When Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing hired Boulder-based Moxie Sozo to redesign its labels a couple of years ago, the results opened a lot of eyes — and landed Left Hand beers on a lot of best-designed beer label lists. As an added bonus, Moxie, a Boulder design and advertising agency,…
Neal Stephenson will be at Tattered Cover LoDo tomorrow, and in advance of his appearance we talked with him about his new novel, Reamde, a thriller based on a virus that steals your information and requires payment via gold in a MMO game. Before you click through to the interview,…
When the leaky “Mountain Mirage” water feature was removed from the middle of the terminal floor at Denver International Airport, it left a big gap — a gap that was filled by a new piece by Juane Quick-to-See Smith and Ken Iwamasa, who had a commission to design the original…
“I always had this idea,” explains Amy Yetman, founder of Horseshoe Craft and Flea Market, “and called it in my head ‘Horseshoe Craft and Flea Market’ because it’s got the Western feel, but it’s also a sign of luck — and I feel when you go to an outdoor market,…
The Great American Beer Festival, which begins today, sold out long ago, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of other brew-infused events going on all over town where you can taste rare, delicious or unusual beers and meet the guys who make them. There are more than a dozen…
After centuries of male domination, women finally fought their way into the art world in the nineteenth century. Today, women artists outnumber men, and feminist art has become a big topic of discussion. It’s a different world, one that’s highlighted in New Feminisms: Revolutions Per Minute, at the Emmanuel Gallery,…
Skate-deck art? It’s not just a passing fancy. In a time when more and more talented young artists blaze a trail from a graphic-arts base, decks represent the perfect synthesis of their efforts: There’s a functional basis, but also a sweet blast of imagination and free thought all tied up…
Neal Stephenson’s new book, Reamde, is a slight departure from his usual, philosophy-heavy novels, but his penchant to rely heavily on science and technology is turned up a notch. Reamde is as much a Bourne-style techno-thriller as it is a geek-fest, detailing the story of an international identity-theft computer virus…
If dressing up like a robot and computing your way around town while solving riddles in an Alternate Reality Game sounds like a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon, then Robot Pursuit is for you. The goal of the pursuit is to get people to solve puzzles and riddles…
The month-long lurch towards Halloween begins on Saturday with the Zombie Dash, an urban race that provides a perfect training ground for the impending World War Z, no matter which side you’ll be fighting for. “Whether you’re trying to survive the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse or part of the ever-growing flesh-eating,…
Curious about what it takes to keep a coop full of chickens in your own back yard? The Denver Botanic Gardens and chicken-coop keepers around the city are here to enlighten you with a one-day tour of poultry-friendly living spaces. Today, interested parties can purchase a $20 map from the…
“What we’re shooting for is to give people a reason to get up here in the fall and pretend to be lumberjacks,” says Adam Williams, co-founder of the Man of the Cliff competition, a celebration of rugged outdoorsmanship in the tiny town of Red Cliff (just south of Vail on…
For this round of One Night Stand Theater, the folks who put together the dramatic readings and short stagings of play scenes decided to tackle the theme Witches Brew — with an all-female cast. “We’ve been doing the program for maybe two and a half years,” notes One Night Stand’s…
Classical music doesn’t have to be boring, especially when it is paired with amazing images. The Colorado Symphony will experiment with that idea in The Planets — an HD Odyssey. NASA-generated images of the planets will be projected in high definition on three screens in the circular Boettcher Concert Hall…
Author Don Campbell didn’t invent the concept of the Mozart Effect, but he did popularize it in his so-named 1997 treatise, which was based on the theory that listening to music — that of Mozart, in particular — will essentially make you smarter. It’s a controversial idea still being argued…
Dinosaur paleobiologist Dr. Philip J. Currie has news for you in case the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex fossils at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science haven’t already ripped their way into your nightmares: The T. rex may have been much, much smarter than previously believed and most likely hunted in…
The problem with cheap apartments is that the walls are often very thin. Such was the case with the dilapidated place that friends Eddie Guerriero and Mitch Deprey moved into in San Francisco in 1987, where they soon began to hear, and eventually tape, drunken fighting coming from next door…
It’s truly a new dawn for Denver’s LIDA Project: After a sabbatical by LIDA’s divining light, Brian Freeland, and a forced change of venue, the indie/avant-garde theater collective is back on the grid with a fully planned season. That season begins tonight, full-throttle, with Justin Bieber Meets Al Qaeda, a…
Simon Zalkind launched his fall schedule at the Singer Gallery in the Mizel Arts and Culture Center with a smart-looking survey that looks at the work of a noted Denver artist. The impressive solo, titled Myron Melnick, Taking Shape: Works with Paper, zeroes in on what Zalkind sees as the…
Over the years, the bold Buntport Theater troupe has taken on literary giants, from Kafka to Eugene O’Neill, most of whom were male, as the subject matter of their original productions. But this year, says company member Brian Colonna, they’re lauding the literate ladies, at least with their season opener,…
Regina Benson’s On Fire was inspired by her trials last summer when Benson was forced to evacuate her home in Golden because of an approaching wildfire. Below (and in this week’s Westword), Michael Paglia writes on her new show and how she came out of the approaching flames…
The right wing likes to portray President Barack Obama as either one of two things: the good-times party animal you can spot in a Tag Team video, or the stereotypical Angry Black Man. Neither image brings to mind a good leader (and both are, you know, quietly racist). But as…
