Urban walls are the favored medium of Longmont street artist Gamma Acosta, ideal for creating murals that make you look twice — such as his now-famous Peyton Manning image on the side of the Monkey Barrel. “I like making murals outside, where the artwork can reach people,” he explains. “The…
From deep-space exploration to the front lines of conflict to mundane tasks like cleaning your floor, robots are taking over. Why go all John Connor and try to stop them, though, when you can just join them at Robotics at the Hangar? “It’s an expo of all things robotic, from…
Doors Open Denver is all about showing off the city’s bones. The theme of this year’s two-day citywide open house is “Celebrating Neighborhood Architecture,” and it will shine a spotlight on over sixty structures — city buildings, historic mansions, hotels and theaters — in more than a dozen Denver neighborhoods,…
No matter how advanced video games get, there’s still something special about smacking a metal ball around a ringing, blinking maze of machinery. Celebrate the bliss of pinball with collectors, enthusiasts and exhibitors alike at this weekend’s Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown and Gameroom Expo. “It’s kind of like a car…
Su Teatro’s fourteenth annual Neruda Poetry/Spoken Word Festival kicks off tonight with PLACAS, a performance combines spoken word, hip-hop and theater that’s written by visiting artist Paul S. Flores, directed by Michael John Garcés and stars Ric Salinas of the performance group Culture Clash. “Paul did a lot of research…
The folks at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema think 1984 was a very good year, and for that reason, the Littleton outpost will be screening favorite films from thirty years ago throughout April. Tonight’s flick is Miloš Forman’s Amadeus, one of the best classical-music biopics ever made. With a script by…
The Medora Hornets are not the kind of state-championship contenders that moviemakers tend to chronicle. In Medora, a documentary by Davy Rothbart and Andrew Cohn, every time these charming serial losers hit the basketball court, the audience faces the nail-biting question: Can’t they win just this once? But it’s the…
For many people, April 15 is a taxing experience, so Warm Cookies of the Revolution is throwing a day-after Tax Day Carnival, aka “The Esteemed Philosophe and Adventurer, Dr. Fosberry, & His Civicus Carnivale Spectacular: Burlesque & A Lively Discussion of Issues Pertaining to Taxation, The Publick Sphere, and The…
Michael Emmitt and Sean Paul Mahoney envisioned their Horse & Cart company as a kind of traveling road show rather than a stationary theatrical entity, and that’s pretty much how it’s shaped up, with programming that’s been part improv, part game show, part tradi-tional theater, part burst of genius —…
Christy Montour-Larson has directed some of the most significant productions at Curious Theatre Company, and Good People looks set to be another triumph for her and the company. The protagonist of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play is a Boston Southie who, falling on hard times, turns to a successful old boyfriend for…
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company artistic director Stephen Weitz will take on science with Dava Sobel’s And the Sun Stood Still, which makes its world premiere tonight. The play deals with Copernicus’s theory — revolutionary, even dangerous in its time — placing the sun instead of the earth at the center…
The Denver Center Theatre Company kicks off its spring slate tonight with a thoughtful love story that makes up for a lack in fancy stage pyrotechnics or musical numbers by asking big questions. Shadowlands, William Nicholson’s biographical drama, is based on the relationship between writer C.S. Lewis and his wife,…
Michael Paglia visits the Denver Art Museum in this week’s review, taking in the exhibit that features work from such revered artists as Rousseau, van Gogh, Matisse, Chagall and Picasso, among many other heavy hitters. Continue reading for photos from the exhibit…
Colorado company TAMAGEAR launched a Kickstarter campaign last month to bring its mid-layer jackets — perfect outerwear for this ever-changing weather — to the market. TAMAGEAR’s product line is designed to keep customers warm, comfortable and stylish during outdoor activities. See also: Who is Kickstarter for, anyway?…
Colorado is home to a whole community of assemblage artists, some working with nuts and bolts straight out of the dumpster and others using more rarefied detritus they’ve collected over years. But it doesn’t really matter what goes into putting this kind of art together — the final transformation is…
Known to hip-hop heads and vinyl connoisseurs as Peanut Butter Wolf, Chris Manak is a DJ and producer who founded the influential underground label Stones Throw Records. The new documentary Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton tells the story of this nearly two-decade-old Los Angeles record label by exploring Wolf’s personal…
From HAL to the Terminator, robots in fiction play the part of the bad guy more often than not. Here in the real world, though, robots do some good work, and very little evil. You can get a taste of some of that good work this Sunday, April 13 at…
The everyday experience of high school can be stressful enough; juggling parental responsibilities along with school work can be especially tough. Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado is a nonprofit early learning center that gives teen moms the support they need to succeed as students and mothers. This Saturday, April 12,…
Jane Wells has devoted a decade to documenting human rights abuses throughout the world. She served as producer on The Devil Came on Horseback, a chronicle of the genocide in Darfur, and most recently directed the feature documentary Tricked, about sex trafficking in the United States. While working on the…
Welcome to Colorado! If you’ve been here for at least three months, you’ve already enjoyed some of our famously indecisive weather, days that include snowy mornings and fifty-plus-degree afternoons. Although spring is officially here, in this beautiful state the transition period between winter and summer, and, similarly, between summer and…
Arvada will welcome a new Petco at 8031 Wadsworth Boulevard this weekend, and the store will host a series of pet-friendly events April 12 and April 13 to celebrate the grand opening and to promote Petco’s “think adoption first” philosophy. See also: DIA now has “Dog Diety” — “Blucifer” be…
Colorado native Scott Ferguson has always been an artist, but what drew him to the tattoo industry was the rugged lifestyle. Ferguson has been hanging out a tattoo shops since he was a teenager and tattooing professionally since 1996; he currently works at Thick as Thieves Tattoo. Westword recently caught…
