Nerds are powerful, according to Chris Hardwick. And he should know. The self-proclaimed nerd has started a whole podcast and entertainment website based on nerdiness. He’ll bring his popular podcast, Nerdist, live to the Boulder Theater tonight complete with stand-up performances, an interview with Colorado-based astronomer Phil Plait, and a…
Tonight, photographer Terri Bell opens her tbellphotographic studio & gallery up to a group of seventeen Colorado artists she met, quite by chance, after issuing an open call and inviting Mark Sink to serve as juror for a show celebrating “the art of being in the right place at the…
When you think of fighting pollution and harmful waste, the images that come to mind are often of oil spills, nuclear meltdowns and bottle-nose dolphins caught in tuna nets. Typically, you don’t think of hair salons. “The salon industry has a great deal of waste,” says SustainAbility co-owner Melissa Kraai…
While First Friday is synonymous with the Art District on Santa Fe for some people, there are events in other districts as well. Here’s a selection of happenings tonight — from the Navajo, Tennyson, River North and, yes, the Santa Fe art districts…
It looks like March is roaring in like a lion just in time for the weekend, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a ton of things to do for fun. From Johnny Depp’s classic bad-boy role in Cry-Baby to a whole slew of art openings, we’ve got plenty of interesting…
It’s First Friday, and you might already have plans to be out and about. Here’s one more wonderful event to add to your itinerary, if you happen to be heading toward the Art District on Santa Fe or Gildar Gallery on Broadway: Welcome to Tomorrow, an informal unveiling of spring…
The KinkforAllDenver event on February 25 may have left a few people out of that all. A group of Denver kinksters staged a protest at the conference, criticizing the organizers — Rebecca Crane of Boulder and Maymay, formerly of New York and the co-founder of KinkForAll — for censoring presentations…
Alison Greenberg was a producer for Saving Face and is manager of foundation and donor relations for the Denver Film Society. She wrote this first-person account of her trip to the Oscars with the crew of Saving Face, a documentary which won the Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short. BY…
If you’re wandering through Santa Fe’s First Friday Art Walk, be sure to stop at 747 Santa Fe Drive and take a look at the words “Clown Town” in bright blue L.E.D. lights up in a second-floor window. That’s the home of the Side Show Studio, an out-of-the-way gallery that…
Things that intrigue me are my job. If something is problematic or beautiful, it is my job to discover why and write about it,” author Chuck Klosterman told a crowd Tuesday at the Auraria campus, home to three colleges. “Now I get to come and speak at colleges like this,…
A group of Denver kinksters staged a protest at the KinkForAllDenver conference last weekend. The demonstration was planned and executed amid accusations — prior to the event — that two KinkForAllDenver organizers censored presentations to discourage too much BDSM content and actively sought to exclude local kinksters. The event, which…
Charlie Murphy is returning to Denver with Charlie Murphy’s Acid Trip Tour for a three day stint at the Comedy Works in Larimer Square. Westword recently spoke with Murphy to see what he enjoys most about comedy…
You cannot escape the groove of African dance. Doesn’t matter if you’re tone deaf, half-dead or were born with two left feet — African dance will pick you up and fill you with joy and never let you go. Which is why you should let the spirit move you to…
We’ve seen our last leap day for four years — but not discussions the earth’s rotation and other arcane calendar information you’ll need to look at before you leap. And then there’s this from Mothy:…
In anticipation of a sold-out March 10 appearance by cult filmmaker John Waters at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, the school and the Denver Film Society have teamed up to bring fans a special screening of the 1998 Waters comedy Pecker, which tells the story of a…
The first Spanish-language production mounted by Opera Colorado, Florencia en el Amazonas, follows a character’s epic hunt for her lover, who has disappeared into the jungle. Tonight, Opera Colorado celebrates Florencia’s themes of intrigue and determination with The Scavenger Hunt, which frames First Friday in a new, interactive way. Teams…
What makes a nerd? Nerdist podcast host Chris Hardwick says it doesn’t matter whether it’s Sailor Moon or Star Trek you’re into; it’s the intensity of the obsession that matters. “What makes someone a nerd is how passionate they are about something and how they will try to understand that…
“Heirloom vegetables have always been around,” notes John Smith of Paulino Gardens, “but they’re becoming more popular, and the seed companies are offering more heirlooms to pick from than we’ve ever had before. And heirlooms are, in some cases, easier to grow, because they have been tried and true for…
The fantasy of high-school prom night can be shattered by the reality of a hefty price tag, but today’s Prom Dress Exchange aims to ease that. For just a $10 donation and a student ID, teens can peruse a showcase of 2,000 gently worn prom dresses — along with some…
Jose Mercado isn’t prone to taking on easy projects. The local actor, theater director and educator, who’s dug into tough territory through the years by producing Zoot Suit with students at North High School and other edgy works, and worked tirelessly to bring back the old Elitch Theatre, is now…
The spring exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opened last week, including Edible?, by Viviane LeCourtois, a retrospective of the artist’s food-related work from the past twenty years. And that seemed a perfect tie-in for BMoCA’s Present Box, wherein the museum store is transformed into a temporary exhibition…
Local light artist Collin Parson has been stepping into the limelight with hip-to-be-square works like his recent “Square Variations,” featuring illuminated geometric shapes and patterns of straight lines that create visual echoes of the boxes containing them. But this month, he says, he’s rounding a corner. “I’ve always been influenced…
