Crom Fest events, diving into the pool, and checking out photography for an amazing cause, among other…
If you’re a fan of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe and its film Super Troopers — and plenty of you are, since the Indiegogo campaign for the film’s sequel was complete in a matter of hours — then you may already have your tickets in hand for the June 2 Film…
Maybe we contain multitudes, and maybe we contain a couple great splashes of primary color. With one arm stretched high above his head, puppeteer Caroll Spinney has spent the last decades embodying the warmest of yellows and grimiest of greens, playing — in every sense of the word — Sesame…
In the decadent 21st century, the summer movie season now sprawls from March through December. (Star Wars: Episode VII is due to awaken the Force December 18; every prior Star Wars picture has come out Memorial Day weekend.) But I’ll stick to tradition and call Memorial Day the start of…
Summer is here, at least unofficially, bringing popular fare back to Colorado stages. This weekend you can go back in time with musical Victoriana, get started on a season of repertory theater in the high country or take a risk on the cheap seats at the return engagement of a…
In 1969, kids around the globe met the wide-eyed Big Bird and cantankerous Oscar the Grouch when they turned on their televisions and encountered Sesame Street. Generations of children have since grown up with those lovable felt puppets, and so has the man who’s played both characters since their creation:…
Ronda Rousey, the reigning UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, was a Judo bronze medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games; she’s also an actor and author with the charisma and wit to match her athletic ability. On Friday, May 29 she will be at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove to sign copies of…
Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator is one of a bare handful of nearly perfect horror movies. If there was any justice in the world, it would have been the biggest movie of 1985. Instead, it’s languished as something of a cult classic, beloved by people who know it while somehow managing to…
When the tall, beautiful dramatic actress Anne Bancroft was asked what had drawn her to Mel Brooks, the short, funny-looking creator of shows and movies filled with broad, cheesy, Borscht Belt-style humor to whom she ended up married, she replied, “Mel had a lethal weapon: He made me laugh to…
For the third year running, we asked cartoonists — and would-be cartoonists — to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. We received dozens of responses; not surprisingly, many focused on cannabis (pot put the high in the smile high city, after all) — but there were also an unsual…
There’s a handsome solo at Gildar Gallery titled Someone Called Me by My Name: New Work by William Stockman. It was put together by Simon Zalkind, who’s had a long relationship with Stockman; Zalkind also curated a show of the artist’s work for the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Center…
