Denver loves The Book of Mormon, and the feeling is really mutual: Though the laugh-out-loud funny, touring Broadway musical from Colorado’s own boy geniuses, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is in the last week of its second run at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Denver Center Attractions announced yesterday that…
Cassie Carter loved fashion and making things when she was a girl. Today she’s the wife of NBA player Anthony Carter, and she’s taken her childhood love of fashion and creation and turned them into Cumi, a line of handcrafted handbags and accessories. You can shop from her line at…
Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts; it can also be a profound shared experience that culminates in a better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, welcome to the Westword Book Club, a weekly feature celebrating the books that inspire Denver artists.
Like every kid in high school, I was forced to fulfill a gym requirement. At George Washington High School, we had the option of taking aerobics — which I secretly loved, because I dreamed of one day making my own instructional workout videos. Each day our weird instructor — who…
November is American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month — so naturally, the Lieutenant Governor’s Office, which oversees the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, is celebrating with a show of skateboard art at the State Capitol. A public reception for the show, curated as part of the Colorado Creative Industries…
#32: Eric Dallimore New Orleans native Eric Dallimore is a many-faceted artist: A large-scale sculptor, photographer and installation artist, whose work ranges from a public-art piece built from the wreckage of homes lost to Hurricane Katrina to a yearlong photographic documentation of the Denver dance troupe Wonderbound, he’s already keeping…
Artist-run film labs are changing the face of experimental film. Popping up all over the world in everything from portable ice chests to the locker room of an abandoned swimming pool, these labs collect discarded industrial film equipment so that every step of the filmmaking process remains in the hands…
It’s not often that we come across a person who challenges others to “do,” not just talk — but Josh Schmitz qualifies. The founder of Ruckus Apparel, Schmitz was born in Denver, graduated high school in Wheat Ridge, and turned down a rugby scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley…
This past weekend, fans and gamers alike met at 1Up for KongOff 3, the world Donkey Kong championships. Jeff Willms took his second consecutive win in the competition, with Ross Benziger and Hank Chien following behind. And we were there to catch the action; keep reading for a sampling of…
With the holidays approaching, there are plenty of fashion shows and shopping opportunities this week — all reason to give thanks. Here’s a sampling of what’s on the fashion calendar before Thanksiving and Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of all. See also:The real story behind Black Friday…
While introducing a screening at the 36th Starz Denver Film Festival late last week, fest director Britta Erickson asked members of the audience how many people had seen 25 movies by then — and a number of hands went up, with even more rising to confirm other ticket-holders had caught…
Literally the biggest comedian working today, Ralphie May has been charming the pants off of comedy fans for the last decade and a half. Playing a slack-jawed wise-ass, May will often twist his audience’s perception by using a Southern accent to deliver an insightful crack about controversial subjects that would…
Is Lumber Baron Inn: Denver’s Mystery Mansion, Denver historian Phil Goodstein’s latest book, really about just one building? “Yes, it is,” replies Goodstein. “Compared to a lot of my books” — like the recently released Denver History Index, about where to find out more about the city’s past and present…
Saving money doesn’t have to mean staying in and staring into the void. You can still get out this week and enjoy free events, which include everything from a James Bond flick to a teen Hunger Games virtual reality tournament to a day of strolling around at the Denver Zoo…
For Saturday night’s performance at the Colorado Symphony, the scene wasn’t the classic crowd. In place of stuffed shirts and pearls, there were Star Wars stormtroopers and Star Trek crew members wandering the lobby of Boettcher Concert Hall, along with a whole zoo of other comics, sci-fi and gaming characters…
Last month we asked readers to send us suggestions for the Denver arts scene’s best representatives on social media for our 2013 Denver Web Awards. We compiled our list of finalists from those suggestions, and now it’s your turn to pick who wins top honors. Here’s how it works…
Denver native Austin Wintory says attending frequent Colorado Symphony Orchestra concerts and nerding out on video games and comic books inspired him just about equally as a kid, so Saturday’s special concert “The Hero’s Journey: A Symphonic Tribute to Comic Con” at 7:30 p.m. at Boettcher Concert Hall is “nothing…
“Get ready for a snowy weekend,” reports Joel Gratz, forecaster for OpenSnow.com and a repeat Westword Best of Denver Best Way to Plan a “Sick” Day winner. Gratz is predicting light snow in the mountains this evening and a heavier storm late Saturday, and says he’s headed to Wolf Creek…
Trends in comedy come and go, but there’s something classic about Kevin O’Brien’s monthly Arguments and Grievances night. The simple twist of pitting local comics against one another for debates on inconsequential themes — which garnered a Best of Denver award this year from Westword — has been working for…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, Withey recommends Friday’s Doomsdays, Saturday’s What Is Cinema? and Sunday’s Here…
As both the temperature and your bank balance drop, it can be easy to give up on the outside world and fall into a cozy hole at home, with a marathon of all nine seasons of The X-Files on Instant Watch. But it’s not yet time to hibernate — not…
It’s not every weekend that a handful of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winners and international artists converge on the area. But this weekend the Americas for Conservation and the Arts will present the inaugural Americas Latino Festival of Colorado, a green event celebrating the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority population and…
