We were flooded with entries for our fourth annual Westword Comics Contest. The ten winners were published in the March 24 issue (you can see them here, too), but we thought you’d be interested in seeing some of the other entries. This is a funny business!…
On this holiday weekend, you couldn’t find a more appropriate way to spend Saturday afternoon than at Building Bridges with the Muslim Community, an event dedicated to fighting the ignorance and fear of Islamophobia and learning about Islam and the Muslim Community. The event, sponsored by Mile High Japanese American Citizens…
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…
This week in Denver galleries, you’ll find pets, parties and plenty of printmaking as Mo’Print 2016 continues. Have a look…. Dane “Colfax” Stephenson: The Ark Valkarie Gallery March 23 through April 17 Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 25 Photographer and artist Dane “Colfax” Stephenson takes over Valkarie…
Viviane Le Courtois wants strands of your hair — as long as they’re six inches or longer. The artist and Westword MasterMind plans to braid those donations and weave them into a small structure she calls a Global Thinking Pod, which she will make as part of her creative residency at the…
Between the sunshine and snowstorms, there’s plenty to keep you from going stir-crazy over the weekend. You can dance up a storm, celebrate religious holidays, or just sit back and giggle. Here are our ten favorite things to do for ten bucks or less; if you want even more options,…
There’s a lot more to comics than men in tights, but you’d never know it at most comic cons. If you want to dig deeper into what comics can be, regardless of what kind of story they’re telling, then DINK: The Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo is your kind…
#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…
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…
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…
Thunderous, ponderous and occasionally exciting, Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens with one of those grim proclamations that the creators of modern superhero movies are so fond of: “There was a time above, a time before,” intones the voice of Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), over a by-now…
Ask weary WWE viewers to identify why the professional-wrestling titan’s creative direction has gone so stagnant and you’ll hear one answer time and again: lack of competition. It’s no coincidence that the company’s late-‘90s heyday ran concurrent with the rise of Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling, which at one point…
In its first iteration, in 2014, Mo’Print, a biennial convergence of printmaking events organized by the Invisible Museum, had a gravitational center at the McNichols Building, where a riveting survey of Denver’s own Open Press was presented. This year, with McNichols closed for remodeling, there isn’t a flagship venue —…
The annual Boulder Arts Week unfolds in all its glory for the third time starting on Friday, March 25, and the schedule includes dance, poetry, film, theater, music, art, classes, workshops and much more. Festival founder and coordinator Emily K. Harrison has created an umbrella concept that unites these diverse disciplines…
Popular music held people together during Vietnam era of the ’60s and ’70s, both at home and on the battleground. But as veteran Doug Bradley knows, love songs and rock anthems were more than a backdrop to the war for soldiers on the front lines — they brought comfort and…
After sixteen months during which it won a 2015 Best of Denver award for Best New Womenswear Boutique, Whorl Shop will close its doors at 3326 Tejon Street on March 31 — another victim of rising rents in the area. “Whorl, as a retail store, is basically done,” explains owner Megan…
For the fourth year running, we asked cartoonists — and would-be cartoonists — to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. We received dozens of responses; not surprisingly, many focused on cannabis (pot put the high in the smile high city, after all) — but there were also an unusual…
The Vintage Voltage Expo celebrated ten big years of bringing back the oldies over the weekend with a huge spread of antique radios, turntables, receivers, vinyl records and classy guitars welcoming a dedicated clientele to the Northglenn Ramada Inn. Photographer Brandon Marshall was on hand to capture this blast from…
When the Denver County Fair returns to the National Western Complex on July 29 for its annual extravaganza, it will have a purrfect new face representing the event: Venus the Two Face Cat. Last year the fair dumped the Pot Pavilion in favor of the Kitten Pavilion, and the kitties…
I had never been to a “Home Show” before. Although I was a homeowner for many years (in what seems like a lifetime ago), I never saw myself as someone who would stroll down aisles of vinyl-clad windows or gutter systems, even if I do enjoy perusing gardening stuff. But…
#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…
When a play starts with a school principal announcing that a tiger has escaped from a local zoo and is loose in the neighborhood, and proposing a handful of fairly mild responses (a buddy system, no recess) while also stating that he himself carries a rifle, you quickly conjure up…
