Lorenzo Baca’s tattoos are influenced by both his hometown of Albuquerque, and his tendency toward perfection. His work as an artist began with graffiti, then turned to an interest in tattoos. He has been tattooing professionally for eight years and currently works at Thick as Thieves Tattoo. Westword recently caught…
Musician, artist and former social worker Diana Rose Frances founded St. Francis Healing Works to extend access to the healing arts through Spacecraft, a creative re-use store; Forte Expressive Works, a music program, and more. “I consider the creative healing arts anything that connects people to their own human nature,”…
Kyle MunKittrick “is not a zombie expert,” according to Nerd Nite Denver co-boss Sara D. Wilson. The NYU-trained bioethicist “took the lens and looked at the undead and the idea of the undead,” she explains. “He was able to take that particular understanding of the topic and shed new light.”…
“Show us your LDH,” read one of the handmade signs that women were waving Saturday night at the EXDO Event Center. The place was filled with screaming, rabid ladies eager to see studly, shirtless firefighters dance down the catwalk and show off their LDH (which stands for large-diameter hose.) This…
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. Artist, philanthropist and Iraq veteran Curtis Bean, mastermind behind the Art of…
Thirty years ago, when Sherri Tippie first got interested in trying to save a keystone species whose habitat was being wiped out by breakneck development up and down the Front Range, she was ridiculed by wildlife officials as a rank amateur. What, after all, could a hairdresser and former go-go…
Don’t let the unseasonable snow keep you inside this week in Denver. Bundle up and head out to a Kinesthesia Festival, a flash fiction slam or a night of burlesque storytelling — all for free. Check out our events calendar for more fun to be had, and share information on…
Frothy brews, barbecue and the shiny pearl snaps on smartly tailored Western shirts from Denver’s own Rockmount Ranch Wear brought the night to life on Friday at the McNichols Building, where Imbibe Denver threw Slue Foot Sue’s Shindig, a party with a backdrop of contemporary Western art. Photographer Scott Lentz…
An animal advocate for more than two decades and the co-founder of Rocky Mountain Animal Defense, David Crawford knew how to help injured and distressed animals he encountered in Boulder — but was often at a loss for the right resources outside the area. “We were constantly getting calls from…
On April 26, eight University of Colorado Denver mechanical engineering seniors won first place in the hydrogen fuel cell category at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition in Houston, after designing and building a vehicle — named Archetype — that could go 1254 miles per gallon powered just by a hydrogen…
The Lucha Libre & Laughs showcase is clearly a labor of love from producer Nick Gossert. Gossert, a filmmaker, comedian, and bumbling referee, is responsible for not only booking the funniest comics in Denver, but also juggling the schedules of all the wrestlers involved, renting the ring itself, and doing the lion’s share of promotion. Despite the challenge of putting it together, and a few minor setbacks, Lucha Libre & Laughs reaches it’s one-year anniversary this month with Laughmania! This month’s event features comedians Deacon Gray, Kevin O’Brien, Kristin Rand, and Chuck Roy, with wrestlers Delta Jr., El Tecolote, Matt Classing, and International Superstar Colt Cabana and running color commentary from Jordan Doll and Nate Balding. In honor of sunday’s special evening of gutbusters and backbreakers, Westword caught up with Gossert to look back on a year of shows, discuss his love of cheesy Lucha movies, and the similarities between comedy and wrestling.
The show is on sunday, May 11th at the Oriental Theater. Doors open at 6:00pm; tickets cost $10 and are available from the Oriental Theater’s website.
In a town with such an active co-op and alternative art scene, you don’t want to limit your gallery adventures to First Fridays — because you’d miss out on a lot of great art, including shows opening this weekend. Keep reading for a trio of exhibits worth seeing. See also:…
If you spent all your extra cash on a lavish floral arrangement for your mother (as you should have), you can still have fun in Denver this weekend. Events around town include everything from an all-you-can-eat pancake party to a walking fest to Mexican wrestling plus comedy. Check out the…
Summer is fast approaching, and that means metro Denver’s two big amusement parks are now open on weekends. But comparing the two can be a bumpy ride, as we discovered when Byron Graham wrote about his favorite, Elitch Gardens, while Bree Davies defended the charms of Lakeside Amusement Park –…
Just in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the Denver Film Society and America SCORES Denver are teaming up with the Three Lions pub and SOCCER ELECTRIC to hold Denver’s first annual World Football Film Festival. The festival, which is set for June 5 to June 8 at…
You may have seen Beforeplay.org’s billboards around the city or memes (like the one above) floating around Facebook. Part of an ongoing campaign advocating safe sex and sex positivity, BeforePlay.org is using humor to connect with Coloradans in a way that is accessible and designed to spark a conversation. Formed…
The English translation of Los Phantazmas is “The Ghosts,” says artist Carlos Fresquez, explaining his art collective’s name, which evokes the invisible work that many Latinos, Mexicans and Chicanos perform in the United States. The four-person collective emerged in the mid-’90s, disbanded around the turn of the century and has…
Forget its reputation: There is no way that Plan 9 from Outer Space is the worst movie ever made. I know this for a fact, because I have seen dozens, maybe as many as a hundred, movies that are much, much worse. It’s not even the worse movie in its…
Michael Paglia visits the Clyfford Still Museum in this week’s art review, taking in a recreated show based on an exhibit that Still himself organized in 1959 at the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, New York. The exhibition marked the first time he was able to fully envision what it would be…
On April 26, professional and amateur filmmakers alike joined in the “One Day in Denver” project, part of “One Day on Earth: Your Day. Your City. Your Future.” During this participatory media event, they documented the answers to ten questions on the future of Denver; meanwhile, filmmakers in eleven other…
One of the great pleasures of regular movie-going isn’t seeing great films. It’s finding the little oddballs, the modest entertainments that miss just as often as they hit, but leave you with the feeling that someone poured heart, soul and a sense of humor into the work at hand. Fading…
How much can you take away and still have a movie? Steven Knight’s Locke is an experiment in whittling down contemporary screen storytelling to its irreducible essentials, which isn’t quite the same thing as being an “experimental” film, despite the ravishing early reviews from England. It shows us just one…
