Since it’s served up some of the best-looking parties and shiniest silent auctions in town for nearly a decade, you’d expect the Design Council of the Denver Art Museum’s tenth annual Design After Dark fundraising gala to follow suit. And the feel, if not the exact look, of parties past…
Look closely and you’ll find things hidden within Denver’s architecture. Local author Kitty Migaki’s Alphabet Denver reveals where kids can discover every letter from A to Z concealed in the city’s landmarks and buildings. Using poetry, photographs and the GPS on your phone (or the addresses in the back, if…
Celebrate the Year of the Horse for two hours today, at the 2014 Colorado Chinese New Year Celebration, which has had “hundreds of volunteers working year-round,” according to Huiliang Liu, president of the Chinese American Foundation of Colorado and the Denver Chinese School. But they had a lot to accomplish:…
Volker Schlöndorff, filmmaker and proponent of the New German Cinema, might be best remembered for his Oscar-winning turn as director of The Tin Drum in 1979, but 1976’s Coup de Grâce, filmed in black and white and set amid post-revolutionary turmoil in the Baltics, avoids that film’s crazy bombast for…
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…
