What is dasHAUS? Created in Germany, the compact pavilion demonstrates the most up-to-the-minute green technologies in home-building, from the sleekest of sustainable materials to renewable energy systems. Packed full of bright ideas, dasHAUS started a fourteen-city tour of the U.S. a year ago; now it’s at home in Denver’s Sustainability…
Mimi the elephant passed away at the Denver Zoo last week, without getting to really appreciate her new home in the Toyota Elephant Passage, which opened just over four months ago. Mimi had been at the zoo since 1961; she was a gift from Helen Bonfils, owner of the Denver…
To celebrate the Great American Beer Festival, which is in town right now, and the release of its newest beer, End of the World Midnight Wheat, the Shock Top division of Anheuser Busch hired artist Stan Herd to create a massive piece of crop art in Lochbuie, near Denver International…
Fresh Nail, Wax and Dry Bar wants to change the business of nails and hair by delivering consistent service, high quality…and alcohol. Fresh is the first nail, wax and dry salon franchise in the country, and it got its start at Aspen Grove in 2010. A Cherry Creek location opened…
The lineup for the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival, which runs November 1-11, was announced this morning, a slate that includes more than 225 films — sixteen of them local — from forty countries. See also – The 35th Starz Denver Film Festival is looking for volunteers – The Artist…
This coming Monday, the American Council of the Blind of Colorado (ACBCO) challenges you to step out of your comfort zone — and into the shoes of a visually impaired person. In honor of White Cane Day, the council is holding its first-ever Raisin’ Cane event. At the crack of…
They’re out of their gourds! For the eleventh year in a row, the City of Aurora is hosting its Punkin Chunkin, an event that features pumpkins being catapulted, shot, Gallagher-ized and mutilated in all sorts of ways. Aurorans take their punkin chunkin’ seriously, and the city expects 10,000 people to…
The tradition of the small-town social is vanishing even faster than Colorado’s small towns. All the more reason to head out to the eastern plains this weekend for The Big Feed, a unique blend of art show, county fair, hoedown and foot-stomping celebration of rural culture unfolding at the rodeo…
Your bank balance is falling faster than leaves in autumn. But it’s possible to have a blast without blowing your budget. Here are ten things to do this weekend for under $10 — including eating breakfast for dinner, a Young Frankenstein Halloween party, and lots more. And six are absolutely…
Not all art has to have meaning. Some of it is made just for the hell of it, because it’s fun to make art — and sometimes that art ends up being beautiful. Or not. Munny shows tend to fall into this second category, just because it’s cool to see…
Another day, another conspiracy regarding Denver International Airport. If it’s not Martians living under the floor, it’s “Mustang” shooting his devil gaze into the heavens, or the New World Order sending secret communications via the murals. See also: – New World Order! Conspiracy theories keep landing at Denver International Airport…
Mayor Michael Hancock, Arts & Venues Denver and the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs just announced the 2012 recipients of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts: Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, Denver Ballet Guild and Emmanuel Gallery. The awards will be presented at a free, public celebration…
Denver-based Cinema Geeks was chosen as one of ten film-making teams from around the world to compete in the International AR.Drone Film Festival. Made famous on the Internet by the spoof film Hepmento, the Cinema Geeks have won awards from the Starz Film Festival, the Boulder Shoot-Out 24-Hour Film Festival…
Backcountry and big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones is bringing his Teton Gravity Research film Further to the Oriental Theater tonight at 6:30 p.m. for the local premiere of the second installment in his Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy (tickets $13), and will also be screening the film on Friday at the Boulder…
In 1987, ACT UP — the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power — was born in New York City, an activist-centered response to the growing HIV and AIDS epidemic that was largely going ignored by the American government. Through How To Survive A Plague, a documentary opening Friday, October 12 at…
Denver native T.J. Miller is one busy comic. But even on the same day that his new comedy series, Mash Up, premiered on Comedy Central, Miller took the time to give us a call and chat about Hollywood success and why he still misses Denver. During our conversation, Miller was…
The Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design is fast building a reputation as a quality artist-making machine, and Joseph Coniff, a young RMCAD graduate, is living proof. Westword critic Michael Paglia called his 2011 exhibition at Rule Gallery “a spectacular debut for a young artist” and the show also…
Bree Davies grew up in Denver, and is about the same age as the 16th Street Mall — which means she spent plenty of time on it as a teen. She reminisced about those days in a blog birthday card to the mall, a sort of love letter that accepted…
The fall opener at David B. Smith Gallery is dedicated to Gregory Euclide, whose unusual work has made him someone to watch out for in the realm of contemporary art. Gallery owner David Smith has been a longtime supporter of Euclide, and this show, Observing only the ease of my…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. The opening moments are pulse-poundingly exciting — music, live wrestling, flashing lights, tons of adrenaline from an already hyped-up audience. But the actual scripted beginning of the play is quiet, as a Puerto Rican kid called Mace describes his lifelong fascination with pro wrestling…
Made and narrated by a son in an attempt to reconcile his own perception of his father with that of the public at large, Gotham Chopra’s Decoding Deepak is as much an exercise in self-help as it is a demystification of its title character. Deepak Chopra, whose protégées include Lady…
