Technology has already drastically changed the way we get things done, and on its tail comes a pioneering wave of DIY entrepreneurship. We call people who’ve found a way to fuse the two “makers,” and if you count yourself among that group, the inaugural Denver Mini Maker Faire, set for…
When it comes time to plan a new production of Stories on Stage, creative director Anthony Powell is sometimes lucky enough to have his audience do the work for him. “For How Does Your Garden Grow?, one of our subscribers just said, ‘You should do a garden show — and…
“There’s a certain kind of person who is into both cameras and bicycles,” says Mike Kone of Boulder Bicycle, who helped organize today’s Rocky Mountain Regional Camera & Collectibles Show and Colorado Custom & Vintage Bicycle Expo, a collaborative showcase and market for people who love vintage cameras or old-school…
For the first time ever, May the Fourth — aka Star Wars Day — falls on the same weekend as the annual StarFest convention, which is pulling out all the stops this year. “As far as I know, StarFest is the biggest Star Wars Day celebration between the two coasts,”…
Ceramics artist Jean Smith chose the enigmatic title Teased, Torn, Coddled & Pampered for her annual showcase at Zip 37 Gallery, but her explanation makes sense: “It’s how I work with the clay,” she says. “Sometimes I kinda tease it, and then you have to coddle and pamper it as…
Food can change lives, and so can cooking. That will be the message at tonight’s WomenCook!, the tenth annual fundraiser for Work Options for Women, a Denver nonprofit. “One thing that we’re doing special this year is having ten of our graduates as presenters of the program,” says Work Options…
Dixie Longate is best known for her show Dixie’s Tupperware Party, which recently closed a long run. But she’s not stopping there. In her new show, Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a Mechanical Bull (and 16 Other Things I Learned While I Was Drinking Last Thursday), a world…
Once upon a time, there was Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, and together they were the Swell Season, a pair of folk-rockers from Ireland and Czechoslovakiathe Czech Republic and then out of, love. Ironically, the bandmates became enamored while making the 2006 film Once, the story of an Irish and…
For his newest installation, Hooty Hoo, artist Matt Scobey turned to a medium we see every day while walking down the street: concrete. Inspired in part by the Proun art movement of the 1920s, Scobey’s wood-and-concrete installation will be on display through May inside of Fancy Tiger Clothing. “For years…
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Presented by Lone Tree Arts Center through May 4 Huck Finn, a wild-haired urchin, wants to be free of the constraints of civilization, represented by the Widow Douglas, who has adopted him and is determined to get him properly Christianized, and her steel-spined…
Adam Cayton Holland got his start in standup ten years ago, when he decided to try a few jokes at an open-mike night and wound up on stage at Comedy Works; he described his experiences in “Get Up, Stand Up,” a July 2004 Westword cover story. Since then, Cayton-Holland has…
Kevin McDonald is an actor, improviser, and comedian best known for his work with Canada’s Kids in the Hall sketch comedy troupe. McDonald will be at Denver’s Voodoo Comedy Playhouse all weekend, which kicks off at 9:00pm on Friday, May 2nd with a special edition of The Couch, Denver’s only improvised therapy session. McDonald is also scheduled to perform on his own Improvised sketch show at 8:00pm on Saturday, May 3rd.Tickets for both shows cost $15 in advance and $20 at the door. The 2 day sketch-writing workshop runs from 10:00am-5:00pm on Saturday, May 3rd and Sunday, May 4th. The fee is $300. Westword caught up with McDonald in advance of his trip to Denver to discuss bad sketch writing, getting into standup, and the new Kids in the Hall tour.
As a Denver neighborhood with a rich architectural history, University Park is home to houses of all shapes, sizes and legacies. This Sunday, May 4, five homes in the historic area will open their doors to the public for the University Park Home Tour, an afternoon event that benefits University…
May showers bring spring flowers, and that means a bouquet of fashion events to brighten your days. For animal lovers, there’s the annual Handbags to Hounds fashion show; for the fashion faithful, the La Rue Fashion Showcase. Here are seven of the top fashion events in Denver set for May…
May is here, and let’s hope you geeks like Star Wars. This month is packed with events tied to everyone’s favorite franchise set in a galaxy far, far away since May 4 — as in May the Fourth be with you, because geeks love puns — is a Star Wars…
Nobody knows how deep the talent goes in our local youth slam-poetry community better than Denver poet and youth mentor Ken Arkind. He’s been on the side of young poets — and at their side as they represent Denver at the national Brave New Voices youth slam competition on the…
While we may have those “300 days of sunshine” to brag about, Colorado is home to another weather cliché: the idea of “construction season.” Yes, no matter the time of year, it seems that all of our major roadways are being worked on simultaneously, from the mess that is forever…
Despite the rain, Denver runners took to the streets for the Cherry Creek Sneak on Sunday. Our photographer Ursula Romaine was there to capture the 5K, 5 mile and 10 mile races through the Cherry Creek neighborhood; here’s a sneak peek of the Sneak. See also: Photos: Zombies roam Estes…
Timbuk2, which made a name for itself with its bicycle messenger bags, is about to open its second retail location outside of its home base of San Francisco. The new store, which will open on May 3, is at 1411 Larimer Street, where it will join the line of specialty…
Shawn McDonald believes the art of tattooing is experiencing a renaissance. The industry has changed a lot since his childhood in Massachusetts, where tattooing was illegal until 2000. Now a prolific artist in the industry, McDonald has been tattooing professionally for thirteen years and currently works at American Standard Tattoo…
Infatue’s new line of ready-to-wear pieces, the Cultiver Collection, has arrived just in time for spring. Samantha Aragon is known as Lil Fresh Sam in the fashion community for her brand, Infatue, that she launched two years ago. Infatue is rising in popularity nationally with Method Man and B.O.B recently…
#86: Laura Ann Samuelson Laura Ann Samuelson is much more than a dancer and choreographer: She’s an interdisciplinary collaborator in performance who also directs her own company, Hoarded Stuff, when she isn’t working with others. On her horizon? As she discusses below as part of her 100CC questionnaire, Samuelson will…
