The grand old classical McNichols Building in Civic Center Park has seen many incarnations and reincarnations since it was built as a public library by Andrew Carnegie more than 100 years ago. We last peered into its open spaces during the Denver Biennial of the Americas two summers ago, after…
Though writer and illustrator Edward Gorey is best known for his macabre, nonsensical illustrated books, he is also the author of a rather bizarre play called The Helpless Doorknob. “The play is barely a play at all,” explains Royce Wood, who is directing the piece as an improv show this…
As we cast our ballots to vote for our next president, Square Product Theatre — in conjunction with 43 other theater groups around the nation — will help us remember the other 44 chiefs of state who’ve won in elections past. The regional premier of 44 Plays for 44 Presidents…
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classically creepy story of Victorian repression and split-personality disorder is coming to the stage tonight in an innovative show from Firehouse Theater. Using Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage adaptation, this production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyderetells the chilling story of a well-respected, even-keeled doctor whose experiments bring out…
For Sweet Tooth, which opens tonight, Buntport Theater is again collaborating with musician Adam Stone — and that’s a very good sign. Two of this company’s weirdest and funniest works were created in collaboration with Stone. In the first, Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang., company members spoofed musicals and sang their…
More often than not, people who design fashion or work in clothing stores see the act of getting dressed as an art form, and they dress with passion. We stumbled upon one of those gifted people, Olivia Mclean, this week. Mclean manages the Buffalo Exchange boutique on 13th Avenue while…
The Tarot is often seen as an obscure art, but Tarot Life Cards: Using Your Birthday to Chart Your Course, by Connie Lehman and Irene Clurman, makes it more accessible. Lehman has been drawing, sculpting, embroidering and curating in Colorado for decades. In 2004 she began illustrating Tarot cards for…
If you missed the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney last night, you might not be able to understand your friends’ jokes this morning. Aside from an aggressively unexpected use of the phrase “gang bangers,” last night also featured the much-memed line in which Romney mentioned “binders…
Local author (and Watercourse Foods owner) Daniel Landes will be signing copies of his new book, Joonie and the Great Harbinger Stampede, tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Tattered Cover LoDo. Portions of the novel, which features art by local painter Ravi Zupa, will be familiar to diners who’ve frequented WaterCourse…
Once upon a not-so-distant time in Denver, when Highland was still known as the Northside, a man named Marshall ran a resale Levi’s store called Northside Jeans & Gold. If you’ve been in the city for any amount of time and traveled west along 38th Avenue, you can’t miss the…
Do you love opera, operatic television commercials or even opera-themed cartoons? This weekend’s Titans of Italian Grand Opera, a show tailor-made for theater newbies and aficionados alike, is sure to be scores of fun. Conducted by world-renowned Chilean maestro Maximiano Valdes, the show will have plenty of international flavor, but…
Women are natural born leaders, according to Alexia Parks; in fact, she says, female leadership could save the world. Parks will talk about this theory and the science behind her book Hardwired: The 10 Major Traits of Women Hardwired by Evolution That Can Save the World tonight at 7 p.m…
Autumn means crunchy leaves and golden sunshine, frosty mornings and the annual Fall Studio Sale at the EvB Studio storefront that clay artist Marie Gibbons calls her home away from home. And it’s all good, especially the sale, which begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday. See also: – Reader: Marie…
What does the future of global energy look like? If we really knew the answer to that, we wouldn’t be sitting here writing this blog post. But we know it’s an important question, and if you agree, keep reading: That question also forms the central impetus of Switch, an exploratory…
The inaugural Art Meets Beast at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver was a surprise hit in 2010, featuring local chefs and arts enthusiasts in a mashup of mammoth proportions. And now the beast is coming back, with a two-day exploration of art that will culminate in a bison feast…
Led by title performer Merry Widow, Merry Widow’s Artisan Operetta features a rotating cast of local burlesque and theatrical talent that performs a variety of experiments, sketches and song-and-dance numbers at the Voodoo Comedy Playhouse on the third Monday of every month. Photographer Brandon Marshall caught up with the group…
I know. There are already whole blogs and books and television channels devoted to showing Americans how to organize, store and even get rid of their crap because, let’s face it: We are a culture of crap. We’re obsessed with crap, we watch shows about people bullying other people into…
I journeyed to Victor this past weekend wanting to believe. The old mining town sits near Cripple Creek, and though it’s still partially inhabited, many of the old buildings are completely abandoned. In other words, it was the ideal setting for the first-ever Spirits of Victor Paranormal Convention, which brought…
Melissa Borrell has been making jewelry for years — stylish, lightweight metal or 3D-printed nylon necklaces and dangling earrings in clean, sculptural shapes. But recently, she’s had a hankering to create something larger and less functional. The result goes on display at PlatteForum when her installation, tessellate, opens tonight with…
What scares you? That’s what we asked in last week’s contest that gave away tickets to Haunted Mansion and 13th Door. Most answers focused on most common fears: spiders, zombies, alien attacks, being chased, the current presidential campaign. One more original answer didn’t win those tickets, but it definitely won…
Arapahoe Basin CEO Alan Henceroth announced today that the ski area’s Black Mountain Express lift will start turning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, October 17 to mark the start of the 2012-2013 ski and snowboard season. See Also: – Level 1 Productions, Stept, MSP clean up at IF3 International Freeski…
As the temperature grows colder, Denver’s days are darkening earlier, which can only mean one thing: It’s prime haunted house season. Aaron Thackeray, Westword’s expert on all things horrific, has been patroling the city’s finest (and spookiest) scarestablishments and chronicling the chilling stories behind each one. Continue reading for photos…
