Have you taken the Westword sex survey? If not, you have until Friday to lay yourself bare. In the meantime, let’s get kinky with Mistress Saskia. So you’re comfortable whacking your wife with an electric flyswatter, chaining your husband to the hot water heater, watching your girlfriend hump a mop…
This morning, Arapahoe Basin announced it will open tomorrow, October 13, at 9 a.m., for the season. The ski area is reporting an eighteen-inch base after a week of snowmaking and several inches of natural snow. That’s not quite as epic as the 36-inch dump that helped Wolf Creek temporarily…
Anne Makepeace is quick to tell people that the Wampanoag is the tribe that greeted the Mayflower. After all, what better way to quickly illustrate how forgotten this tribe is? Almost everyone in America knows the people of the Mayflower broke bread with a Native American tribe, but most people…
Political games are hard to pull off: they’re often heavy-handed and they nearly always miss the point. That said, Aaron Reed’sMaybe Make Some Change is an experience that’s entirely different from any war game you’ve played in the last twenty years. It’s a text adventure, it’s a political statement and…
Yesterday, Show and Tell asked readers to weigh in on the nine questions on the table for three creative artists/entrepreneurs — Lonnie Hanzon, Jimmy Sellars, and Marie Gibbons — on the panel for last night’s EatART panel at Fresh City Life. I was the moderator, and the conversation turned out…
Last year at about this time, I blogged about why my friends and I had launched the Denver Diatribe podcast, a labor of digital love that was heavy on the labor. Along with taking some pot shots at Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner and his obsession with bark beetles, I…
What is public art, and who gets to display it? How does that work? And why? Those are the initial questions that Denver artist Matt Scobey is asking with his Not for Sale: Denver project, for which he’ll be randomly hanging artwork in nondescript locations around town — artwork that…
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as they say. Other times, one man’s trash is basically just another man’s trash, but at least it’s hilarious trash. That’s the case with today’s Sad Halloween Costume of the Day photo, in which a pudgy kid of indeterminate sex wearing a too-short…
Now that I’ve submitted my entry in the Colorado Mills “Week of a Woman” contest, I can reflect on how well I represented my sex. The contest rules urged me to “capture everyday women on film,” so I took a bunch of pictures doing things women do. But now that…
Who qualifies as an arts blogger? We’ll leave that up to you, but here are some suggestions: It can be anyone, from those who write about local arts news to artists who create content for their own blog, or just someone with an incredible tumblr account. The Denver Web Awards…
This week, we have a load of solid new releases, including a new book from Jeffrey Eugenides, whom the reading public hasn’t heard from in almost ten years and whose book Middlesex now holds a permanent spot in nearly every used book store in the country. We also have the…
Austrian climbers dominated both the men’s and women’s competition this past weekend, before a sold-out crowd at Movement Climbing + Fitness in Boulder for the 2011 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Lead Climbing World Cup. Many climbers — and climbing fans — hope this event was a preview of…
Where are the arts going? Where should they go? And in this economic climate, are they going anywhere at all? Tonight, three of Colorado’s most creative types — Lonnie Hanzon (of the Museum of Outdoor Arts), sculptor Marie EvB Gibbons, and Westword MasterMind Jimmy Sellars — will chew over these…
It was a dog day when Jef Otte wrote his assessment of Pugs in the Park, a wrinkly, drooly display that he termed “disgusting” — but all in good fun, like the event itself…
For 150 years, artists from around the world have come to Colorado to record its majestic mountains in paintings, prints and photos. And while the Rockies are certainly the most dramatic element of our landscape, some artists have instead focused on other, less expected views of Colorado. This includes those…
Bayer & Chisman. From the 1940s to the 1970s, Aspen’s Herbert Bayer was one of the premier artists in Colorado, and from the ’80s to the first decade of the 21st century, Denver’s Dale Chisman played a similar role. But beyond that, their work has little in common, with Bayer…
Clybourne Park. Racism persists, but the ways in which we feel and express racism change with the times. Bruce Norris’s brilliant Clybourne Park was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, at the end of which the Youngers, a struggling black family, are about to move into a…
There’s much to savor in director Patrick Takaya Solomon’s documentary Finding Joe, about the life — but mainly the work — of the late Joseph Campbell, iconic scholar of myths from around the world. (He coined Oprah’s favorite phrase, “Find your bliss.”) The film isn’t meant to be just an…
In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary, Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let’s-put-on-a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later…
One of the main things that differentiated America’s hippies from their counterparts around the world — France, Mexico, Poland, Germany and Ireland were all seething with protest at the time, and the Soviet Union drove its tanks into Czechoslovakia in 1968 to quell the Czech spring — was a zany…
To Kill a Mockingbird is an institution, a revered American novel that’s a must for every high-school curriculum, the inspiration for a well-loved film starring Gregory Peck and scripted by Horton Foote. Mockingbird has influenced discussions of race ever since Harper Lee’s novel first appeared in 1960; idealistic lawyers like…
On Sunday morning in Manitou Springs, early risers were treated to a sight they’re not likely to ever see again: The Manitou Chair Project went down as planned, featuring nearly 700 disparate chairs on loan from the tourist town’s artsy community lined up, one after the other, in a front-to-back…
