Even if you were just at the Denver Botanic Gardens to catch the final days of the Chihuly exhibit, there’s no reason to skip your trip to the Blossoms of Light display, which opens tonight, because it really does get better each year as the DBG adds more and more…
Lawrence “Bud” Stoecker spent his life running a modest family business building A-frame cabins in the Rocky Mountains. At home, he was a practical engineer, too. One winter in the 1960s, Stoecker designed a sleek, cone-shaped series of connecting concentric circles that hung from the ceiling — his own shiny…
Paul Gillis: Otherwhere/Otherwhen Rule Gallery 3254 Walnut Street Colorado artist Paul Gillis, though incredibly prolific, has kept a low profile over the past several decades. It’s been five years since his last Denver solo, at the Singer Gallery, and a full quarter-century since the one before that, at the Denver…
Bill Cosby’s present is secure. Despite the seventeen women (so far) who have publicly come forward with notably similar allegations of drug-enabled sexual assault, the comedian received standing ovations for his stand-up performances in the Bahamas and in Florida recently. His comeback tour will likely continue over the next few…
Anything Goes Littleton Town Hall Arts Center Anything Goes premiered in 1934, after a hasty rewrite: The original plot concerned a shipwreck, and shortly before the play’s scheduled opening night, a fire broke out on a cruise liner and 137 passengers were killed. By then the writing team, which included…
The mid-season finale of The Walking Dead will fill zombie lovers with dread and sorrow as some number of beloved regulars and untold numbers of secondary characters are killed off. Fans of the show everywhere are quite excited about Sunday’s show, but fans here in Denver should consider DVRing this…
The weather has been good for skiers and snowboarders so far this season, and that means more openings. Steamboat and Crested Butte plan to open for the season today, while Monarch, Snowmass and Telluride will open tomorrow, on Thanksgiving. We profiled all of Colorado’s ski-country destinations in The Edge, our…
The local comics community set up tables last Sunday at Morey Middle School for the Cowtown Comics Festival, an all-Colorado artist expo that featured everything from hand-stapled zines to hardback graphic novels. Photographer Nicki Lamson was there, and brought back these images and more from the low-key fest. See also:…
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Damon Redd started Kind Design back in 2008, but last year Mother Nature threatened to end his clothing line. “I never in a million years expected to wake up and find my business under five feet of water and mud in Boulder, Colorado…
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A door carries symbolic weight. It is the way we close out others, it is the signifier of home, it creates a suggestion of privacy and a feeling of safety. A door defines our place in the world. Yesterday was the day that, with the installation of the door, the…
What do you do with the family after Thanksgiving is over? You dress them up and take them to see A Christmas Carol, because some stories were just made for retelling, generation after generation. And if you don’t have a family with spit-washed faces, you can throw a little whipped…
Thanksgiving is a time not just for feasting, but family antics. Everyone has a story from the holiday, whether heartwarming or heartbreaking. This year, instead of focusing on the drama at the table, why not direct your attention to the silver screen? When you need a time-out from your family…
With the holidays approaching, these things are certain: Someone in the office will begin playing the Mariah Carey Christmas station on Pandora today, Black Friday deals will assault you via airwaves and billboards, and you will undeniably run into the following five people if you head home for Thanksgiving or…
Roller skating is even more fun when it glows in the dark. And that’s what happened last Friday night at the Exdo Event Center, where the November edition of Roll! turned on the black lights while skaters spun around the rink in their best retro-rave wear. Photographer Ken Hamblin caught…
Our Starz Denver Film Festival opening days roundup noted that the above-average quality of the screenings I caught offered compensation for weak attendance at numerous high-profile events. I wasn’t quite so lucky over the course of the fest’s last week-plus, but Keep On Keepin’ On, a documentary with deep Colorado…
By now everyone has heard that Bill Cosby — the beloved Dr. Huxtable from the 1980s hit sitcom “The Cosby Show,” and before that, tennis coach Alexander Scott on “I Spy,” from the ’60s — has been publicly accused by at least ten women, including Lou Ferrigno’s wife, of sexually…
It all began with Artist Trading Cards. Back in 2004, local painter Lisa Luree had already started selling her full-size paintings online when customers began asking if she made Artist Trading Cards, those two-and-a-half by three-and-a-half-inch pieces that artists generally traded. Luree asked her online art community if other artists…
From such veterans as Connie Willis and Ed Bryant to newcomers Molly Tanzer and Rob Ziegler to Carrie Vaughn and Warren Hammond, the focus of Westword’s current cover story, Colorado’s science-fiction/fantasy writers are as wide-ranging as the genres themselves. The books that this state’s authors have produced over the decades…
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 a guy my age, I have a lot of energy,” says…
Avant-garde film legend Stan Brakhage has been both mythologized and demonized. But few deny he was an unstoppable cinematic force, and his best-known works — Window Water Baby Moving, Mothlight, The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes and Dog Star Man — are critical parts of the avant-garde film…
This is fall break for college kids — and everyone who still wishes they were college. Thursday is reserved for relatives, but the rest of the week is a weeklong party. Everything from goth dancing to psych rock concerts and sexual karaoke are all free, so you can save your…
