For almost twenty years, the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association has been teaching history by reenacting it. The non-profit puts together workshops and what it calls “performances” that represent the sport as it existed in the mid-1800s, when it was known as “base ball.” Wearing nineteenth-century uniforms and using vintage…
There isn’t one definitive way to view spirituality, and that’s what Katie Hoffman and Hilary De Polo want to illustrate in their new show at Core. One of the reasons juried group shows like Spirituality are so interesting is that they can emphasize the diversity of a theme through many…
Crystal Lee is a fashion designer, seamstress, stylist and all-around bad ass. Shunning the corporate world in order to follow her passion — and avoid beige nylons — she is pursuing her love of fashion as a student at the Art Institute of Colorado. Her line of super-easy, fly and…
While it often gets overshadowed by the music scene, Denver actually has a rich history of underground literature. From the Kerouac-inspired bohemian coffee and bookshops of 1960s Colfax to the Yellow Rake readings at Old Curtis Street Tavern, our city has been spawning independent works of fiction and poetry for…
Faced with the postponement of two screenings of the highly anticipated film The Beatles: The Lost Concert, Boedecker Theater manager Glenn Webb didn’t cry in his kidney pie. Instead, he secured a replacement reel: Paul McCartney Is Really Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison, a comic mockumentary corroborating the…
Britt Chester, who sold his car two years ago and relies on his bicycle and public transportation to get around, has been riding around this town’s bike trails, stopping to snap pictures. This photos become posts in our “guess where I’m biking” series — which has a B-cycle card as…
There are only a few thousand Jewish people left in India; many of them immigrated to Israel decades ago. Siona Benjamin, an artist originally from Bombay, explores the singular experience of being an Indian Jew in her work, which uses both classic and modern imagery and a variety of mediums,…
Ah, spring, the time of year when a young person’s fancy turns to love — or, in Colorado, love of bikes. And just in time for the warm weather, Bike Prom is back. The second annual event combines two Denver obsessions: wearing costumes and riding bikes. This year’s theme, Jocks…
Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett), burlesque madame extraordinaire, has been getting back to basics: the vintage songs, costumes and vibe that pulled her into the burlesque scene to begin with. That’s part of the concept behind a store she’s opening with burlesque wife Eve Vette. To help cross-promote her…
The Blend got its start when DJs Hoang and Sami T launched the night in Los Angeles; after they moved to Denver, they started it up again with another local favorite, Brick Lee. “Each month one of us takes the lead, and we’ll have creative control for that month,” explains…
The crosstown roller-derby rivalry between the Denver Roller Dolls and the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls comes to a head tonight at the 1STBANK Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, with a triple-header starting at 7 p.m. But first, the leagues’ all-star squads — DRD’s Mile High Club and RMRG’s 5280 Fight Club –…
The humble ukulele has come a long way since the days of Tiny Tim. A folk instrument for the people, it’s recently turned up in high-profile recordings by such mainstream artists as Jack Johnson, Eddie Vedder and Denver’s own Danielle Ate the Sandwich, who has elevated the simple art of…
There are a million parties in the naked city, and this is definitely one of them. At tonight’s Boots N’ Boxers fundraiser at Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut Street, models will strut the catwalk in just their skivvies, which will then be auctioned off to the highest bidder –…
Though shopping has a reputation for being more of a girl thing, when you add bikes and bars to the mix, it’s likely that more than a few guys can be coerced to tag along. That’s not the motivation behind today’s DIBS Bike Crawl to a trio of trendy hipster…
Even in fitness-fanatical Denver, running thirteen sweaty miles through the center of town can be an off-putting notion. Fortunately, the organizers of this year’s Kaiser Permanente Colfax Half Marathon have found a way for the race-impaired to cruise the urban romp in style. The first annual Denver Art Scooter Parade…
As the weather heats up, Colorado Rockies baseball games will get more intense, and the beginning of this season’s interleague play should only help. The team will face their first American League opponents, the Seattle Mariners, tonight as part of a three-game series at Coors Field. The Rockies take on…
Based on Amy Tan’s novel of the same name, the on-stage version of The Joy Luck Club tells the story of four Chinese women and their daughters, and how they reconcile their changing relationships and cultural connections. But Craig Bond, artistic director of Vintage Theatre, which is staging the production,…
Justin Halpern has made a living off his memories, of which he has many. Ranging from brutally honest to painfully embarrassing, the deeply funny writer earned a cult following and three-million-strong Twitter army with his wry observations on his grouchy father in Sh*t My Dad Says. Now he’s aiming his…
In preparing for its current production of The Joy Luck Club, Vintage Theatre found itself in a bind: In this town’s small theater scene with its even smaller pool of Asian actors, how was the company going to stage a play requiring an all-Asian cast of 21 actors? (See http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2012/04/the_joy_luck_club_runs_through.php)…
Jackson Galaxy has what he calls “cat mojo,” and it fits his image like the cat’s meow: The bald-headed, tattooed, goateed pet whisperer looks a little scary, but if you watch his Animal Planet show, My Cat From Hell, you’ll see that he’s really rather sweet, and certainly down-to-earth when…
Olympic weightlifter Cheryl Haworth is a rare commodity: a woman who lifts weights in the international arena. She’s the top-ranking lifter of any gender in the United States, tips the scales at more than 300 pounds and boasts a twelve-generation American lineage. Her greatest moment was winning the bronze at…
While Veronica Reeves recognizes that there’s a place for calculated, meticulously planned art, that place isn’t NEXT Gallery. Not right now. Reeves has organized an entire show, Mindpool 2012, dedicated to creative work that comes from intuition and chance, and celebrating risk over regulation. “At first I was a little…
