Ever since the cavemen used embers to sketch animals on their cave walls, humans have been making art about where and how they live. But the city is a far cry from a prehistoric cave, and portraying the cosmopolitan scene is a lot more complicated for modern-day artists than it…
Summer in Denver, and it’s hot, hot, hot. So are the responses to Bree Davies’s “Top five: Stop whining and enjoy the summer already.” And in his comment, Desert Badass added fuel to the ire with this: It’s 116 in Phoenix Arizona so quit your sniveling you Colorado Pussies…
Today Show and Tell (and all the other Westword blogs) rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation. Your voice and opinion in our comment sections will now be amplified through a fancy new commenting program called Lifefyre (“live fire”). Read all about it below…
The Unreasonable Institute’s culminating event, the Unreasonable Climax, will go down this Friday and Saturday, July 20 and 21, in Boulder. Friday’s “A Day for Play” consists of free workshops, activities and discussions for Climax attendees at venues across downtown Boulder, including Shine, SCRiB and Bitter Bar; from 1 p.m…
This year’s Denver Comic Con was too good to be true: Drawing more than 27,000 comix gawkers to the Colorado Convention Center over three days in June, the inaugural expo exceeded all expectations, proving once again that Denver is one lovably geeky city. We can dress up like Wonder Woman…
Athena Project’s Plays in Progress series is now in full swing, and while the plays are only getting a workshop treatment, one of them will win a full production at next spring’s Athena Project Festival — and that means it will need a costume designer. Cue the festival’s newest opportunity:…
Now in its fourth year, the Cinema Q Festival at the Denver FilmCenter showcases the many sides of GLBTQ film, with movies that capture everything from social-justice issues to stunningly accurate portrayals of everyday queer life. More than a dozen films, handpicked by programming director Keith Garcia, will be shown…
There is so much art in this great city of ours! From the public art you see as you pedal around downtown to the graffiti that is painted on random brick walls. Here, we passed by this great sketch of old Denver which includes scenes from downtown, and all the…
With the advent of tintype photography, during the Civil War, the chance to capture family memories was made more accessible to the middle classes. However, getting kids and babies to sit still for the long shutter speed was evidently a problem, as collectors of tintype photographs figured out when they…
Austin, Texas weirdo Paul Soileau has done the drag thing: Within the confines of heels and pearls, the performer has seen plenty of success under the Rebecca Havemeyer moniker. But Soileau desired more for himself and the stage, and after scratching just below his own performance surface, he found Christeene…
There’s nothing like sipping wine to put you in the mood for looking at art, and that’s the duh, of course! thinking behind Wine of the Americas, a fundraiser making its return to the Museo de las Americas tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. See also: – Cara a Cara:…
Although The Dark Knight Rises will be released officially just after midnight tonight, at Premiere to Remember, people will be able to see the movie four and a half hours earlier — and also party with fellow fans. And in a contest announced earlier this week, we promised to give…
The 2012 Olympic Games kick off in London next week, but you can participate in games of a different kind today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. In the Geek Olympics, teams compete in a variety of Olympics-inspired challenges around the museum for the chance to win prizes…
While doing road time is par for the course for just about everyone, it seems that women are still on the short end of the stick shift when it comes to knowing what goes on under the hood of a car. But the folks at Denver’s Green Garage see no…
Dark Knight Rises is the third film in the gritty reboot of the Batman franchise, which began in 2005, and it could break box-office re-cords for the biggest-grossing opening weekend in movie history. But you can see it a full four and a half hours before almost everyone else at…
If you take the idea of mainstream drag, douse it in raw sewage and draw lipstick on its teeth, you’ve got Christeene Vale. Just one of performer Paul Soileau’s many personas, Christeene is a queen on a mission — to sing, dance, spit and make her adoring fans as uncomfortable…
John F. Kennedy remains one of the most heroic figures of the twentieth century: The war hero and iconic president died young and tragically, leaving behind a romantic ghost-image that has expanded exponentially over the past fifty years. You’d almost think his persona was somehow crossed with James Bond’s in…
The humble art of hula-hooping has enjoyed a revival of late, with a new generation discovering the joys of the purposeful swivel. As an exercise, hula-hooping is hard to beat: It combines cardio, strength training and a kind of moving Zen meditation. (Let your mind go and you can circle…
“If you never pictured yourself as someone who’d go to a wine event, you should still consider coming to Unwined,” says Club W founder Xander Oxman. “It’s going to be more of a party than a wine tasting.” That’s in line with Club W’s purpose, which is to introduce wine…
The downhill mountain-biking trails at Winter Park’s Trestle Bike Park will see some serious thrills and spills next week when the Colorado Freeride Festival hits the slopes, but today’s action is decidedly mellower, says Ashley Skrdlant, spokeswoman for the annual TreadFest Charity Mountain Biking Festival. “The Tread Head Rec Ride…
It’s rare to see the work of George Peters and Melanie Walker in an art gallery; it’s usually in the sky. The two are known for creating colorful kites, mobiles and installations that fly all over the world. “The thing that we really like about making kites is that it…
The folks at Obscene/Courageous Theatre hope that after you see one of their productions, you’ll leave feeling entertained — and a little bit disturbed. The company’s modern staging of the macabre Jacobean drama The Revenger’s Tragedy — which tells the tale of a young man who plots his revenge after…
