After you wrap the toilet seat at your favorite neighborhood bar in Saran Wrap in honor of April Fool’s Day, retreat to one of these bargain events, where you can enjoy a very rare beer, color away your cares or clean up the community. Here are ten of our favorite…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
It’s no joke: On Friday, April 1, the Denver Tool Library is turning one — and hosting a birthday party to celebrate. In recognition of a year’s worth of achievements — including selling more than 400 memberships — the tool-sharing organization is inviting everyone in the community to have a…
There are few joys in life simpler or more pure than the cocktail of adrenaline, testosterone and cordite that makes up the American action movie. It is a not a nuanced genre. It is not a deep genre. But in the same way an ice-cold Pabst Blue Ribbon goes down…
MCA Denver likes to mash up things that don’t necessarily belong together, and so last week’s Black Sheep Friday social feted both Mad Max and Purim with Max-inspired costumes, live klezmer music and those all-important cheap drinks on the rooftop. Photographer Ken Hamblin documented the artsy party. Now see the…
Last weekend, Nina Flowers pulled the best of Denver’s drag queens – along with some of her RuPaul’s Drag Race friends – out of her magical, glittery headdress for Drag Nation’s seventh anniversary bash at Tracks, and it was anything but a drag. Oh, wait…! Have a peep at these…
Some free advice: If you ever find yourself defensively reminding people that you’re not in a cult, you’re probably in a cult. This comes up early and often in The Path, Hulu’s new series premiering on March 30th, not that any adherents of the fictional Meyerist Movement seem fazed by…
Contemporary collaborations, bittersweet comedies and big musicals all turn up this week on local stages. Here’s where to find them. 3rd Law Dance/Theater, The Elision Project Dairy Arts Center 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2 4 p.m. Sunday, April 3 Tickets: $20 to $25 303-444-7328 Computers, voice,…
The recent uproar over the KKK Cop Painting created by a tenth-grader and displayed in the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building got us thinking about this city’s colorful past with public art — and by “colorful,” we mean “sometimes fucked up.” Art, of course, is in the eye of the beholder…
Crossroads Theater is in the middle of its first Last Week of Arts, which will culminate on Friday, April 1 with a special, two-part Bucket of Fools show. This will be the sixth edition of Bucket; past monthly performances have resembled variety shows with comedy bits, musical pieces and impromptu sketches as local…
Willful ignorance as a character trait typically evokes annoyance in those who witness it — at least in real life. In many French films, however, a character who’s willfully ignorant is portrayed in the twee manner, encouraging us to believe it is their blissful view of the world we should…
Colorado Humanities just announced the finalists for the 2016 Colorado Book Awards; they include Fig, the book by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz that we profiled last April. The winners will be revealed on May 21 in a ceremony at the Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion. And the finalists are: Anthology Going Down…
The beautiful underworld of modern comics — from wee zines to big graphic novels — was open to the public over the weekend at the inaugural DINK, an art-centric comics convention where fans and artists from Colorado and across the nation could shoot the breeze and share their obsessions. All…
#88: Rebecca Hart Rebecca Hart joined the Denver Art Museum last August as the new Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, after ten years in a similar position at the Detroit Institute of the Arts. Her first official show at the DAM, Audacious, opened earlier this…
Teens reckoning with their sexual identity may soon receive a delivery of support and encouragement. It comes in a box, but each package is different — whether the recipient is transgender, agender, non-conforming or otherwise non-binary, they’ll find something inside that could be a symbol of solidarity or even an…
TechWears combines fashion and technology in jewelry and accessories made from recycled items — including old computer parts — by founder Drew Johnson. “I am finding my way as I go,” he explains. “I used to call myself chief executive upcycler, and the more I get into it, I realize that I…
Sci-fi took a right turn at the Victorian Age and never moved on – and the result was steampunk, a cult genre that’s here to stay. And that’s particularly true right here in Denver, where steampunk fans gather each year at AnomalyCon for a stellar weekend of cosplay, guest panels,…
Denver muralist and visual artist Jaime Molina is nearing the completion of his residency at the Children’s Museum; he’s the first of several artists who will be hosted at the museum this year. You’ve seen Molina’s murals — which he often makes in collaboration with Pedro Barrios and Joseph Martinez as…
Superheroes, comedians and poets of all ages lay their words on the line for audiences at local venues this week. Here’s where to catch a phrase in Denver. Lisa Yee: Wonder Woman at Super Hero High Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 29 Free Lisa Yee, a super…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. For new collectors, gallery pieces can be cost-prohibitive. Colorado artists Blair Hamill,…
In previous installments of this series, we’ve focused on specific neighborhoods in Denver proper. This time, we’re looking at what raises the ire of residents of one of Denver’s suburb-cities to the north, Thornton. For some readers, this ‘burb is home; for others, it’s the part of town where they…
Help March go out like a lion by having a roaring good time at some of this town’s great free events. This week you can be a pop diva, meet a comedian or enjoy some back-to-the-future fun. Check out the Westword calendar for more events, and let us know in the…
