100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Sarah Wallace Scott

#89: Sarah Wallace Scott A founding member of Denver’s Tank Studios and former RedLine resident, Colorado native Sarah Wallace Scott is an artist, teacher, curator and businesswoman who makes the time to create print, installation and mixed-media works that often speak to the tentative connection between society and disappearing nature. Read…

Rare Photos Found in Leadville Illustrate the Lives of Miners

It’s not every day that significant new art finds are made. And it’s even rarer for these discoveries to be recognized, shared with the community, and integrated effectively into a larger historical and cultural context. But such is the case at Leadville’s National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, where…

Five Great Geek Films to Enjoy on a Snow Day

So, cold enough for you? Okay, that’s a stupid question. Unless you’re a goddamned penguin, polar bear or ice troll, it is way too cold for you. Thanks to the fact that spring announced its arrival this year with a foot and a half of snow, we’re all stuck in…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Charlie La Greca

#90: Charlie La Greca Charlie La Greca lives and breathes all things comic book — and then some. A comic artist and one-time inker for D.C. Comics, as well as a first-class nerd, he’s an original founder of Denver Comic Con who’s moved on the create the smaller, more artist-driven…

The Ten Best Stores on Colfax Avenue

Oh, Colfax. It’s hard to separate fact from fiction when it comes to this avenue’s spotty history, but one thing is certain: This street is home to some of Denver’s best restaurants, bars, venues and retailers. To survive and thrive along the longest main street in the country takes not…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Daniel Landes

#91: Daniel Landes A writer, publisher, restaurateur, cook, and arts and literary community-builder, Dan Landes does the Renaissance-man thing the 21st-century way: He oversees the day-to-day at his hip eatery City, O’City, which also serves as a base for the upstairs performance space Deer Pile and the adjacent 1280 Sherman…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Tim Roberts

#92: Tim Roberts Writer, editor, thinker: Tim Roberts is all of these things in his capacity as the day-to-day mover and shaker at Counterpath, the nonprofit literary press and event space that he runs with partner Julie Carr, earning a Westword MasterMind award along the way. As Counterpath starts a new…

Smash Brings Ping Pong and Bar Games Back to Exdo

Smash returned to Denver last Wednesday with a can’t-miss combination of ping pong, Jenga, giant cornhole and vintage video games on a wall-sized screen at the Exdo Event Center.  The game-oriented club night, which features spins by DJ YoHuckleberry, will be featured every second Wednesday of the month at Exdo…

Five Can’t-Miss Flicks at the Women + Film Festival

The Denver Film Society’s Women + Film Festival has set its course for another memorable trip into cinema that starts Tuesday, March 15 at the Sie FilmCenter.  The festival’s focus on films “by, for, and about women” will bring everything from narrative features about women at various stages of life…

Dark Days Searching for Blue Sunshine

This weekend you can catch the obscure, drug-scare horror film Blue Sunshine — with the director in-person, no less! — at the Alamo Drafthouse, a great theater that happens to be just one of Denver’s many options for repertory, arthouse and independent film. If you don’t want to leave the…

The Twelve Top Fashion Events in Denver in March 2016

Spring is almost here — but spring clothes have already made an appearance in stores across town. Put your best-dressed foot forward in March; here are a dozen events that are ideal spots to see and be seen, presented in chronological order and ending with a closing party for Whorl…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Mandy Vink

#93: Mandy Vink Mandy Vink has an eye for public art. Fresh off her work as public art project manager at Denver International Airport and public art coordinator for Denver Arts & Venues, she’s now taken a similar post with the Boulder Office of Arts + Culture. In the private…

Photos: Geeks and Freaks at Denver’s Fifth Annual Nerd Prom

Live music, cosplay and nostalgic pop-culture prom tunes all played a part this past weekend at Andy Rok Guerrero’s Nerd Prom at the Summit Music Hall, where photographer Danielle Lirette caught all the party-goers getting their geek on. Were you there? Find yourself in the full Nerd Prom slide show…

Lift Barbells and Beers at Brewery Boot Camp on Sunday

Throw on some tennis shoes, grab your water bottle and get ready to earn your Sunday Funday with Brewery Boot Camp at 38 State Brewing Company. The motto of Strength Train 4 Life owners Lindsay and Paul Chavez is “train hard, play hard,” and every weekend in March they’ll push people through…

Geekology 101: The Five Most Important 1950s Geek Films

Geek culture is big, but even in the vast, loosely defined ocean of “geek” there are a few universal touchstones. That’s not to say that everyone agrees on them — hell, if you can get five geeks together in a room who agree on more than two separate geek-related things,…

Diva Watch 2016: Meet Mia StaxXx, the Stage Slayer

In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community, expanding on our Diva Dozen list from 2015 and our new Freshest Faces list for 2016 by asking different queens — from established to ingénue — questions that take a peek beneath the…

The Ten Best Geek Events in Denver in March 2016

Spring is almost here, but even before that (theoretically) nicer weather arrives, we’re going to see a slew of great geek events. Regardless of whether we get sun, rain or even snow, Denver’s geeks will be so busy indoors, the weather won’t matter. From three different conventions to a visit…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Lanny DeVuono

#94: Lanny DeVuono Lanny DeVuono draws and paints landscapes that are out of this world. Her current series, some of which is on view right now at MCA Denver, explores space and planetary terrains from points of view both hyper-real and abstracted, in a continuation of her general quest to…