Chilean author Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim with her best-selling first novel, The House of the Spirits. From there she went on to write twenty more works in her native Spanish, everything from Zorro to Island Beneath the Sea, which have have sold a total of more than sixty million…
Imagine sewing illumination right into your own clothes, conducting electricity with wearable, blinking light art. Tonight’s Tip & Tinker: Art of Winter Edition is going to teach you how to do just that, with an adults-only evening of booze and e-textile creating. Combining fashion and technology, local nonprofit MindSpark will…
Jeff Ross, host of Comedy Central’s The Burn, is something of an anachronism. An old-school insult comic in the vein of Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield, Ross has done more than any comedian of our era to preserve the tradition of the New York Friars Club roasts and, not surprisingly,…
Jumping out of Africa’s Kalahari Desert and onto the big screen, cuddly meerkats are coming to IMAX at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Meerkats 3D. Watch a family of these adorable members of the mongoose family as they grow up from pups, deal with turf wars and…
Improv and geek culture collides in Geek Out, a show that uses the obsessive nature of fandom as inspiration and fuel for improv. “It’s a combination of all the things we love. We’re an improv theater. We’re a bunch of geeks,” explains Denise Maes, the show’s executive producer. “We thought,…
“You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy our festival,” says Ely Hemnes, coordinator of the eighteenth annual Denver Jewish Film Festival, which opens tonight in the Elaine Wolf Theatre at the Mizel Arts & Culture Center, 350 South Dahlia Street. Curated over the course of a year, this multi-day…
A while back, the New Yorker’s magisterial Hilton Als mentioned playwright Marcus Gardley’s immense talent and called him “a potentially great writer who has yet to write a great play.” Gardley’s latest work, Black Odyssey, which was featured in the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit last year and…
You never know what you’re going to get at the Museum of Outdoor Arts. This time around, it’s Urban Abstract/Rural Grid, a shape-shifting showcase of work by two veterans of the local scene, featuring encaustic paintings by Patricia Aaron and Chandler Romeo’s ceramic earthworks. It’s no accident that these two…
This week we spotted an eye-catching look from artist and musician Piper Shepherd. Although she’s from Alabama originally, Shepherd now lives in Colorado. Read here to learn where she shops, what inspires her style, and what’s inside her bag. See also: Womenswear Wednesdays: Cosmetologist Chloe Jarisch on her Warhol look…
Early this month, we learned that Guy Fieri was casting for the second season of his new TV show, and we realized we forgot something: Guy has a new TV show! Guy has a new TV show much of the time, but it’s not like us to simply ignore a…
It’s been in the works for a while, but Impulse Theater is finally parting ways with its home within the Wynkoop Brewing Company, where the performance space has been located for more than two decades. The long-running improv spot isn’t calling it quits; it’s looking for a new location. And…
The Chicano Humanities and Arts Council invites you to to show some Valentine’s love for its cultural outreach programs at the fifteenth annual Milagros del Corazón benefit on Friday, January 31. This is CHAC’s biggest fundraiser of the year; artists and friends of the group decorate hundreds of blank wooden…
Beth Stelling is a Los Angeles based comedian who has appeared on Conan, and recently won the internet on Comedy Central’s @Midnight. Her debut album Sweet Beth is available from Rooftop Comedy. Stelling, who cut her teeth in Chicago’s vibrant comedy scene is visiting Denver to co-headline Sexpot Comedy’s Ice Queens and Ice Wizards comedy showcase with Kate Berlant. In advance of the show, Westword caught up with Beth Stelling for an early morning phone interview punctuated by adorable kitten yawns to talk about Ice Queens, the tiny failures of open mics, and co-writing her play Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche.
When I heard that the last Furr’s Cafeteria in Colorado had closed, I was sad. But only in the nostalgic-for-something-I-haven’t-been-nostalgic-for-in-a-long-time kind of way. Furr’s had become a place I always talked about visiting as an adult — mostly to see if it was as good as it was when I…
Gamma Acosta has stayed busy blurring the lines behind street art and fine art along the Front Range. And now he’s showing his love for the Broncos and Peyton Manning with two new murals. See also: Kitty Marini’s watercolors pay homage to nature in all its colorful glory…
#17: Lonnie Hanzon Lonnie Hanzon is a bit of a wizard; in fact, he once held the title of Wizard-in-Residence at the Museum of Outdoor Arts. His artistic oeuvre is a cabinet of curiosities (an exhibit he staged while at MOA bore the same name), a baroque mixture of whimsical…
The idea behind the University of Colorado Denver’s seasonal Mini-School series is simple: invite a wide array of experts who are interested in talking about their chosen fields, and then invite the public to come learn from them — for free. The school has had a successful medical series for…
There was plenty of both wrestling and laughs at the Lucha Libre and Laughs event at the Oriental Theater this past weekend. Comedy from Jordan Doll, Mara Wiles, Kevin Shook and Roger Norquist as well as four wrestling matches filled the night — and our photographer Ursula Romaine was there…
The statement that “black is always in style” never fails to ring true. This week, we spotted stellar black menswear from dance teacher Andrew Caballero. Read here to learn who inspires his aesthetics, his favorite accessories, and where he shops online for chic menswear. See also: Hyatt worker Marques Pryor…
Citizen Kane will screen in 35-millimeter print on the big screen at the Sie Film Center tomorrow in conjunction with a discussion of Cinematic States: Stories We Tell, the American Dreamlife, and How to Understand Everything, a book by Northern Irish author and film critic Gareth Higgins, who explores American…
The skiing and snowboarding pros took over Aspen this weekend for the annual X-Games. With superpipe and slopestyle competitions, snowmobile racing and performances by Phoenix and Matt and Kim, the weekend was a winter sports lover’s dream. Our photographer Eric Gruneisen was there to catch all the action and fun…
Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore: Dana Cain and Tracy Weil of the Denver County Fair just announced that the nation’s first Pot Pavilion will be part of the annual event’s three-day run in August at the National Western Complex. The new 21-and-over pavilion, to be located on a newly…
