“A lot of people put belly dancers in the same category as strippers,” says Melissa Brandhorst of Shimmy Mob, a national organization that raises money for women’s and children’s shelters with flash-mob-style events. “But it really is an art form; it takes years of practice and muscle memory and dedication…
Sex later in life is a subject many people try not to think about, but retired English teacher Jane Juska opened up a whole discussion on the subject when she serendipitously placed this personal ad in the New York Review of Books: “Before I turn 67 — next March —…
In 2009, Dr. George Tiller, one of only a handful of doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, was fatally shot while at-tending church services in his home town of Wichita, Kansas. Tonight, Physicians for Human Rights Colorado is partnering with the Sie FilmCenter to present After Tiller, a…
When The Advocate published the 2008 article “Gay Is the New Black,” they “pissed off a lot of people because of this feeling that it was saying that the civil-rights movement is over and done, and now it’s the gay-rights movement that’s ascendant,” says Yoruba Richen, director of The New…
Evan Weissman’s Warm Cookies of the Revolution is going strong into its second year, as more Denverites find their way to his unique civic gatherings. Tonight’s GLBTQ Intergenerational Show and Tell Mix Tape will focus on the presentation of personal stories through favorite songs. An all-ages panel will share their…
The annual Chautauqua Summer Silent Film Series begins tonight with an unlikely choice: Duck Soup. And fans of the 1933 Marx Brothers masterpiece will understand the problem immediately, since the absurdist political comedy is actually a talkie. But programmer Tom Hart explains that he wanted the series to start off…
If you’ve ever wanted to own an action-figure version of yourself, Geekshow II is your chance to make that happen. “We’re bringing a full-body 3-D scanning booth that we built,” says Mar Williams, chair of the Concoctory Hackerspace. “You stand on a turntable and it rotates you around, and we…
Ivar Zeile of Plus Gallery says he’s never hosted an MFA thesis show before, though he’s undoubtedly had the opportunity. But there was something about the work of University of Denver grad student and adjunct professor Kristin Stransky — a combination of 3-D printing technology, digital imaging and interactive projects…
Boulder photographer and painter Chuck Forsman is like the Ansel Adams of the ordinary, and it’s worked very well for him, as in the series Western Rider, for which he snapped plain but skillful landscapes from a car window, or Walking Magpie, where he observed with the lens while walking…
Ian Kennedy’s eye for style is in his genes. His family was in the antiques business, and as a child he’d go to auctions with his grandparents, seeking out items for their Native American and vintage store. Though that spot closed long ago, Kennedy has revived it through Ruby +…
Earlier this week, twenty handpicked local artists, each representing a different Denver restaurant or bar, gathered at the McNichols Building, where they’d been invited to participate in the touring “Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project,” a contest that could take two of them all the way to Art Basel…
Climbing a Fourteener can be tough — but in developing countries, people face hardships just getting through the day. That’s why the Boulder-based nonprofit Second Mile Water has created the Colorado 54, an event in which participants will collectively summit every Colorado Fourteener in a 24-hour period, while also raising…
Denver Cruiser Ride big wheel Brad Evans continues to find ways to keep the weekly, costumed bike crawl on a roll. So when the first ride of 2014 — with a “Reds and Robes” theme — starts tonight at five bar locations, the shared destination will be a bona fide…
Denver-based Zumba instructor Brittney Rae Reese danced her way to national attention on CBS’s Let’s Make a Deal — where, unfortunately, she was “zonked” on an episode that aired recently. Reese was visiting a friend in California last Halloween when she was surprised with tickets to the popular TV show…
Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson recommend Neighbors (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron) and Godzilla (Bryan Cranston, Godzilla) and are joined by special guest, James Beard Award-winning L.A. Weekly restaurant critic Besha Rodell, who discusses the highs and lows of Jon Favreau’s…
I complain about the bulldozing of Denver’s sometimes tacky but often unique cowtown-ish architectural history a lot. It wasn’t that long ago that we weren’t very cool; in my salad days of the early 2000s, I rented a sprawling two-bedroom apartment in a beautiful ’40s-era building on Cheesman Park for…
#83: Andy Berg Andy Berg sees painting as an inner calling, and offers no conceptual mumbo-jumbo when explaining what he does: He paints. His large abstract canvases are imbued with the mystery of invention and the creative process, and almost paint themselves — using Berg and his armory of brushes…
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…
