This morning, boxes of gold leaf were delivered to the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol Building and officially presented to Governor John Hickenlooper. The gold, which was donated by Anglogold Ashanti/Cripple Creek & Victor Mining Company, will be used on the dome, which is currently undergoing renovations (find…
Comedy festivals are the perfect antidote to a nasty breakup. Not only because laughing activates several different sections of the brain, strengthening neurons that lead to insight and emotional balance, but because so many comedians love to bitch about heartbreak. Like Morrissey records or the films of Charlie Kaufman, a…
The newest craze in 5Ks is a race that would make even Joseph’s technicolor dream coat jealous. Over the weekend, the Color Run came to Denver, leaving a trail of hundreds of neon-splattered runners in its wake. Continue reading for a few highlights from the race, and visit our full…
Deacon Gray, an Oklahoman transplant who honed his comedic expertise through years of taking thankless road dog gigs. Westword sat down with Deacon recently to discuss comedy, comic books and how the book The Artist’s Way has shaped his career. In addition to functioning as Comedy Work’s benevolent new-talent gatekeeper, Gray is the creator of Text-A-Saurus, a monthly comedy show wherein Denver’s finest comedians along with selected traveling crackerjacks improvise sets based on text messages submitted by the audience. Text-A-Saurus is held the last saturday of each month: the next performance is June 29th at the Bug Theater.
Whoever said that tattoos are addictive is an idiot. Like “issues” or “projection,” addiction is psychobabble-related spillover, a word that suffers from a flippant overuse and strays from its meaning. As a recovering addict, I can’t see a connection between my tattoos and a desire to keep getting more until…
Hear ye, hear ye! Let it be known throughout the land that the 2013 Colorado Renaissance Festival has officially begun. As of last Saturday, the festival will be open every weekend until August 4, with different themes, shows and performers and live jousting each weekend. Westword photographer Christopher Morgan was…
Editor’s note: Longtime Denver fashion designer Francis Roces, whose brand name is KimonoDragons, represents the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his three-month residency, he and his fine-art counterpart Charlie Boots will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they…
Men in fedoras and women in pencil skirts took over the Boulder County Airport Saturday night for the fifth annual 1940s Era World War II Ball. Guests danced the night away to ’40s swing music as vintage airplanes from the period helped set the mood. To top the night off,…
Thousands of people flocked to Civic Center Park over the weekend for the return of Denver’s two-day PrideFest party — and we were there, too. Continue reading for a few of our favorite scenes from the weekend’s rainbow-colored festivities, and visit our full PrideFest 2013 slide show for more photos…
Pacha Play began when the clothing line’s local mastermind, Edica Pacha, wanted to expand her work as a photographer and installation and performance artist. “I started sewing as a way to get a little more creative and interactive with some of the work I was doing. I just started making…
Okay so apparently the teenagers are licking each other’s effin eyeballs to get freaky, as if the kids today weren’t already doing enough regular, everyday stupid shit like texting and driving, not learning to read and taking nude pics of their underage selves for Internet posterity. At least us Gen…
Money: who needs it? Well, probably you. But this week, you won’t have to spend any of it to get out of the house. Whether you want to see a tribute to Woodstock, Joss Whedon’s Serenity, or an evening of live storytelling and dance, you can do it all without…
I try not to interject my pushy self into these posts, dear readers, but American Graffiti is personal. I’m not sure how many times I’ve seen this movie — in dark theaters, over a big Red Moon pizza at the Cinderella Twin, on television, on video and DVD and probably…
Height doesn’t matter — and neither do skill level or age, really. All that matters at the Harlem Globetrotters basketball clinic is that children bring their A-game. For the entire week, Harlem Globetrotter TNT Maddox, a Colorado native, and her fellow player Slick, have been hanging out in her home…
The work of composer Libby Larsen is some of the most performed in American history. She created more than 500 pieces of music — and more than fifty CDs — spanning every major genre, from opera and chorus, to orchestral and classical. USA Today referred to her as “the only…
Pretty much everyone who loves food has read Michael Pollan, knows about the argument by Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham in his book Catching Fire that cooking is what made us human in the first place, and understands that food is more than a bunch of inert substances whose only function…
For this week’s art review, critic Michael Paglia visited the Denver Art Museum, where he took in two different shows with fairly similar themes. First he visited Cover Story, which is a part of the larger Spun: Adventures in Textiles exhibit. He also took in the Red, White and Bold:…
Early this year, it looked as if the Colorado Shakespeare Festival might be on its last legs. But after some re-organization, a strong marketing push and a tightening of the festival’s focus, the New York Times named the CSF one of the summer’s hot tickets — and A Midsummer Night’s…
This hot weekend should be an ideal time to catch a free screening of the 2009 camp murder mystery A Dark and Stormy Night and wish for rain. The sun may be beating down, but there are plenty of events that won’t give your wallet a beating, from a 3D…
Huzzah! Glad tidings! And all that nonsense! The Colorado Renaissance Fest is back in Larkspur this weekend, in time to lace up your overflowing summer with jousting matches, turkey legs, fools and wenches. And so much more! See also: – The Costumes of the Colorado Renaissance Festival 2012 – 50…
Each year Central City, Colorado takes a trip down nostalgia lane and connects back with its roots. In honor of the sometimes forgotten gold mining days of the city, they put on what is called the Madam Lou Bunch Day named after one of the cities most notable character. Madam…
Being a dad is tough, which is why, in honor of Father’s Day, we’re honoring the dads whose families have literally driven them to the brink of insanity (or further). Relax. It’s only movie dads we’re talking about here — your dad probably won’t go crazy and kill you this…
