Improv meets art tonight at Epic Brewing’s Draw Off, where five teams of local comic artists — Denver Drink & Draw, Squid Works, DEAD Academy, Red Team Go! and Team Wildcard (consisting of last-minute competitors from the audience) — will compete in a live drawing competition on themes suggested by…
Be prepared to get weird, get loud and get innovative tonight at the Bizarro Slam, a poetry slam that disregards rules and tradition. Organized by EarthCity — a duo made up of musicians Seleckta SunRa and poet Sunflower DuBois — the gathering is meant to form a deeper connection between…
“It’s very analog,” says Audra Wolowiec of “Sound & Text,” her performance at Counterpath Press. The Brooklyn-based installation artist is referring to her use of an old-fashioned projector, one that she will carry around the gallery as it clicks away, loudly sharing images. Utilizing and responding to the space where…
For the grand opening of its new and improved studio and gallery space, Good Thieves Press is getting a little ghoulish. The artist collective is hosting an interactive open-studio tour called Monster Movie Madness, during which the group will provide spooky hand-screened zombie masks and paper puppets to go along…
Even if you thought Left Hand Brewing’s Hops & Handrails multi-brewery beer fest and snowboard competition couldn’t possibly top itself, the event’s going bigger than ever this year, says Left Hand event coordinator Josh Goldberg, by upping the number of regional suds vendors from 24 to 37, making its signature…
One hundred years after the Colorado National Guard, along with goons hired by mining magnate John D. Rockefeller, murdered striking coal miners and their children in the southern Colorado town of Ludlow, Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center is premiering Ludlow: El Grito de Las Minas, a play about…
Every year after the Vegan Prom has ended, attendees ask organizer Joshua LaBure about the next year’s event. “We’ve had numerous people say it’s their favorite night of the year,” LaBure says. And even though this particular fancy-dress dance party has the word “vegan” in the name, LaBure assures potential…
“When most people think of balloon art, they think of a bouquet of balloons or a simple balloon dog,” says Amanda Dolechek, spokeswoman for the Festival of Balloons. “We want to show them that balloons can really be a form of art; they’re a medium like anything else.” The festival…
What could delight an Anglophile more than spending an afternoon sipping tea and reading Jane Austen? Try three cups of tea and the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of her autumnal novel, Persuasion — a witty tale of heartache and love sure to titillate the prim and proper romantic in us all…
“Some women spend money on shoes,” notes Denver event maestra Dana Cain. “I’ve been wearing the same Nikes for five years, and I’ve diverted all that shoe money into art. My house looks fabulous, and I’m comfortable!” Cain is just one of several art patrons whose acquisitions will be showcased…
With a history that’s larger than life and steeped in myths and memories, Colfax Avenue runs through Colorado culture. The Golden Highway: Views of Colfax Avenue, opening today at the Aurora History Museum, celebrates this vibrant strip with a collaborative exhibition of the museum’s archival images and photos donated by…
When Women’s History Month rolled around, Slam Nuba’s Jovan Mays — who also happens to be the newly appointed Poet Laureate of Aurora — wanted to make sure his slam-poetry community knew about it. For one evening in March, he’s pulled together the most stellar lineup of his sisters in…
If you’re a fool for musicals, especially ones about Colorado mythology, this is your lucky April Fools Day. Fresh City Life’s series Sing Out, Sister: Broadway Musicals Through a Hollywood Lens features a screening of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which tells the tale of the Molly Brown House matron, Margaret…
“I was robbed at gunpoint in 2006 and went into an emotional tailspin,” says author Justin Hocking about the impetus for his memoir, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld. In response, he embarked on late-night treks from his home in New York City to Rockaway Beach to surf in the…
Chuckling in libraries and meeting halls since 1979, members of the Jane Austen Society of North America have been digging deep into the English novelist’s classic tales of romance amongst the British landed gentry. In advance of the March 30Alamo Drafthouse Cinema screening of the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Austen’s…
Was it really dozen years ago that Trista Sutter, a pediatric physical therapist moonlighting as a Miami Heat dancer, had her heart broken on the first season of The Bachelor and then became the very first Bachelorette, falling for poetry-writing firefighter Vail Ryan Sutter and getting married on national TV?…
The world of dog training can be as divided as religion or politics. And so it’s no surprise that America’s first canine expert to become a household name often comes under fire for his methods and eccentric personality. Now known to the world as “The Dog Whisperer,” Cesar Millan originally…
One month into its three-month stay in Denver, Monkey Town 4 — the fine-dining experience in a video cube brought here by returning hometown kid Montgomery Knott, who fine-tuned the concept for several years in Brooklyn — is generating a buzz as more and more people suspend reality for two…
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…
South Park exposed our secret. After an episode aptly titled “Casa Bonita” aired in 2003, the existence of Casa Bonita became known to the world outside of Colorado. Up until that point, Casa Bonita was mostly a regional gem. If you grew up in Colorado, chances are you celebrated at…
When Michael Pinto opened Thick as Thieves Tattoo in 2004, he wanted to create a place for people like him. A self-proclaimed misfit, Pinto has been immersed in the lifestyle since he was a teenager, and has been tattooing professionally for fifteen years now. Westword recently caught up Pinto, who…
#96: Peter Strange Yumi Collage artist, musician and videographer Peter Yumi spends a lot of time in the studio, where he creates ever-changing works from scraps and borrowed images and swatches of paint. Lately, they’ve begun to spill out of the frame into three-dimensional forms. For Yumi, it’s all about…
