Ken Arkind still remembers the day he met Jose, “that evil little kid in the back of the classroom.” In the years since, they have struck up a friendship — but that day, at a workshop where Arkind was teaching local youth to slam, Jose was being a little snot…
Andrew Orvedahl doesn’t worry much about what he wears on stage. “I usually just try to make sure my clothes are clean,” says the Denver-area comedian and performer. With a two-year-old at home, that’s not always easy, so as long as he can find something stain-free — and a clean…
I first met Dianne Denholm in grade school, and it’s been great reconnecting with her as an adult in the six years since she started the TACtile Textile Arts Center. During that time, I’ve learned a lot about Denholm and how her mind works, and it’s been a trip: Not…
While there’s nothing new about taping — you can bet there’s a bootleg recording floating around somewhere that was secretly taped when Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount — Lance Stack’s efforts with Flat Response are incredibly noteworthy. Unlike other tapers who are devoted to archiving the shows of…
Today legislators will consider a measure that would provide an economic incentive for filmmakers to work in Colorado — a rarity these days, as detailed in “The Reel West.” But a century ago, there was a booming film business in this state, which got its start with an 1897 flick…
After the University of Colorado at Boulder’s meme page showed up on Facebook, I was convinced that the Internet could use fewer memes. While glittery animated GIFs were once the way to “show some love,” memes are the way to show some stupidity, taking an image and vandalizing it with…
“A tigalo is what happens when a tiger and a buffalo get funky together,” explains Matthew Brown, owner of Fancy Tiger Clothing (and the partner of Jaime Jennings, who runs Fancy Tiger Crafts), which recently settled into new digs on Broadway alongside the craft store and Buffalo Exchange, which has…
The American Theatre Critics’ Association had chosen the New Play Summit at the Denver Center Theatre Company as the site of its winter meeting, and a group of critics compared notes one morning. We had all seen the same plays; on some we agreed; now and then someone pointed out…
Just as white stars occasionally show up sporting dreads, like Crystal Bowersox at the 2011 Grammys, our post on white people with dreads keeps popping up, with yet another group googling it during last night’s awards ceremony. The hairdo is woven into the histories of many cultures, notes one of…
Get ready to place your paws on DIBS, or Denver Independent Boutiques, this Saturday. Because come sunshine or snowfall, DIBS creator and Rakun owner, Meghan Throckmorton, along with her contemporaries, will host an event called Sweetheart Boutique Crawl. “This event is one way that we can encourage shoppers to buy…
“Think of it as American Idol meets Bill Nye the Science Guy,” says David Grinspoon, astrobiology curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. This is his best description of FameLab, an international competition for young scientists that has made its way across the pond for the first time…
Corey Elbin’s departure from Denver is a real loss for this city’s cultural scene. He’s been the driving force behind Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s Wednesday night food and music gathering, since it was introduced almost two years ago. He’s grown the event into a real all-ages community affair. But now…
On Monday, Westword posted its own version of “Shit people say” in Denver….and the shit quickly hit the fan. People from Texas and California, in particular, didn’t appreciate the joke. Here’s the response from Surfnskidude:…
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…
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…
Nearly a year ago, designers Tricia Hoke, Deb Henriksen, Jose Duran and Lisa Elstun put their heads together and created Red Drinks, a monthly get-together when local folks in the fashion/design field could mingle, network and share ideas. It’s been going strong ever since, and after a holiday hiatus, Red…
In Internet time, the “shit people say” videos really peaked last month — but we never came across one that really captured the phrases and idioms of Denver. So we made one. But apparently we missed some of the shit people say:…
All the snow that fell across the Front Range Friday had fishing enthusiasts thinking about just what will happen when all that white stuff melts — pouring water into this state’s streams, rivers and lakes. To get a taste of the country’s liquid assets, they should head to Anthology Fine…
Dear Diary: Last. Night. Was. Awesome. My friend Nichole won tickets to see Demetri Martin at Macky Auditorium in Boulder, and guess who she chose to be her plus-one? This lucky girl, right here. And can I say, for the record, that the tickets were bomb. So bomb. We were…
Three weeks after the T.Rex Encounter exhibit vacated the gallery, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is already featuring a new exhibit (free with museum admission!), Lizards & Snakes. It first launched at the American Museum of Natural History and includes live animals — sixty of them (Including the…
