When Kizuna: West Meets East, a site-specific installation of monumental works in bamboo, opens tomorrow at the Denver Botanic Gardens, it will only be the next step in a process that began in earnest in early April, when the artists arrived at the DBG not just to install, but in…
Elitch Gardens opens today for its 122nd season, but you wouldn’t know this institution is that old by looking around the current park. With 25,000 new flowers, three new shows and three new rides, it looks as though this season’s opening could be its grand opening. “We’ve been doing a…
Our list of “Five Kentucky Derby parties that will have you off to the races” offered an array of activities, but didn’t include the 2012 Derby Party, which bills itself as “a Colorado tradition” and is an annual fundraiser for the Sean “Ranch” Lough Memorial Scholarship. The party has been…
This week’s review of Appropriated: The Chronicled West at the Robischon Gallery by Michael Paglia examines the show which opened back on March 29 and runs through Saturday. Below are a few images from the show…
If you noticed that Sunday’s weather was particularly welcoming, you were not alone. But you probably didn’t appreciate it quite as much as the fifty people wandering around the grounds of the Zang Mansion. For the first time, the sun smiled on Denver’s celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Although…
Local production company Focus 4 Design, which has done many videos for this town’s music acts, has won two Telly Awards for its work on Global Dance Festival: The Movie. The film, which premiered at Beta Night Club in late February, follows both the production crew (conflict of interest alert:…
Sophia Rose, owner of Xcentricity Gallery had so much fun body painting with artist Mythica vonGriffyn at her previous group show The Body Sacred, she decided to host a live body-painting event tomorrow, The Living Canvas, in which four artists — Brian Dunning, Bobby MaGee Lopez, Jay Bautista and Rose…
Science writer Margaret Wertheim specializes in weighty topics, but she has a light touch when writing about science and mathematics. The author of several books dealing with theoretical physics within a cultural context as well as articles for numerous publications — everything from the New York Times to a five-year…
“People go to the Denver Art Museum all the time, they go to the Denver Public Library and they don’t really think of the history behind those things,” explains Ashley Rogers, assistant director of the Byers-Evans House Museum. The mission of the new exhibit Anne Evans: Colorado’s Cultural Visionary is…
You don’t have to go to Kentucky to find a reason to wear a fancy hat on Saturday: Places all over town are hooking parties to the Kentucky Derby. And even if you’re not into horse-racing, there will plenty of other things to appreciate: the fashion, the boozy mint juleps,…
Although Albus Brooks crafted the proposed anti-urban camping ordinance, he supports help for the homeless. In fact, Brooks gave a shout-out to the Denver Voice in his recent Westword interview. And tomorrow night, Brooks will be on hand at a benefit to raise funds for this organization, a Westword MasterMind…
“What type of Wash Park fitness weirdo are you?” That was the question posed by Bree Davies in her post on people-watching in Washington Park — the greatest sport of all. Bree, for example, is a Wandering Talker. This type comes in pairs or gaggles of women (men don’t fall…
Ladies, this one’s just for you. Today, the Ladies Only Sample Tour invites you to shop, mingle and get to know local business owners during an open-door event in various shopping districts across the metro area. By purchasing an all-access bracelet from participating stores and restaurants, shoppers get special free…
They did everything for each other — and for art. When Genesis P-Orridge, industrial-rock revolutionary and co-founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, moved to New York in the 1990s, he fell in love with a dominatrix almost twenty years his junior. So he married her, making her Mrs. Lady…
As the drummer for the controversial Courtney Love-fronted band Hole, Patty Schemel barely made it out of the ’90s alive. Now, more than fifteen years after the group’s dangerous, drug-fueled peak, Schemel is releasing Hit So Hard, a documentary about her life in and out of the band. The film…
From Buddy Holly to Robert Crumb, the chic elites have always appreciated the geeks. And this Friday, City, O’ City — arguably the Xanadu of Denver’s hipster scene — will give its nod to the nerds with May the Fourth Be With You, a sci-fi costume party. “It’s the kind…
May is the month for celebrating mothers, and at this weekend’s production of My Mama Monologues, you can join in the celebration with local writers and actors as they tell true stories about their own moms. The idea for the show originated in Maui four years ago with playwright Pat…
“When you’re only renting a theater for one night and only need one good-sized audience to pay for rent, you can be more creative in your choices,” says Jim O’Leary, artistic director of One Night Stand Theater, explaining why he chose to mount the one-night-only Death by Radio, made up…
If a winter without cycling has made you stir-crazy, the end is in sight: Boulder County’s BoCo Loco Bike Bash is the perfect tune-up for the busy calendar of race events ahead. “The Bike Bash has turned into a crazy, fun annual spring event,” says spokeswoman Kathy Borgais. “We’re one…
The time is ripe for bizarre adaptations. The Book of Mormon is now a musical, music from The Legend of Zelda has been adapted for the symphony, and now the Damsels Dance Company is turning the reality television show you love to hate/watch into a dance performance. An American Love…
Besides having a kick-ass name, Ace Atkins has a lot going for him as the guy bequeathed with the late Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. A former crime reporter (and Pulitzer nominee) and established true-crime author and novelist, Atkins was anointed Parker’s successor by Mrs. Parker herself, not only because…
Veteran choreographer Danelle Helander of Helander Dance Theater knows how hard producing a show can be. “I was getting frustrated. Every time I’d go to produce a concert, it was so expensive,” she says.”But I also love the idea of doing art in places where people least expect it.” From…
