For a compact town, Boulder has a lot of artists per capita, but somehow, they seem to be slipping under the radar. The folks behind this year’s inaugural Boulder Arts Week, including the Boulder Arts Commission, the Boulder County Arts Alliance and other like-minded agencies, venues and organizations, expect that…
Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver always has another project down his inkwell, and one of the latest — a collaboration with vegetarian restaurateur and author Dan Landes — will make its debut tonight with a two-part celebration at City, O’ City and upstairs performance venue Deer Pile. Van Sciver, a Westword…
The Czech Republic’s ranking as cinema hothouse is longstanding, particularly since the rise of Milo Forman, Jiří Menzel and the rest of the Czech New Wave in the 1960s, and again during the resurgence of Czechoslovakia’s blacklisted artists and filmmakers following the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Czech That Film, a…
Investigative sustainability journalist and solar-power-using goatherder Doug Fine says that the hardest part about researching and discussing his new book, Hemp Bound: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution, is “trying not to sound like your college roommate with the lava lamp.” Because those wavy-gravy types had…
Mark Lunning’s Open Press Ltd. has quietly been spreading the gospel of printmaking in the Baker neighborhood for 25 years, which is pretty remarkable in an environment where galleries and studios can come and go in the blink of an eye. During that quarter-century of overseeing pull after pull of…
Aspen Shortsfest program director George Eldred is hesitant to pick a favorite from among the film festival’s offerings this year. “Winnowing down 3,000 to seventy — they’re all our children. Like any proud parent, you wouldn’t want to play favorites,” he says. “There are some really standout pieces from lots…
You’d think a play titled William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead: A True and Accurate Account of the 1599 Zombie Plague could only be a campy romp on stage, but Vonalda Utterback of the Theater Company of Lafayette says the group is playing it straight. The action, which all takes…
China’s changing representation of women is still a relatively new thing, and maybe one that hasn’t made a wave all the way around the globe yet, but if you ask Julie Segraves, director of the Asian Art Coordinating Council in Denver, it takes a young woman to translate that shift…
It’s not really steampunk without the proper headgear, and the hats, goggles and helmets at this past weekend’s AnomalyCon steampunk convention were an anachronistic sight to see. Photographer Danielle Lirette roamed the halls of the con with her camera; keep reading for her shots of some of the best costumerie…
DADA Art Bar occupies a prime corner of Denver. This space at 2470 Broadway used to be in the middle of nowhere — dada, indeed! — but these days the Ballpark neighborhood is popping. After months of meticulous planning by Ian Chisholm, who also owns Amerigo right around the corner,…
With hair genius and photo-shoot stylist Charlie Price behind the scenes at the upcoming 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, there’s little doubt that the three-night event at City Hall, featuring national and local fashion shows as well as a hair show, will look good all weekend long. But the addition…
In his tenth year as curator of the XicanIndie Film Festival, Daniel Salazar decided to revamp the whole project. Working with film programmers from all over the Americas, Salazar created the Encuentro Mundial de Cine, an international curatorial collaboration using digital platforms to broaden the pool of films available to…
April is a month of rejuvenation and light-hearted trickery, a season of pranks, afternoon showers, and street-sweeping tickets. The truly April foolish thing to do would be to miss out on the fine assortment of comedy shows in Denver this month. With a visit from the reigning ice queen of late night talk shows, a benefit for down syndrome, some great local showcases and an appearance from improviser, singer, and all-around showman Wayne Brady, there’s plenty of levity available to carry local comedy fans through the month. Fortunately, many of these shows are free, which should provide at least a little relief to the unjustly ticketed.
Within the first few weeks of our relationship, my boyfriend and I had told each other everything. I think that in the modern cultural lore of love, one of the ways a true “connection” with someone is established is if you have the comfort and desire to air all of…
It only made sense to top off the AnomalyCon steampunk convention with a well-timed club night at the Church: Dr. Krishna and Voltaire’s Maniacal Steampunk Ball brought out some of the best costumes of the weekend, as well as live music and a Victorian carnival vibe. Ken Hamblin snapped these…
Tattoos have colored most of Walter McDonald’s life — he got his first ink at age twelve and has been tattooing professionally for more than twenty years. Originally from Houston, he has lived in Colorado for 26 years, becoming a well-known name in the industry. He’s now the owner of…
#94: Stephanie Ohnmacht Stephanie Ohnmacht has been sewing since she was seven; as a youngster involved in 4-H, she raised sheep and used her prize money to buy fabric. By the time she was twelve, she was already a self-made businesswoman, who had moved on to winning ribbons for the…
So, you’ve got a kid, huh? Whether it’s your own rambunctious preschooler or the bratty nephew you’ve been charged with keeping alive for the next five hours, the most important thing is leaving your house where valuables are liable to be destroyed and seeking refuge on somebody else’s property. In…
April showers bring May flowers, but we geeks don’t have to wait a whole month to reap the benefits of this one. This month is loaded with great times for geeks of every stripe, from pinball wizards to devotees of ’80s cinema, and numerous points between. Dig in to this…
After the Boulder Tattoo Project commissioned world-renowned poet and 2013 Guggenheim fellow Anne Waldman to write a love letter to Boulder, “Boulder Zodiac” was parsed into 218 segments and tattooed onto the bodies of 218 volunteers last fall. Some of them got complete phrases, some just commas — and then…
Denver’s First Annual March for Absurdity convened at Market street RTD station yesterday afternoon. Whimsical accoutrements abounded at this small but dedicated gathering of weirdos, united in a defiantly pointless exercise for the sake of spectacle. But oh, what a spectacle. While the marcher’s assembled costumes were all decidedly bizarre, the real show was on the baffled faces of passersby as they tried to figure out just what the hell was going on.
The neo-Victorian look was hot over the weekend at AnomalyCon, where steampunk aficionados gathered for elegant, hardware-laden cosplay and camaraderie and all things con, as well as live music by Clockwork Flamingo and Keldari Station. Photographer Danielle Lirette caught the people of AnomalyCon in full dress, from another century. See…
