Denver-based Octa has created a new product that aims to make your iPad more user-friendly, and also more adorable in the process. “When we got our first iPad, we said, ‘This is really cool, but really hard to hold,'” says Octa co-founder Kevin “Prometheus” Trotsky. So the group made a…
After sitting through two recesses and a combined seven hours of debate and testimony before the House State Affairs Committee killed the civil unions bill last night, I left the Capitol with a numb ass and a heavy heart. But as I and other GLBTQ persons and allies face another…
Thornton High School senior Samuel Opoku, a two-time Colorado Poetry Out Loud champion, has made it to the final round in Washington, D.C. — again — and will be aiming for bardic glory as the national recitation contest concludes tonight. And not just glory. The winner of the event, sponsored…
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Even after a committee killed HB 1006, thecivil unions bill, late yesterday, filmmaker Mike Shum holds out hope. While the documentary creator says he doesn’t usually consider himself an activist, he was particularly moved by the recent round of civil unions discussion at the legislature — and wanted to do…
It’s Tuesday, not exactly the day of the week when you expect a downtown parade, especially one that’s just for the hell of it, put on seemingly for no reason except to spread some fun. But that’s what you’ll get this lunch hour, when the award-winning Montbello Drumline marches down…
You’re not going to see Edie Winograde’s “Battle on the Little Big Horn” at History Colorado, or any of the other pieces that graced the recent Appropriated: The Chronicled West at the Robishon Gallery, the show organized by husband-and-wife team Jim Robischon and Jennifer Doran, who pulled together contemporary art…
The month of May, as any mountain biker can tell you, is mud season. Just three weeks ago skiers and snowboarders were still making decent turns at Breckenridge as the ski area closed out its fiftieth anniversary season, and in a typical year May is a month of downtime for…
It was quieter in RiNo yesterday than you’d expect, considering there was a studio tour and a RiNo hunt going on for the last day of Create Denver. But it was nonetheless a perfect day to explore, and whether or not you discovered one of the 100 numbered ceramic rhinos…
Artist Andrew Novick’s Food Face was one of several shows that opened on May 12 as part of Second Saturday on East Colfax. Below are a few photos from the exhibit at Groundswell…
In this week’s cover story, “Water World,” Westword writers explored the South Platte, the river that runs through Denver and is showing new life. Our favorite spot on the Platte, though, could well be my favorite spot in Denver: the point at Confluence Park where the past and the present…
You’ve heard of running away from home. But author Jennifer Wilson, after losing her savings to the stock-market crash, gathered up her family in Des Moines and ran away to home, or at least that’s the way she characterizes it in her memoir/travelogue Running Away to Home…
“Comics and sci-fi are the new archetypes of our culture; we relate to Star Wars and Stan Lee’s characters, and we’ve created new mythologies through them,” says Dan Landes, restaurateur and self-confessed sci-fi geek. And on May 4, Landes’s City, O’ City hosted a full-on orgy of nerdness with the…
Meet the MasterMinds! Eight years ago, Westword started the MasterMind Awards, a program that honors this city’s most creative class. Over $100,000 years in grants later, the MasterMinds are still going strong…
Create Denver Week, which began with a party last night, gets down to some heavy business with tonight’s Urban Encounters and tomorrow’s Create Denver Expo. But you never know — they might be saving the best for last: On Sunday, the whole city is invited to the RiNo Art District…
If there’s anything we can learn from A Bag of Hammers, it’s that you can’t judge a movie by its title — because if you could, the trailer for A Bag of Hammers would be about twenty times badasser. As it is, though, it’s yet another low-key-indie-humor Buddy Comedy not…
Edward Weston holds an upper berth in the pantheon of modern American photography, and it’s easy to see why. A solid Modernist who began working in the early twentieth century, Weston — who was also a great technician in the darkroom — breathed life into inanimate objects and places, turning…
Going out doesn’t have to mean going for broke — seriously. This week there are plenty of inexpensive entertainment options, from karaoke on the 16th Street Mall to a food-themed photography show to a Mother’s Day concert. Celebrate art, see a silent movie in the park, and get out there…
One of TACtile Textile Arts Center’s most colorful exhibits is back: World Threads III: Preserving Textile Traditions, featuring — as in the past — a beautiful global palette of fiber-arts handiwork to both look at and to buy. Even more beautiful is the humanitarian purpose behind the show — to…
Is everyone using Kickstarter to push a movie project? Some days it seems like that. The crew behind CREEP!, a movie about making the worst horror movie ever — 1964’s The Creeping Terror — is in the last days of an attempt to raise $65,000 to bring the monster back…
Red opened last weekend at Curious Theatre Company. We’ll publish a full review in the next Westword — but Juliet Wittman was so impressed with the production, she provided this sneak preview: John Logan’s Red is a two-hander about painter Mark Rothko. The year is 1958, and he has been…
Artists talking to each other about their work is nothing new, but PechaKucha Night’s aim is to get artists from all different mediums in the same room to discuss their creative processes. Founded in Tokyo in 2003, the event has a rigid format that chapters all over the world follow:…
