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…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Michigan-born Kitty Marini is one cat with more than nine lives: She’s…
Chinese New Year celebrations kicked off early this past weekend when the monthly Reeewind and Roll roller disco took over the floor of the Exdo Event Center with a Big Trouble in Little Chinatown theme. Photographer Ken Hamblin caught the skaters in mid-roll and on the sidelines; continue reading for…
Running low on cash? There’s still plenty you can do in Denver this week, including catching a Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy film, hitting a youth poetry workshop, and watching cartoons and comedy — all for free. Check out the Westword calendar for more things to do, and let us…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art announced today that it will move to a new complex to be erected on the northwest corner of West 12th Avenue and Bannock Street — and that it’s taking that part of the current building that once housed Vance Kirkland’s studio along…
Five more years! ESPN and the Aspen Skiing Company announced this week that the Winter X Games will remain in Colorado through at least 2019. This weekend’s events — free for spectators — include Snowboard Slopestyle, Snowmobile Long Jump, Women’s Snowboard SuperPipe, and Ski Big Air on Saturday, and Ski…
The 4th annual Art of Winter, which kicks off Friday, January 24, and runs through Saturday, February 8, will coincide with the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show. Although there is no official correlation between the urban showcase of Colorado Artists and Innovators and the snow sports industry’s biggest trade…
Amidst the blizzard of film-lovers blanketing Park City, Utah for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Ernie Quiroz, the Denver Film Society’s programming manager, watched sixteen movies in just three days, an enviable sprint for most seasoned couch-potatoes. More enviable, he did it for work. Quiroz returned to Denver Monday after…
