Having to make Valentine’s Day dinner reservations can be a sour experience — unless, of course, you’re planning an evening of all-you-can-sample sweets, like cakes, candies, chocolates and beer. That’s what the 31st annual Chocolate Lover’s Fling, which benefits the Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN), is all about. “We…
Female bartenders deserve just as much credit as their male counterparts, insists Ivy Mix, who along with her partner, Lynnette Marrero, founded Speed Rack, a national women-only mixology battle that pits eight to sixteen maiden bar bosses from each city against one another for an opportunity to win a cocktail-centric…
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! And also Saturday: Monster Jam visits Colorado this weekend for its 2012 tour, featuring Grave Digger, SpiderMan, Iron Man and Batman (among other trucks) and their drivers, performing their most daring, jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring stunts. But the stunts aren’t the only reason Monster Jam is so popular, explains…
If you’ve been known to wear sandals with socks in the winter, this one’s for you. After a decade of hosting the Teva Mountain Games in the summer, the Vail Valley Foundation is bringing the same festival atmosphere and spirit of competition to its new Winter Teva Mountain Games today…
It’s hard to imagine how you’d turn Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility into a musical, but a couple of artists have done it, and the result will be read at the Denver Center’s New Play Summit, today through Sunday, along with two other new plays. The musical will be directed…
Armistead Maupin’s novel The Night Listener fictionalized Maupin’s mysterious friendship with an HIV-positive boy who may not have existed — and inspired both a feature film and a 60 Minutes investigation. Published in 2000, the book introduced Maupin to a reading audience that had somehow missed his Tales From the…
Anyone can do the trite candlelit dinner at one of the city’s most romantic venues for Valentine’s Day — but this is Colorado, and maybe your special someone would feel more comfortable strapping on a pair of skis and enjoying a celebration off the beaten path. If that’s the case,…
The Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi has long been held high in the estimation of modern female artists; imagined today as a feminist way before her time (she painted in the first half of the seventeenth century), we actually don’t know that much about who she really was. But there…
The O’Sullivan Art Gallery at Regis University has been presenting shows for years, and a frequent theme is the Latino/Latina experience. This focus dovetails perfectly with the institution’s Jesuit underpinnings, since Hispanic culture in the Southwest is predominantly Roman Catholic. But that doesn’t mean the O’Sullivan is limited to displaying…
When a U.S. soldier commits an atrocity overseas, Americans tend to respond in predictable ways. Some attempt to excuse the soldier, talking about the fog of war, the split-second decisions the forces are required to make, the inevitability of mistakes. Others speak of moral responsibility and culpability, no matter what…
A note of congratulations should go to the Denver Center Theatre Company for its daring in premiering Lisa Loomer’s Two Things You Don’t Talk About at Dinner, which received a reading at last year’s New Play Summit, even if the organization has downplayed the gutsiest element: the presence of a…
It all began with a handful of cameras. “The exhibit came about because we have a collection of cameras at the museum we were interested in learning more about,” says Jennifer Kuehner, director of the Aurora History Museum. “We realized that our collection starts in the ’20s and ’30s, and…
Fat people are an entertainment staple these days, from The Biggest Loser to the Food Network’s new offering, Fat Chef. Still, you wouldn’t really expect a play about a 600-pound man slowly dying in his own living room to garner a whole lot of attention, especially when it’s textured and…
Salomon Freeski TV’s clip of paraplegic skier Josh Dueck hucking the first-ever Sit Ski backflip has us as stoked as any other trick we’ve seen filmed this season. Dueck — formerly a competitive freestyle skier before a T11 spinal chord injury in 2004 — won bronze in the Mono Skier…
Gusterman’s, a silversmith shop in Larimer Square, represents an old-world ideal of master craftsmanship. The shop, more than thirty years old, sells objects and jewelry created in-house, and the silversmiths, Mary Eckels and Jamie McLandsborough, will create whatever you want, in front of you. Their gallery is full of small…
Last year’s Goodwill-sponsored Good Exchange for Change Fashion Show and Clothing Swap, which came right on the heels of Mondo Guerra’s stunning near-win on Project Runway, featured the local fashion superstar while banking on a trend-to-be: the clothing swap…
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver® 2012 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we’d like your input. What’s the best new public art? Best annual festival?…
Westword writers may not have a future as filmmakers, but they do know how to capture what people say — as evidenced by our “Shit people say” video dedicated to Denver. Even so, we missed a few standbys…
The Terminal Kings project was billed as bringing “world-class” art to Denver — a city that many of us would argue already has world-class artists. But when street artist David Choe, along with Sam Flores and Highraff, was hired to create giant murals that Denver International Airport’s Art and Culture…
Once upon a time, before Facebook made social networking acceptable for non-nerds and technology was on the cusp of the cellular-phone revolution from the brick to the flip, I had a pager. I also had a boyfriend who I fought with, in public, for about 80 percent of the duration…
The Denver Zine Library has declared February the month of online fundraising, to help “sustain and grow the zine community in the Denver area,” says DLZ co-founder and longtime caretaker Kelly Shortandqueer. At the start of February, the group launched a month of events and awareness-raising campaigns, but instead of…
Corey Elbin has been the driving force behind Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s Wednesday-night food and music gathering, since its inception almost two years ago. For tomorrow night’s edition, Gorinto will team up with the people behind Communikey — the Boulder electronic arts festival set for April 25-29 — to showcase…
