Boulder’s Satellite Boardshop is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and this summer also marked the shop’s seventh annual Ride With Us Colorado Skatepark Tour, which started back in May at the new Arvada park (a Westword Best of Denver 2012 winner) and concluded in August at the new park…
The 35th Starz Denver Film Festival returns to the Mile High City from November 1 through 11, and is looking for volunteers to help both before and during the annual cinematic extravaganza…
After a hiatus, The Narrators is back. The monthly evening of truth- telling was started two years ago by writer and comedian Andrew Orvedahl at Paris Wine Bar (his efforts earned Orvedahl a MasterMind); he has now enlisted his friend and Narrators regular Robert Rutherford to co-host — and moved…
Do you like your art small? If so, VSA Arts/Access Gallery is the place to be this Friday night, when works less than a foot square will be available for purchase at a 99 Pieces of Art on the Wall fundraiser. The art is not just all over the wall,…
Molly Ringwald started writing as a child — before she became an ’80s teen icon who starred in such John Hughes films as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club . She says she never really thought she’d publish anything, though — but last year, she released her…
From collaborating with jazz legends to hanging out with Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, David Amram has accumulated quite an impressive resume. He’s written multiple books as well as musical pieces, and he’s in Denver this week performing at a variety of events to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Woody…
In 1977, Coors Brewery workers went on strike over a host of grievances, and today the Auraria Library Special Collections Department contains a small collection of materials from the Coors Boycott and Strike Support Coalition of Colorado. With letters of solidarity, financial documents, receipts, product orders and a variety of…
Wayne White might be your favorite visual artist of the last few decades that you didn’t know existed. But that was sort of the point behind Beauty Is Embarrassing, director Neil Berkeley’s the documentary about White’s life and career thus far, which will screen at the Denver FilmCenter this Friday,…
There are a few things Denver residents love: craft beer, the outdoors, bikes… and coupons? According to a recent study conducted by ShopAtHome.com, we also love a good deal. Denver ranked second on the coupon website’s list of most frugal cities, after Salt Lake City. See also: – Boulder is…
Molly Ringwald, who comes from a family of voracious readers, started writing as a child — before she became an ’80s teen icon who starred in such John Hughes films as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club — but says she never really thought she’d publish anything…
How does the peaceful vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. translate in the heart of China? The subject of the documentary Bringing King to China, an American woman teaching in Beijing, decided to find out by jumping the multiple hurdles of interpretation, governmental suppression and fundraising to produce a…
Next month William Morrow will join the Denver Art Museum as the new Polly and Mark Addison Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. He’s coming from Louisville, Kentucky, where he was founding director of the contemporary art space at 21c, a combination boutique hotel and museum. Michael Paglia met with Morrow…
Nan Desu Kan, Colorado’s annual anime convention, took the Marriott Hotel in the Denver Tech Center by storm (and in costume) this past weekend as fans from across the state flocked there to to live out their fantasies. Dreamers representing all walks of fiction made the three-day fest a circus…
I am in no position to call anyone a “nerd.” Coming from me — a mere observer/outsider at this past weekend’s Nan Desu Kan Sweet 16th annual Anime convention — that word would be derogatory…and wrong. Sure, anyone could snag a ticket (or a three-day pass, as I did) to…
Lucha Rama mixes luchadores, Jell-O wrestling, dancing and drinking into some good, old-fasioned debauchery. Which means that on Saturday, minor minor mayhem ruled for several hours at Beauty Bar. Photographer Christopher Morgan captured the night in our full slide show, which raises some serious questions, including this: How does one…
The Romans living in Pompeii in AD 79 were utterly unprepared for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which buried the city in ash — and preserved it almost untouched for 1,700 years. In A Day at Pompeii, which opened this past weekend at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science,…
Denver-based ski porn purveyors Level 1 Productions won big at the IF3 International Freeski Film Festival over the weekend in Montreal, with director Josh Berman and his team taking the top prize — Best North American Film — for their 2012 film Sunny, as well as Best Editing and Best…
Call it a stampede. This weekend, the Marriott Hotel in the Denver Tech Center was taken over by Colorado’s largest anime convention, Nan Desu Kan 2012, and the fantasy enthusiasts who both populate and propel it. In our full slide show of the weekend’s costumes, you’ll notice well-dressed fans of…
Nan Desu Kan is a world unto itself, and the culture of that world sucks you in. It’s something akin to jumping headlong into a manga book, and you begin to see things in terms of that skewed universe: Pink and blue locks, tails, huge eyes and supernaturally spiky hair…
The Sleeper house, the Colorado home made famous by Woody Allen’s 1973 film Sleeper, is among our state’s most iconic buildings — and, according to a recent Forbes list, one of America’s ugliest mansions. The magazine claims “it’s perfect…for aliens” — but plenty of Coloradans love the place. Thumbnail image…
Legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie was born a hundred years ago, and a century later, he’s left quite a legacy. David Amram, a legend in his own right who met Guthrie in 1956 and was commissioned by the Guthrie family to write a symphony piece based on “This Land Is…
In the 1980s, the Rotary Club of Denver held massive Artists of America auctions, which raised more than $2 million for charitable projects around the world. Those annual events stopped in 2000, but the concept has now been reborn as Artists of the World, an online auction that will raise…
