Height doesn’t matter — and neither do skill level or age, really. All that matters at the Harlem Globetrotters basketball clinic is that children bring their A-game. For the entire week, Harlem Globetrotter TNT Maddox, a Colorado native, and her fellow player Slick, have been hanging out in her home…
The work of composer Libby Larsen is some of the most performed in American history. She created more than 500 pieces of music — and more than fifty CDs — spanning every major genre, from opera and chorus, to orchestral and classical. USA Today referred to her as “the only…
Pretty much everyone who loves food has read Michael Pollan, knows about the argument by Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham in his book Catching Fire that cooking is what made us human in the first place, and understands that food is more than a bunch of inert substances whose only function…
For this week’s art review, critic Michael Paglia visited the Denver Art Museum, where he took in two different shows with fairly similar themes. First he visited Cover Story, which is a part of the larger Spun: Adventures in Textiles exhibit. He also took in the Red, White and Bold:…
Early this year, it looked as if the Colorado Shakespeare Festival might be on its last legs. But after some re-organization, a strong marketing push and a tightening of the festival’s focus, the New York Times named the CSF one of the summer’s hot tickets — and A Midsummer Night’s…
This hot weekend should be an ideal time to catch a free screening of the 2009 camp murder mystery A Dark and Stormy Night and wish for rain. The sun may be beating down, but there are plenty of events that won’t give your wallet a beating, from a 3D…
Huzzah! Glad tidings! And all that nonsense! The Colorado Renaissance Fest is back in Larkspur this weekend, in time to lace up your overflowing summer with jousting matches, turkey legs, fools and wenches. And so much more! See also: – The Costumes of the Colorado Renaissance Festival 2012 – 50…
Each year Central City, Colorado takes a trip down nostalgia lane and connects back with its roots. In honor of the sometimes forgotten gold mining days of the city, they put on what is called the Madam Lou Bunch Day named after one of the cities most notable character. Madam…
Being a dad is tough, which is why, in honor of Father’s Day, we’re honoring the dads whose families have literally driven them to the brink of insanity (or further). Relax. It’s only movie dads we’re talking about here — your dad probably won’t go crazy and kill you this…
Sixth avenue boasts more retail variety per square mile than any street in Denver. Where else in this fine city can the humble Denverite get an old-school barber shave, stock up on medical cannabis, shop for fly-fishing gear and get their dog groomed all within a short walking distance? Unlike Broadway, its perpendicular cousin where seemingly half the store-fronts are occupied by self-consciously quirky antique stores, or parallel Colfax with its long stretches of nothingness, Sixth avenue has plenty to offer in a small stretch of space. I don’t mean to diminish Broadway or Colfax in any way, I just want to refocus some of the attention enjoyed by the city’s most heralded streets toward Sixth avenue’s unsung charms. With that spirit in mind, Westword presents the ten best shops on Sixth avenue, in no particular order.
With the “Focus on the Families” theme setting the tone for this year’s PrideFest, there will be celebrations all over the city this weekend. While the official focus of the all-inclusive family fun is The Center’s Denver PrideFest 2013, which will be at Civic Center Park this Saturday, June 15…
Editor’s note: Artist Charlie Boots, represents the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his residency, he and his fashion-designing counterpart will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they learn the ropes from studio mentors Mona Lucero, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy…
Ever since a glammed-up JonBenet Ramsey graced the cover of People magazine, there’s been an uncomfortable, voyeuristic fascination with child-beauty pageants and the moms who push their daughters into underage sexualized stardom. We’re also a culture obsessed with weight, particularly with those classified as obese. Social worker and author Karen…
Lynda Hilburn, a local author and psychotherapist based in the Boulder area, specializes in paranormal tales of romance with titles like Diary of Narcissistic Bloodsucker. Blending genre elements before such literary mash-ups were in vogue, Hilburn believes that escaping into literature is a vital coping mechanism. This week, Westword met up with Hilburn to discuss her love of disappearing into paranormal narratives, vampires and the erotic fiction business.
When former director Lewis Sharp piloted the effort to expand the Denver Art Museum, the goal was to mount more temporary exhibits. This led to the construction of the daring Daniel Libeskind-designed Hamilton Building, which joined the landmark Gio Ponti tower in 2006. Two years later, Christoph Heinrich was hired…
Charles Partridge Adams. Rocky Mountain Majesty: The Paintings of Charles Partridge Adams highlights the career of a prominent turn-of-the-nineteenth-century impressionist who lived and worked in Colorado for decades. Adams first came to Colorado in 1876, when he was only eighteen years old. He was self-taught, but worked informally in Denver…
God of Carnage. Let’s start with the setting, so pristine, white, minimal and tasteful — chairs with gracefully curving legs, a glass table on which art books are meticulously arranged, a vase of white tulips, nicely grouped. Even if you didn’t know the play’s title, you’d know what’s about to…
Watching the documentary Hey Bartender is like spending a night at a good bar: It’s fun, easygoing, and it lasts just a little longer than it should. And the conversation, while delightful in the moment, often seems banal the next morning. It’s clear that director Douglas Tirola is passionate about…
Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel is a movie event with an actual movie inside, crying to get out. Despite its preposterous self-seriousness, its overblown, CGI’ed-to-death climax and its desperate efforts to depict the destruction of, well, everything on Earth, there’s greatness in this retelling of the origin of Superman: moments…
From the peak of Anchorman to the nadir of Burt Wonderstone, the formula for studio comedies of the past twenty years has been simple: Dude acts like a dick for an hour, turns blandly sweet toward the end, and then everyone on the DVD commentary can claim to have made…
It’s hard for any actor to hold the audience’s attention when he’s on stage with a fantastic pro like Larry Hecht. Oh, wait. I’d meant to begin with this: It’s hard for any actor to hold the audience’s attention when he’s on stage with a fantastic pro like Nigel Gore…
In February 1941, some two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, designating certain areas of the country as military zones. As a result, many Japanese people, immigrants and citizens, were interned in dismal, isolated and primitive camps. They lost their homes,…
