When the Bike Art exhibit debuted last year at Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts, it was an instant hit — not surprising for the cycling-happy town nested beneath the Flatirons. But Dairy Center gallery curator Mary Horrocks says it wasn’t just Boulder that appreciated the bike-inspired mega-show. “Here in…
The curtains of square product theatre’s new production, Gidion’s Knot, open on a tragic parent-teacher conference: A mourning mother is visiting her son’s fifth-grade teacher to discover why the boy committed suicide over the weekend. The somber, two-woman play is full of secrets that need to be uncovered, and it…
Western art sometimes gets a bad rap when it comes to the inclusion and illustration of contemporary themes. But the 2014 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale has been doing just that for more than two decades, with a show focusing on art depicting modern life in rural areas. While…
Paint the town read! Show and Tell is off for New Year’s Day — and you should be, too. Get out and enjoy this city’s vibrant cultural scene (or at least find a spot with bottomless Bloody Marys). We’ll be back early tomorrow morning. Happy new year…
On Sunday, December 29, a quiet ripple passed through the Internet as the news came out that longtime Denver gallerist and curator Robin Rule had passed away, leaving a long trail of mourning artists and collectors distraught and caught by surprise. See also: Gildar Gallery celebrates the work of Clark…
Any new year that brings with it a slate of new geek activities is a happy new year, and this one does. In between trips to the gym to fulfill your resolutions, you won’t lack for things to do. Even after you give up on the gym mid-month, you won’t…
We all have our New Year’s Eve rituals — from parties wild or romantic to a quiet toast at home. Some folks turn in before the clock even strikes midnight, and in Denver, others will be bundling up their families to catch fireworks downtown for free. How bout you? Looking…
It’s hard to write a list of New Year’s resolutions that apply to the real world while I’m physically sitting in the altered reality known as vacation. I mean, really. I’m supposed to figure out everything I want to improve in my life — a life that entails e-mails, deadlines,…
In less than a month, on January 30, Westword Whiteout will kick off Denver’s 2014 fashion season at the McNichols Building with an evening filled with live music, specialty vendors, classic cocktails and a signature runway event. We’ve been profiling some of the creative people who are contributing to Whiteout;…
For many, New Year’s Day is the unofficial closing of the holiday season — the last hurrah before school and work recommence. Since it’s a federal holiday, a lot of places close down, but there’s still plenty to do, and we’ve compiled a list of interactive museum exhibits, restorative yoga…
In 2013, we’ve gone to Paris at the Denver Art Museum and invited the rest of the world in for the city’s second Biennial of the Americas, visited galleries in garages and warehouses, and found unexpected art wheat-pasted on brick walls, projected from LED screens and gracing billboards. To be…
Ice sits in the bottom of glasses, decorates parties in elaborate formations, makes snowy Colorado roads slick in the winter. It also forms glittery structures, one of which stands tall at Breckenridge Riverwalk Center, on West Adams Avenue. The ice castle opened on December 26 there — just the third…
If you resolve not to go into debt in the new year, you’ll want to take advantage of some of the free activities in town this week. From fireworks to an art opening to a free screening of Love Actually, you can go out in Denver over the next few…
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. Newbie artist Maggie Osterbauer of Wet Paint Designs is currently carving out…
Since some people just can’t wait for Christmas to be over, 3 Kings threw open its doors on December 25 for the annual F%CK Xmas! celebration, a night of anti-holiday carousing with PBRs and the lovely ladies of Ooh La La. Photographer Brandon Marshall joined in the fun, snapping these…
Eight of the top ten finishers in Vail Resorts’ Epic Race to Ski the World — at all 26 resorts covered by the Epic Pass — are from right here in Colorado, including winners Nick and Scott Annis. Their prize? Lifetime Epic Passes that they’re sure to put to good…
Before you run out to see one of the several movies opening on this Christmas Day 2013, listen to this very special Voice Film Club podcast: Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl runs point while Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson run down their top…
If your wallet is still suffering after extravagant present purchasing, don’t worry. We may not be able to help you pay the rent, but we can help you enjoy the weekend in Denver with our list of ten things to do that each cost less than $10 — from comedy…
Boulder Outdoor Cinema may have temporarily moved indoors, but that doesn’t mean the unsympathetic winter chill is keeping audiences from enjoying some heart-warming cinema. After a killer lineup of holiday films like Elf, A Christmas Story and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, this free-of-charge series will round out its holiday theme…
Christmas is all about traditions, sure, but MCA Denver’s Black Sheep Fridays introduced a new holiday custom: decorating anatomically correct dirty cookies and making sparkly pasties pretty enough to adorn an adults-only Christmas tree — or something else. Photographer Ken Hamblin III shot the action as pastie-making expert and burlesque…
Bucket lists, by their very nature, are a celebration of the ephemeral – a wish list of fleeting activities to experience before the mortal coil goes into a death spiral. The
following experiences,however, are united by a sense of enduring history, of continuing traditions that will persist past the expiration dates of our own lives.
I’ve been at Westword for a long time, and during that two-decade stretch, my job description has changed and morphed. But in the present, I’m enjoying a renaissance of pure, unabashed fandom. This professional pastime reached a pinnacle for me in 2013 as I curated the 100 Colorado Creatives blog…
