Sun’s out, guns out: Denver street art is on the grind. Last month we published a list of the ten best new street murals in the city — but more are popping up all the time. So keep reading for ten more of the best new murals in Denver. Axel…
Sartre reimagines the Greek gods in an existential world, acting students rip through the Tennessee Williams canon and a shocking Jazz-Age murder case is revisited: Here’s what’s new on metro stages this weekend. The Upstart Crow, The Flies The Dairy Center for the Arts May 15 through 30 7:30 p.m…
When it comes to pole dancing, the first image most people have is the seedy arena of a strip club. But that’s not the case with the Pole Theatre USA competition — going down this Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16 at the Oriental Theater — where audience members…
The year is 1964 and the setting Dublin for A Man of No Importance, a gentle, high-spirited musical currently showing at the Arvada Center. Inspired by Oscar Wilde, bus conductor Alfie Byrne longs to devote his life to art. His plans for a production of The Importance of Being Earnest…
Although he currently lives in New York, painter Paul Jacobsen is a Colorado native and still maintains a studio in Rico, near Telluride. The title of his solo, Outpost, on display at the David B. Smith Gallery, refers to frontiers – both the wilderness of the San Juan Mountains around…
A friend of mine and my boyfriend recently announced that he was getting engaged. To a woman he met on Tinder. Two weeks ago. Which shouldn’t be that shocking, I guess — people meet online all the time. I myself spend more time looking at my phone than looking at…
Twenty-three incredibly fit men and women set the night on fire last Saturday at the 2016 Colorado Firefighter Calendar Tryouts, an annual fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital Colorado Burn Center and and Burn Camp that packed Exdo with more than a thousand hooting fans who were pretty well-oiled by the…
#24: Christine Buchsbaum A gifted artist who uses photography — as well as film and video — to document staged scenarios and performance art, Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design graduate Christine Buchsbaum is now represented by Robischon Gallery. But as an artist/resident in the international La Napoule Art…
I have a thing about waste. I don’t like it. As a result, it’s hard for me to throw things away. Frankly, I think it’s probably genetic. My mother doesn’t like waste either, raised by my Depression-era grandmother who was the queen enemy of waste. My mom only lasted a…
Most people know Henry Rollins as the former frontman of Black Flag and Rollins Band. His 1994 memoir, Get In the Van, should be required reading for anyone coming up as a musician. A writer, spoken-word performer, actor, world traveler, radio-show host, cultural commentator and activist today, Rollins has kept himself impossibly…
Some people complain about sequels to beloved movies, while others welcome the possibility that a part deux might be even better than the first. Jason Moore’s Pitch Perfect, which riffed on the highs and lows of an all-woman college a cappella group, became a surprise hit upon its release in…
This feels like a film that shouldn’t exist. How is George Miller’s bonkers, exhausting, no-future smash-’em-up Mad Max: Fury Road not one of those almost-was boondoggles mourned and dreamed of by fans, a revered director’s impossible vision that, thanks to the un-stout hearts of studio bean counters, never actually vaulted…
Iris Apfel isn’t exactly a household name, unless we’re talking about very stylish households. From 1950 to 1992 Apfel ran Old World Weavers, the business she co-founded with her husband, Carl, which faithfully re-created antique textiles for use in home decorating: From grand Park Avenue drapes to demure White House…
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. Longtime children’s illustrator Christian Musselman recently launched a fine arts career with…
Dig into another installment of a tried-and-true mystery series with a Western theme, take off into a homegrown fantasy/sci-fi realm or get lost in the first novel from a multi-talented author. There’s a lot to explore on the local literary scene this week. Craig Johnson, Dry Bones Tattered Cover Colfax…
Hopefully you got to treat mom over the weekend, but now it’s time to treat yourself. This week, treat yourself like a princess and build a beer castle, discuss issues over some coloring books and go behind the scenes of sketch comedy all for free. Check out the Westword calendar…
Westword will publish its third annual comics issue on May 28, 2015 — and you can be a part of it. We’re accepting submissions from any Colorado artist who wants to create a cartoon about life in the Centennial State — whether it focuses on good beer, bad buildings or…
Denver artist Sabin Aell’s airy layered resin pieces look soft and cloud-like as they float across a wall so free and easy, but the process she uses to create them is anything but. In advance of Aell’s solo show The Buoyancy of Nothing, which opens this evening (May 8) at…
The third chapter of the Stanley Film Festival has concluded at the haunting Stanley Hotel in Estes Park and, like its predecessors, it was a thrill-a-minute ride, complete with scares aplenty and an increasing body count (via its glorious horror programming), that finished with a bloody, satisfying conclusion…until the next…
New and old horizons, great masters and comic book art all share the stage this week in Denver galleries. Here’s a sliver of what’s happening on the art scene over the weekend. Craig Robb: Oddities, obscura and other vague visual references Pirate: Contemporary Art May 8 through 24 Opening Reception:…
Sitting on a park bench or in your backyard is something you can do for free, but how about sitting on the back of a motorcycle? This week, that is free, too, and it might be a little more entertaining. You can also peruse flea markets art galleries and even…
When Denver artist Judy Anderson teamed up with Mark Smith of East West Partners to found the PlatteForum artist-in-residence program in 2002, their goal was to provide participatory arts experiences to underserved youth. The concept — which was intended to foster an experiential, rather than strictly educational, platform through artist…
