When artist Andrea Moore was asked to return to PlatteForum to work with high school students for the art space’s summer-long program, ArtLab, she wanted to do something teenagers would be excited about. What she landed on was subversive art. Two times a week throughout the summer, Moore worked with…
If there’s one thing that pop culture has taught us, it’s that robots fight. From Terminator to Transformers, robots are duking it out everywhere. But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. Maybe some robots just want to dance…
Even in the heat, Denver’s fashonistas manage to look flaw-free. This week’s street style features a local DJ living it up at the Underground Music Showcase on Broadway. Ready, set, here we go! More What’s in Your Bag? – Marc Jacobs, a master’s thesis and more! – Local artist ASiEL…
For her latest endeavor, Fallene Wells went big: She launched a $20,000 Kickstarter campaign to fund her Modern Nouveau line. Fans of Fallene’s work came through, the designer reached her goal, and on August 24, she will debut her fall mix-match collection at Walker Fine Art Gallery, in a solo,…
As the long, hot summer of 2012 blazes on, the idea of Christmas in July starts to look pretty cool. But that’s not the only reason the cabaret-style Denver’s Dangerous Theatre is bringing back an abbreviated version of its, um, Christmas classic, Kentucky Claus, a slightly raunchy backwoods holiday story…
Caleb Medley, wounded in the Aurora shooting, has moved hearts across the country. He and his high-school sweetheart-wife Katie moved to Aurora, where he’s worked at Walmart, then Target, then Walmart again all while dreaming of becoming a stand-up comic. Meanwhile, Katie became pregnant. Caleb is now lying in a…
Local skater Julian Christianson — Westword’s Best of Denver 2012 Best Skateboarder pick — has a knack for turning local contest honors into bigger opportunities. Last year his Hometown Heroes contest win in Denver earned him an invite to skate in the amateur finals at the X Games in Los…
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, an annual celebration of Asian Pacific American culture, returns to Sloan’s Lake for its twelfth year on July 28 and 29. The action-packed weekend kicks off with the popular Dragon Boat races, with over fifty teams slated to complete in the ancient Chinese summertime sport…
At this past weekend’s UMS music festival, my band was asked to lead the audience at 3 Kings Tavern in a moment of silence for the victims of the Aurora theater shootings. Into a microphone I usually use for inappropriate jokes and crowd prodding, I stumbled through the announcement, asking…
Sharing stories is possibly the saddest yet most uplifting aspect of facing public tragedy, and we’ve been hearing a lot of them in the last few days — about people who died too soon, saved lives through small acts of bravery, and whose own lives were changed forever in a…
Around the country, people are trying to come to grips with the horrors of the shootings in Aurora, and trying to do something, anything, to help. In Columbus, Ohio, the 165 members of the Harmony Project choir quickly came together and in 24 hours recorded the single “How We Love,”…
After six weeks of living under the same roof, 22 promising entrepreneurs from 16 different countries and every walk of life pitched their ventures to hundreds of potential funders, partners and local supporters gathered in Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado Boulder campus on a scorching Saturday afternoon. With…
This morning Forge Motion Pictures, NRS Films, and New Belgium Brewing released The Warrior, the fourth of five short films in Carbondale-based director Skip Armstrong’s series Of Souls + Water profiling a series of athletes and adventurers whose lives revolve around water in different ways. We’ve been following the series…
The Urban Assault Ride, the nation’s biggest bicycle obstacle event series, took place on the streets of Denver on Sunday, July 21, with competitors racing Big Wheels and BMX bikes along the route. Teams of two set out on a city-wide quest for checkpoints, dropping their bikes and completing a…
Denver’s proved, again, that it’s a straight-up poetry town, and also that it takes a village to make it that way. The city’s stellar Minor Disturbance youth slam poetry team crowned its weekend by taking it all at the Brave New Voices 2012 national slam-off, following in the footsteps of…
When it comes to art and bicycles, Ivar Zeile knows how to keep the wheels turning. The owner of Plus Gallery, Zeile — who was in charge of curating last year’s inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge bike art installation — is taking the project for another spin, as Colorado again…
Since his Where’s Waldo journey began in 1987, Waldo has ventured to outer space and Hollywood; he has time-traveled and visited other worlds — and now he’s coming to Boulder. This month, the notoriously elusive children’s book character turns 25, and Boulder Book Store is throwing him a party at…
Star Trek: The Next Generation fans will get a special treat tonight, when National CineMedia brings two episodes of the classic series (complete with newly polished special effects) to the big screen, including the United Artists Denver Pavilions 15. That’s the good news. The less good news is the episodes…
One way people are choosing to move forward after Friday’s shootings in Aurora: by going to the movies. It’s their way of saying that they’re not afraid — to take back the movie theater, so to speak, and especially The Dark Knight Rises, the last film in a series already…
With his post on why cruiser bikes suck, Josiah Hesse seemed to be cruisin’ for a bruising. And the hits just keep coming:…
Today Randy Weeks is president of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and executive director of Denver Center Attractions, but when he first met impresario Robert Garner in 1978, he was an undergraduate three courses shy of his marketing degree and looking for a summer box-office job. Garner, who…
The Edge Theatre Company gives the last few performances of It’s Just Sex this weekend, and the show is worth a visit. Not that the script is deep. It isn’t. But it is clever, funny and mildly titillating, and makes for perfect date-night entertainment…
