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. Take a look through local photographer Kitty Migaki’s camera lens, and you’ll…
If you’re emerging from the 4/20 haze without much cash, we’ve got you covered. You can learn to knit, watch a cartoon and comedy show, or visit the springtime flowers at the Denver Botanic Gardens all for free this week. Know of other bargains? Share them in our comments section…
Over the weekend, some folks went to church and others basked in the sun while celebrating Colorado’s favorite plant. But others laced up their skates and took to the floor at the Exdo Event Center dressed head-to-toe in the red, blue and gold, not mention the orange and blue. Ken…
Closing day fall on both Easter Sunday and — ahem — 4/20 for a handful of Colorado’s ski areas, so this weekend is shaping up to be all-time. We’ve put together a guide to get you through it. See also: Best of Denver 2014 Sports & Recreation…
The Denver Zoo has nearly 4,000 mouths to feed every day of the year, and that adds up to a hell of a grocery bill. But events like the annual Do t the Zoo gala help a lot toward filling zoo coffers. And this year’s Do on June 19 –…
While 4/20 is celebrated by stoners worldwide, Coloradans do it better than anybody else. A day of unity and political activism where participants can spend their every waking moment consuming cannabis is hard to beat, holiday-wise. It bears repeating, however, that in addition to being ganja christmas, April 20th is also just another day on the calendar. In 2014, it’s a notably busy day, coinciding with Easter sunday and the fifth night of passover. Kicking off your private seder with a kush Kiddush, or maybe hunting for medible-stuffed easter eggs while gorging on Peeps and Cadbury cremes with a group of fellow adult stoners are both fine ways to celebrate this unique confluence of holidays, most of the official Easter celebration are either religious or kid-centric in nature. As such, no one there will know or care that it’s 4/20. Needless to say, if you light up at one of these events, somebody will probably call the police. No one has dominion over your mind, therefore no one can prevent you from attending these events under the influence. However, if you show up red-eyed and reeking, be prepared for askance glances from concerned parents and clergy (particularly if you keep giggling at the phrase “askance glances”).
If smoking weed with the masses at Civic Center Park or Easter egg hunts aren’t your thing, there’s still plenty to Denver in Denver this weekend, everything from debates to art openings to a three-day celebration of music, comedy and, yes, cannabis. We’ve picked out ten of the best events,…
Though pot’s what’s on the whole city’s mind this marijuan-derful 4/20 weekend, the local art scene will not go up in smoke. Here are three reminders that Denver galleries serve up good vibes and even better shows every weekend of the year. See also: Teased, Torn, Coddled & Pampered at…
Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts; it can also be a profound shared experience that culminates in a better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, welcome to the Westword Book Club, a bi-weekly feature celebrating the books that inspire Denver artists.
Starting next week, the center of Denver could be the center of your workout. Civic Center Moves is just the latest project promoted by the Civic Center Conservancy to turn Civic Center Park into a more positive Denver space. “People make parks, so starting April 2a, when you work out…
#89: Jean Smith Clay artist Jean Smith Is a familiar face in the co-op community, where she’s been building and exhibiting works both joyful and challenging for many years. Her creations range from colorful wall pieces and fanciful shrines to major ceramic installations, often referencing plant forms, flowers and sea…
At the tail end of 1984, a film from one of the medium’s undisputed masters, adapting one of the great science fiction novels of all time– hell, one of the great American novels of all time — was released. David Lynch, adapting Frank Herbert’s masterpiece, Dune! What could go wrong?…
The Berningers are a talented family: Tom Berninger is a filmmaker, and when his brother Matt, a member of the Brooklyn-based band The National, asked him to go on tour as a roadie, he obliged. Tom needed a job and some direction, and his brother’s request inadvertently offered both. Tom…
The Narrators features local writers, comedians and musicians who are brave enough to share revealing personal stories with total strangers. This month’s installment revolves around the theme of (TBD) but that’s just a loose guideline, says co-host Robert Rutherford. “Though generally The Narrators has been sold as ‘creative’ people,’ we…
1959. Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is the host curator for Modern Masters at the Denver Art Museum, and he’s done a companion exhibit at his own stamping grounds called 1959: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibition Recreated. (Special tickets allow visitors to see both.) The backstory for…
And the Sun Stood Still. The shining strength of Dava Sobel’s And the Sun Stood Still is that, at a time when the sciences have been so muddied by sloppy thinking, willful ignorance and financial pressure, it provides insight into the scientific process and eloquently communicates the sheer beauty of…
Going bald is the best thing that ever happened to Jude Law. Britain’s prettiest export did the best he could with his burden of good looks. He played a genetic ideal in Gattaca and a robotic ideal in A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and in The Talented Mr. Ripley, his golden-god perfection…
Sometimes it’s helpful to know certain details about how a film has come together. And sometimes it’s just so much information. Transcendence, the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan’s go-to cinematographer, Wally Pfister, was shot on film rather than digitally, as most big Hollywood movies are today. Is that going to…
Today, it’s hard for us to fathom why preachers used to rail so vehemently against jitterbugging. Even with cultural context — black music infiltrating white America, the triumph of rhythm over melody — the whirligig boogie craze of the ’30s and ’40s now looks as wholesome as the ice cream…
The musical Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers, debuted on Broadway in 1928 and was filmed a couple of years later. It’s a romp, a trifle — full of puns, malapropisms and visual jokes, and utterly, unabashedly silly. The plot is just an excuse for the crazy brothers, nominally playing…
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is well known here, having established her name as both an artist and an art advocate over the past two decades. But she fell off the radar for a few years when she moved to Columbus to earn her MFA at Ohio State University, where world-renowned installation…
Cheech & Chong have had a longstanding willingness to appear at any weed-related event, which means the duo has been seeing plenty of Denver lately. The musical-comedy buds remain America’s most beloved stoner cliche after more than forty years, earning fan adoration with a series of cult-classic albums and films…
