Hunter S. Thompson could have been a Canadian. Sort of. In 1958, the then-struggling New York City reporter applied for a job at the Vancouver Sun newspaper in British Columbia. According to an entertaining story by Canadian Postmedia News, he was inspired by a Time magazine profile of the paper’s…
A solo show by artist Michael Whiting, known for his sculptures of large painted steel squares combined to create iconic “pixilated” forms of animals or figures, opens later this month at Plus Gallery. And if all goes well, the show will coincide with the unveiling of “Rhino,” a self-explanatory, large-scale…
The parallels are uncanny: two abstract impressionist painters who lived more or less during the same time, whose work developed along similar lines, both with strong ties to Colorado. One was Vance Kirkland, who lived and worked here most of his life, the other, Clyfford Still, who ended up with…
The media of today is hard to keep up with: It comes from so many directions and in so many forms that it’s next to impossible to keep track of your favorite artists, let alone new ones. Because we’re devoted to your convenience, we’re going to pick five things each…
Crested Butte-based company Matchstick Productions won Best Film for The Way I See It over the weekend at the International Freeski Film Festival (IF3) in Annecy, France, where Henrik Windstedt also won Best Freerider honors for his part in the film (peep the trailer after the jump). Another Colorado company,…
Denver is host to a cornucopia of interesting people. In an effort to showcase the broad character of the populace, Westword’s own Ben Dayton is doing random interviews with random people, randomly. Today, he interrupted Camelia Aguayo in the park as she was reading Tom Robbins. What follows is their…
The Gothic Theatre gives itself over to the local snowboard scene once again tonight at 7 p.m. when 720 Boardshop presents the Denver premieres of The People Crew’s Cheers and Sup Bro? from local crew Mistaken Productions (trailers after the jump)…
There is only one real rule in life: When things are free, you must take them. And so it is tonight at Starz FilmCenter with a free screening of Gosford Park, Robert Altman’s excellent 2001 murder-mystery, which, as is typical of Altman, largely ignores the murder-mystery part in favor of…
Boulder dancer/choreographer and free spirit Mary Wohl Haan began dancing in the street, literally, last Friday morning at 10 a.m. in Boulder in the “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” spirit for the entire month of October. It’s part of her HAAN Dances: 10 @ 10…
Most startup magazines don’t make it past their first issue, so we’re stoked to see the second issue of Snowboard Colorado in shops this week, and with Gretchen Bleiler boosting big on the cover to boot…
Far be it from us to make sweeping generalizations about gender and sexual preference, but when you gather Denver’s largest lesbian social group at Tracks for a First Friday party, it’s pretty much inevitable that it’s going to get weird. On Friday, it did. Intrepid photographer Kate Levy brings back…
I know I felt lucky as I walked up to the new Horseshoe market in Berkeley Park on Saturday. It was cool and sunny and it smelled like pizza — really good pizza — and the parking lot at the Moore Olinger Howard Chapel was filled front to back with…
You could almost hear the monkeys chattering in the little back yard behind Tennyson Street’s Comfort Cafe on Friday night: Amid the lingering smoke of the pig they’d roasted there the night before, a blaze of fruity Mexi-color filled both the yard and the cafe itself for the sixth annual…
There is a holiday for everything. Sure, there are the big ones that everybody knows — Christmas, the Fourth of July, Patriot Day — but what about those obscure days and weeks of recognition and remembrance that fly under the radar, like National Pasta History Week, which may or may…
The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls won the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association WFTDA Western Regional championships this weekend in Sacramento, CA, in a 127-86 upset over the Oly Rollers from Olympia, WA, breaking the Oly Rollers’ 22-game winning streak. RMRG entered the tournament as the #2 seed and will advance to…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy? Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that make it through the brainstorming sessions of the world’s copywriters…
Scientists say nearby star Gliese 581 hosts a planet within the “habitable zone,” meaning someday, when we finally make Earth un-inhabitable, we’ll have a place to escape to. But long before that, hyper-rich folks the world over will be taking pleasure cruises to the new glamorous destination in the stars,…
When Dean Kamen debuted the Segway in 2002, he predicted the two-wheeled electric vehicle would be the future of transportation — and indeed, the Segway, capable of speeds of up to 12.5 miles per hour and boasting serious maneuverability and ultra-low fuel consumption, is practical. There was just one miscalculation:…
Only Buntport would think of putting a play about the melancholy Czech author Franz Kafka — his biography intertwined with scenes from his story, Metamorphosis, about the man who woke up to find he’d been transformed into a beetle — on ice. Only Buntport would come up with the perfect…
How’s this for local pride? Both of Denver’s roller derby leagues are seeded in the top three at this weekend’s Women’s Flat Track Derby Association WFTDA Western Regionals in Sacramento, CA: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls are in the #2 seed, behind the Oly Rollers (Olympia, WA) and just ahead of…
First Friday on the first of October? Sounds like a witching hour to me. There’s a distinct chill in the evening air, but don’t let that stop you from painting the art districts red…and azure, sienna, viridian, alizarin crimson and any other color you can think of. Pull on your…
Normally, it takes about six beers before there’s any real danger of drunkenness-related public humiliation. But under normal circumstances, drinking, a stage, live broadcast television and a gong don’t mix. That’s why, tonight at Denver Open Media’s first-ever Gong Show, you may find your beer-count-to-public-humilation ratio decreasing dramatically — at…
